Originally Posted by constantius

Holy priests want the following stats, roughly in this order:
spirit = spellpower > haste = intellect > crit > stamina = Mp5

So any item which does not have hit on it that also has spirit is fair game for holy priests. Any item which does not contain spirit tends to be significantly suboptimal. I'm going to link a couple of pictures just to make my point.




This is an extremely clear-cut case. Resurgent are almost perfectly itemized for a holy priest (except the lack of a socket, which is almost universal for off-set gear in Naxx10. Don't know why). Unfortunately, they're also close to perfect for any hit-capped caster class.

If you go down the list of the current Naxx drops, there's usually one that's "better" for a healer. Unfortunately, two of them have hit. Why? Because the other option has no spirit, and has Mp5. That's an instant "no" from me, simply because the scaling is so bad.

We have a serious problem with caster itemization. We're going to be sharing a single drop between 7 people in at least half the cases (25-man stuff). I really really hope they end up creating about 4 items for each slot, each armor type, and put 2 of them on the loot tables, and 2 on a token vendor. It's the only way they'll end up being able to make people happy. If we have a situation like the horrible healing cloth shoulder from Sunwell again, where it and its turnin were both terrible, it's a completely wasted slot in a raid where you can't afford to have serious amounts of rotting loot. Too many specs, too many specializations.