Comments on: Holy Priest Gearing & Stat Priority

By: Kira

Kira — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 23:37:38 +0000

12.5% seems just too low to be fair. I got almost 20% haste raidbuffed and 3/3 darkness and I am doing fine regenerating mana so I dont go oom. I got around 21% healing from the mastery and about 3k spirit. Although I do not find the 12.5% haste cap very useful. I always top the meters, no matter what fight.

By: Rodinal

Rodinal — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 20:04:41 +0000

It is my understanding that you only need 516 (or a little more than 4%) if you have both 3/3 darkness and the 5% raid buff.

By: Palawa

Palawa — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 23:25:55 +0000

Yeah… usually i don’t get Darkness in raid… so should i have only 7.5% in character panel? (so wqith the 5% raid buff i’ll got 12.50%)… is it ok?

By: Jorn

Jorn — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 08:28:24 +0000

I am a bit confused …
The 12.5% with 3 / 3in darkness + 5% raid buffs
I need 4.5% haste in the character panel?

By: Darkwich

Darkwich — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 10:11:34 +0000

I used to roll as a Disco Priest (You know what they say about Disco Priests? They are always ready to party! buh dum bum cha!), but with the way things have changed I’m looking at going straight Holy from now on. And this guide (amoung others on here) really makes it easy to understand how to use this spec that I’ve never even so much as looked at before. Cheers guys.

By: Psyrog

Psyrog — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 08:33:19 +0000

I have been confused by a druid raid leader in my guild. I have about 2300 Spirit and 73k mana unbuffed.

I have been told to stack intellect rather than my spirit, surely regen in a fight is better than a large pool to begin with, must admit I was going OOM in raids..

Any advice on my balance?

By: Derevka

Derevka — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 23:37:04 +0000

As I said, it really depends an mileage varies in be amount of Renews you use.. Never said it was worthless beyond 12.5%. Just that haste has a decreased value. (and, the compendium was written predaged to this post). Regardless, I welcome the discussion and am curious to see further math and discussion you linked.

I’ll take a look at that thread when I get back from vacation. Have a good NYE!

By: Grioja

Grioja — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 22:35:35 +0000

To be fair, it’s “generally accepted” because of this blog (that’s how it made it into the compendium) but 12.5% hasn’t been backed up by math. See this post in the “questions” thread:

http://elitistjerks.com/f77/t110341-priest_simple_questions_simple_answers_cataclysm/p3/#post1829458

As you can see it outlines the usefulness of haste, but I’m not set on there being some “magical” plateau of 12.5%

By: Derevka

Derevka — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 21:49:11 +0000

Instead of reinventing the wheel on the math, ill point you to the EJ spreadsheet and the Plusheal thread on HoTs and haste. I use renew on the MT regularly, even as my guilds strongest raid healer. That added throughput (less time between ticks and an added tick) is more than good. Of course, mileage varies based on your style bit as a /general rule/ 12.5 is the generally accepted amount in the community.

By: Grioja

Grioja — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 20:55:08 +0000

So where is the math to support all of this? Given that renew is only used on tanks for holy with refreshing via chakra: serenity I don’t see the need to bring haste up to 12.5%