PvP gear for PvE healingFollow

There are many PvP pieces that help fill out a tanking set in large part of the +35 resillience bonus given with two pieces. I'm wondering which (if any) PvP pieces are worthwhile for a resto druid working through Kara. (Please note that 'no' is a perfectly good answer as it will let me devote my honor and marks to my tanking gear. But I just wanted to check).

Thanks

All of them. Seriously, there's no point to Kara loot if you're willing to PvP.

Maybe for the S1 gear it's not much better but the S2+ gear is definitely better than Kara loot (with the exception of the prince ring and the neck off nightbane). In fact it's better than most stuff out of SSC/TK and even better than some BT stuff. The main reasons are that mp5 > spirit and that higher ilvl makes up for anything wasted on resilience. Also, the extra stamina is nice because a lot of fights involve taking damage.

The 2 piece T4 bonus is pretty nice though, every other set bonus is crap.

I quit raiding half way through SSC/TK. I had 2 piece T4, 1 piece T5, and most of the rest was S2 PvP gear (if I were starting raiding now I'd use all S3 and no T4/T5). Mana was NEVER an issue. Not even close. It was rare for me to use even 1 mana pot during a whole raid night. There were plenty of fights where I would consistently innervate other players instead of me.

In general, PvP gear lags behind PvE gear by 1 tier for PvE purposes. So S3 gear is slightly better than T5 but worse than T6, S2 gear is slightly better than T4 but worse than T5, etc. S3 gear has been available for some time now so unless you hate PvP it's just not worth raiding anything less than BT/Hyjal for loot.

Edited, Feb 9th 2008 12:47pm by Esoa

Ya can get to 225/5 mana/5 and at least 1,700 healing with the S1 set and still have 9,000 health and mana, plus crit immunity and 15K or so in Bear Form armor. I dunno why you'd waste your time on Kara with S1 available.