Infraction for enqi: 6. Do not post unless you have something new and worthwhile to say.

• bartolimu · 11/06/09, 11:07 AM

Post: Priest: Simple Questions/Simple Answers
User: enqi
Infraction: 6. Do not post unless you have something new and worthwhile to say.
Points: 1

Administrative Note:

Message to User:

It's a shame that your desire to do appropriate DPS is not compatible with your preferred weapon aesthetic. However, I assure you we do not care. Also, the first person pronoun, I, should always be capitalized.

Original Post:

I've been thinking about this for a while now and i honestly can't come up with a proper answer for myself so i'm going to let you help me out here.

Some background:
I've always loved staves, i don't know why i just do.. After using 1H/OH for quite a while i've been longing to finally get myself a staff which can actually be better than a 1h/OH combo but blizzard doesn't approve. No matter how i bend it 1h/oh seems to get on the top even if you calculate additional spirit into sp and so on. Yes since i mentioned spirit you've probably figured out that i am indeed a holy priest. The weapons i've been looking at would be [Suffering's End] with a [Mystifying Charm] in offhand compared to [Sufferance]. It doesn't matter how i twist it the 1h/oh comes on top every single time due to the fact that the maces provides both haste and crit whilst the staff provides spirit, a minor chunk of int and crit, personally i'd pick haste above crit due to the fact that any non-clueless priest will with ease end up at 30-35% crit raidbuffed.

Staff versus 1h/OH
29 spirit, 36 crit, 22 int and two sockets versus 66 haste and 118 SP
Personally i'd go SP/Int and SP/Spi in the sockets which gives us
39 spirit, 36 crit (i'll disclude the int value), 32 int versus 66 haste and 94 sp

Can those values really make the staff somewhat comparable even due to the downgrade in terms of spellpower?
I find crit somewhat less appealing compared to haste, although the 32 int really is valueable.

Second thoughts please!