Holy Paladin cata gearing

[whatasham]

Question for those actively raiding on PTR

How have you gone about gearing your holy paladin? From the loot lists, it appears that all the tier pieces are either crit/spirit or crit/mastery while I understand that even in cata our prio will be haste (to a certain extent) and then a certain amount of spirit to maintain adequate mana regen.

Have things changed since I last looked at this? Do we have a view whether or not the tier bonuses (looking at 4piece in particular) outweigh the less than ideal stats on the tier gear?

Any thoughts or links you can point me too would be helpful.

Thanks

[meth]

Maybe this helps you as a start - viewtopic.php?f=19&t=1312

[whatasham]

oh fuck my life - thank you (to diamondtear too).

edited: still looking for any discussions regarding stat prios etc.

[whatasham]

looking more closely at Diamondtear's list I believe strengthens my question above. He is still prioritising haste/spirit pieces over others, so I would be curious to know how people are gearing their raiding characters on the PTR, including tier sets.

Sorry if this is a stupid question and tier sets aren't available on the PTR - I'm obviously not raiding on the PTR.

[meth]

Well the PTR ain't really helping since it features none of the new content and gear. Cataclysm Beta is officially over and the 85 pre-mades features the first set of Tier gear.

So I wonder what the exact question is. DT's list is for the entry-level Holy Paladin who wants to jump right into Heroics and maybe even entry-level raids. That should be the most interesting thing for you right now as this is where it starts. If the stat-weight changes with better gear from raids then the information will be available by the time that happens. But what more do you need for now?

[whatasham]

The exact questions I'm trying to answer are:
1) Does it make sense to go for 2 or 4 pieces of tier considering bad itemisation?
2) Is any of our non-heroic mode BIS gear craftable or profession based?

I get the fact that gear is not available now, so I don't need anything "now". Just trying to look ahead past the initial gear rush in case anyone had a view on what is and isnt valuable based on normal and heroic mode raid testing.

[vryll]

Erm just wondering, whats the order of importance of the new cataclysm factions to a new 85 Holy Pala?

[DiamondTear]

Erm just wondering, whats the order of importance of the new cataclysm factions to a new 85 Holy Pala?

Therazane (easy, ring, enchant)
Ramkhaen/Hyjal
Earthen Ring
Dragonmaw/Wildhammer