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Let me put it this way...

In Borean Tundra, there are 2 trinkets that grant a passive increase to crit as well as a seperate 'Chance on X' effect.
One has a chance to grant a stacking crit rating increase with every melee hit.
The other gives a chance on Spell crit to increase your crit rating by X for 10 seconds.

An Enhancement Shaman can use both for a fully stacked/procced increase of ~310 crit rating.

Only DK's, Ret Pallies, and Enhance Shaman can really get the benefit of both trinkets, as they are the only classes/specs that use both melee attacks and spells.


But yes, to answer your question, anything that says spell hit/crit/haste on it will effect melee/ranged stats, and vice versa.

To shortly answer you: Yes.
The best example is if as a mage, I accidentally roll for & win a rogue dagger that gives +hit and +attack power, I can claim I purposely did that only for the +hit (the +attack power would be there too but I wouldn't use it). As an enhancement shaman, if you get a mace that give +hit and +crit, it gives the bonuses for both melee and spell/healing damage. Awesome.

by "simply respec to be immediately effective" I assume you refer to the dual-spec ability that Blizzard has mentioned?

Because I have a restokin who has built up two sets of gear. By swapping between them I WAS able to be "immediately effective". This change will primarily freeup bag space, and trash hundreds of badges' worth of boomkin gear.

It's too bad that Blizzard doesn't treat badges as they do other vendor-purchased items, and allow us to "sell back" badge gear for 20% or 25% of the badge purchase price.

... meaning, sell a 60-badge item back to the badge vendor and get 12 badges for it rather than gold.

Yes, I meant the quick respec feature that Blizz promised in a later patch. 'Immediately effective' is when you click a button and start DPS or heals. Not going to the trainer, putting points in new talents one by one and then putting on a new set of gear.

I'm guessing you wont be able to switch specs in combat, but it sure will be nice that if 4 healers go down the moonkin will be able to give some decent heals in his dps gear.

As a I hunter, I am also happy since *I suspect* this will reduce my feign death resists, assuming those are determined by spell hit.

But it affects holy damage AND holy healing.

That's not what he said, he said the holy/resto crowd will be able to dps better "in general" as their + spell damage (now spell power) will be increased.

Take my paladin for example. His Gladiators Salvation currently has 375 healing and 175 damage. After patch it will have 199 Spell power. That's going to equal the same amount of Healing power, and increase my damage by 24 on that one item. Now take all my healing gear i have and add it all up, i'm getting a big spell damage boost!

Thanks for the response Nijle!

I understand what the change is, but it just seemed like (in PVP for instance) you could spec resto/holy and have all the survivability of that tree and still have ~80% the DPS of pure DPS spec. It could be that the new spell coefficients for healing spells will balance it out though (such that a pure DPS spec would have ~80% the healing capability of a pure holy/resto spec)

I take that as 'doing dailies will no longer completely suck for healers'.

I think you nailed it Owl.

Doing dailies on my holy priest will go faster now! w00t!

I'm in the same boat and the answer to the question is yes. Check wowhead's wotlk gear site and search for the fsw pieces.

20% nerf ;\