The Enigma Order

Mox wrote:

Spirit is normally not very interesting for dps casters while crit is very usefull.

You're wrong mate, spirit is imba for locks with new fel armor.

With talented (13 points in demonology), 39% of spirit = spell power (so it basicly benefit lock even more than priest (with 25% of healing if i remember correctly). Without talents it will be 30% still nice.

What blizz made, imo to make casters gear good for almost everyspec and class. (Spriest now needs crit for example, lock spirit) Ofc DPS will need hit rating in addition.


Silly fel armor ,raised mine spell power yesterday from 250 to 435 when I'v dinged 62

Last edited by Warsaw (2008-11-03 12:22:29)

this thread deserves some attention. I'll probably go for high crit, but it all depends how much I'll be able to play.

lots of cool talents that will give free spells when you crit.

So far I have tried with a crit build. with my current gear, I tend to run oom fast, and I have a disturbingly low mana pool. I'm not feeling the effects of the free heals. If anything, I feel my dmg build was better for healing.

I honestly think that the crit build is something you need to have gear for, so my next instance I will have a spirit/int build of some sort. I agree with you on the stats over effects for now, Mox.

Also on a bit more different note, do we have any weapon buffs for our Northrend weapons? Any mana oils? My enchanting trainer wont teach me any, so I guess it's reputation vendors...

Now, I only tried Sapphiron in naxx, and it was hell to avoid going oom. Had to shield my shadowfiend, and even then he didnt last the full duration. Could only drink one pot, cause Smeld would not get me ooc, if only for a split second. PoM was awesome in that fight though, and when I used it a bit more aggressive (every time the CD was over), I could feel the effect. But next time I plan on going into naxx with more spirit, more mana, more regen, more health, and sadly less crit -_-

Blizzard said something about temporary enchants being for Rogues and Shamans (more?). Oils, stones and similar effects has therefore an item level restriction. They can't be aplied to level 80 items. You can still use old enchants on old items though.

For priest regen theories and raiding in general I recommend som reading:
http://elitistjerks.com/f77/t35208-wotl … _progress/

In essence it say that Spirit is a stat primarilly for holy priests now. Holy priests with Spirit of Redemtion and Spiritual Healing. Dicipline should prefere intellect and crit and with this you could say that spirit vs crit is a question about holy vs disc.

In terms of mana management it might be easier to be dicipline at our gear level, but it remainds to be tested. You gear might at least support this better at this time.

I'm planning on having only one gear set and it should be intellect and spirit before crit and haste. I do hope I get a lot of crit. There are so many cool effects from crit that I don't want to miss out on, but not at the expence of spirit. At least not too much.

Anyway. I really think everyone should read the compendium from A to Z, twice. There are a lot good stuff in there. My favorite part is "How to Cross Heal Effectively". Good reading for all healers really.

Spamming CoH is very mana intensive so a lot of regen is required. That regen is usefull also when there is a cooldown on CoH, but that's not the question. The question is if you could benefit more if your stat composistion was balanced a little bit more towards power, crit or haste.

When you say spirit heavy gear I don't think you mean spirit enchants and gems. You probably pick up other stats just as often and choose spell power before spirit in many cases. It seem that the thread starter now will start to do the same.