Post by rocketscience
Hello all, long time reader, yet admittedly reluctant poster, for numerous reasons.
However, I'm looking for some gearing/gemming/spec advice from the holy side of a priest.
I recently dinged 80, and just want to make sure that I have all of my facts straight before I go and make an idiot of myself. So first off, as recommended in Sinespe's post, I'll try to give you a little background on myself. I'm a college student, specifically an Aerospace undergrad. So as you might imagine, I don't have a TON of time for badge grinding and stuff.
Recently my friends and I made a new guild so we could all play together, with people we knew and trusted. We all re-rolled, and are just now getting to the point where we are even considering raiding. As I said earlier, I just hit 80 a few days ago, and have been working towards picking up some of the badge gear available through
Emblems. I'm following some recent advice and just trying to pick up as much of these purchases as possible. However seeing as I'm not well geared, I have been reluctant to actually heal heroics, and have instead been dps'ing them in order to pick up my upgrades. Here is where I become a little unsure:
- At what point, in terms of stats, would I be ready to actually heal these?
I understand that skill>>gear, however I'm just a little hesitant and would rather not mess up and look like an idiot in front of my guildies/friends. My second question is in regards to the future, and is more about me looking ahead.
- Approximately what gear level should I be at before we began raiding? I'm not sure what we'll start on, but I know we'll be taking it slow. All my guildmates know their classes well, and are taking time to gear correctly. As stated previously, I plan on raiding as holy.
Finally, I'd like a a quick overview on my overall spec/gemming/gear.
MeI'm quite aware that I am missing nearly all enchants, however since I re-rolled, I haven't had much gold and so I'm attempting to save the gold spent on enchants for pieces of gear I know I won't be replacing nearly every day. I also know I have a few +hit pieces, however they were still upgrades from previous pieces, so I took them until I could find something better.
Hopefully this was something similar to what Sinespe was looking/asking for. I really do appreciate the time put into these forums, as I find them very informative and helpful.
If anything needs clarification, please let me know.
Thanks in advance,
Cheers.
Post by rocketscience
Sorry, I forgot to use the profiler instead of armory.
Anyways, I'm just shadow for now until I gather enough gear to start healing instead. I know that for shadow I need 289 hit rating to raid, however I plan on using that as my off spec, so until I can get comfortably geared in my holy spec, I won't be worrying about that.
But either way, the gear you see is the gear I have. As I said earlier, I don't have a ton of time, so as a result this is all the gear I have for now. I plan on replacing the +hit gear as soon as better alternatives drop. However until then, this is, unfortunately, what I have to work with.
ProfileAgain, I currently only have 1 set of gear.
Thanks