1.10 item changes

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But given that I was referring mainly to items that healers would be interested in... staves, cloth, etc...  it might be considered an overall quality nerf by some, especially given the new priest talent that makes (some) additional use of high spirit.
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Bull. The items lost a little spirit to gain a lot of everything else. We know, by Blizzard's itemization formula, that pushing one stat on an item is costly.

Found some of the examples:

Guiding Stave of Wisdom

1.9 stats:
+10 stamina
+29 spirit
+10 frost resistance

1.10 stats:
+11 stamina
+10 spirit
+10 frost resistance
+53 healing

Was a priest-only item, and not that good of one. Now it's a healer item.

Cyclopean Band

1.9 stats:
+4 Strength
+4 Intellect
+15 Spirit

1.10 stats:
+4 Strength
+8 Stamina
+7 Intellect
+4 Spirit
+9 Damage/Healing

Wierd item, but you lose 11 spirit to gain 8 stamina, 3 intellect, and 9 damage/healing. That's a net +9 damage/healing just by moving stats around to be less focused.


Rosewine Circle

1.9 stats:
+7 agility
+16 spirit

1.10 stats:
+5 mana / 5 sec
+29 to heals

Before: completely worthless.
After: Hey, a reason to actually go to LBRS!

Tooth of Gnarr

1.9 stats:
+15 intellect
+10 spirit

1.10 stats:
+14 intellect
+8 stamina
+3 mana/5s

Before: Not bad for a priest.
After: Slight loss in mana regen for priests (I dunno)? Definate gain in mana regen for druids (we do exist, and we hate spirit because of our crappy regen formula!)

Spiritshroud Leggings

1.9 stats:
+5 agility
+10 stamina
+21 intellect
+21 spirit

1.10 stats:
+13 stamina
+16 intellect
+16 spirit
+35 healing

+35 healing, +3 stamina. Not a bad trade off, though not the best. Still better than it was.

Robes of the Royal Crown

1.9 stats:
+3 agility
+5 stamina
+9 intellect
+29 spirit

1.10 stats:
+19 stamina
+12 intellect
+10 spirit
+18 damage/healing

Much better overall, though here I agree they didn't need to pump sta so much to cut spirit by 2/3rds.

So maybe on two items they have less spirit than is optimally useful (for priests, not for anyone else). But they're all still better items than they were before.