Ret Paladins, How viable will they be?

[Aldenel-emerald-dream]

@Lûnamar-area-52

Oof.

Yup. No 15% Damage from Vengeance. Holy Shock has a 30 second CD ontop of a huge mana cost.

It has a gimmick for PvP but is perfectly fine as a hybrid healing spec for dungeons/raids.

The Shockadin spec you may be referring to is the “Spelladin” which is 31 ret 8 prot 12 holy and focuses on white attacks, spell damage stacking and consumable use.

The Spelladin - new Retribution meta for Classic

Courtesy of DexterBravo: Gear competetion - That T2 gear that every pally wants for PVP or RP, isn’t good for holy. But it is BIS (likely forever) for Spelladins. That’s 8 pieces of items that is Spelladin prio, which won’t be replaced in ZG, AQ, NAXX. That’s a lot of gear for happy warriors, casters, etc., that otherwise was wanted by the AP ret. Actually viable DPS most likely (none of us know how Classic will be tuned in the end). Much better than AP ret – more dps, more mana uptime…

If if you really mean Shockadin then I suggest checking out Durnos videos and watch him OOM himself in every 1v1. As far as I know he started the ‘Shockadin’ trend but he does it much better in his second video.