Ret loses Spiritual Attunement. Opinions?

[Lissa]

Not quite. When fitting in exorcism you have a lot of options to think through.

You could sub it for one of the 969 abilities every time the cooldown is up, such as substituting exorcism in place of holy shield whenever exorcism is up and its time to punch HS, meaning you don't hit HS that time around at all. This is referred to as HS substitution, as an example, in a thread I'm going to link.

You could also do your full 969 rotation but delay it whenever exorcism is up to make sure you punch exorcism every single cooldown.

Here is a breakdown of both threat and DPS for each of the exorcism rotation options and for various tanking specs: http://www.failsafedesign.com/maintankadin...p=382613#382613

This thread is linked to from a master thread on the matlab analysis done by the author, and many other links are of interest there, though off-topic here: http://maintankadin.failsafedesign.com/v...hp?t=20823

Finally, here are the conclusions from the exorcism analysis, if you want to skip the graphs:

Not sure I agree with the author about dropping HS for that set of 9s rotations, I would agree more with Wimpy in delaying the HS would probably be the better choice. HS provides more than just threat, it also provides you with longevity by making a smaller window for getting an unmitigated hit in. With the amount of Block Value most Prot Pallies are throwing around, mitigating up to 5% to 10% of a bosses hit is significant longevity.