What gear for a lvl 70 healing priest?Follow

I'm currently gathering the mats needed for my priest to make the epic healing gear Whitemend (Head and Legs) and the Primalmoon cloth set (Waist, Shoulders and Chest)

I read the faq and I'm looking for Royal Nightseye and Luminous Noble Topaz for the sockets.

My question is what other non raid/instance stuff can I get to aid in healing?

I have The Essence focuser (with +81 healing) and I should have the shoulder and head enchants (+healing)

But I can't seem to find items for the other slots: neck, back, wrist, feet, rings and trinkets.

I'm not looking for instance stuff, maybe quested stuff but mostly crafted or BOE I can buy from the AH.

Thanks for the help.

You can also look yourself up on http://armory.worldofwarcraft.com/

When you mouse over each of your items, off to the side will be a "find an upgrade" selection. Click it to see the possibilities.

Edited, Aug 12th 2007 1:12am by dadanox

Just a side remark about the primal mooncloth set - You really should think about putting stamina gems into it. Having the 5 epics + your weapon you will be all set in the healing department, but you will be really short on stamina - by about 100. It will start to be a problem on several boss fights.

Like everyone else said get the PMC set the fill out the rest with the best blues you can get. The individual pieces of the Hallowed set have good healing stats on them so I suggest going that route. Not to mention the Hallowed headpiece has a metagem slot so you could end up keeping it for quite a while.

As far as putting stamina in the PMC set I disagree you should go for healing and +mp5.

Edited, Aug 15th 2007 12:16:03pm by MookusOU

Quick question, is there a max +healing?

I doubt I will ever do more than the lvl 70 5mans and the odd Heroic so stamina shouldn't be a problem, I just like having the best gear.

I have also found this:

http://wow.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?witem=23556&locale=enUS;source=live

to replace the essence focuser.

Does anyone know a way to find out who has it on a certain realm??

(Gonna look at the armory to see if you can search)

So I can find out who crafted it for em.

Got all the mats for it, except for primal mights (My Alchemist transmuter is making them )

Except there IS reason to invest more healing. When tanks take upwards of 12k damage in under 2 seconds, you need your heals to be hitting as hard as you can get them. Or you could downrank to Rank2gheal and start pretending your a pally, chaincasting those for efficiency. Of course, if you never raid, then yes, stamina becomes more important.

Get Royal Nightseye in ALL your gem slots, unless there's a really awesome socket bonus (lots of +heal or regen), in which case throw in Luminous Noble Topaz. Pick up some stamina-heavy items in case you need them, but for the most part stick with WM/PMC.

Instead of spending the money on Hand of Eternity, run Heroic Slabs for Shockwave Truncheon. Has stamina instead of int, the same healing, about the same regen, and a bit of crit (which, while not the best, still helps), and most importantly, you're not spending several hundred gold on an item you'll potentially be replacing off one of the first bosses in Kara.

Where? Are you talking about Melchezaar and beyond? To get that far you need to be able to survive 7500 pyroblast from Aran, up to 7500 damage from his missiles, 4-5k breaths from Netherspite (sometimes 3 in a row), 1500 per secon damage from Illhoof shackles. Maybe you will, but in general you are endangering the raid with low survivalability.

And the bosses in normal instances also have somewhat weaker, but similar abilities. Plus they may incapacitate you for the duration, so if you are the only healer and don't have enough life to survive, it is a wipe.

So instead of increasing your healing by 2%, increase your stamina by 25%. To paraphrase the saying that rogues use: dead priests do not heal. At least not for long.

When have you been fighting Netherspite last time? You can not run out.

We have just been wiping on Aran and Illhoof constantly last raid, and I suspect lack of stamina for the healers was one of the reasons.

If you have a strong group, you can drag any poor dude through almost everything. But that does not mean he is actually well prepared to stand by his own. And suggesting that others follow the same path is just irresponsible.

Our community leader, who is a priest himself, does not accept priests with much less than 300 stamina, and I fully agree with him. Why make a whole raid or group suffer because the healer could not be bothered to get some more life?

As I said before - nobody will notice 2% less healing, but you bet they will notice a wipe caused by a dead priest.
And btw, if you need to heal yourself, because you invested in the +2% healing - you will need to cast 50 heals to catch up to the time lost healing yourself. It is a much bigger change somebody will die because of that, than because you had a little less +healing.

On a side note - I just noticed that the quest reward for killing Terokk is a staff with 60 stamina and 200 healing. Might be a solution to the whole problem. But I still think that gems give the best enchage for +heal -> stamina.

Wow wiki has a good listing, although it is not complete (it is a wiki, so that is our own fault).

http://www.wowwiki.com/BC_healing_equipment_%28cloth%29