Mists of Pandaria Classic Holy Priest Stat Priority
On this page, you will find out the optimal PvE stat priority for your Holy Priest in Mists of Pandaria Classic. We first present the stat priority, before delving into more complex explanations.
Stat Priority for Holy Priest
The stat priority for Holy
Priest is as follows:
- Intellect;
- Spirit;
- Critical Strike Rating;
- Mastery Rating;
- Haste Rating.
Intellect
Intellect is the main stat for all casters as it increases their Spell Power, boosting the effectiveness of damage and healing spells. Intellect will be found on all gear you use and will continually increase throughout the expansion as your gear steadily improves.
Spirit
Spirit is the healer stat, granting mana regeneration. With Holy
being one of the most mana-hungry healers in the game, Spirit is a stat you will
want on as much of your gear as possible.
Critical Strike Rating
Crit is a direct scale to all of your healing, doubling the healing that the
spell would normally do. Where this gets the advantage over Mastery, is that all
of your healing spells can crit, where as some spells do not benefit from
Mastery: Echo of Light.
Mastery Rating
Holy gets
Mastery: Echo of Light for their Mastery trait,
causing your direct healing spells to heal for an additional amount over-time,
based on your Mastery. This gives you a lot of additional healing, especially
when you are AoE healing. Mastery is a little worse than Crit, as healing over
time is not guaranteed to get value, and not all of your healing spells benefit
from
Mastery: Echo of Light, but they do benefit from crit.
Haste Rating
While Haste has previously been our go-to stat, that is not longer the case. Instead, we gain better healing throughout and mana-effectiveness by focusing on other stats.
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