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So I'm almost at 70 as a holy paladin, trying to figure out what to do with my gear. There are some great guides out there with advice, but my question is this-- I have my healing gear on here ----> http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Drenden&n=Enzati <---- and you can see it's a mish-mash of stuff, but altogether it brings me +887 healing. But my health/mana/armor are abyssmal. Would it be better to have less +healing and more stats/armor instead? I appreciate any advice, just want to be helpful when I'm out there healing people- don't want to wipe on my account!!

Thanks!

enzati

Thank you so much for the advice, it's very particular and gives me a way to go. I only wonder about the talent spec, what should I change it to be a better healer? Thanks again!

-enzati

As promised...

Talents: Drop imp seal of righteousness, you're not going to be DPSing. Drop blessed life, I've never heard of it saving anyone's life. Pick up aura mastery, there are lots of fights where you will be at max range, and if you are your aura's won't reach your heal target. Pick up lay on hands, there are fights that this can save your whole raid from wiping, if the boss hits extra hard. Pick up light's grace, its a must-have for healing, period. Anything else you have left over, free free to use wherever you wish.

Helm: Bleh, terrible. Never get greens of healing, it gimps everything else. Go get the helm from steamvaults.

Neck: Really not a bad neck piece. The PvP neck or the one from badges is an upgrade, but that one isn't bad.

Shoulder: Green of healing again? Bad paladin, no cookie. If you can get the shoulder from heroic ramparts, do so, but I used the leather healing ones from steamvaults until I was able to get the ramparts one

Cloak: That's really a priest healing cloak. See the spirit? Spirit on a paladin is about as useful as a warrior using a staff. Go get the one from sethekk halls until you can get enough badges to get the badge one.

Chest: EWWWWWWW more greens of healing? Is it any surprise you have the HP of a level 60 mage? STOP ITTTTTT. Go get the chest piece from Shadow Labs.

Bracers: You're KILLING me here with this green of healing obsession! Get farming and find yourself a blacksmith that can make Blessed Bracers. They were the first ever epic I had on my paladin and I've used them all the way to Black Temple. Needless to say they're worth any time you spend farming.

Glove: What in the world? I actually think this is WORSE than your green of healing. Go get the gloves from heroic ramparts, or if you can't do that yet, there are some decent cloth gloves off the first boss in Botanica, that can hold you off til you get the rampart ones.

Belt: Oh come on... really? There is a better belt you can get off the AH! You don't even have to run anything! Go get a Girdle of Divine Blessing right now.

Legs: Sigh. I'm not gonna even say it. You've got 2 real good options here, both quest rewards. One is from doing one of the Mana-Tombs quests, and the other is from doing one of the consortium quests to kill a blob up in netherstorm.

Feet: /cry just /cry. I ended up using some leather boots from the cache in mechanar, just because noone wanted to run heroic OHB.

Rings: Hey look you've got decent ring and a... /sigh. Go get some more honor hold rep, get to revered get that ring. For your second ring... Honestly, your crit is so bad I'd go with the spell damage ring from the first boss in steamvault, just for the crit. Then work your way untl you can get some heroics going and get that heroic badge ring

Trinkets: You've got the right idea getting a crit trinket, keep that one until you get revered with Sha'tar and upgrade it to a slightly better crit trinket. I'd really almost keep your other trinket because you're so crit starved, but once you upgrade the rest of your gear switch that for a Lower City Prayerbook.

Mace: You're a healer, not a dpser. Why are you using a dps mace? Go get the mace from Exalted Sha'tar, or the one from Shattered Halls, or the healing mace from mechanar. Do not get the crafted healing mace, its not worth your time.

Shield: wait... are you a paladin or a priest? I could have sworn paladins used shields and priests used offhands. This is one of the big reasons why your armor is so low. Go to the AH and buy you a Crystal Pulse Shield.

Libram: Er you know paladins can use librams right? Go do the nagrand nessingway chain and get the Holy Book of Nagrand.

If I seem a little harsh, I apologize, but honestly it looks like you TRIED to make the worst possible combo of talents and gear.

That build is fine if you're going to be PvPing heavily, but is really not what you want if you're really into raiding. Since this thread is assessing healing gear, your own sacrifices a LOT for raw mp5. Your crit is meh, your +healing without your ring enchants is pretty bleh at best. You're built for sustained healing, but I imagine unless its a super-long fight, you're nowhere near the top of the healing charts. I preach balance of stats, and you're certainly not balancing yourself.

They're nerfing the coefficient to lower ranked spells in 2.3, using lower ranks used to be what people did, but with the changes to T5 and the coefficient nerf, all BT paladins I know have switched back to using flash of light. FoL has the best heal per mana ratio of any healing spell in the game.

Yes 21% crit is low, I had nearly that much pre-kara. If you're able to top the healing charts then that speaks for your personal skill, and I think you could improve it even more by balancing out your gear. I'm not gonna lie, when I was doing Gruul/Mag I was trying to do the Holy Light stuff too, but as I got into the longer fights (like tidewalker) I really found myself to be an inefficient healer, and so I switched my tactics. I have used multiple different ways to heal, different mods, etc. and let me tell you from personal experience, get a balanced gear set up and use the paladin's best spell, Flash of Light.

I think your health is also a bit low (not terribly), but I attribute that to your emphasis on mp5 gear. You're really not bad off, I just think some tweaking would really improve your overall performance.

My crit isn't the same as yours, I'm 5% higher. I completely understand your way of thinking, as I said, I did the same thing. If you plan to use up your mana though, you're really up the creek if something happens and you're having to heal more (or more people) than you originally planned. It gives you zero room for error. If you play efficiently you can make up for the occasional bad luck. I'm just trying to offer a suggestion of a result I got through personal experience, if you don't agree, that's fine, I won't tell you how to play.

But, isn't having mana a GOOD thing?? It was my understanding that's why Paladins are so great as healers cause of their mana efficiency. I have never heard of a Paladin (or any healer for that matter) actually trying to deplete their mana pool >.> So, did I miss something in all that?

Mmm, good point. I'm no healer, but I seem to be doing a lot of healing in our 25 mans recently, mostly due to a lack of healers, so that wasn't meant to be criticism if it sounded that way. Just trying to glean more info where I can so I can do a better job when I do heal :)

Dilbrt-

I have to say, I actually DID laugh out loud when I read your post regarding my equipment- it just cracked me up about the greens. Ok, I get it. Mainly I just bought that stuff off the AH not realizing that it's not ALL about the +healing stuff. But thanks to you, I understand and am now on a mission for blues. Thank you. ***enzati stands up and salutes dilbrt**

-enzati