Viability of a Spell Speed WHM set up?

[deshiken]

I'm surprised no one here appreciates crit as decent stat for whm. I main sch so a lot of my gear itemize for crit, but as a whm I weigh my stats as mind>determination>crit/pie>spell speed. i know alot of people don't want to rely on crit, but i feel that it saves mana and can help top people off quickly. also, I hear medica II is effected by crit as well. If I am full time healing on whm, I don't really feel any effect of from spell speed except for when I cast presence of mind. In my opinion a lot of the fights in this game are scripted and you can just precast before any big attack.

on my whm I run with a pretty absurd amount of crit. i have 504 crit, 634 healing potency,411 spell speed and still have over 5k mana. my whm crits quite a bit, so i tend to just use cure 1s a lot and if it crits it's a free cure 2. this is just my personal preference, I guess technically i have determination as my secondary stat, but over all i avoid spell speed like the plague.

[Kelya]

Yes, Crit works on the HOT.

To save mana, you already have the Piety stat.

Since all the fights are scripted and you can just precast before the big attack, you don't need spell speed as well as crit so it's only about preference

[Lyrica_Ashtine]

Yes, Crit works on the HOT.

To save mana, you already have the Piety stat.

Since all the fights are scripted and you can just precast before the big attack, you don't need spell speed as well as crit so it's only about preference

Well, healing aside, crit also affects your DoTs and the occasional fluid aura. If you're the type of White Mage that does some DPS once in a while. While crit is overheal in most cases, for those few cases when it's not it's a nice bonus.

[Kelya]

On the DPS side crit will always be good for sure. But on the healing side, I just stopped at "overheal in most cases".

[Gurpsmeister]

Sorry, I have to agree that the secondary stats for healer, at least for WHM are purely useless numbers. SO MUCH of my healing is already over-heal that I frankly don't care what gear I'm wearing, it's going to do the job just fine.

[Cynfael]

Sorry, I have to agree that the secondary stats for healer, at least for WHM are purely useless numbers. SO MUCH of my healing is already over-heal that I frankly don't care what gear I'm wearing, it's going to do the job just fine.

If you know how to play, you can make any combination of secondaries function. Doesn't mean that some load-outs aren't slightly better than others, however.

[Sanguisio]

lol, what is all this "im a healer so all I do is heal". Ok I understand this more for WHM I guess, but you should be dpsing a little as well.

As a SCH crit is amazing for DPSing as well! So saying secondary stats are uselss is really backward.

[Sebazy]

Melding some accuracy in will have a far bigger effect on a SCH's DPS than their choice of secondary in FCOB. Outside of FCOB it just doesn't matter.

[Werhusky]

Melding some accuracy in will have a far bigger effect on a SCH's DPS than their choice of secondary in FCOB. Outside of FCOB it just doesn't matter.

Accuracy matters when I tank golem in T9 or like yesterday tank the Wolfbanes in WoD (dont ask... Tank of A reset after death noone else cared so I did my best to keep from other healers >.> ) Also had some misses on Levi EX when dpsing add. Gotta admit tho i118 default accuracy not yet my crafted and accuracy melded pieces

[Sebazy]

I think you misunderstood my point! When I say it doesn't matter outside if FCOB, I'm referring to secondaries in general.