Ret loses Spiritual Attunement. Opinions?

[Mordekhuul]

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.

I don't think he is proposing that its a great idea to drop it, he's just looking at a few possible ways to fit exorcism in, and even indicates at one point that the downside to the HS Sub method is your HS uptime drops to some 53% - not good on bosses you have any concern over dying to.

Using exorcism only before HS, and then punching HS, would be a good middle ground between "HS Sub" and "Exorcism every cooldown" I bet. I still won't do even that on progression bosses. I like my HS uptime, particularly since getting my BV set to around 1800 unbuffed.

I'm also both excited and worried about being able to use exorcism in place of HS when off-tanking and trying to be second on threat....I already pass any of our other main tanks on threat if I try to off-tank without having another high threat move to use:P Guess I'll have to continue my selfish "I'll just MT unless someone else cares" line.

EDIT- Ok, I'm not sure where I got that 53% HS uptime number from, perhaps the EJ thread where I was first linked to the maintankadin thread, but, well, what percentage of all statistics are made up again? ;)