Well i hope your all happy for burning up the rest of my brain cells..

You made a comment that I see a lot on the forums and such. It seems to be a very common idea that Tier gear indicates how particular builds should gear. For example, Resto T7 has lots of haste so haste is a resto stat.

I have to say that this is 100% incorrect.

Tier gear is great, but it is not built perfectly for any spec of any class. If blizzard allowed me to design a set with the exact same itemization points and menthod I guarentee I could do better then that set. The reason is the stats on tier gear arn’t spread out enough and that causes more itemization cost.

Second, the fact that tier gear has a lot of Haste or Crit on it actually makes those stats less valuable in relative terms.

Third, what blizzard intends isn’t always right. There are plenty of examples where players have thought up new uses for spells that unbalance the game or make one ability more use full then another. What is important is the math, not what blizzard supposidly wants you to do.

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I’ve been beating my brains out trying to figure out whether I was supposed to take crit gear or haste gear, and this article definitely settled it for me. I’m a holy priest re-roll, so there is still a lot I need to learn about resto druids .

And I am a tailor/enchanter (love to make the cloth stuff but hate wearing it at the same time)

Have a delicious day!

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p.s. I’m a tailor and leatherworker too btw!! Flying carpets + shirts + bags + fur lining = yay!

I wanted to come back and share an anecdote about intellect.

We were doing KJ last night and one of the resto shammies was bemoaning the lack of Replenishment on him.

Let’s backtrack a little though. This particular shammy is really into Int stacking at present. Int int int, gotta have more int. He has something crazy like 17,000 mana raid buffed. Why? Huge replenishment ticks. Huuuuge. Not only does he have a massive pool of mana to get things started, but that’s heaps of mana coming back in each time Replenishment ticks. He’s crunched all the numbers and worked out the crazy amount of mana that will be coming back to him over the course of XYZ minutes.

Opening up the WWS from last night, he started cursing when he saw that one of the hunters got 23,000 mana back from Replenishment and he only got 3,000! He was furious.

So why was he robbed of the buff?

Because he has 17,000 mana. The game AI decided he didn’t need the Replenishment ticks – because he had plenty of mana already. Better give it to someone else – like a hunter!

The moral of the story: don’t stack Intellect for Replenish/Replenishment, because there will come a point when it starts *preventing you* from getting mana back!

I laughed so hard.

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@Beathooven: Since GotEM only reduces the GCD of Rejuvenation/Lifebloom/Wild Growth by 0.3 seconds (down to 1.2), Haste will continue to reduce it. That doesn’t mean that it’s especially helpful, given how expensive those spells are to cast, but it could be fun and certainly useful on some encounters.

P.S. I think many Restos are going to opt for leveling Balance-specced because of the spell power change and the fact that their top-end Resto gear is now essentially slightly less efficient (no crit/hit) than the equivalent top-end Balance gear they would have had.

@Keeva: I’m in the same boat as you. I prefer leather when possible, but some leather tunics are just … hi-deee-us. Like the leather tunic from Badges that look like someone tied a handkerchief across our chest. Despite the fact that the cloth robe was so similar to the leather tunic, I picked up the robe. With the changes to Improved Tree of Life, I’m kind of regretting that decision now.

P.S. I’m also a Tailor (and a Leatherworker). Flying carpets FTW!

@Ermengol: I hadn’t heard about the change to Moonfury. Huzzah for reduction of Balance bloat. And thanks for chiming in with your perception of the usefulness of Haste. Hopefully I’ll have more of an opportunity to experience it myself in the expansion. My guild never did get far enough for me to nab too much haste gear.

@Zamir: I’m not sure if you’re aware, but you don’t have to hold onto tabards to get the tabard achievement. Blizz has said that purchasing one will fulfill its requirement, even if you sell it right back.