Bolty,Mar 7 2006, 03:41 PM Wrote:OMG, why no Improved Renew or Spiritual Healing? Well, any Priest who's been raiding for a while as a pure healer can tell you why: the points are better spent elsewhere. The reason for this is because these talents don't stack with +healing. While +damage talents will stack up with +damage gear, +healing talents don't stack with +healing gear.When I first read this, I thought "will not stack" meant that +healing gear and +healing skills would be mutually exclusive. But a simple test yesterday showed me, that it does work. It just seems, that +healing from gear is added on top of everything else
So if I have +500 healing (not hard to get for a raiding healer), and my Renew heals for 1000, it will heal for 1500 without talent points. It will heal for 1650 with talent points - NOT 1725. As you get more and more +heal gear, the total percentage improvement of the +heal talents becomes less and less.
I invested in the holy tree for now. My priest has both the 10% healing increase plus the increase from spirit. When I cast a Renew with my mana regenerating dagger, it heals 219 every tick. When I cast Renew with a +14 healing mace instead, it heals 222 each tick. The difference is 15 not 14, but I suppose the values could be rounded up. Of course, neither weapon had a bonus to spirit.
So, could you please explain, what exactly bolty is telling me (us)? Or has there been a change in 1.10 to what he describes?
EDIT:
Meanwhile, it occured to me that the difference 14 to 15 might be 10% healing increasement factored in from skill. Which would confuse me even more, concerning bolty's statement.
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