I had several questions regarding Restoration Shamans gear in Arenas and talent specs.
First off some background and what I am expecting. The shaman that I have is fairly new to 70. I previously had leveled a Draenei hunter to 70, but found the playstyle not that interesting. I then decided to go back and become a healbot. I recently got asked to be on a 5s team and so have begun the process of gearing up for pvp healing. Personally, I like to be a healbot and that is what I would like my gear and spec considerations to be able to give me the best opportunity to do this.
When choosing a spec, it did not seem like there was much outside of restoration tree that would aid my ability to heal, mostly in a pve environment, but also now in a pvp environment. With that in mind I went
0/0/61. Are there any talents that I should pick up to help my survivability and help maintain my healing power in the other talent trees. It did not seem like it, but since I am fairly new to the class I was wondering if I could get some input on the issue. Damage/farming is not an issue at least personally as I have a well geared 70 hunter to meet all my farming needs.
I have started the slow process of getting the pvp blues and epics to help fill some serious stamina holes in my gear. The blue pvp set seems really nice to provide a bridge towards arena gear. My current healbot gear can be found in my profile (6200 hp needs fixing ASAP I know). I am also in the process of getting some badges for the rewards there that really seemed to be geared towards pvp healing (high stamina mixed with good healing stats). I was wondering what is your preferred stat on gear in a pvp healing environment. How would you rate:
Stamina
MP5
Healing
Intellect
Resilience
Spell Crit
My personal feelings tend to rank them as listed, but that is basically my impression of shamies in a pve environment with just adding stamina at the top and resilience near the bottom.
Finally, in looking at the level 70 pvp epic items (cape, boots, belt, bracers, neck), I noticed that there was not really any pure healing items available from pvp. Everything has spell crit and spell damage, no pure healing and mp5 items. How do people feel about these items from a healing standpoint? Are their better alternatives?
For instance:
Marshal's Mail Sabatons vs.
Auchenai Boots
A very similar option exits for the belt:
Marshal's Mail Girdle vs.
Tarren Mill Defender's Cinch
Both of the blues being socketed with 12 sta gems or something similar. Another example is the
Seal of the Exorcist which wastes alot of points into things that I will not use much I assume healing.