Comments on: The ICC Buff and You – Throughput vs. Spellpower

By: The Control Freak nature of healing. | Murloc Parliament

The Control Freak nature of healing. | Murloc Parliament — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 21:56:37 +0000

[...] Bigger is not always better if you are slow. In terms of heals-per-second, spellpower may give you the most bang for your buck. But if you are assigned to heal multiple targets, quickly whipping off many small heals may be what is needed, even if your “raw numbers” are lower. If you need to heal 4 people, and #4 dies because you can’t get to him fast enough, it doesn’t matter how big your heals were on #1, #2, and #3. There are some interesting discussions that the ICC buff is providing so much spellpower, that it leads to mostly overheal, and you’d be better off in some cases stacking other stats. [...]

By: mp

mp — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 13:12:17 +0000

Sowwy:( I had to link this post on the us priest forums, dont hate me.

By: Throughput vs Spellpower in Icecrown Citadel : The Daily Priest

Throughput vs Spellpower in Icecrown Citadel : The Daily Priest — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 20:06:40 +0000

[...] Tales of a Priest makes a great point when they say "The key with bigger heals is to be using them effectively… just because you CAN cast a GHeal that will crit for 30K doesn’t mean you should. The same goes for Flash Heal, Renew, COH, POM, Penance, etc." The ICC buff isn't everything. [...]

By: Parliamentary Papers | Murloc Parliament

Parliamentary Papers | Murloc Parliament — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 16:38:55 +0000

[...] at Tales of a Priest examines what stats are desirable on your gear in conjunction with the ICC buff. It might be beneficial to move away from spellpower and start looking at other stats. This [...]

By: Raqh

Raqh — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 16:27:29 +0000

Just regem for RS if needed – thats what I plan to do. Money is so easy to get these days it shouldn’t be a problem.

By: Raqh

Raqh — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 16:23:51 +0000

I have noticed the exact same thing about rapture procs and have been moving from pure SP to sp/int gems. I even put a pure int gem in a slot last night.

I noticed I dropped a little on the meters but it’s nice to know I can cast constantly on HMs and still have gas in the tank if we start closing in on enrage timers. It’s also nice to regen quicker after a Brez especially for progression content.

By: Avalonna

Avalonna — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 23:29:28 +0000

Haste. You’ll be doing way more than just bubbling.

By: blueblood

blueblood — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 17:44:20 +0000

Nice point,this remind that with the new zone buff, there will be more option than gemming red for disc.

so, 2 healing 10H, Haste or Crit?

By: Avalonna

Avalonna — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 22:22:02 +0000

It’s very hard to give a decent answer for that without knowing a specific makeup, fights you do on a regular basis, and current/available gearing. It’s really the same answer we usually give – you have to evaluate your set up as a whole.

The haste/spirit gem is definitely an option, but keep in mind that spirit is not a sole factor in our regen models -for raiding holy, if I had to say it REALLY simple, a decent ratio of raid buffed int/spirit provides the best output.

But rather than go into it, Zusterke already laid out a PHENOMINAL regen model – he has a knack for laying things out great. check it out http://zusterke.orderoftheathanor.eu/tool.php?t=intspirit2

By: Solhai

Solhai — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 17:37:42 +0000

I’m really happy you went into this in more detail than the Rawrcast I was listening to!

I’ve been trying to make more of an impact for my raid’s healing, but I seem to come out more as backup on World of Logs unless there’s a huge burst in damage in my holy spec. I’ve been comparing myself but I’ve had a rough time figuring out how much spellpower is okay to stick around. I think I can trim a couple hundred of that to work on my haste. I’m concerned about my spirit at the same time (~1400 int/~1000 spirit) so I’m curious what your opinion of the Intricate gem is – the green haste/spirit – combination in replace of some of the purified – swapping spellpower for haste.
This might be a little more specific because it’s the summer and my guild has had a “dry spell” of replenishment classes.