kara statsFollow

pre-kara guides? pretty sure dilbert wrote one and i think he has the stats required in there... if not i know capjack has them in the Pally FAQ.

yeah, you can get that before starting kara, you'll be in great shape. most here have said you only "need" 1000 healing and 80 mp5 though. 1200 healing is easy though. look at dilberts guide still and work on as much of the gear in there as possible.

Honestly, the best thing you can do for yourself when gearing up for Kara is to just forget about stats and stat reqs. Even 1000 healing isn't really required, you can get by with much less than that, but you'll also get people who don't remember at all what they were geared like before they started Kara who will give you a number between 1200-1400. Not that 1000 isn't a reasonable number to shoot for; it certainly is, and with enchants you could probably very easily reach 1200-1400 if you've got the mats and/or gold to burn, but I certainly didn't.

It's really not any more complicated than this: Do you have the best pre-Kara, pre-heroic instance blues made for your healing class (Shaman/Pally gear tends to run parallel, as does Priest/Druid gear)? Do you have enough rep to with the various Outland factions to buy all of their healing gear? If so, great. Get it.

When I switched from Elemental to Resto on my Shaman I had a few hodge-podge pieces of instance healing gear I'd picked up along the way that no one else needed, but I was at least revered with every faction. It literally took me all of about a half an hour to get 1000 healing, and that was mostly flight time.