So, for all you healers out there:

[fm_gatekeeper]

Intellect or spirit

Comments

[wildeabandon]

My approach was to prioritise spirit until I felt reasonably comfortable, and then priortise int. I've got about 7.5k with a spirit flask, and that seems to be enough to last through the early Mogushan Vaults fights. Last week I was on around 6k, and that made it a lot more of a struggle to sustain the healing required.

[faerierhona]

Ah, I was hoping to hit 6K, hmm.. that could be painful if I need more. What does the flask give you?

[wildeabandon]

1k from the flask, and up to 300 from food. In 467 ilvl gear I'm able to use int food and a mixture of int and spirit gems, and I still have a couple of pieces of haste/mastery or haste/crit gear.

If you haven't got it already already, the trinket from Ook-Ook is quite good - 847 spirit and an int proc.

[faerierhona]

Cool! I only recently hit 90 and am still gearing so that's helpful (I let my social life get in the way of gearing my main. I feel dirty :-P)

[futurenurselady]

I prioritize Spirit on my Resto Druid, who is my only 90 right now.

Unfortunately, when I run heroic dungeons with one of the Guild's DPS Shaman, he rolls need on all the Spirit rings, necklaces and trinkets.

I am annoyed that Blizzard kept the Hit conversion talents in for those classes. If my Guildie had stuck with his Mage, we wouldn't be having this problem...and he wouldn't get all sad when I say I don't want to run heroics with him.

[archangelbeth]

The Hit Conversion is so that they can dual-spec heals without having to assemble totally different gear sets, as I recall. (And my boomtree would wail and cry if you took that away from her! My shadow-priest, who recently picked up disco spec as well, would also mutter darkly.)

Can you point out to your guildie that if you don't have Spirit, you don't have mana, and if you don't have mana, you're going to stop healing him? I mean, if he's a good guildie, he'd at least take turns...

[futurenurselady]

He knows. He just doesn't care because the competition for raid DPS slots is pretty fierce right now.

I tried explaining that since I am heals we aren't competing with each other for spots, but he said "well but I am competing with everyone else for them."

It's like he doesn't get that we won't be able to even start raiding until all three healers are geared...

[archangelbeth]

...

Yeah, time to stop running heroics with him and ignore the whining. O:(

[mawwalker]

When I was gearing for raids, I shot for about 6600 Spirit on my Druid then started favoring Intellect. With the combination of epics I now have, I'm around 7.5k and I favor Int in my consumables. The numbers might be different for you. It's all about finding out where you're comfortable with your mana regen. For my fellow raiding tree, he's far more comfortable with 10k+ Spirit.

[nightscale]

I've been pretty much taking what I can get, and most of my gear does have int+spirit on it but I have a feeling that I need far more spirit as my mana regen is not what I would like it to be. It's not awful and I can heal fine but for longer fights it could potentially be an issue, and I want to nip that in the bud before it gets away from me.

[kaelstra]

I go with spirit. This isn't too hard since almost all "healer" gear has intellect on it anyway, so if it has spirit, odds are, it already has int anyway.