Ret loses Spiritual Attunement. Opinions?

[Taelas]

I'm not sure I would say that it isn't optimal. The thing about the 969 rotation is it setups so that every single CD is used optimally for threat generation/damage mitigation. The problem that comes about is that there isn't a whole lot of things in that rotation that you can drop to keep your threat up or your mitigation up. Dropping or delaying HS to me is big no-no, it builds threat and gives you more mitigation. Judgement is damage and gets you either health or mana back. SoR and HoR are your big threat moves. Consecrate gives you a good amount of TPS due to it sitting under the boss in question (for 8 to 10 seconds depending on glyph). While Exorcism may give you more threat than HS, Exorcims lowers your mitigation, it's not going to equal the threat of Judgement, HoR, or SoR, and Consecrate may be the only good choice to it to be put in due to the mana cost of Consecrate.

I think you misunderstood me (which is not that surprising, as I wasn't being clear). I meant you could adhere strictly to the 969 rotation regardless of the actual current cooldown of your abilities. Normally, this isn't a problem, as it's a cooldown rotation -- but if you delay any ability because you want to use Exorcism, then in the rotation following said delay, you can have two abilities coming off CD simultaneously. If, in said situation, you adhere strictly to 969, you're ignoring the fact that they aren't on CD.

More as a point, if you (general you that is) have two things coming off cooldown at same time with 969, you're doing something wrong. As you've (specific) said, it's a cooldown rotation, but if two things are coming up, you (general again =p) either hit two of the same cooldown length items back to back (either two 6s or two 9s) or you're mashing buttons.

If you delay abilities rather than replace them, it'll happen. I'm arguing against doing so; I doubt it is enough of an increase that it'll be a good choice in most situations. (Though with the auto-crit, it might be better than Consecration on Demon/Undead bosses... need to assess that.)

Even though the original author quoted by Mord states Exorcism is a DPS boost, I only see it being of use where you're either off tanking to maintain threat for somekind of aggro drop for the MT (like Archavon) and times where you can skip HS cause you're not taking direct hits.

Agreed -- though, again, Consecration vs. Exorcism on Demon/Undead mobs are interesting. Consecration can't crit, and Exorcism will always crit on them.


As for Judgement, you can afford to drop it once every 20 seconds. The CD is normally 9 seconds, that means you can drop every other Judgement with no "ill effects", unless for some reason you're unable to recast it. Judgement's duration is 20 seconds.