Quote:I'd be hesitant to declare spirit so very low and MP5 so high, especially without knowing what healing patterns will be like in TBC. MP5 unfortunately has very little use whatsoever in a short fight. Spirit is in the same boat. +healing can be viewed as a flat mana efficiency increaser which works no matter what the duration of the fight is, and no matter how often you cast. The importance of Int continues to decrease as the fight wears on.
I would agree with your assesment. Certainly the impact of Mp5 on short fights is small. +healing seems to be the stat that can most benefit for all fight lengths. As we see more and more content from blizzard, we are seeing a move to more exotic and drawn out encounters. I bellieve that Mp5 will become more and more important in these situations.
As far as spirit is concerned, It is often necessary to choose between stats. In this situation I feel that Mp5 is superior to spirit because it applies in all situations. In addition spirit is not as effective for druids as it is for priests and mages. For druids 2 spi = 1 Mp5 where with priests and mages 1.6 spi = 1 Mp5. In VL's example lets assume that you would spend fully half your time out of the FSR it still would mean that for druids 4 spi = 1 Mp5, and I believe this only applies in unique situations. I realize that I'm not taking into account the +15% regen during casting talent that druids have but I'm trying to keep the analysis fairly simple. But if I had to choose between spi and Mp5 or spi and int I would choose Mp5 and int because int will also add +healing and Mp5 with the druid talents.
Given this discussion I would rate +healing and Mp5 as the highest priority with INT close behind and spirit again fourth.
One considerations that I haven't discussed is the impact of spirit on the effectiveness of innervate. Perhaps this merits more analysis.
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