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Just a suggestion - try to get as much +stam/resilience gear you can get (honor + arena rewards) and enchant/socket them with healing and mp5 enchants/gems.

Stamina only costs 75% on items lvlstatwise in TBC (i.e. Items with "of the eagle"-suffix have 1.5 times more stamina than int). This does not include enchants and gems. That is why you will see a huge statincrease if you equip complete pvp gear and add healing/mp5 gems/enchants instead of socketing/enchanting a few pvp-items with stamina/resilience gems and equip pve-items on the other slots.

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Score 0.00 Vote: [-] [+] by docd1o1, 1.1 years ago
meaning? make it more simple.

im 3/5 merciless. all stamina gems.
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  Score 2.6 Vote: [-] [+] by nick5454, 1.4 months ago
  point for point resilience is worth more than stamina
  
  do the math
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Score 1.6 Vote: [-] [+] by Lucidic, 1.1 years ago
Gems are subject to the same pricing values as gear. For example, a Brilliant Dawnstone gives +8 int, and a Solid Star of Elune gives +12 stamina -- stamina costs less on gems too.

PvP gear is always best for PvP anyway, there's just no reason to favor +healing gems over +stamina gems in PvP gear specifically.
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  Score 0.53 Vote: [-] [+] by kweechy, 1.1 years ago
  Especially considering how much we do other than just healing. A Paladin might consider stacking in some +heal gems because all they do in arenas is spam heals other than HoJ on its 1m cooldown, BoP on its 3m cooldown or Bubble.
  
  Priests on the other hand are really great for Mana Burn, Mind Control, Fear, PW:S. PoM doesn't get a ton of benefit from +heal and that's one of my main heals in PvP. Renew gets a lot of bonus so that's nice, but overall I'd say survival stats take priority over healing stats.
  
  All my arena teams other than 2v2, I'm backed up by a Paladin who is essentially the main healer. As such I gear to better suit my broad range of responsibilities.
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  Score 0.00 Vote: [-] [+] by StruC, 1.1 years ago
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  There is, for example, a +12 stamina enchant on bracers - and there is a +30 healing one. The latter is by far superior imo.
  
  And what about manareg/int (Talasite)?
  
  Especially considering the way one dies (when backed up by a second healer). 500 hp would in most cases not have saved you. You die because you have not enough resilience, addheal, cc or simply... not enough mana(reg).
  
  Depends on the team, of course.
  
  http://armory.wow-europe.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Arthas&n=Utopia

What do you guys find the overall better for healing pvp.

5/5 season 2 gear
or
2/5 season1 , 3/5 season 2?

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Score 1.1 Vote: [-] [+] by kweechy, 1.1 years ago
With Blessed Resilience, Resilience isn't a HUGE deal in my opinion. We get crit so rarely as it is that sacrificing other useful bonuses and stat points (especially lots of armor) isn't worth it.

On the Satin set, perhaps since a Shadow Priest won't have that talent obviously. On the Mooncloth sets though my plan is definitely to pick up 5/5 S2. PW:S is so good at starving Warriors for rage and considering how dominant they are in PvP, I'll take any advantage/counter to them that I can get.
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Score 1.2 Vote: [-] [+] by StruC, 1.1 years ago
Imho 2/5 dmg season 2 and 3/5 heal season 2 is superior.

You lose a bit of addheal but gain lots of stats (especially armor!). And yeah, 35 resilience > -2s weakened soul.

So with blessed resilience and blessed recovery would 300resilience be good enough to stop stacking more resilience?
Of course focusing more on more stam,mana regen, and +heal?

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Score 0.55 Vote: [-] [+] by kweechy, 1.1 years ago
Well, I would collect all the Season 2 gear that you possibly can. Just by that alone you'll get more than enough Resilience.

What I would probably not do is socket for Resilience however. Socket for stats.
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Score 0.58 Vote: [-] [+] by StruC, 1.1 years ago
You can't really have 'enough' resilience... You can, however, have 'too much' hp.

500 resilience is easily obtainable.

how much is 'too much hp'?
Im currently 13.5K with fort and kings. I also have the warrior buff but that tends to go away sometimes.

Is it time to start replacing some stam gem/enchants for resilience? Or still try to keep it balanced?

I have 292 resilience.

I have 360 resil, which is almost a 20% reduction on crit dmg. I plan to cool the resil around 400 and focus more on Int/healing gear than anything else. Yes, blessed resilience is a life-saver, but I find that my hardship (atleast as of late) has been keeping focus-fired targets alive. Typically the holy priests gets dropped, I won't argue that, but sometimes people see you wearing your S2 gear and they think "nah, lets drop a dps. Take the lock." Next thing you know you're at 30% mana from healing him and all the lock is doing is screaming "SWEET GOD HELP ME!!" on ventrilo. My point? More healing and more mana to keep the fights running. Sure, a pally has blessings and heals that assist us, but ppl still blame the priest when someone dies. It happened in Molten Snore pre-BC and it happens today in the arena. Not to mention if you're a half-decent priest you're always casting - whether its Mana burn, dispell, or PsyScream, you're always blowing mana.

My advice: hit that 400 res (which soon will lower the dmg ticks from lock dots \m/ woot) and about 11k hp unbuffed (easy with S2), then focus on getting those flash heals above 2k.

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Score 0.65 Vote: [-] [+] by Mirishka, 1.0 year ago
Very nice post, good points all

Sweet. Ill look into it.
Thanks for the help :).

Hi :P

I have a 52 priest and she is getting up there fast, so Im looking for sets...

I may sound dumb asking this but.. where do you find this?! :P

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Score 1.4 Vote: [-] [+] by Dominica lee, 1.0 year ago
you get it from doing arenas.
you buy the set with arena points {that you will get every week from doing arena} in Netherstorm. area 52 has the vender. :}

You're all talking 'bout blessed resillience and stuff,which means you're holy specced. Isn't anyone disc specced? In theory i think it would be better,atleast for my playstyle and team mates etc,but im not even 70 with my priest yet,so i dont quite know how it is to heal in arena... I've only played a 70 war machine with Mortal strike,where the heals comes naturual :p

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Score 1.3 Vote: [-] [+] by Aldub, 10.4 months ago
A discipline spec, or at least a spec that goes somewhat deep into the discipline tree, is indeed the healing spec of choice for many arena-spec "holy" priests.

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