06-02-2008, 01:41 PM
I play a prot pally. My tanking gear has started to approach the limit of what I can get from badges and so I have started to ponder buying badge healing gear. I need to know if any of it is worth spending badges on. I'm not looking at what would be good if I ever respeced to holy since I know I will never do that. Instead I'm looking at what would be good for when I heal as a prot pally.
I figure that the only way a person can decide if badge gear is worth getting, is to look at what other gear is available to them and then compare. So that is what I am doing. I've set up point values for various stats and then compared various purple gear to see which is best. Then I can look at how attainable each piece is for me and decide if the badge loot in the list is worth the investment. For now I am only considering heroic, 10 man, PvP, and badge gear. I could potentially add 25 man gear, but I figure that in most situations there is a better person for the gear to go to than myself.
So the first thing to do is consider what occassions I will have for healing.
1: Normal runs. In these cases it probably wouldn't matter too much if I use holy pally gear or prot pally healing gear. They are just too easy to matter.
2: Heroics. Gear could matter for healing in these, but odds are that if I had to heal a heroic I would just use my priest. So I'm not overly concerned with this. It could be a nice option though if it can be worked in easily. I don't really expect to be able to solo heal heroics, but I might try anyway. : )
3: Raids. Being prot, I'd be tanking most of the time. There are some fights where multiple tanks just aren't needed and so healing is what I would do instead. This situation would be the main focus of the gear. It is a situation where we already have main healers and I would be mostly just helping out where I can. As a prot healer I run out of mana very quick if I use my big heals. Therefore I generally am casting flash of light. Most raid encounters have some form of raid damage which means I can expect incoming heals on myself from other healers and thus some mana returns from that.
So here are the point values I'm looking at.
10 +heal = 8 haste = 4 mp5 = 30 crit = 20 sta = 30 int
The way I am calculating things is I am taking the stat value on an item and dividing it by the point value above. I am then adding all the resulting totals together to get a score for the item. For items with gem slots I am assuming that +18 heal gems will be used in all slots unless the bonus is +9 healing and there is only 1 non-red slot to fill in which case I would be using either +9 healing/+4 int or +9 healing/+2 mp5 depending on the socket color. Meta slots I am currently counting as +26 healing even though it is quite possible that other meta gems would be better for me.
So with all of that being said. Here is the resulting spreadsheet.
I figure that the ratios I am using are bound to be wrong and so I'm hoping to see some discussion on what people think more correct values would be. Feel free to also comment on if there would be a better way for me to calculate things or anything else that you think would be useful. I kind of just threw this together for my own benefit and then figured I might as well post it on here to get thoughts/improvements/suggestions. Also figured that there was a slim chance it could be useful to others.
I figure that the only way a person can decide if badge gear is worth getting, is to look at what other gear is available to them and then compare. So that is what I am doing. I've set up point values for various stats and then compared various purple gear to see which is best. Then I can look at how attainable each piece is for me and decide if the badge loot in the list is worth the investment. For now I am only considering heroic, 10 man, PvP, and badge gear. I could potentially add 25 man gear, but I figure that in most situations there is a better person for the gear to go to than myself.
So the first thing to do is consider what occassions I will have for healing.
1: Normal runs. In these cases it probably wouldn't matter too much if I use holy pally gear or prot pally healing gear. They are just too easy to matter.
2: Heroics. Gear could matter for healing in these, but odds are that if I had to heal a heroic I would just use my priest. So I'm not overly concerned with this. It could be a nice option though if it can be worked in easily. I don't really expect to be able to solo heal heroics, but I might try anyway. : )
3: Raids. Being prot, I'd be tanking most of the time. There are some fights where multiple tanks just aren't needed and so healing is what I would do instead. This situation would be the main focus of the gear. It is a situation where we already have main healers and I would be mostly just helping out where I can. As a prot healer I run out of mana very quick if I use my big heals. Therefore I generally am casting flash of light. Most raid encounters have some form of raid damage which means I can expect incoming heals on myself from other healers and thus some mana returns from that.
So here are the point values I'm looking at.
10 +heal = 8 haste = 4 mp5 = 30 crit = 20 sta = 30 int
The way I am calculating things is I am taking the stat value on an item and dividing it by the point value above. I am then adding all the resulting totals together to get a score for the item. For items with gem slots I am assuming that +18 heal gems will be used in all slots unless the bonus is +9 healing and there is only 1 non-red slot to fill in which case I would be using either +9 healing/+4 int or +9 healing/+2 mp5 depending on the socket color. Meta slots I am currently counting as +26 healing even though it is quite possible that other meta gems would be better for me.
So with all of that being said. Here is the resulting spreadsheet.
I figure that the ratios I am using are bound to be wrong and so I'm hoping to see some discussion on what people think more correct values would be. Feel free to also comment on if there would be a better way for me to calculate things or anything else that you think would be useful. I kind of just threw this together for my own benefit and then figured I might as well post it on here to get thoughts/improvements/suggestions. Also figured that there was a slim chance it could be useful to others.