Feel like something's missing? I want to have flexibility in filling out my character's slots, but sometimes the items just aren't there to support it. For example, here are some gaps in mage itemization (looking only at epic items):

- Spell hit neck with +damage
- Shoulder piece with crit or hit at all
- Spell crit cloak with +damage
- Spell crit bracer with +damage
- Spell hit belt with +damage
- Spell hit legs with +damage
- Spell crit trinket with +damage (this has about a snail's chance in hell of getting made)
- Wand with crit or hit (though admittedly the item budget probably isn't there to support it)

Also very few items exist with both spell crit and spell hit, though admittedly this is probably more of a balance issue.

I expect they'll at least deal with the shoulderpiece discrepancy in Naxxramas since that's just something that's gone unaddressed for a while, but I'm curious: do you see a hole in your class's equipment that you want to see filled? Do you think Blizzard will fill it?

If you want more hit, equip gear in other slot that has more hit. If that lowers the amount of +dmg or crit in that slot, look to another slot for that lacking stat.

It sounds to me like like you just took pieces that have +hit and dmg, and suddenly "wished" it was crit and dmg. And pieces with +crit and dmg, those need to be hit and dmg.

Why not just be satisfied that the pieces with hit and damage, and the pieces with crit and damage. Otherwise you're just asking to put your gloves on your feet, and your necklace around your waist. It doesn't make much sense.

Of all the "gaps" you spoke of, barring the shoulders/wand, there exists a corresponding crit or hit equivalent.

Neck - Amulet of Vek'nilash
Cloak - Cloak of the Devoured
Wrist - Bands of Forced Concentration
Waist - Firemaw's Clutch
Legs - Enigma
Trinket - Neltharion's tear

+healing/MP5 on all pieces of shaman armor, which is exactly what will be on Earthshatterer armor from early reports. There is still a pretty limited selection of good shields for shamans and paladins and not enough pure +heal weapons to offer much variety.

Of course the obvious lack of a +healing two handed axe needs to be addressed immediately! :rolleyes:

Prophecy Gloves still have the best effective regen (treating 1 mana/5 as 3 spirit) of any gloves with +healing in the game, including Faith. They're particularly good because they mix spirit with a healthy dose of mana/5. As nice as Faith Gloves are, they still don't have as high an effective regen as Prophecy. The upgrade in +healing would probably convince me to wear them instead though.

When you can get more +healing and downrank your spells even further it really doesnt matter in the long run.

Druids can't go much lower than HT rank 4 because lower ranks than that one get less and less from +heal gear such that it's a wash efficiency wise to do so. Is the design goal for healers that we eventually spam rank 1 heals ?

Agreed, and depending on the proc rate/implementation of the Faith 8 piece bonus, I don't think the difference in regen on Prophecy would overcome the benefits gained by the +healing increase on Faith.

Although, at the same time, it'd be nice if Blizzard would stop distinguishing between Greater Heal and Heal so much for set bonuses. I already use Heal far more often than Greater Heal. With more +healing, the incentive to use Greater Heal will actually decrease because of the overhealing.

Druids are definitely in a different boat in this regard because Priests have so many other healing spells that we can use to make up for one or the other. HT is basically your bread and butter where we have over 3 to choose from.

I'd say +holy damage accessories of any sort.

I'm not going to get greedy and say +holy cloth, but given that Paladins are out there too, I'd like to see a mid-range ring or neck out there.

I have this: http://www.thottbot.com/?i=39537, but ironically, given that it's mp5 instead of spirit, it's less desirable by the only class it's used by.

Holy-damage builds are designed to be a hybrid compromise for raiding priests who don't like getting spanked every time they queue for a BG. Why on earth would you want to squander the versatility of +dmg/heal ilvl budget points for +holy? :blink:

Sorry, was talking to my boss on the phone when I typed that. I meant the Bracers of Arcane Accuracy :)