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Old 12/17/07, 4:40 PM   #33 (permalink)
galzohar
Bald Bull
 
Blood Elf Paladin
 
Al'Akir (EU)
For a healer basically every stat can potentially be wasted. mana stats are wasted if you had any mana left at the end of the fight. Haste is wasted if you didn't do your max HPS at any point in the fight or if you went oom before the end and people died as a result. +healign is wasted as well if all your heals healed for more than the health deficit of your target. You can even say DPS is wasted if you're not hitting the enrage timer and nobody is dying because DPS is too slow.

The real question you should be asking yourself is "which stat is least likely to be wasted for me?" Which depends on your current gear, the buffs you're receiving from the raid (mostly shadow priest support) and the nature of the fight. But remember at the end if a healer doesn't have "wasted stats" he probably doesn't have enough stats and your raid is going to wipe. At the end having "wasted mana", "wasted +healing" or "wasted haste" in facts makes it so you're actually overkilling the encounter which increases the level of certainity you have for 1-shotting it. Problem is determining which of those stats is more likely to not be wasted if things go bad.
 
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