Originally Posted by
MerinPally
Oh look someone going for world rankings. Now back to most tanks and what most tanks do...
All your advice is completely and utterly useless to him because he is not 8/8 he is not farming gear and his guild is not a great guild. If you're going to offer advice, at least vary it to be relevent for different areas. Your advice is relevent for someone who has been 8/8 for ages with great gear who has the freedom to do this, however it is the worse advice ever for someone still progressing, which is what this thread is about.
He's not going for world rankings or attempting to kill a boss faster, all he wants is to make things easier for the first 6 on heroic and to get heroic spine down which is a cockblock for his guild.
If he wanted help on the best way to maximize his dps then sure you would have said something useful - unfortunately for you he didn't, making the entirety of your wall of text redundant. Also if you were oh so good you'd realise that to gem the 458 mastery from Fire of the Deep for you to get CTC again by using Soulshifter Vortex instead, costs about 600 stamina if you replace 75 stamina gems and all that jazz, so it's actually a stamina increase to use 2 stamina trinkets and gem the mastery - and the only 2 stamina trinkets good enough for this are soulshifter and indom, the rest result in a loss. You stack the stamina for the inevitable spell damage, you can live without the extra dodge easily.
You're the only paladin I ever see parading this as "the thing to do" everyone else merely suggests it for if you're really well geared and want to kill shit faster and pull huge numbers. The people who do that, aren't the ones who come to forums asking for help.