A Big Thank You to all who helped meFollow

First of all, I'm glad you're having fun healing!

This is just my opinion, but for heroics, your spellpower is way low. I'd want it at 1500 for Holy, minimum. Your mana pool is also slight; I'd try to push that closer to 15k. I'd focus on gearing, gemming, and enchanting for spellpower and intellect, with maybe a little spirit. Your mana regen is right around the minimum I'd want to start heroics, and your Holy crit is sitting at about 17% which is lovely to start - in a heroic you can eat/buff for it to push it over 20%, which can make for some really fun runs.

Tailored gear isn't what it was in Burning Crusade, but it's still a quick and easy way to start building a heroics/Naxx starter set. I'd look at the Moonshroud Robe and Gloves for sure, and probably the Light Blessed Mittens and Aurora Slippers as well. All are bind on equip so you can get them even if you aren't a tailor.

Oracles rep is incredibly easy to grind and they have a decent belt at revered that has more spellpower than yours. I'd attach a belt buckle to that and gem it for Int.

I'd also suggest you get a decent 1H weapon (Tuskarr have a decent mace and that's another easy rep grind) and then either pick up the Prison Manifest at the auction house or run heroic Violet Hold til you get it.

To crash your dream altogether, you're better off waiting 'till 80 with heroics - you simply can't enter them before the magic ding =P

As for stats at 80... You'll want around 1400 spellpower. I had 1300, 1500 self-buffed at the time but think I could've done most heroics at 1100 or even 1000 spellpower. As Holy, you'll currently want around 700-800 intellect and spirit, which should bring you to about 500mp5 outside the 5 second rule. 20% crit chance is a nice number to aim for as holy, but you can do heroics with a number as low as 8% as long as your other stats are on par. I think you'll want either about 15% crit or around 7% haste, though I personally vouch for crit.

Yeah, okay, so mebbe I should learn to read numbers, ya think?

OP, I did not notice you were 74. But the gear I mention is still some pretty good starter stuff to grab at 80.

You know, I locked my car keys in my trunk today, too.


Edited for Trylofer: all self respecting priests keep shirts in a variety of colors in the bank, so they can match their robes. We really should put this in the FAQ. I actually carry, in my bag, at all times, the shirts that match my PVP/PVE gear, so when I change I can still look good.

Edited, Mar 24th 2009 2:57pm by teacake

Some of them are low cut or have that weird cut-out middle thing, or weird sleeves. A bare midriff is one thing on a belf but it's not so appealing on my undead.

I can almost hear the conversation-
-So, did you guys rule the arena?
-No, got pwned, but I looked gooooood!!

el oh el!

I think the nice thing about gems is how easily (and unless they're epic, cheaply) changeable they are. Plug in whatever you're short on at the moment. At first I was gemming for int like crazy because my mana pool was balls, but once I got a couple of upgrades I started doing spellpower/int instead. Take a hard look at socket bonuses - sometimes they aren't worth it.

The WoW Gem Finder is a nice little interface for searching for gems with the stats you want.

As far as enchants, I stick mainly with the usual intellect, spirit, and spellpower, but I do occasionally throw on my PVP boots with Tuskarr's Vitality (which includes a slight run speed increase) for fights where I have to be particularly mobile.