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Hi all. Is "+39 spell crit rating" better or worse than "+10 healing and 10 MP5"?

If you really want to know how I got to that question, please keep reading (WARNING - It's confusing). If you don't care, then please just let me know your thoughts on the question.

Let me start by saying that I reviewed the illustrious stickie. That being said, I am looking at dumping my BS prof (currently only 225) since there is nothing really good that I can't buy/have guildie make for me. Sooooooo, I'm looking for a new prof.

My other prof is mining (lvl 370), and I plan to keep it.

I am tossing up between engineering, enchanting, or jewelcrafting (already have Alch on alt).

The big benefits for each that I saw were:

Engineering:
Justicebringer 2000 Specs

Enchanting:
Enchant Ring - Healing Power

Jewelcrafting:
Kailee's Rose
Blood of Amber

Now, in comparing these, I'm having a hard time deciding which is better.

Enchanting - you can enchant 2 rings, so that would max +40 Healing over a non-Enchanter.

JC - you'd need 10 of the Kailee's Rose gems to give you +40 over a non-JC (since a non-JC could have Teardrop Crimson Spinel).

Engineering - the helm is really nice. The crit bonus is awesome. No MP5 though.....but the crit bonus is probably worth it.

So - here is how I formulated my question above:

"+39 spell crit rating" is the bonus on the Engineering helm and there is none on the other helms listed in the sticky.

"+10 Heal" is calculated from .... engineering helm gives you +101 healing. Most other helms are around +70 heal. So the engineering helm gives you about +30 heal over other helms (i.e. 101-70 ~ 30). Since enchanting can give you +40 heal, I just subtracted them (40-30=10). This is the bonus of enchanting over engineering.
"10MP5" is approx what any non-engineering helm (listed in sticky) can give you that the engineering helm doesn't have.

Confused yet?

I chose to ignore the + spell crit gem because my head was already spinning...

I went with engineering, but in all honesty it was because my pally was my first character and I thought it looked cool.

I agree with Dilbrt though. The helm is very nice when you're starting out raiding, but it can be replaced. Unless there are other considerations involved (for example, I'm the guild engineer, plus I love it too much to change :p) you'd probably be better off with enchanting.

*Edit: I kinda assumed that you were talking about raiding there, although you didn't specify if you were. If you are into PvP though, I'd honestly recommend engineering. The toys are simply too much fun to pass up on, especially for BGs. Just be aware that most engineering craftables don't work in arena - I pretty much only use my invulnerability belt in there.

Edited, Jan 19th 2008 1:21am by MetalM

Thanks all. I appreciate the feedback. The way things are going, I'll probably go with Enchanting. I hav a bunch of alts that are leveling too, and can supply stuff to DE.

Thanks all.