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Twisted Faith - why is it needed?
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Post by
phatlewtz
I'm trying to figure out why Blizz gave us the Twisted Faith talent, which seems to be taken in most new shadow builds. There is cloth caster gear with hit, and there is cloth healer gear with SPR. Why wouldn't an spriest just take +hit gear in the first place?
Was this talent designed so that there is less competition for +hit cloth loot in raids that would also be desired by mages and warlocks? Priest healers would have been the only ones wanting SPR gear, so this balances out looting a bit: +hit for mages and warlocks, +SPR for ALL priests.
Or was it done to perhaps make it easier for priests to obtain a single set of gear that has ALL stats they need, whether that be discipline, holy, or shadow? I'll have more bag space for sure!
Or, was it done because spriests will have mana problems, and thus need SPR, but would have had difficulty reaching the raid spell hit cap otherwise?
Not being a raider, I'm sure I'm missing some obvious reason! For doing 5 mans, I tend to be over the lower 6% hit cap anyway, whether due to SPR or hit now, so I try hard to find gear that simply has haste and crit on it, else I reforge as much hit and SPR as possible.
Post by
karlusdavius
Or was it done to perhaps make it easier for priests to obtain a single set of gear that has ALL stats they need, whether that be discipline, holy, or shadow? I'll have more bag space for sure!
got it in one. Chances are that you will find more hit on items than spirit, so you might need a few hit pieces to get to the hit cap. it makes it much easier on priests.
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Post by
faia
Every mana DPS has a similar talent.
I think their main concern is that gear was becoming too niche and getting disenchanted, so now you have options.
yeah but you make the healers make a odd look at you....Warlock dont have one or mage. its rather all hybrids have it. think its more for the reason so healers not need to switch out all their gear if they asked to do DPS instead
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Post by
phatlewtz
OK looking at my char, I have about 30% hit as shadow thanks to this talent! That is mostly due to SPR, because I am currently sharing a few pieces with my disco set.
Even if I reforge SPR (which I might not want to do given the dual roles of my armor), I doubt I could get down to the desired 17% hit rate. But to be honest, I really only need 6% for 5mans hat I typically run!
So do I just ignore that, since I don't really need to be optimized for 5mans (unlike raids)? Or try harder to get hast/crit gear that doesn't have hit or SPR?
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Karrie
I am actually BELOW the hitcap now because none of my shadow gear has spirit on it aside from two gems and the leg enchant and I don't know where else to get the ~3% hit that I lost with the removal of Misery without reforging my precious crit into it.
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Pachuca
I am actually BELOW the hitcap now because none of my shadow gear has spirit on it aside from two gems and the leg enchant and I don't know where else to get the ~3% hit that I lost with the removal of Misery without reforging my precious crit into it.
Bite the bullet and reforge some of that Crit into Spirit. Sucks, I know, but you need to reach that hit cap.
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Karrie
Hmm, are you being serious? Most people seem to have so much Hit and Spirit already that they have to reforge those stats down, not the other way around.
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Guess I rolled for the wrong gear.
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Post by
cousx
Against whom do holy pallies compete for their gear?
Against whom do resto druids compete for their gear? Themselves?
I don't think healing priests should be competing with dps classes for gear .. at all.
There might be less competition for gear for holy pallies and resto druids, but there's also less gear to roll on in total for them.
More people in need - more drops. In fact it will be easier to get spirit cloth gear I assume.
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