Originally Posted by Babe Bridou
So in my opinion Blizzard did a good job when balancing Sparkling Star of Elune (+8 spi) and Royal Nightseye (+9 healing and +2mp5). And I fully support Lightshadow with his conversion rate  |
Except not really. While he asserts that 2mp5 = 8 Spirit, you are leaving out the 9 healing (7 depending on talents) which, according to his conversion rate, would be between an additional 1-2mp5.
Furthermore, I don't really think your theorycrafting proves anything, to be honest. Why would a Priest ever chain-cast GHeal(7)? It's totally unrealistic. Will you even make it to 3-minutes if a Priest must stop healing while a mob continues outputting that sort of damage? Sure, other healers could be told to step it up, but why not just have everyone use actually efficient heals? Why would a PriestSpi who spends LESS time outside of the 5SR, MORE time inside of the 5SR, benefit more from his itemization?
Again, I'm just asking. I haven't done encounters like Hydross with enormous spike damage, but I can't imagine how an additional +200 healing or so (crit + talents) like Healmuth says would be superior to 50mp5 in these situation. I guess it is in part because we never have used a Shadow Priest, but is gear available that would allow 100 healing to outweight 50mp5, honestly?