Gearing Review - Kittydoom of Draenor

As Kittydoom's gearing comes to a standstill while awaiting the release of Ulduar and the next content patch from Blizzard, I'm starting to take a look at her gear. With her current gear, where can I improve her gear to get the most out of my current raiding experience.

My first stop was at Warcrafter to see where I stood in relation to other priests on my server.

As you can see I'm not in the top 10 by any means, which means by that there are some pieces that I should be going after, some enchants that I should be updating, and possibly some regemming that needs to be done.

I popped over to Imba to look at my itemization, at first glance I do know that my helm and shoulder enchants need to be upgraded from TBC versions to Wrath Versions, at this point in time I'm still grinding the faction with Sons of Hodir for the shoulder enchant, but there is no reason why I cannot go and get the Arcanum of Blissful Mending from Wyrmrest Accord, and since Kittydoom is low on gold I can work towards the Greater Inscription of the Crag and make some decent gold doing it to feed my fund for consumables.

My Chest Piece currently has Enchant Chest - Restore Mana Prime on it, there are three recommended enchants that I could replace this old school enchant with. Enchant Chest - Greater Mana Restoration, Enchant Chest - Powerful Stats, or Enchant Chest - Exceptional Mana.

Looking at each of the recommended enchants, I need to look at a few different things with the enchants, now personally I like mana regen, I HATE running out of mana, I HATE having to pop shadowfiend, or Hymn of Hope.

Currently I'm sitting on 17,398 Mana, I really don't need 250 more mana (this is unbuffed). So I'm not even going to look at Exceptional Mana, I think with my MP5 being a little lower than I would like out of 5 second rule, the Greater Mana Restoration enchant would be the best fit.

There's really not much at this point that I can change for enchants on Kittydoom, so I'm going to touch on her gear itemization at this point.

Kittydoom's Helm is the Visage Liquification Goggles crafted through Engineering and gemmed with a Bracing Earth Siege Diamond (meta) and a Luminous Monarch Topaz (9 Spellpower, 8 Intellect). So Currently I could go with the best helm in the game which is the Cowl of Innocent Delight which drops off of Loatheb in Naxxramas heroic, giving me 108 stamina, 77 Intellect, 58 spirit, and then on equip increasing my spell power by 118 and giving me 20 mana per 5.

The Thunderstorm Amulet could be replaced by any number of neck pieces, the best upgrade being Chains of Adoration out of Naxxramas, giving me  2 int, 16mp5, 32 haste, and 2 spell power.

Kittydoom's shoulders won't be replaced until Ulduar comes out or at least teir 8 unless I would like to wear PvP shoulders, though I would lose spirit with them, and I don't see PvP gear as being a viable option in a PvE environment.

The chest piece comes with several options. Digested Silken Robes from Maexxna in Naxxramas 25, giving me by 9 int, 8 stam, 8 armor, 77 crit, and 33 spell power. Though I could potentially lose my 4 piece teir bonus.

The potential upgrades for Kitty's belt would be the Belt of False Dignity, giving me 9 int, 6 stam, 55 spi, 4 armor, 43 crit, and 20 spellpower.

Leggings: Distorted Limbs, giving me 44 int, 38 stam, 72 spi, 62 armor, 58 haste, and 57 spellpower. 

I'm beginning to see a pattern here, the majority of my upgrades are coming from Eye of Eternity Heroic. So as I go along I'll look for the last few upgrades out of Heroic Naxxramas, so if I can get a chance to get into EoE 25, I'm definitely going to jump on that.

Raiding User Interface - A Ramble

Since I started playing a raiding holy priest I’ve tried every type of User Interface known to man, I’ve gone bare bones, I’ve gone elaborate. My current user-interface as seen below is one of the most elaborate ones I’ve seen (acquired from Muqq of Magtheridon over on the Nihilium website).

The sad thing about my current user interface is that there really isn’t any place for me to put healbot, which is currently floating on my screen, and that carbonite quest, which is the questing software I’m using while I work on loremaster is also floating loose as well.

I haven’t really had the drive to actually design a UI for myself personally, I suppose due to patience levels and the insane amout of playing that I have been doing as of late, I just have not felt the urge to sit down and configure cast bars, healbot (which is currently not working the way I would like it to be working), I have attempted Clique to heal and several other healing mods, I’ve also healed the old school way and haven’t been extremely happy with anything.

One of the features I am liking in Healbot is the ability to blacklist people, it does make for making a few fights in Naxxramas easier (ie. patchwerk), or as the old adage goes, don’t ever piss off your healer.

I know that I have been running into a few issues with my current user interface, and one of them is that I need a UI that is going to cover all of the toons that I play, whether or not it is a death knight, holy priest, hunter, mage, shaman, druid. I need that adaptability and this one does seem to provide that. Though, I’m still not particularily happy with the floating UI components.

The floating UI components do cause a few issues, if I don’t lock Healbot to my screen I end up shoving it across the screen on particularily aggressive fights, carbonite in it’s current placement just tends to get in my way, as well as make an already cluttered screen even more so.

There are also parts of my current UI that are bugging. By moving the minimap to it’s current position, I am no longer able to track achievments. The achievment placeholder is bound to the minimap, also quest givers/receivers that are on flight paths I have to disable the UI to turnin/gather the next quest.

I suppose over the next few weeks, I’ll start looking into getting a little better put together User Interface that best fits my needs, but at this point, this covers everything I need adequately.