The new scaled set (vengeful) has no damage and healing. True, this set and the season two version have no resilience, but this can be somewhat remedied by filling out your other armor and accessory slots with resilience items if you so choose. Blizzard is probably thinking that spell damage gives them too much of a boost to their judgements, hammer of wrath, etc. Spell damage is also helpful to deal decent damage to guys running around with enough resilience themselves to knock off 10-12% crits.

Retribution will indeed benefit from the resilience on the new sets since they'll be missing damage, though the new crusader strike will be unaffected. However, their healing will also be pretty bad.

In other words, I would recommend this set if you're ret, at least if you're not planning on doing the arena for the more recent armor.