Merci pour le commentaire, ça fait toujours chaud au coeur de rencontrer d’autres pally sur le blog

I thought I would leave a comment this time to let you know you have other Holy Palys that read your blog but don’t comment.

I gemmed Intel at the beginning of MoP… now it will cost a fortune to change all gems, including meta, to spirit. Damn.

Bon retour, et merci pour cet article.

I don’t really miss the haste either (my fear of reforging away from haste comes from years of conditioning, I think) and I haven’t looked into the math, but I do believe you that it takes a lot of haste to notice a difference.

I have seen some people swear, though, that a lot of haste makes a glyphed Divine Plea less ungodly. I’m not sure I’m to the point where I want to try that.

Thanks for dropping by! Hopefully by the time your pally gets around to raiding, I’ll have finished this guide ^_^

I normally drink a spirit flask and eat int food(panderan banquet) just to be confusing. But the lack of spirit on epics is a bit annoying. At one point I had 3 items with no base spirit Even yesterday for a 7 ilvl upgrade to my chest I got a lot more int and +mastery rather then +haste,But I lost 100 spirit and instead of a blue slot It was red . /Sigh why blizz.

Yeah, in LFR I just kind of run around throwing AoEs around. In guild raids, I’m generally on the tanks and I don’t stray too often so my healing tends to be constant single target heals, so yeah, as long as I don’t fall behind, I usually don’t need much haste because my bubbles soften the blows. (That and one of my co-healers is a Disc Priests who also comes bearing bubbles.)

I haven’t had a chance to whet my Holy Paladin’s teeth in a raid outside of LFR (And really, I do much the same as you in LFR. PAD ALL THE METERS, which is surprisingly good practice at understanding the limits of your static mana pool), but from what I’ve seen of my total healing done in LFR is a good split between mastery and Light of Dawn. I wonder if that’s a side effect of having people at max health a lot in LFR and so everything is just bubbles. But most of what I’ve seen corroborates your data around Spirit > Intellect > Mastery > Haste. Hopefully I get to test this out in a real raid setting next week, as I start raid #2 and bring my pally in.

Having less haste, however, just means you need to be more proactive in your healing rather than reactive. I was already reforging for Mastery exclusively in Cata, so I’m used to not having much haste, so I didn’t really notice a huge drop in my casting speed. But using raid frames that show you when a player is targetted allows you a good half second warning that someone’s about to get hit with some sort of effect, often damaging, so it allows you to begin your cast *before* they take damage.

The bottom line, as far as I see it, is both haste and mastery are throughput stats, but haste costs you mana while mastery saves you mana, which at least for the first tier of raiding where mana can be quite tight makes the choice pretty easy, to be honest.