As I have mentioned before I began in the arenas towards the last 4 weeks of Season 7. When I began I didn't have any PVP gear except for the Insignia of the Alliance, which later I found out was useless as humans have a racial ability that shares the same cool down as the trinket, which like the trinket will break most forms of Crowd Control.
So I began a 2V2 team with a restoration druid. Throughout the first week or 2 I used my PVE gear. I had lots of tier 9 and a Tyrannical Beheader that I obtained from the last boss in the Pit of Sauron. My resto druid partner had most of the BG set and therefore had around 700 or so resilience to my whooping big fat zero. We both expected this to be a catastrophe and to our surprise the first week we made it to 1000 arena rating.
My point in sharing this is the following, do not let the lack of resilience gear shy you away from the arenas. As a retribution paladin you can get away with using PVE gear as you work your way up the arena ladders. You will find that if you have decent PVE gear you will be able to hover around a 1200-1500 rating while you get PVP upgrades.
Because we wear plate you can get away with PVE gear in your earlier stages of the arena. In fact in my honest opinion I recommend it. Having greater DPS in the pre 1300's brackets can be useful until you acclimate to your partner.The key here is know your role!
Much like in PVE ret paladin's role is to provide great amounts of burst DPS and to provide the team with great utility. These utility includes but is not limited to: providing your partner with hand of salvation when he is stunned or snared, provide emergency healing when needed, provide your partner with sacred shield to offset some of the incoming damage to him/her, etc...
It is because we are a BURST DPS class that it is important to know your role. We do not provide a consistent output of enormous dps but in short intervals if we time it right we can unleash a ton of DPS. So the most important thing you can do is have a clear line of communication with your partner so that you two can act with great synergy when it comes time for your burst cycle.
To illustrate the above point I will give you an insight to a strategy frequently employed by us. I consider my burst cycle ready when my avenging wrath + my DPS trinket + my hammer of justice is on cool down. Once this condition is met I will vocalize it to my partner he will then proceed to tornado our opponent's partner, and then we both unleash hell on the poor soul who happens to be my target. This cycle almost always happens (for us) within 2 minutes into the fight, in the mean time I am doing a lot of DPS and assisting my druid survive the opponent's burst cycle by providing, hand of protection, hand of sacrifice, sacred shield, flash of lights, Hand of Freedom amongst many others.
Getting back to the gear topic, I have noticed that until I had a 4 set bonus of a particular PVP set as a ret paladin it wasn't worth while for me to use PVP gear. In comes Season 8 now and blizzard has doubled the value of resilience in reducing damage done by players. So depending on their current amount of resilience, characters might experience a 10 to 20% decrease in damage taken from other players.
Although we will have to see how this change plays out in my honest opinion I still believe that as a retribution paladin you are still better off with PVE gear until you can get your resilience in the 700+ range.
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