Yuratuhl wrote:
Does it improve dramatically from 80 to 85?
No, it gets way worse due to rating dimunition.
At 80 you can get enough haste to bring Cstrike down to 3sec CD or nearly and still have a high crit rate. At 85, ratings are such that fully itemizing and reforging for haste, my Cstrike's CD is 4sec with 6% crit chance. Yes, six percent.
Ret is grossly haste reliant. Go do VP and keep your back to the wind on Altarius. The debuff tooltip is misleading; it's a haste effect. Ret benefits disproportionately on that encounter and DPS that do twice a ret paladin's performance the rest of the instance will get beaten by as large a margin on that encounter.
Ret is basically vanilla fury: grossly gear dependent, terrible at low levels but will be overpowered in T12/T13.