
The Casque of Flame is quite similar, in fact, to our tier helm. I might be drooling.Ĭasque of Flame: Until you down Ragnaros, you will almost certainly want to grab this helm as an upgrade. Beefy with intellect, spirit and haste, a red socket with a 30 intellect socket bonus… Oh man. Unfortunately, this probably also drops off Ragnaros, the seventh and final boss in Firelands. Immolation Headguard: Our Tier 12 helm is the best for this slot. However, my holy paladin buddy, Walks, has shared with me and the other raiders of Apotheosis, this fun little site at it., which allows you to sort by the various stats you’d like to see. One of my key research sites, the Best In Slot resource from Vile Pickle, is no longer being maintained and has been replaced by the WoW Best in Slot Resource. As such, I’ll be referring to drops from the first four bosses as dropping “from (name), one of the first four bosses” or “the fifth/sixth/final boss”.

Once entering Sulfuron Keep, you face Baleroc, Majordomo Staghelm and Ragnaros, in that order. – Beth’tilac, Alysrazor, Shannox and Lord Rhyolith are supposed to be done in any order. Again, T12 gear is a lot closer to my itemization desires than T11 was, so picking up four pieces will feel a lot better than trying to get 4pc of T11. While the 4-piece hasn’t really been mathed out, let’s assume we’ll want to aim for it. – The 2-piece T12 bonus is certainly worth it, especially considering our Tier 12 is much better itemized than our Tier 11 was. – If things work the way they did in T11, we can expect our tier shoulders and helms to be on the last couple of bosses in Firelands. – If things work the way they did in T11, you will be able to purchase your T12 chest, T12 legs and T12 gloves with Valor Points, as well as get a chance for your legs and gloves to drop from the new Baradin Hold boss, Occu’thar. I’m going to focus specifically on gear that is item level 378, although will touch on some other item levels.

– There is a LOT of gear that is going to be available. You can read more about my thoughts here. Mastery, despite its recent buffs, still doesn’t thrill me. Granted, it makes mastery look better, since if you crit with a Divine Light, you’ll make a much larger Illuminated Healing shield than you would previously, but it’s still not something I value terribly much. Crit is also a throughput stat and we still need some of it for maximum uptime on Conviction, but crit is unpredictable at best and another word for overhealing at worst. Maybe at the heroic T12 level or when T13 comes out, but we’re not there yet.)Ĭrit, despite the fact our crits will hit for double a regular heal instead of 1.5 times a regular heal, still is a bit underwhelming. (We’re not quite there yet through gear and a couple of enchants alone. It is a stat that improves throughput by virtue of allowing us to cast more frequently and will also reduce the global cooldown, allowing us to get to casting our next spells and abilities more quickly, if we have enough of it. Haste is what permits me to get that cast off just that much sooner. We’re going to be spending more mana, so I’m going to want more spirit. Why? Well, spirit will take priority in my secondary stats because of the rise in mana costs for Divine Light, Holy Light and Flash of Light, as well as the reduced cooldown on Holy Radiance. This is the way I will be prioritizing secondary stats: This is NOT a definitive best-in-slot guide, it’s merely what I’ll be looking for. Please bear in mind this is all my own opinion and is skewed as such. Still, here are the results of my research.

I should have done this probably about two weeks ago, but I can’t stand loot lists.
