As a holy priest, haste and mastery are my stat priorities. The gear from the selfless watcher set doesn’t always have those stats. TBH, the set bonus isn’t that great either. Is it better to chase stats or set bonuses? I know way back when, set bonuses were pretty sweet. These days they seem to be lacking.
You should want very little haste. As a general rule of thumb, haste just blows mana faster instead of more effectively.
It’d be different if we relied more on HoTs, but… we don’t.
Haste and crit are good for dungeon content.
Sure, it’s more useful to blow your mana faster in a dungeon environment… but even there, these mythic+ clocks are pretty tight and drinking isn’t what it used to be.
For my money, I’d still much much rather stack crit/mastery as much as you can (gear being what it is, i.e. still a bit rarer than we’d like). FC gives you all the faster casting time you need, the holy words are instant, and smiting a little faster isn’t going to change much compared to having more Echo of Light healing.
Crit Ver is a good alternative to cri haste in dungeon.
And to OP, there is set bonus in Pve at level 60?
That’s a lot of weird info.
But anyway back on topic to the OP.
Just wear your highest ilvl. That will probably be better than those set bonuses
Well, I’m collecting pieces of the selfless watcher gear thought quests and drops. I’m reading the spec on the set bonus and trying to get that doesn’t seem very beneficial.
So, I noticed a lot of you are focusing on crit rather than mastery?? That was what I was focusing on prior to reading Icy-Veins! IV says haste/mastery, and I’m assuming those articles are written after research and sim crafting. I do appreciate the opinions, looks like I might be changing up the way I’m gearing my character so it works for the way I want to play!
i’m pretty sure that’s the kyrian campaign set. you’ll unlock it after completing the campaign which is time-gated right now. i believe this week was chapter 6 so you will complete it in a couple weeks or so.
as far as stats, just wear your highest ilvl for now until you get the same ilvl pieces with different stats. if you are mainly going to do dungeons, you will want crit > haste > vers > mastery. if you are going to be raiding you will want mastery > crit > vers > haste. for pvp no idea, but i’m guessing vers is more valuable
I just took a quick look at IV and they say Crit Haste, can’t post a link here. But I think having more ver wouldn’t hurt, you know from getting one shot. 10% seems like a good number.
That’s a guide written by a disc priest main who doesn’t even follow his own advice, and they’re basing their stat weighting off the assumption that you want to get maximum value out of PoM, renew, and Circle of Healing, per the guide.
If you’re running the Flash Concentration style - which I don’t know how anyone is healing anything much without it - you can dispense with PoM, renew and CoH casts entirely or almost entirely, so literally haste will be doing nothing for you with respect to any of those spells.
Icy Veins is giving out horrendous advice to holy priests, IMNSHO. Take a look at theorycrafters like Lightwater who do the actual math and you’ll see how awful their suggestions are.
this is all bad info. who is even lightwater?
Just to point out to him that’s all.
Actually, I don’t believe in Icy vein myself or at least the guide just isn’t very detailed. I don’t play Holy much so I can only give basic advice, but I know Disc guide isn’t very accurate.
It really isn’t, but if you’d like to post your detailed healing strategy guide and logs showing how you maximize HPS, by all means, feel free to share. No one is stopping you from offering “good” information.
/shrug
just taking a look at some of the top holy priest logs and keys and what they’re doing, there’s a pretty good mix. some priests are going haste and enchanting haste. some are going crit/mastery but with high haste rings and enchanting haste. also there’s a good amount of vers in there which becomes more valuable the higher the key
on a lot of logs, heal is their top spell and haste will get more heals off and able to use FC more, but even then a lot of them are using twins lego for their DPS i guess.
so my b for shrugging you off like that, but your info isn’t all there either.
What stats is recommended to put for Flash Concentration lego? Crit/haste?
a lot of people are putting crit/haste on it for M+, as shown in logs
I’d still go crit/mastery as much as possible. With the FC buff you shouldn’t be having any difficulties getting enough Heals off. Subtracting another .1 or .2 seconds just seems excessive to me since you still have to cycle in holy words.
But you know, this is all still a bit theoretical for a lot of players (and OP)… I’ve ended up with a lot more haste than I’d hoped for because gear is scarce enough you just got to go with higher ilevel for now unless you’re seriously spamming the mythic+.