Healing in DPS gear

[Dergybear]

Considering it... thoughts anyone?

[Mickster]

i guess its ok for like a druid warrior where you need extra dps, but I dunno.

[Earrl]

I dunno, I see a lot of Discipline Priests doing it in DPS gear...perhaps as backup damage, I'll never know. But there are a few that seem to have success. It doesn't mean they are Smiter Priests, just making an observation.

I think if you go the Blessed Resilience/Holy route, you probably want the straight up healing gear simply because your talents aren't going to allow for much offensive prowess I guess. That is like an Arms warrior strolling in with Tanking Gear. Doesn't make that much of a difference, you know what I mean?

[Playdough]

Are you talking about like 3/5 s2 healing and 2/5 s2 healing/dmg gear for the AR? that set up is petty common since you give up 60ish healing for 400 or so AR.

But they nerfing the AR on cloth S2 items I heard soon.

Or stacking the two new honor rings the pure healing and the +healing/dmg ring? That is pretty common as well for the stats and added resiliance.

[Wonder]

Until last week, I'd always been Holy or Disc in +damage gear.

[Earrl]

I don't see how a Priest can really go past a certain point without the healing horsepower really :-\, unless they are pure shadow.

[faction]

You can easily get around 1100-1200 using satin pieces and healing gear in other slots, I use satin glad pieces for my healing set when i spec holy and do fine. I dunno if this is what you meant. If you mean using DPS gear for healing so that you can contribute to dmg or something... the answer is a big no.

[Dergybear]

No no, def not. I meant that since Im 5/5 satin 3/3 dps weapons, and Im trying to cycle over to healing. I was just curious what some other top priests thought about using it until I can afford mooncloth.

Its ok though. Ive already made up my mind. I was playing an spriest on a 2345 team with no lock, and since the patch just hit, and my dot damage is getting a little lower in addition to the fact I cant cover anything up with UA, Im switching over to... maybe disc maybe 28/33. We'll see.

Thanks for the input. <3

[Adarand]

I am in the same situation you are in. I chose to start out shadow and buy shadow gear, but now I am holy and doing arenas in 900 healing/damage and laughable mp5. I can take hits, but as the poster above said, you NEED healing horsepower.

In my 3v3...which I just started (now 2100ish), on the first night of real play I really was falling behind on healing when there was a healing debuff on my warrior or hunter and w/ CC on me, they were probably going to die. It is the same if they are on me, but it took a bit longer.

Night two, I switched enchants/trinket/ and MH (soulfrost+Mglad MH for PvE shadow wasn't cutting it) and pulled up to 1200 w/ 12k hp, 430 resil and we pretty much owned all night and got to our goal for the week.

It is pretty much a really really stupid idea to gimp your healing for a little bit of damage gear. Stick to burning/dispelling/burning and death when a target is low, otherwise don't cast lolsmite ect.

My opinion is to use 3 merc satin and grab 2 MC pieces to not give away your gear deficiencies. Your next arena point purchase should be the healing off hand. Use your arena trinket and a healing trinket of your choice to boost you up a bit. Switch enchants, for the love of God. Spellsurge/healing bracers/gloves/healing to rings/helm/legs/shoulders all need to be enchanted for healing. Get to 1200~1300 with decent mp5 ~430 resil ~13k hp and you are golden.

[Dergybear]

Yea, sounds about right. And of course, as soon as the idea of going holy is brought up enough for me to invest... I buy my Merc Healing Mace and toss Spellsurge on it; grind AV for my PVP Healing Ring, then promptly spec back to shadow, haha. Oh well, at least now I have a decent weapon and ring if I do decide to reinvest.

Thanks for the input. Much appreciated.