Originally Posted by tesk
How many healers are you currently bringing to your raids? Are you casting for every gcd or are there periods where you can get outside of five without ooc procs? Those two right there could well answer why you don't have any mana problems.
Either way there are a couple good trinkets for both throughput and regen from the hard modes. [Sif's Remembrance] from Thorim 10 hard and Show of Faith from Yogg 25 hard. The Show is 140 sp and 193mp5 for 15s on proc. Couple those with another regen trinket like the [Spark of Hope] and it makes the hard modes less stressful on your mana bar.
I'd be interested to hear how pressured you fell once your guild starts attempting hard modes in Ulduar.
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It's interesting to note that
[Pandora's Plea] is essentially the same as Show of Faith, only in reverse. The passive SP from plea works out to 141(vs 140 from Show). And assuming a 25% uptime on the show mp5 proc(15s duration assuming 60s cooldown and constant uptime, which would be generous), it is worth 48.25mp5... vs. the 108 intellect from plea which is worth 59.08mp5 ((108x.0175)+(108x0.162)+(108x0.210)).
Short version: 141sp 59.08mp5(
[Pandora's Plea]) vs. 140sp 48.25sp(Show of Faith), with reverse procs. Not considering the crit from plea because it is pretty much negligible.
With
[Spark of Hope] pretty much demanding the first trinket slot, it basically comes down to those two for BiS second. And while Plea is slightly ahead number wise, some of you may choose to go with show just because the nature of their procs and how refreshing hots with additional SP works.
Personally I will be choosing Plea, as I feel the SP proc increases its value in the hands of a smart player who pays attention to the uptime. I don't feel anything else should even be in the conversation, unless you're talking about attainability. Then lesser versions/old trinkets can come into play.