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Gear Check Please...

Mark Unread · 6 replies
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Link for my priest

Aiming for raid healing, do a bit in LFR but don't seem to do much heals, so let me know what i need to improve etc.

p.s i know im not chanted and gemmed but iv been working on this gear and wanted to get the gear before i chant...as you can see i have gemmed all my tier gear though
Posted Feb 3, 12 · OP
20 posts
The red sockets in your pants and shoulders need to be red gems. Replace your blue gems with Purified Demonseye (20 int/20 spirit). NEVER use pure blue or yellow gems.

I'd change the mastery->spirit reforge on your staff to crit->spirit. I know it's a drop in spirit, but you shouldn't really notice it. If you seem to be having serious mana issues, replace the Power Torrent enchant with Heartsong.

Your cloak should have the Greater Intellect enchant instead of Greater Critical Strike. Crit is a poor Holy stat.

All those missing gems and enchants add up! Once you fix that you should see a nice boost in throughput. Stacking haste is fine and dandy for LFR, but if you intend to transition to normal mode raids, you might want to increase your mastery a little bit.

You might want to respec to max out the Heavenly Voice talent. It's a big boost to your raid CD. I'd pull the points out of Surge of Light, Veiled Shadows, or Darkness to do it.

The Glyph of PW:S made me scratch my head. As holy, you should never use PW:S unless you need to apply Body and Soul to a player, which is very rare in DS. I'd replace it with Glyph of Renew, personally. Also, I'd drop Glyph of Fade or Glyph of Dispel Magic for Glyph of Prayer of Mending.

Do you have a WoL to show your healing breakdown? If you don't have that, can you describe it? As in, what Chakra do you use, do you keep PoM on CD, what spell do you use the most, are you doing a lot of overhealing, etc.? Granted a lot of the spell selection is dependent on the encounter and who your fellow healers are. LFR is probably not the best indicator of skill as it is a snipe fest -- if you are experiencing low performance on the meters it could be the other healers are sniping heals from you and there is little heal.

I hope this helps!
Posted Feb 3, 12
186 posts
You haven't given us much to go on I'm afraid. Do you have any logs? I couldn't find any. All we can comment on at the moment is your spec and your current gemming.

There is no reason at all to not have all your gear with some enchant and gem. You don't have to go for the purple quality gems, but some blue quality gems shouldn't be that hard to come by. Your gear is good enough to be worth it. On red sockets, you absolutely want pure intellect gems, you seem to be using orange.

You really really want to take Heavenly Voice. Having DH every 3 minutes and for double the healing is godly. Drop glyphs of FH and PWS, and absolutely get Renew glyph. Not much else to say without logs I'm afraid.

Hm rereading the subject title now, you were only asking about gear check. Your gear seems fairly solid all around. Prioritizing the right stats. If you can afford them, the BoE VP bracers might be a worthy investment.

Anyone else feel there aren't that many choices for our gear? I remember having to make some more difficult choices in the past, especially variants with no spirit on them. Currently most non-spirit gear has hit instead.
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Posted Feb 3, 12
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Gem and enchant your gear, even if it's not BiS.

Int gems mostly, int/spirit gem or int/haste gem otherwise.

In LFR's no gems and\or enchants just gets your ridiculed, in real raids it'll just mean you suck.

-Leare
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-Binbin
Posted Feb 3, 12
3 posts
Thanks guys, il make the changes to my gear you suggested, unfortunately i do not use WoL i have thought about it but cannot get to grips with it haha.

My basic healing technique (i call it a technique, prob doing it totally wrong xD) is this:

Chakra - Depends on whether the particular boss is going to need more aoe heals or not and the healers we have in the group.
PoM - i use quite alot, always cast it on the tank first, wenever it is off CD i try to use it.

the main 2 heals i use is ofc greater heal and heal. heal is for the top ups and has a pretty fast cast i think, greater heal is for people that are about 40-50% health and then i only really use flash heal for people that are diving in health or for people who have a debuff that has been dispelled and that needs to be healed to full health quick. i use renew on the tanks and healers and people who need that little boost. i use circle of healing alot and PoH when it procs. i only use divine hymm on bosses like lets use zon'ozz for example, i would use it on the 2nd or 3rd blackout stage.

on bosses like zon'ozz i find sometimes i go oom before the last blackout stage :/
Posted Feb 4, 12 · OP
13 posts
My two cents...On your spec that you have now I would drop the point you have in surge of light for desperate prayer. Much more utility and it can save you if you do something silly (never happens to me personally ;) ) or if you're soaking up ice lances on hagara. Also, drop the point in spirit of redemption and finish up your renewal points with rapid renewal.
Posted Feb 5, 12
11 posts
Go to this sticky and read the two holy guides (basics & raiding). I think they'll provide you with a lot of useful information that would pretty much answer your questions as well as providing play-style tips. Comments like "and PoH when it procs" worry me and would lend me to think maybe you need a bit more guidance on healing as a holy priest. These guides are excellent and provide huge amounts of really really good info.
Posted Feb 6, 12
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