Gimp spec

Sarge believes in Retribution spec. I've played holydin/shockadin for a while and before I took a break from the business that is paladin I was retribution specced, for levelling. Ever since I came back to the game I wanted to respec Sarge to the only true spec for a holy warrior and so last weekend, while scouring the WSG's for honour I specced back from the healslave spec I had been cursed with since I loaned the Sarge to my priestly pal for Kara purposes.

Now I'm the proud owner of 1/0/60 spec (you there, in the back, don't chuckle!) Can't get more ret than that I'd say. And the first BG I went in I rode that damage chart like a pro DPS class. Well I ended up fourth if you want the truth but I'm seriously undergeared.

The problem is ofcourse the eternal warrior stats versus caster stats. Retribution pallies need their AP, STR, and +Crit since their big twohanders are their main offensive capability (yay for crusader strike, making it actually worth it to carry a weapon around)

But paladins have another trick up their ornamented plate sleeve: Judgements. Judgements is magics. Magics is mana. Mana is pool. Pool is INT.

BUT MOM MAI GAER HAF NO INTELLECT!1

True. It doesn't. I won't rant on about itemization since we have the paladin forums for that. I've checked out the pvp and arena gear and it seems like those items are actually pretty good, with lots of crit, strength and intellect. Now just to get it, right?

Yeah kinda... You see, I'm not sure if I want to be retribution that bad. After two years of shouting: "ME DPS!" I'm kinda wondering if it wouldn't be better to go shockadin again and just heal my way through life.

But whenever I get that feeling I just load up some screenshots of Thunder and imagine myself in all that shiny Arena gear....Bliss!