Quote Originally Posted by Hollowed View Post
Other than your obvious stats (VIT/MND) your priority should be PIE until you reach around 5k MP, more MP means a bigger MP regen during battle (at 5k MP you regen 100MP a tick), the idea is to have ballad as little as possible to maximize your groups DPS; this takes priority over anything else. Second stat comes down to DET and Spell Speed. DET is an all around boost to your cures, however, having spell speed stacked as well could be the difference between a cure just a split second to late, and that clutch cure the tanks praise you for. Honestly you want a decent amount of both DET and SS to fully optimize your WHM. Crit is nice, but useless for a healer with the exception of a SCH's shield spell, and only because it doubles the potency of the shield, since you are a WHM this stat is fairly useless to you. In a simple order I would just say PIE > DET/SS > Crit. Depends on your reaction and play style.
While I wont go so far as saying that is horrible advice. There is no need for 5k MP as a WHM. I have 4.5k right now (mostly weathered daystar gear) and I have done through T8. The BRD in my group had to sing ballad for the SMN/SCH (DPSing) before I needed it. I only happened to notice that he was using it when I had near full MP and my shroud was off cooldown. So if you make use of your procs and keep Shroud on cooldown (it is ~1060 MP every 2 mins) then I would say anything over 4k is fine for most fights.