Spirit Healer Loot List

Neirai the Forgiven

Christian Guilds List Manager
By request from Shuranda

The Spirit Healer is a priest with high amounts of spirit and +healing. While this does compromise her mana pool, it also profits with massive heals and quick regeneration, allowing her to heal less often for longer.

This list consists of two lists: The first list contains gear that can be gathered without ever entering a twenty or forty man group. It includes 5-10man dungeon crawling, the Dungeon 2 set, and Cenaurion Circle/Argent Dawn grinder rewards. The second list consists of gear that is within the grasp of the aSGA raiders at this time. It includes all 6 World Bosses, and any raids up to Blackwing Lair.

Enjoy! :D


Spirit Healer (PreSGA)

Head: Crown of Caer Darrow (Reward from the Raj the Summoner Quest)
Neck: The All-Seeing Eye of Zuldazar (ZG, the Reputation Necklace)
Shoulders: Mantle of the Scarlet Crusade (The Cannon Boss in Strat Live)
Back: Butcher's Apron (LBRS, from an Ogre Boss)
Chest: Embrace of the Wind Serpent --- These are the best Spirit Healer robes in the game. Unfortunately, they are also a 1 in 769 drop from the Avatar of Hakkar in Sunken Temple. For a much, much more attainable goal, try the Robes of the Exalted, which drop from Baron Rivendare.
Waist: Virtuous Belt (Dungeon 2 upgrade of the Devout Belt)
Legs: Wolfshear Leggings (LBRS, from one of the Wolf bosses)
Feet: Soot Encrusted Footwear (BRD)
Wrist: Bracers of Hope (Epic Reward from the Argent Dawn)
Hands: Hands of the Exalted Herald (From a rare spawn "Panzor the Invincible" in BRD)
Ring 1: The Postmaster's Seal (From the Postmaster event in Strat Live)
Ring 2: Band of Mending (From bosses summoned for the Dungeon 2 upgrade quest, in Stratholme somewhere)
Alternatively, for rings, you can where two Emerald Flame Rings, but they drop off of the Prince in the Library in Dire Maul West -- and you can only fight him if your party has the quest to make the Thunderfury, I think.
Trinket 1: Royal Seal of Eldre'Thalas (From the Book, Holy Balogna, what the Light won't tell you. Allanonmule may in fact have a copy on hand.)
Trinket 2: Briarwood Reed (UBRS, from Jed Runewatcher. I believe you've seen this drop before, you may even have it.)

Weapon: Redemption (Drops from the same Cannon Dude in Strat Live!)
Wand: Ritssyn's Wand of Bad Mojo (From Baron Rivendare in Strat Dead)


Spirit Healer Gear (Raid Gear)

Head: Halo of Transcendence (Onyxia, Tier 2 Head)
Neck: The All-Seeing Eye of Zuldazar (ZG --- Rep Necklace)
Shoulders: Zandalar Confessor's Mantle (ZG Set Quest)
Back: Hakkari Loa Cloak (ZG, off of Bloodlord Mandokir)
Chest: Robes of Transcendance (BWL, off of Nefarion. Have fun with that! Alternatively, if you managed to score the robes from Sunken Temple, keep them.)
Waist: Zandalar Confessor's Bindings (ZG Set Quest)
Legs: Empowered Leggings (BWL, Drop off of Chromaggus)
Feet: Boots of Pure Thought (BWL, they are a random, but common enough, drop)
Wrist: Bindings of Transcendence (BWL, off of Razorgore. Pretty easy to get.)
Hands: Gloves of Rapid Evolution (BWL, off of Razorgore as well. Once again, easy)
Ring 1: Pure Elementium Band (BWL, off of Nefarion. Not so easy.)
Ring 2: Seal of the Archmagus (Molten Core, off of Baron Geddon.)
Trinket 1: Neltharion's Tear (BWL, off of Nefarion. Again.)
Trinket 2: Royal Seal of Eldre'Thalas (Same item as the previous list. Get the book!)

Weapon: Will of Arlokk (A fairly rare drop off of Arlokk, the Panther Boss, in Zul'Gurrub. But well worth it)
Wand: Marli's Touch (A fairly rare drop off of Mar'li, the Spider Boss, in Zul'Gurrub. Also well worth it.)
 
One of the priest complaints is that Bliz added the neat spirit based talent (spirit ~= +healing), but the itemization for such a build is very poor. Since I have this talent on my priest, I have thought about going for a high spirit gear. I need to work the numbers and see if it's actually feasible. Or.... Shuranda can find out and let me know :-)
 
I got bored and ran the numbers. With Jr's pre-MC spirit build here are the stats/stats from my gear:

+heals from gear spirit: 43 / 28.25
+mana/5 sec in combat from gear spirit: 16.1 / 10.6
+mana/5 sec out of combat from gear spirit: 107.5 / 70.6
mana from intellect gear: 1320 / 2520

My gear also has a static +10 mana/5 sec not from spirit. Jr's build has +293 healing (from static bonuses, not spirit). I have +204.

My gear is sort of a mish-mash. There are a couple of epic pieces, but in general it is a little lower quality than Jr's build. Few pieces are the "best" with the exception of the Hide of the Wild and potentially my robe. (BTW, I ignored trinkets in both builds since none have +spirit) Anywho, I could easily get better gear that would push my +healing and +int higher. The only place the +spr build really shines right now is in the Mana/5 OOC. If you spend a lot of time outside of the 5 second rule, it could work. But, it has been my experience that in boss battles in 5 & 10 man, I am rarely outside of the 5 sec rule. (Trash mobs are another matter, but it's not like us healers are hurting for mana on trash unless someone did a very very bad pull)

Anywho, that's my quick, "back of the envelope" calculation.
 
To sum everything up easily, it is not worth the talent points. Put them into Mental Strength. Have a good day. :-P


This is my recommended healing build which Reason will be when I change his talent points, which should be this week some time. I was just waiting on Reasonable to get up to lvl 60.
http://www.wowhead.com/?talent=dxg0smVoZfLt0f0V
 
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Or, put them in mental strength AND spiritual guidance.

BTW, your recommended build is almost the same as Sakaki's. I highly recommend it. The only changes I would make is to drop Holy Reach and pick up Inspiration. While not useful in 5-10 man, inspiration is nice when healing the main tank in 20 and 40 mans.
 
I appreciate each and every one of your comments and time put into. Alot of this stuff is above my head in some ways and I understand it in others. I am trying very hard to learn all I can about it. I will continue reading and looking and let yall know what I come up with. Thanks again!:)
 
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