Healing benchmarks for higher raidsFollow

Was doing Gruul with about 1400, mag was closer to 1500, 1600ish for SSC. I am sitting at 1823 right now, can switch gear around and be 2000 if I want, ZA is still a *****. Everyone has to be strong on that run and you have to have right balance or else you are just wasting money on repair bills. Full cleared it, and I rather do a vashj fight, honestly.

Remember as you move out of Kara and into 25 man content +heal really has to be balanced with spell crit and MP5. Having +1800 and only 18% Holy crit = fail. Pallies have insane mana efficiency, but the difference between a pally with regen and one without is huge.

Without doing Kara though he can't expect too much. A guild just breaking into SSC maybe. Any fool can farm gear, experience is what lots of guilds look for. Also there are a number of key upgrades he is missing from Kara that don't see replacements until end t5 or t6. He would do himself a favour joining a Kara guild or finding some people to pug with and getting his kara pieces. I know we bring people in who are Heroic/S1 geared and tell them that they need to farm kara to get in main raid. You see them just booting around and slacking and not doing kara then wanting raid spots and we usually have to sit em down and tell them that Heroic/S1 epics are nice but they lack the stats necessary to compete in a main raid and at t5/t6 content there is no room to carry a guy just to gear him out, especially when he has shown a complete lack of initiative in getting ready to hit the content.

No real benchmarks, the gear through kara tends to make it pretty standard with rings/neck/trinkets allowing for some variation. Seen spell crit whores, seen MP5 ******, balance tends to work the best though. I can bump up to +27-28 Holy Crit, I can go over to 120 mp5 without buffs. Depends on the gear and gems I bust out. I can go anywhere inbetween

You don't see so many bench marks post kara because it boils down to progression. You arent attempting Gruul if you havent downed Prince a couple times and if you have downed prince a couple times you will have the gear to do Gruul.

There arent those clear cut +heal, +mp5, +spell crit benchmarks that you will see going into Kara.

Kara, besides his mp5 sounds to low for much higher. Maybe Gruul...

20% holy crit is pretty rough, 80 mp5 wouldnt be too hateful if he was flasking, mana oiling and using blackened sporefish to compensate. Like I said he could probably handle moving into a guild just breaking into SSC. I'd have a better idea if I could see the armory.

Experience is a big thing as well, has he full cleared Kara, has he killed gruuls, or is he a 5 man healer who can't drop a cleanse or BoP when needed and has no clue about downranking, heal rotations etc.

edit - as Dilbrt stated the further you get into t5 the more it comes down to skill and less about gear. You get into content like Vashj and 1 man dying, especially a healer and you have to wipe the fight. Content where 10 things are going on at once and suddenly Mag seems like Attumen in simplicity.



Edited, Jan 1st 2008 2:00am by bodhisattva

He's full-cleared gruul in a pug, and his guild's done some of kara. The kara experience he had, he had about 5% less crit, 500 less healing, and 4k less mana though.

Armory
Keep in mind that he's planning on getting a few upgrades, when he gets those he'll be at the stats mentioned (and his meta gem will activate):
Implacable Guardian Sabatons with vitality
High Justicar's Legplates with runic spellthread

Also he does PvP some, so his armory may show different gear, and it may say "awaiting refresh" cuz armory is f'd up right now, but there ya go.

Armory's working again. You can go to the link I provided

The healing one isn't bad(better than the Kara one, IMO, since the Kara one wastes item budget on Spirit and has no mp5). The damage one is horrid. His Thrallmar rep is good enough for a much better healing ring and would find that a good substitute. I'd actually probably take the Thrallmar one over the Violet signet for the mp5.



Edited, Jan 9th 2008 6:03am by Poldaran

It's useful in PvP. And as a paladin, no reason not to run both the best PvE spec and PvP spec at the same time.

It's a godsend on Tidewalker when you have to get aggro from murlocks without wasting too much mana. My current guild also has us use it on certain trash pulls in Black Temple.




You MUST have GF if you're doing Vashj, no way around it. Its also helpful in various other situations, including PvP.



QFT.

Honestly if you want to see a 90% PvE 10% PvP raiding holy spec, feel free to copy mine. I've tweaked this and changed that around for the better part of a year and I have finally gotten my perfect spec. Is my spec perfect for you? Maybe, maybe not. But for what I do (mostly PvE) its perfect.