In our recent Ulduar 25 run, I had the pleasure of being one of three retribution paladins.
Of the three, I was second in terms of damage. Now, the paladin who topped me is normally a tank (how galling), and does a lot of pugging (how brave), and has really nice gear.
So I just assumed it was an issue more of gear than of rotation or ability or anything like that.
Then I looked at the WWS for the run. With the exception of Exorcism and Ret Aura, my abilities do more damage than his abilities (if you look at the white line. On the green line, his abilities do more than my abilities. I wish I knew how to read this stupid chart better. It seems that the white is damage, the green are how many? Or something... in which case, I'm just not doing ENOUGH). My Seal, Judgement, Swing, Crusader Strike, Divine Storm...
Yet he's out damaging me. (Shut up. I know on the charts it looks like only by 9 DPS. But that's apparently the difference between #1 and #2. So 9 DPS is GIGANTIC. And I have no idea why Micro, who is pulling over 4100 DPS is so low on the charts. Probably because Paladins are awesome and mages are just glorified water boys.)
So I've been trying to figure out what I'm doing wrong.
I'm going to assume it has something to do with my rotation. Which admittedly is my hardest to watch/do thing, given that I'm also often using art of war, and moving, and decursing and all that fun stuff that makes being a paladin so awesome. Which means that my perfect rotation, where nothing is off CD at the same time so I don't 'waste' time waiting for GCD, never happens.
I tend to move in and judge light, to get Heart of the Crusader on the boss. Then I'll try to crusader strike, then divine storm, then judgement will be off cooldown (or close to). I use exorcism whenever I have all three of the others on cooldown (or the boss moves away and I'm not in melee range). I'm not sure if I should use exorcism whenever it's up? It does some nice damage.
I think the problem is that I have one 6s CD and two 10s CDs. And I get confused which one I should be hitting first to try to keep the CD's from overlapping.
I guess it's time with the training dummy for me. Or maybe RetLoL has new information.
Just for you, K... and I couldn't even copy and paste it in.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.stratfu.com/blog/2009/01/beyond-dps-part-1-understanding-the-class-detail-page/
Oh, and the reason Micro was low on overall (which doesn't matter, by the way...) was because he died on almost every kologarn attempt due to people kiting laserbeams right through him.
ReplyDeletehttp://elitistjerks.com/f76/t53171-ret_fcfs_rotation_helper/ you can set your own spell/CD priorities with this add-on and hack away at the target dummy -- maybe that helps figure out which CDs to blow in which order?
ReplyDelete@Pos: Thank you for that. And no... the reason Micro is low is because RET PALADINS RULE and mages are glorified waterboys! Has nothing to do with him dying! (luv u MM)
ReplyDelete@Nesh: Looks cool! I'm going to do some more research first though, since I have this odd disability where I hate getting addons that tell me what button to push and when. I like to screw up on my own initiative!