
With that understanding of WHAT to do, the clincher to playing ret is WHEN to do it. So what to do? First things first, read up on your class above. Even me, I SUCKED the few times I tried to play on a friend's computer.

Quite literally! Your abilities are all along the bottom and sides of your screen, your holy power is in the upper left, and the inquisition buff is hidden with the rest of your buff in the upper right. Every time i see this, my first thought isn't that it's difficult to play or that they're bad players, but simply the information you need to properly play is scattered to the 4 corners of the screen. Now, even with awesome guides like that I've seen a lot (and I mean a LOT!) of people complain that retribution is hard to play and they suck at it. All the information for how to play, what to spec, and what stats are best and worst for you are here, definitely worth the read. Instead I'll just link to those guides and provide some useful info that ISN'T in those guides. To start, you simply can't beat the Elitist Jerks forum for any class questions, and specifically the Retribution Concordance (currently updated for 4.2 at time of writing). OK, this isn't actually a guide on how to play retribution as there's some guides out there that totally blow away anything I could write up.
