Post by golimar
Mana per 5, while not completely useless, is certainly a stat you don't want to gem for. The best options for holy priests that I've found and that other top raiding holy priests use are as follows:
For blue sockets use
Seer's Eye of ZulFor red and yellow sockets use
Luminous AmetrineYour meta should of course be
Insightful Earthsiege Diamond
Intellect is going to be your best regen stat given the replenishment effect (though even without replenishment you can cast more heals given the increased mana pool) with the added bonus of crit. Balancing spell power while increasing your endurance is obviously the best way to go, making the Luminous cuts extremely valuable.
Post by karlusdavius
Mana per 5, while not completely useless, is certainly a stat you don't want to gem for. The best options for holy priests that I've found and that other top raiding holy priests use are as follows:
For blue sockets use
Seer's Eye of ZulFor red and yellow sockets use
Luminous AmetrineYour meta should of course be
Insightful Earthsiege Diamond
Intellect is going to be your best regen stat given the replenishment effect (though even without replenishment you can cast more heals given the increased mana pool) with the added bonus of crit. Balancing spell power while increasing your endurance is obviously the best way to go, making the Luminous cuts extremely valuable.
Do this. However, when you gem like this you will hit 20k mana very quickly. Once you DO hit this amount, when you gain a new gem slot, provided your mana doesn't drop below 20k, start to put in
Runed Cardinal Ruby in every gem slot, regardless of colour.
- Stack SP/ Int Gems until 20k mana
- When you gain new gear, provided your mana doesn't drop under 20k (it wont if what you got was an upgrade) Start to gem straight Sp
- If not, keep the SP/Int gems going
Post by karlusdavius
You shouldn't gem for haste, second blue sockets should be
10+stats or
10+int/spirit.. and i don't want to type all the math out for insightful vs skyflare, so check out the EJ forums.... if you don't want to check, insightful is way better.
Pretty much follow what karl saidno point in geming spirit anymore. Let it come from your gear. Wouldnt even bothered with blue socket or color gems at all.
Gem haste only if your holy and want to push for 20% haste. Always gem SP/Haste hybrids tho.
To each there own, but from these two post, I shouldn't gem for spirit, but need a blue socket for the Insightful... well the only two I would consider using to meet the blue socket include spirit. Also spirit provides mana regen and spell power via talants in Holy, as well as Shadow... ok never mind that, I shouldn't gem for haste... unless I need a certain amount of haste to reach 20% oh in that case use hybrid SP/haste... when did splitting up the stats with Hybrids become the trend for socket colors that actually provide desired stats with the Primary gems? Right, well then Int and a CHANCE to gain mana Meta or a constant SP and a % of int which scales with how much Int I have meta... I like constants rather then RNG... Ok ok ok, never mind just do as I say not as i do err or something like that.
Nextime I will make sure to preface it with "just my $.02" ... oh wait
Personally I socket as follows
Cheer guys!
you turned nothing into something. Gratz!
Insightful is always the best. Its not RNG at all and procs 100% of the time after its 45 second CD. 2% mana really isn't that much at all. Besides your statement doesnt make sense. 21 Intellect scales better than 2% mana. Since King's increases by a % not a static amount.
You made a meal out of the whole "don't use blue gems" scenario which really wasn't needed at all. Ofc you have one to active your meta. but that's it. The advice was based on the other sockets he has. not all of them.
Also spirit provides mana regen
Not as much as Int does now. Spirit got hit too hard to be your primary regen stat. At his level gear he can rely on the spirit he has from the gear he has already acquired. All of our regen abilities (Shadowfiend, Hymn of Hope) are based off mana pool, not spirit regen.
spell power via talants in Holy, as well as Shadow... ok never mind that
Why mention shadow at all?- 25% of spirit was great, however since we now have 23 SP gems or 10 SP off hybrid gems, id rather use those than put in say 20 SPirit gems in to only get 5 SP out of it. Again, simple math.
I shouldn't gem for haste... unless I need a certain amount of haste to reach 20% oh in that case use hybrid SP/haste... when did splitting up the stats with Hybrids become the trend for socket colors that actually provide desired stats with the Primary gems?
Only gem for haste if you prefer a playstyle which does not rely on proc's. Once your hitting your targets (usually called a BiS list) you can replace those haste hybrid gems for straight spell power. However, 20% haste can be done without Gem's being used. I prefer results faster with hybrids, since they are much cheaper to get and give two things that i want in one packet. Otherwise, Spell Power will be preferential.
Oh, and what socket bonus could possibly warrant a hybrid gem to satisfy a blue socket? Yellow and Red are easily covered with pure of hybrids. So I'm guessing your on about Blue sockets here.
If your going to kick up a fuss and try and mix two posts against each other, at least do some math and research first.