Ret PVP Options

[Yoshimiko]

I was really split: How are most rets going? Crit or Mastery? I generally play very defensive, so I'm thinking of going crit{Those wog crits are HUGE, and really win games for me lately - healer cced, big burst on partner Yay 50k wog crit!}.

So which way are you going, Crit, or mastery?

[terrahero]

I think youll want to go for around 15% spellcrit. With talents this gives WoG a very high chance to crit on targets below 35% health. With the 200% crit on heals now (and SH on a teammate or SS on yourself) this leads to a massive heal. After that go for Mastery to boost your damage.

[Forde]

I've been reforging to crit pretty much entirely. aim for about 20% bonus damage as holy in mastery, and im sitting at 10% spell crit, and i normally can get my WoG to crit very often. mastery is still decent, but crit is better for where ret is at the moment.

[ipoststuff]

Definitely crit.
With crit heals buffed to 200% and wog cd reduced to 10sec, crit really improves survivability A LOT. Personally im aiming for 25% spell crit (no achievable yet).

[zcks]

Well as a ret paladin you will mostly be playing as an off healer & burst bot on a 2 minute CD (which can never become balanced by blizzards own admission).

Given this fact the best choice is to go with critical rating till your at least at 15% spell crit, why 15% you may ask ? Well that because with 15%, the talent rule of law & the talent last word you will have an almost guaranteed critical heal on targets at or under 35% health which when combined with sacred shield or selfless healer can lead to insanely big heals.

[akaTheDude]

So prue crit until 15% then stack mastery?