Kodohide Healing gear at 80Follow

Spirit is actually better for mana regen than mp5 for druids. Especially if you're going to be resto. All that spirit will give people a reason to finally spec 3/3 into Living Spirit and people are going to be getting mana back even faster.

Hell, when I was resto with just around 600 spirit pre patch I never ever ran out of mana because of my spirit being so ungodly high.

But, on a side note. Blizzard has made it possible to wear pvp gear for resto end game at 80.

Something else is wrong with it though. If at some point you decide to switch from Resto to Balance or the other way around, you'll find yourself in need of new gear. There is no spirit on the Wyrmhide stuff, and unless you spec into Intensity, the spirit on the Kodohide is more or less wasted for a Moonkin.

Sadly there doesn't seem to be any easy answer -

http://www.wowwiki.com/Spirit

But if I'm reading the article right, spirit contributes far more towards MP5 then INT does so this may be advantageous for you non-ferals.

Let's say that the gear all had 10 mp5 for a grand total of 50 - compare that to the 30% of 500 mp5 that having 390 spirit and 750 INT would give.

So what's easier - scoring an additional 163 spirit or finding 50 mp5 from other slots? (I honestly don't know - I'm a committed feral and use more mana shapeshifting then spell casting.)

you miss the point of some of the resto talents.

With the changes and new talents, they are making TREE form very viable in arenas.

With talents you can get 100% increase in your armor in tree form, and tree form also gives a bonus BASED ON SPIRIT to your healing. Mp5 gives no bonus other than mp5.

If you examine your talent tree carefully, you will see what I am pointing out.

Above all, with the mp5/spirit debate. Resto now has a viable way to utilize innervate w/o having to sub in the often used Bangle of Endless Blessings for more spirit. So this gear potentially opens up a trinket slot, gives you mp5, more healing and a much better use of innervate.



I think blizzard intended there to be separate sets for resto and balance. Not only by the 4 set bonuses, but by the fact if you had feral level 80 gear you wouldnt be using it for resto or balance, and vice versa.

As for the whole pvp thing in tree form, with the removal of the speed decrease, and the increase in armor when you talent Imp ToL it does make being in tree form very viable for pvp. But I still think it's going to be hard for all the resto pvpers to change from being in caster form to being in tree. For me it's just awkward as hell knowing that I have a big sign above me that says "I heal, so please kill me first." But like people have stated against warlocks banish is a nasty nasty cc to deal with as tree, so you pretty much have to decide what you're going to do in arenas if you get up against a lock. Take that risk, or stay in tree form with better mana conservation and more armor.

Well mostly it's because I don't care about the PvE application of the stats on this gear. It is PvP oriented gear you obtain from PvP to use in PvP. I was curious about how the mana regen on it worked and I was unsure how all druid mana regen worked for a couple reasons~

My old main was a Shaman, PvP & Raiding as both Resto and Elemental, Leveled as Enhance. I knew a lot about the class mechanics and strengths and weaknesses of the class. I wasn't "elite" by any means but I enjoyed learning about the class and how it reacted differently to gear. The same way I'm now curious about druid gear because now I only play the one druid character. As a Shaman, before they beefed up water shield and mana spring totem in patch 2.3(ish), mp/5 and mana regen was a monumental concern for raiding, and if you didn't have over 120mp/5 (before buffs) you weren't going to last a 5 minute boss fight, let alone a 20 minute arena match.

My Alliance druid had the first season arena gear after it switched to honor, all of that gear was laced with mp/5 and not spirit. I actually had more mp/5 in pvp with the druid than I did on the Shaman and it was easier for me to maintain (it's a lot harder for a bad player to notice the innervate buff on than a totem that pulses with a huge blue flash) plus shadowmeld etc.

But I had just noticed that the 80 gear was completely lacking that stat so I had never had to find out how spirit worked because it was completely useless to a Shaman.

Figured it would be better for me to ask now, then to buy the gear and noob it up til I figured it out.

What I still don't get is why you and others keep saying that mp/5 is trash.