Originally Posted by
Snapshot084
*shrug* I think the party line is that Blizzard is trying to homogenize gear, so that Ret paladins aren't waiting around for weeks on end for something Ret specific to drop.
In practice, who knows? If I remember correctly, the Ret tiered stuff doesn't even have Int, so the Retribution mana pool will ALWAYS be low, and so they'll have to be the only mana using class who uses their gem sockets for INT, as opposed to AP or strength or whatever it is that Ret pallies use to hit stuff harder (I'm Holy, btw).