Beta: More on Ulu's journey to the Ret side.

So yea, I ended up speccing back to Ret. I tried with Prot, I spent an hour questing with it last night, but i just couldn't get into the groove. Even with Judgement of Wisdom and alternating between Seal of Righteousness and Seal of Wisdom as my mana pool dictated, it was hella slow and there was downtime every 4-5 packs.

With Ret on the other hand, between Judgement of Light and Judgements of the Wise, I was tearing through mobs at a rare old pace. Yes, the survivabilty is lower than Prot, but with the higher damage output, I can kill 3-4 mobs in a fraction of the time and end the fight with over 80% mana. Then all I need to do is cast a quick Holy Light on myself (4k normal heal, 6-7k crit) and I'm ready to take on the next group.

This Discussion has sparked off one of Galoheart's posts. The issue of making Tanking "more fun" has been stated as one of Blizzard's goals in WotLK. I personally have fun tanking atm, but if they wanted to make questing/grinding as a protection spec more fun, then they could do something about our DPS.

At the moment, Tanks do comparatively low damage, but our threat is boosted by various macguffins (Righteous Fury, Defensive Stance, Dire Bear form). If they lowered our innate threat increases, but boosted our baseline damage then it might make solo questing more fun. I'm not suggesting that Tanks should outDPS primary DPS classes like Rogues, Warlocks, Hunters or Mages, but it'd be nice if, as Lore suggested, we were on a par with "utility DPSers" like Shadow Priests, Enhancement Shamans and the like.

Ultimately, I'm going to stick it out as Ret until I hit 71 and get Divine Plea. Then I'll switch back to Prot and see if that makes any difference to my fun as Prot grinding.

I suspect not.