So what sort of gear for raids?

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BBQSox

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Just got my priest to 85 yesterday and already have a few heroic level pieces, no epics yet. Working on rep with hyjal atm. I know I still have some 333s and one 316 that I'm trying to replace asap. What sort of gear are you looking for in a spriest? I'm pulling ~10k on the boss dummy. I'm not even going to trying running heals until my ilvl gets up some. I'm only at like 337 right now.

Ideally I need some socketed gear so I can use my chimera's eyes. Other than that, thoughts? Where should I look for upgrades, especially for the gloves?

http://us.battle.net/wow/en/character/stonemaul/talmot/simple
 
I'm not the authority on this kind of stuff, but I believe 10k would be ok for the starter raids. It's more about being aware, not taking avoidable damage, and being able to do what's required of you on boss mechanics. A dead dps is no dps.

As far as gearing and rotation, I hear Bill prattle on and on about haste, so maybe try and get some of that. Honestly though, Bill could probably answer most shpriest questions you have.
 
I've raided in one form or another since vanilla (actually cleared naxx once at 60). Avoidable damage is no issue. I've been abusing leap of faith on every special Edward who refuses to get out of the green or pink stuff on the holiday fight.

And I'm fairly certain that haste is the god stat that I'm looking for. I know mastery is darn near useless. Right now I'm having a bit of an issue juggling around hit. Twisted Faith is helping out a lot. I can forge spirit and hit onto the same piece to sort of double dip. EDIT: I am hit capped so it's not that big of a deal. I just can't afford to drop one of those pieces with like 100 spirit.

I'm trying to get as much of my gear to work for both shadow and healing as I possibly can. It's a lot easier to get into a random as disc than as shadow. =/
 
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Actually mastery, due to patch 4.0.6, is now on par with crit which is not far behind haste. My dps jumped 3k on the target dummy from the changes to mastery.

Running simulationcraft told me that mastery was actually a higher stat priority than haste believe it or not! Note that this is for my gear and wouldn't apply to you most likely.

Also being hit capped is a personal choice for shadow priests right now. You don't HAVE TO BE like in the past, the benefit of not being hit capped is you can stack other stats like haste. I would try not to go under 12% at the most extreme. And yes I have raided at 12% hit successfully. If you are still not convinced you can ask shadowbill or myself in game to explain it. After all I was the one who convinced Bill to go below hit in the first place. ^_^

As for gloves you can exalted with the Earthen Ring and get the flamebloom gloves.
 
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