I like to keep a set of spirit gear on all my mana users, in their inventory. It helps shorten the downtime.

when I was leveling my priest I had a druid AND a shaman take cloth items from me...needless to say after the Shaman need rolled against me I left the group and let them heal themselves.

its a common misconseption that spirit is useless for shamans. and although its true you dont gain anywhere near as much from it as other casters. its far from useless.

shamans are idea at healing raid damage and in that roll they can frequantly get out of teh 5 second rule. also using a trinket that alows mana regen shile casting (i forget its name) is a realy good idea if your MT healing.

i wouldnt ever say that i aim for spirit gear. infact its obviously 4th on my stat list. but i wouldnt ever shun it. and a large amount of spirit is worth more than a small amount of say bonus heal or int.

interestingly i would always take mp5 over spirit near eregarde of numerical value dispite the fact mp5 is only 3rd on the stat list.

im not saying stack spirit, but keep in mind its your healing style that mkes it usefull or obsolete.

Raid healing on my shaman and sticking religiously to my healing assignments, I'm never outside of the five second rule. Heck, it's hard to find two and a half seconds in a row in which I'm not casting.

The only fights on which I can realistically think of getting any spirit based regen are fights where all the direct damage is on the tank with no AoE to speak of. And if that is the case, I don't NEED any spirit based regen, I'm not going to go OOM.

Shaman healing gear is mp5 centric. They're designed to be able to spam chain heal for the entirety of a 5-10 minute raid boss fight and not oom. They have no talents to regen mana through spirit while not casting, so spirit doesn't do them any good.

I think he was only referring to Tanking Warriors. DPS warriors would most definitely be glad to pick up some leather pieces (i.e. Cursed Vision of Sargeras).

I'd say (with my minimal cachet as a warrior player) that some of the best DPS gear for warriors is mail or leather, unfortunately.

but Warriors almost never have a reason to slum it up in mail.

well he did also mention that the mail having alot of agility increasing your crit chance thing which to me implies dps. and as stated in a previous post dps warriors (especially fury) will sport leather as many of the stats rogues use work with a fury warrior as well minus the whole strength thing ... hmm bear druid loot maybe ... bleh I've used a few pieces of leather for my dps set and even at one time a mail hunter chest piece because plate upgrades weren't readily available and always the rogue/druid/hunter i gave first priority to the loot.

It's a meta blog. In otherwords, an aggregate blog. They're paid to do this. Same reason why I read slashdot. Because they aggregate all the news from other blogs and sources so I don't have to spend 100 hours a day on multiple sites looking for possible news.

Think of it as a news filter.

Eternalpayn, as much as these comments are nice to people who love to complain, they are really kind of annoying. I would prefer that the people who are commenting on aggregate news blogs don't whine about news coming from other sources. If I wanted to go 1000 places to get my news, I wouldn't read WoW Insider. You have complained, presumably to try and make Mike look bad, but you just look silly. The comments that you do think through yourself are often a lot better than useless complaints. Also, it fills up my comments section with whiny BS. Thank you, have a nice day.

A lot of the WoW Ladies whose Livejournal posts are quoted/rehashed in these pages are unaware of the finer points of the Internet allowing for folks to wholesale reword their post as a blog post. It has been brought up here before, but the reposting continues, alas.

He's done this for much longer than merely two posts. It's a lost cause at this point.

Would you have been upset if he'd outrolled you on a caster dagger? I mean, you can both use daggers and staves but he can use maces, should he only roll on caster maces?

No, weapons are a different story. I don't know why, they just are. ;)

I have mixed, complicated feelings on the issue, really, and can see both sides of the argument. As I said, I just know how I felt when a leather-wearing class took a cloth item that I needed, when I don't have the option of wearing leather. It just didn't seem right to me. There's also the chance that the boomkin will change his mind and decide to go feral or resto later on, whereas as a warlock I'm limited to a single role.

On the other hand, I also have a 60+ shadow priest alt that never heals and will happily roll on gear that traditionally would be mage or warlock stuff, so...

It's a complicated issue. I guess it all boils down to, people want loot, and when they don't get loot they get mad/disappointed.

I'm sorry, but it's perfectly fine to me. Especially with a Boomkin. My buddy decided to repsecc such, and I checked through every single boss loottable in Kara. Not counting tier gear, there is ONE, ONE leather piece with spell damage on it. Even in the dungeons the moonkin gear is sparse, so I completely understand why the guy roll against you. Sure he can wear leather and you can only wear cloth, but if the only upgrades for him are in cloth anyways, doesn't that limit him just as effectively as though he was limited to cloth only?