Some things regarding your pvp comments.
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5.3.1 Weapon:
There are several weapon enchants that would be handy for a Ret. For pure dps Mongoose is easily the best enchant you can get. For more utility, assuming your gear is capable of generating adequate dps by itself, I’d recommend Battlemaster to give yourself Shadow Priest-like healing utility. While this won’t make a third healer for raids, it will take a little healing pressure off the real healers. For PVP I would take Battlemaster for the healing, Savagery for the steady 70 AP boost, or Major Agility for the steady crit increase.
For pvp, only executioner, everything else is inferior. Mongoose is meaningless once your opponents have half decent resil, and executioner splits cloth like a hot knife through butter. Battlemaster is a horrific enchant, pve or pvp, any half decent raid would not want any dpser depriving themselves of mongoose for a gimp half assed healing that barely makes any difference. That's what shadow priests are for, you don't want to gimp yourself so you can pretend to be one. Empirically tested, it has 1 ppm. which is so terribad i would sooner go with no enchant than toss the mats it uses into the weapon. If you want to heal your party then toss judgement of light on the boss, or better yet, make a healer do it and keep it up with CS.
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For Meta gems a Brutal Earthstrom Diamond, Enigmatic Skyfire Diamond, Potent Unstable Diamond, Relentless Earthstrom Diamond will be your better options. For PVP the Brutal Earthstrom or Potent Unstable Diamond will likely be your best bets for the chance to stun or the stun resist. For PVE I recommend Relentless Earthstrom Diamond or Enigmatic Skyfire Diamond.
I disagree, having pvped in 1.7k, i can tell you for a fact that Brutal earthstorm is not a good pvp enchant. Empirical tests put the proc anywhere from 1 in 1000 to 1%, so generally it's still infestimally small. In pvp you do not want to rely on procs and chance on hits, especially seeing as there's such a small proc rate. There are better options. Potent unstable and relentless earthstorm are both pretty good for pvp, but i still prefer the relentless gem, the 3% crit dmg is good.
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5.3.9 Feet:
For PVE the best enchant is Dexterity (12 agi). For PVP the best one is probably Cat’s Swiftness (6 agi & speed increase)
You do not want cats swiftness for pvp. Pursuit of Justice already adds 15% speed, and that doesn't stack. Get surefooted, it's the best pvp enchant you can get.
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This ability by itself is rather useless since you will almost never be using this aura. However, it's more useful than extra blocking, so I recommend taking this to get you to the second tier in Prot.
Take Redoubt, pvp wise it's decently useful, some rets choose to fight rogues exclusively with this equipped, unless the rogue is locked down. It's marginally useful in eating some of the rogue's burst, and it's a darn sight more useful then devo aura ever will be.
It's mostly pvp stuff yeah. You should put up a pvp build, many people go ret solely for pvp, like i did.
Thisbuild is the standard pvp ret build, barring some choose to put points into deflection rather than imp sotc.
