Monday, June 11, 2007  Retribution Respec  After the last post
about making money, I tried out Auctioneer and Enchantrix. Talk
about information overload! I quickly gave up on AH trading and
instead respecced to Retribution (20/0/41).  Retribution is a
lot of fun! Four digit crits are awesome. Probably not that
amazing to any DPS readers, but as a paladin, it's funny to see.
As well, Retribution is very gratifying on a visceral level.
Your charcter does special attack animation, giant numbers pop
up, your hands start glowing white, and there's sound effects. I
was gleefully killing stuff all over Blade's Edge at first.  It
is a lot more mana-intensive than I expected. I've always viewed
Retribution as fairly mana-efficient, but it can be very mana-
hungry. However, this is mostly judging Command. In fact, if you
use Seal of Command (Rank 1) and don't judge, you can get 95% of
the damage and greatly reduce your mana usage. I'm contemplating
macroing SoC so I can left-click for Rank 1, and right-click for
max ra