Comments on: The Importance of Intellect, Redux

By: Choosing Your Attributes - Banana Shoulders

Choosing Your Attributes - Banana Shoulders — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 12:53:05 +0000

[...] is the new black, as far as holy paladins are concerned. I’ve written about this before in detail, but to reiterate: all the important sources of mana regeneration are either based directly off the [...]

By: Tyriana

Tyriana — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 20:59:48 +0000

Ive geared purly for Stam/Int/SP/Crit/Haste. Very little on my gear is there Mp5 found. And thus far i have yet to go OOM, spamming HL or FoL.
My HL’s are criting for about 19k with Avenging Wrath up. While my FoL are critting for about 7k.

By: Siha

Siha — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 16:21:47 +0000

@Hagu – Well, IMO that kind of weighting really depends on how you heal, and what you do. What I’d recommend is going to http://www.maxdps.com/paladin/holy.php and inputting your gear values, talent spec, and so on. Then you can adjust the sliders based on FoL:HL ratio and whether you’re more worried about efficiency or throughput.

By: Hagu

Hagu — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 06:29:28 +0000

I am convinced and will try to gem and enchant for int. However, when trying to evaluate old/new gear – is this an upgrade – are there any rules of thumb? E.g., back in the good old days, I read and used the 1 +MP5 == 2 +spell crit == 4.5 +heal. So I could decide that +10 heal was better than +2 MP5 but not +3MP5.

Any chance someone has come out with some approximation like that for this new world?

By: Raimo

Raimo — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 23:56:10 +0000

One thing I’ve noticed so far–besides the fact that I have yet to go oom–is that, as a single target healer, I am generally standing oppopsite the tank, is that I am within a boss’ hit box. I turn on Seal of Wisdom and can more or less use Holy Lite the enitre fight without going less than, say 50%.
This is definitely true for Maexxna, Saph, and few others. A few hammer swings with my haste trinket activated and divine plea on, and I’m at 100% mana again.
This is why I’m stepping away from gemming for mp5 at all.
I’m not going to say that won’t change, but right now, I’m more concerned about huge heals than I am about mana use.

By: Jeffo

Jeffo — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 14:16:31 +0000

Maybe I’m missing something in the gear world, but I haven’t really come across gear that makes me choose between Int and mp5. Int is what I think of as a ‘white’ stat that is on pretty much anything I pick up and use, whereas mp5 is a ‘green’ stat, along with SP, Crit, and Haste. So it’s not usually a choice of mp5 vs. Int, it’s usually a choice of mp5 vs. Crit/SP/Haste. Gems and enchants seems to be where you make the choice between Int and mp5.

I do agree with you though — Int in general is the way to go. I find it funny, however, that BeImba gives me guff for enchanting my braces with Int over mp5, even though I’m still cruising along at over 100mp5 unbuffed!

By: Dradis

Dradis — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 09:20:04 +0000

My shaman buddy had me thinking about this before. He has been gearing for int where he can get it, and he doesn’t have a lot mana issues at this point. Good article!

By: Athryn

Athryn — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 07:28:13 +0000

I’ve basically been just picking up the normal gear I would be picking up, and socketing int gems into the sockets above all else. Seems to work out pretty well, my Divine Plea is giving back about 1200 a tick!