I am a dwarf priest 375 skinner 375 miner since day 1 in this game. My guild is clearing karazhan and gruul weekly but struggling on Magtheridon.

I have not tier epic gear from karazhan in every single slot except chest and shoulders. All of my gear has reasonable healing enchants and rare gems (mostly gotten from prospecting buddy). What I'm struggling with is whether I should 1) craft whitemend; and/or 2) drop skinning and pick up tailoring.

I've perused the mooncloth and whitemend sets and even played with a few people who had them crafted. I'm having a really difficult time telling whether its worth it. My +healing raid buffed is about 1500, my understnading is with mooncloth set and whitemend set I probably could hit 1800-2000 pretty easily, but that my stamina would suffer greatly. Basically the feeling I get is that whitemend/mooncloth set would be basically situational, on the fighst where I'm unlikely to take damage I would use it, but on fights where I was likely to take damage I would use what I hav eon now.

My question is, is it worthwhile for me to spend the timeand money to get mooncloth/whitemend, or am I better off just waiting until we progress in Serpentshrine/TK?

I'm a big fan of getting healing gear that has little to no stamina, throwing in all gems that are heal/spirit/int/mana regen, and then swapping in arena gear socketed with elunes on fights where you need more health.

Really the same strategy can be used for dps classes too

I can imagine that those two professions, with no production profs could make you some serious money. If you do choose to make the sets, prepare to spend 600+ gold on all the cloth you'll need.

But, the sets are pretty nice. I'm not done yet, but they're excellent for your healing and in combat regen.

The tailoring sets are extremely strong, I'm pushing over 200mp5.

Log out in your healing gear.

P.S. Your spec is really weird.

I will log out in my healing gear and bump once armory is updated. I think I'm going to have to drop skinning for tailoring. :\ Oh well.

In general if you are serious about raiding/gearing your toon up, you need to have tailoring as a cloth user these days. Of course it's possible without, but your char will just perform worse compared with the same class with tailoring.
It's starting to become a bit less important with some SSC items being upgraded in 2.1, but I still don't see myself replacing shadoweave items/gridle of ruination/spellstrike set with any drops from any current raid instance.

After reaching 70 I dropped Engineering and leveled Mooncloth Tailoring and got myself those crafts and then respecced shadow, unlearned tailoring and levelt it all up again (tried to persuade GMs to switch it but no chance). And I'd do it again if the raid utility of the shadow tree would be nurfed tomorrow. It IS worth it. For most encounters tailoring offers you THE best gear. In some sta heavy fights you need to switch some of the mooncloth items, but most of the time it's just the best stuff avaible atm. Leveling it up is a shitload of work though. Especially Runecloth and the infinite amounts of Netherweave and Arcane Dust required for the last 20ish skillups are painful.

Mining is not a bad 2nd profession for a holy priest though. Herbalism should decrease in value with the elixir/flask nurf but adamantite ore to prospect will be as long as people get new items with sockets ...
The perfect second profession is Enchanting though as the ring enchants just offer you additional stats that others do not have access to.

In case you decide to level tailoring, a couple of Deadmines runs gives you more then enough Linen and Wool Cloth to get past those stages. Scarlet Monastrey Library is easy Silk Cloth. I farmed Mageweave either at the harpys in Feralas or at the ogres of Tanaris. Runecloth probably from plaguelands fields or stratholm runs, if you can find a dps class to assist you. Netherweave is just painful. Farming Blood Elves in Netherstorm is fine but gathering the required amounts takes a bit.
Try to borrow a friend's mage or lock at least for the DM/monastrey farming, makes life much easier. :P

I did the same thing as kaib and leveled up to 375 tailoring two times, just to get the best gear for my spec at that time. Its pricy but worth it. The gear you get is just too good to not have atm.

Rickert

if you chain chug pots and use buffs pre combat and after all that your healing output is capped by mana and not by HPS, your gear either sucks really hard or you're just doing something fundamentally wrong.
If you are potting a lot, you just should not have any mana problems. Thus either +healing heavy or sta heavy (depening on the encounter) is the way to go. Alch Stone is certainly nice, but it only really helps if you pot a lot. And if you do that, you should not experience mana issues anyway.

It fixes something that is arleady fixed even more, to put it like that.

Thing is that for raiding healer there are 3 proffesions that can benefit you atm with something you cant have if you do not take certain proffesion.

Enchanting - ring enchants
Tailoring - crafted sets
Alchemy - Alchemist's Stone

IMHO From these I would pick tailoring because with current equipment available it benefits healing priest the most. The other one is up to your preferencies

Someone can even prefer engineering after patch 2.1

/wave Kai btw

If you want to heal the most possible, then you would get more healing out of a alchem stone and chain chugging than you would out of the tailoring set. The 40% more mana per potion every 2 minutes is more than some +healing here and there.

Don't get me wrong, tailoring is great. But it is definatly not the be all and end all as it is with say shadow priests.

I recently dropped mining for tailoring because I couldn't stand not taking an avenue that would improve my character. Bitter as I am about the necessity of a certain profession of you're a clothie, I did it, and so far I am looking forward to getting into Primal Mooncloth and the buffs to it in 2.1. The loss of stamina is annoying, but as others have said there's ways around it.

As I see it -- especially as a healer -- there are other people and alts who can collect materials for me. I'd rather have the personally beneficial professions on my raiding main, andl eave the farming and collecting to alts that can actually made something dead without wanting to smite their own eye out.