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Spirit has been lessened in value by a strong amount with the leveling coefficient nerf and intellect has been boosted to extremely high levels by the changes of all regeneration mechanics to a %-mana pool system while going into Wrath of the Lich King.
There are plenty of questions you need to ask when you are looking at a piece of gear and asking yourself if it is an upgrade. How would you gem the piece? Always compare pieces to each other fully gemmed with or without socket bonuses, which depend on your gemming choices. If you are unsure about how to gem, try two or three or four different combinations, and see which one seems to give the best result.
For healing Priests, there are several stats of value such as stamina, intellect, spirit, haste, crit, spell-power and MP5. For the first time since 2.3, Priests should consider items without spirit on them, as our benefits have been nerfed extensively.
Regarding spirit specifically, discipline Priests should evaluate spirit on an item at a ratio of 5 spirit =2 MP5. At 1,000 Intellect and an assumed 80% 15 SR time, 2.4 spirit grants 1 MP5 under Meditation. That is the only benefit you gain from spirit, excepting possible OO5SR regeneration naps, which will happen less for Discipline than for Holy, due to the nature of the healing. So if you see a nice item which has stamina, intellect, spirit, spell-power or crit, you can easily compare that item to something which has stam/int+spellpower/MP5/crit. If there is more MP5 than 2 spirit/ 5, then it is a stronger item for you.
For haste, there are some nice cutoffs to reach. If you can hit 20% haste, it lowers the cast time
For haste, there are some nice cutoffs to reach. If you can hit 20% haste, it lowers the cast-time to 2.08 seconds. For a Discipline Priest, you gain 5% from Enlightenment and an additional 5% from Wrath of Air, leaving you with only 10% to gain from gear. For a holy Priest, you don't have Enlightenment, so you consider picking up slightly more haste. Alternatively, you can count the IHC procs as a portion of your haste and accept the slightly higher cast time on your non- proc'd heal.
With regard to crit, the sky really is the limit. There is very little reason to stop stacking crit at any level. You will gain 5% from talents and discipline can count roughly 4% more from renewed hope. In addition, no 25-man raid would be complete without a moonkin in Wrath of the Lich King, so you can assume an additional 5% from that. Given that we will be running over 1000 intellect raid-buffed, that will grant us 6% more, so there is no reason for any Priest to be under 20% crit raid-buffed. In fact, once you finish your gearing, you should be pushing 25%+, which is an extremely nice situation to be in.
Intellect is incredibly valuable now. It converts to crit at a rate of 150:1 and at a rate of 132:1. Additionally, almost all regeneration mechanics (external) are now based off percentages of your final mana, so the more you have, the better they work. Replenishment 20k mana is worth 250 Mp5, as compared to 190 Mp5 15k. Your shadow-fiend now restores mana based on a percentage of your overall mana bar, and Mana Tide totem continues its practice of doing the same.
There are plenty of questions you need to ask when you are looking at a piece of gear and asking yourself if it is an upgrade. How would you gem the piece? Always compare pieces to each other fully gemmed with or without socket bonuses, which depend on your gemming choices. If you are unsure about how to gem, try two or three or four different combinations, and see which one seems to give the best result.
For healing Priests, there are several stats of value such as stamina, intellect, spirit, haste, crit, spell-power and MP5. For the first time since 2.3, Priests should consider items without spirit on them, as our benefits have been nerfed extensively.
Regarding spirit specifically, discipline Priests should evaluate spirit on an item at a ratio of 5 spirit =2 MP5. At 1,000 Intellect and an assumed 80% 15 SR time, 2.4 spirit grants 1 MP5 under Meditation. That is the only benefit you gain from spirit, excepting possible OO5SR regeneration naps, which will happen less for Discipline than for Holy, due to the nature of the healing. So if you see a nice item which has stamina, intellect, spirit, spell-power or crit, you can easily compare that item to something which has stam/int+spellpower/MP5/crit. If there is more MP5 than 2 spirit/ 5, then it is a stronger item for you.
For haste, there are some nice cutoffs to reach. If you can hit 20% haste, it lowers the cast time
For haste, there are some nice cutoffs to reach. If you can hit 20% haste, it lowers the cast-time to 2.08 seconds. For a Discipline Priest, you gain 5% from Enlightenment and an additional 5% from Wrath of Air, leaving you with only 10% to gain from gear. For a holy Priest, you don't have Enlightenment, so you consider picking up slightly more haste. Alternatively, you can count the IHC procs as a portion of your haste and accept the slightly higher cast time on your non- proc'd heal.
With regard to crit, the sky really is the limit. There is very little reason to stop stacking crit at any level. You will gain 5% from talents and discipline can count roughly 4% more from renewed hope. In addition, no 25-man raid would be complete without a moonkin in Wrath of the Lich King, so you can assume an additional 5% from that. Given that we will be running over 1000 intellect raid-buffed, that will grant us 6% more, so there is no reason for any Priest to be under 20% crit raid-buffed. In fact, once you finish your gearing, you should be pushing 25%+, which is an extremely nice situation to be in.
Intellect is incredibly valuable now. It converts to crit at a rate of 150:1 and at a rate of 132:1. Additionally, almost all regeneration mechanics (external) are now based off percentages of your final mana, so the more you have, the better they work. Replenishment 20k mana is worth 250 Mp5, as compared to 190 Mp5 15k. Your shadow-fiend now restores mana based on a percentage of your overall mana bar, and Mana Tide totem continues its practice of doing the same.
