available utility skills, and impact on the raid group. This tier ranking will likely adjust once the subsequent Phases come out. In the meantime, here are the Cata DPS rankings
For example, in vanilla really all you want is a resto shaman or holy paladin, but in TBC you want Elemental, Retribution, Enhancement and Protection because they all provide value to the raid, and these two classes also are better in PVP than in vanilla because they have more player ...
However by Tier 6, with the ubiquity of sustained AE raid damage, that same Paladin doesn’t need mana support…because Spiritual Attunement is granting that Paladin 2k mana per minute alone, while FoL is sub 5k mana per minute at those levels of spell crit. Itemization and setting altered ...