Originally Posted by
dogpie
I'm probably just repeating what the first reply said but whatever.
Your professions. Don't come and complain about DPS if you aren't even going to min/max yourself. No respectable guild is going to take any class that has Skinning, because there are better professions. Replace Skinning with JC, Enchanting is okay (but BiS profession would be Blacksmithing, but the difference is only a few AP)
Your gear. Cmon. Do the heroic daily everyday, everyone and their dog and their dog's bastard puppy should have 4 piece t9 on both MS and OS just from doing the heroic dailies, VoA, Onyxia. If you do ToC 10/25 every week it's even easier to get this, but you don't have to do ToC at all. For your trinkets, please don't be cheap with your character and buy him a real darkmoon card, darkmoon card: greatness STR. Also, if you can't get any other trinkets, get the Mirror of Truth from the Emblem of Heroism vendor. Replace Libram with the Triumph one.
Enchants and gemming. NEVER NEVER NEVER gem for expertise. Never enchant for it either. You are more than 1% over the hit cap, yet you STILL get Icewalker enchants on your boots? Why? Get the AP+ enchant on your boots. You say you've done a lot of research and you even come to the forums to ask for help, so why don't you know the proper enchants? Get +10 on your chest. Get the Sons of Hodir shoulder enchants (which is easily attainable). Also, why do you have a str/stam gem in your legs? Why? Why? How does Stam boost dps at all? Replace that with a pure STR gem. There is this prismatic gem called a "Nightmare Tear", +10 to all stats. Get it, put it in a socket where you like the Socket Bonus (a +STR bonus, not a +crit bonus). Also, get the Relentless meta gem, and if you have a Nightmare Tear your meta gem will still proc.
Talents and glyphs. Again, you SAY you've done a lot of research on your class, yet you spec into 2 useless talents and 2 out of 3 of your main glyphs are wrong. Replace Exorcism and Hammer of Wrath with Judgement and Seal of Vengeance, and you won't have to worry about Expertise that much anymore. Get your ass out of Stocism and Divinity because those are useless Ret PvE talents. For raiding Rets, either you can do 5/7/59, where you spec into Guardian's Favor and then most of the Ret talents, or you can choose more utility and spec into either Aura Mastery or Divine Sacrifice.
Rotation? Most sites will tell you there is a Ret pally "rotation", usually Judge>Hammer>CS>DS>Consecrate>Exorcism. Don't let the word "rotation" mislead you, we don't actually press all those skills in order for the whole length of the fight. Think of it more as a "priority list". Whatever skills you have off of Cooldown, you go back to your priority list and you press the skill that is higher on the priority list. This also can CHANGE depending on the fight, such as a fight with a lot of mobs, you might want to do Consecrate and DS more often. When you pop your wings, a lot of scrub pallies pop their wings as soon as the fight starts, but what you should do is wait for your 5 stacks of vengeance to go up and THEN pop your wings. Positioning is also very important, if there is more than one target, position yourself so that your aoe hits as many targets as possible.
Sorry if I seem a little harsh, but do not say you've done a lot of research when it's obvious you haven't.