I Am Not Hardcore. :(

It took me ’til the last major content patch – you know, when ICC was added – to hit 2k Spellpower in any form on Grindal.

But I had nearly 30% Holy crit.

I have a crit addiction, I admit it. I get excited when I see crit on my healers’ gear and I might even drool a little. My heart goes pitter-patter (or maybe that’s from being a fat chick, I don’t know) when a new piece of gear gives me an additional point or two of that delicious, delicious crit or I see that I’m being healed by a Disc Priest or Shaman (Holy pallies don’t exist).

Grindal had been looking for Int and Crit pieces, gemming for Spellpower and generally being a little “meh” about Haste – sure, Haste is nice and I know I need to hit the soft cap, but it’s not exciting. If my healing has ever wiped a group, it’s been because of slow reaction time, not low Haste (or uh, the cat, or not targeting the right person). He has a higher mana pool than the other Disc priest I used to regularly run with, though I haven’t played him in forever, and, well, I keep getting told I’m good at what I do.

Now that my Crit is close to 30% I’ll be piling on the Spellpower. In fact, that’s a stat that I can’t imagine any healing class not wanting, and when I see commenters on WoW.com crowing about Haste over Spellpower for Shamans I am confused. Okay, you cast faster and your global cooldowns are better, but um, what about raw healing power? Delicious crits? Is it a matter of supplementing what’s not on the gear? Maybe my little non-raiding brain can’t handle the logic behind this idea, I don’t know.

Or maybe these people are bitter about not being the Resto columnist and are venting their rage on a series of 101 Articles. For fuck’s sake.

I think, when it comes to styles of healing or tanking there’s a little more wiggle room when it comes to stat preferences. If your heals need to come fast and furious, you’ll concentrate on Haste. If you need your heals to hit harder when they come, Spellpower. If you like crits, you get the idea. Even with this said, if you’re a Paladin or Shaman stacking Spirit, you are bad and I do not like you.

I won’t pretend to know whether or not this works from a raiding perspective because my raiding experience is limited to easy shit, I mean, Sarth with no Drakes up. That isn’t exactly rocket science. That’s “stay out of the fire and pray lag doesn’t eat you” and “don’t hop into the lava you idiotfuck”.

As a tank, I’m trying two things: On one DK, I’m going for avoidance, I’m looking for gems, enchants and gear that will make things hit me less often while on other DKs and my warriors, I’m going for health pool. I love Avoidance tanks. Does this make me a failure? I dunno. I’ll let you know when my squishy ass wipes a group due to being squishy.

Oh. Wait…

As an aside, for the love of Djehuty stop sucking EJ cock, seriously. They’re one fucking resource not the be-all, end-all of everything.

2 Comments

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  By Tam, March 15, 2010 @ 6:23 am

  I hear ya. I’m a secret crit-junkie too. It’s just more *exciting* you know…

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  By admin, March 15, 2010 @ 10:41 am

  I admit, crit makes me drool a little. I’ve tried going cold turkey but the shakes, man, the shakes!

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