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#1 Jul 14 2009 at 4:43 AM Rating: Decent
Hi,

I'm in the process of gaining a full set of PVP gear, however I'm using in it PVE as it's better than my current crap. Once I do eventually raid it'll be replaced by t7/t8 etc.

http://www.wowhead.com/?compare=41852:41857:41862:41867:41872:46080

Anyway, I'm a holy build priest. I heal whether in PVP/Heroics or whatever. My unbuffed SP is around the 1650. My unbuffed spirit is 550 roughly. My holy crit is 11.38% and Intellect 730. My Mana regen is 335 out of combat but 201 in combat. And self-buffed I will be reaching 19k health.

I'm curious what the ideal gem setup would be for the gear linked above.

1 Meta
2 Yellow
3 Red
3 Blue

I'm not sure if I need much more spell power, perhaps more crit chance as that's pretty low from what I've read. If you could suggest some gems to go for (as a non Jewelcrafter!), with maybe a WoWHead/Zam link that'd be awesome.

Thanks
#2 Jul 14 2009 at 5:29 AM Rating: Decent
Well you can skip out on the chest socket bonus and just put in an extra int gem.

The best meta I've found is the mana on restore, some people go spellpower int but as a holy priest you'll be needing as much mana as possible.


Yellow go pure int everytime
Red spellpower/haste
Blue I don't really like blue spell/spirit looks about the best



#3 Jul 14 2009 at 5:57 AM Rating: Decent
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imo for PVE...

Worry about the spellpower once you've got a good sized mana pool & regen. Spirit will give you a bit of spellpower and regen, even with the nerf I'd rather take gear with spirit over mp5. I also suggest gearing for crit before haste, but people differ on that. If you start running Naxx25 I'd suggest picking up the trinket Soul of the Dead.

meta: Insightful Earth (mana return)
yellow: pure Int
Red: Spell/Int or Spell/Spirit
Blue: Pure spirit or Int/Spirit once your mana regen is higher

Start working your rep up now with Sons of Hodir and Kirin Tor for the shoulder and helm enchants :)
#4 Jul 14 2009 at 12:27 PM Rating: Decent
You almost can't go wrong gemming your priest for your playstyle. Everything is helpful :)

Int is better than spirit for mana returns, esp if you have a replentish in the group.

MP5 is looking nice in 3.2 also

http://elitistjerks.com/f77/t54618-wotlk_healing_compendium_v3_1_here_there_theorycraft_dargons/p26/

If you get bored and want to take a look at some gems.

I like haste over crit for bombing out fast PoH when you need to spam it
#5 Jul 14 2009 at 12:46 PM Rating: Good
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At this stage in your gearing you want to go pure int. With that much int you must be somewhere in the 15000 to 16000 mana range depending on your spec. This if the first thing you'll need to work on and is a significant weakness of (even good) pvp gear vs pve gear.
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