Steadfast in heal spec

Kailenn · 05-29-2009, 01:25 PM

Is steadfast worth it in heal spec? It's amazing but for healing, the rest of that line is useless. I heal fine without any interrupts on my other healers but for fights like Byzola, steadfast is pretty essential. I would do it alongside agi and sta, and if steadfast turned out to be not worth it, the int line looks extremely promising- passive increased cast time, as well as the brilliant end line skill.

Do many people use it in heal spec?

the_mo · 05-29-2009, 02:24 PM

yup. ditched agi for it.

Serias · 05-29-2009, 02:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Kailenn

Is steadfast worth it in heal spec? It's amazing but for healing, the rest of that line is useless. I heal fine without any interrupts on my other healers but for fights like Byzola, steadfast is pretty essential. I would do it alongside agi and sta, and if steadfast turned out to be not worth it, the int line looks extremely promising- passive increased cast time, as well as the brilliant end line skill.

Do many people use it in heal spec?

+ 8% health is not useless in my eyes and I have steadfast in both of my specs

TheOtherDude · 05-29-2009, 05:31 PM

I use STR+AGI+STA(melee crits) almost 100% of the time. I have AGI+STA+INT in my mirror, but I pretty much never use it.

Shurikan · 05-30-2009, 01:01 AM

I spec STR/ AGI/STAM for heal heavy fights, steadfast has made clerics very OP this expac, its a fantastic ability

pagansaint · 05-30-2009, 03:03 AM

Ehhhh

Str/Agi/Int for Healing and Agi/Sta/Int for DPS is generally the way to go. Basically because if its a situation where you need to focus on healing you are going to want to be able to reduce as much damage as possible on atleast one target, AGI, and not be interrupted, STR, and have the maximum amount of procs possible, INT. As for when you don't need to focus on healing... Double attack, melee crits, spell crits and more procs wins hands down.

Kailenn · 05-30-2009, 04:24 AM

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Originally Posted by pagansaint

Ehhhh

Str/Agi/Int for Healing and Agi/Sta/Int for DPS is generally the way to go. Basically because if its a situation where you need to focus on healing you are going to want to be able to reduce as much damage as possible on atleast one target, AGI, and not be interrupted, STR, and have the maximum amount of procs possible, INT. As for when you don't need to focus on healing... Double attack, melee crits, spell crits and more procs wins hands down.

So stamina should be ditched in heal spec? No heal crit?

pagansaint · 05-30-2009, 04:48 AM

Its a matter of prioritization.

+Stifle Immune(Mostly, some ignore immunity) and Uninterruptable

+Avoid ~5-10%, uncontested for target

+More Heal, Ward, Mitigation, +Damage%(target and self), +Heal%, Power procs and Faster heals, reactives, and cures

+Heal Crit

Basically pick three. Heal crit plateaus out too easily just from gear in how effective it is for me to really consider it a choice. If you have lesser gear and not many procs then by all means take the crit chance.

EDIT:
Even at sub 50% heal crit, I didn't bother, the other pros outweighed the cons of lower heal crit.

Kailenn · 05-30-2009, 08:19 AM

Right now for solo and PVP I'm thinking STR AGI STA (unless I got the star of malice, in which case it would be STR STA INT) and for healing, AGI STA INT. Then in fights where I know interrupts will be a problem, I can stay in solo spec.

Nafawo · 06-01-2009, 01:48 AM

On a pvp server why would you ever give up steadfast? Just seems to important to be able to heal yourself when you get jumped /shrug. I have the gear to hit 100% heal crit w/o sta line, but even before I dropped it and ran str(steadfast)/agi(holy sheild)/int