WRT Pally healing. My healing gear list has been updated to include everything pre-kara up to path 2.4.3. So even though the post was originally written a year ago.. the content is as up-to-date as I could make it.

I -highly- recommend Grid+Clique for all my healers (and Grid for everyone else) it makes your UI -so- much cleaner.

See entry here:
http://chicanery.fibergeek.com/2007/09/25/how-i-heal-gridclique/ (Another “dated” entry that I’ve kept up to date.)

The barrier to Grid is that it can be fairly complex to setup. This is because it’s -very- flexible. Most people can use it as is out of the box.. but the longer you use it, the more uses you’ll find for it.

Nibuca
http://chicanery.fibergeek.com/

I still have 2/3 Primal Mooncloth pieces because I wasn’t raiding or running Heroics when I was leveling up Osprey. I’m working on badges for chest and legs, unless I get lucky with a raid drop before then. But you aren’t worried (yet) about SSC, TK, etc. So 1800 +healing and Kara/heroic gear will be just fine. I agree 100% with Cynra: There is NO need for PvP gear (well, except the 2 minute trinket, sometimes).

THEN you can start running heroics and working to improve a piece here and there (and you’re right: DwarfPriest’s list is the shiznit, foshizzle!). OH…and…

People.will.die. It isn’t always your fault.

1) I sign up with both Ely and Shade because then this way if you need heals or dps then i could do either or depending on which is needed more. [biggrin] For me it is the fun of being with ppl who are having fun and enjoying themselves I don’t mind the loot but I have to lay off of the stress aspect of full time raiding.

2) the addons I use for healing are healbot and decursive. I haven’t tried grid so i don’t know how it compares to healbot but with healbot it chooses automatically what lvl of spell for right and left clicks ( and I keep it off of auto-self cast)

Kami… while you would be welcome to come over to Sidhe Devils, with an alt or another character, the thing is we do not put any focus on raiding.

We really don’t.

We try and have stuff going on, but we’re not about raiding, we are about friends that enjoy playing together and chatting together and being social and having fun in a light-hearted, cheerful environment.

So you would be welcome to visit the website, fill out an application, and make an alt on the server to join us and hang out and see whether we are what you are looking for to have fun.

But no one should ever join us expecting to raid stuff, because that is just not what we’re about.

Yes, I know, we are doing Karazhan most every week… and we’ve gone into ZA twice to beat up a poor old bear. But that’s about it. :)

I think more of us are looking forward to next Saturdays’ scheduled Onyxia raid then we do Karazhan.

I have a 70 holy/disc priest, and I’m more than willing to xfer servers if you need another healbot. ^.^; send me a shout, cause Coriander’s just sitting in IF with no one to play with.

Aerth: Agreed. At this point in the game, the Primal Mooncloth set is bunk. In fact, I never even snagged any of it myself when I was leveling my perky priestess. Focus instead on grabbing the Dungeon 3a set for priest (Hallowed), which served me incredibly well until we were doing full clears through Karazhan and Gruul’s. I still keep that set around for PvP with the 2-piece bonus; 30% chance to avoid interruption due to damage while using Binding Heal? Beautiful! I’d never use it in the Arena when gear becomes more important, but it helps a lot on the Battlegrounds.

And that dress, Masquerade Gown? You’ll love it as a Holy priest. The chance proc on cast (and it’s any cast!) increases you Spirit by almost 150. That’s 37 Bonus Healing from Spiritual Guidance alone and it becomes even more if you’ve got Improved Divine Spirit. Plus you’re looking at an OO5SR mana regen of around 150 MP5 (it really depends on your Intellect and Spirit numbers, so we’ll just guess) and 50 MP5 while casting with Meditation.

I think that I would have liked it more if it had been an on-use proc instead of randomly on-cast, but it’s still a very good Holy healing chest piece and will suit you wonderfully until you snag the Gown of Spiritual Wonder from the 2.4 badge gear.

From all I’ve studied the bonus healing % is 21% per target. So you get a total of 105% bonus healing overall.

As to gear – I made a list for my wife of gear. It was somewhat tailored to her, but it might suffice. I can forward it along; it’s basically in the same function as the shadowpriest.com lists.

As to CoH vs IDS – go with IDS. Seriously, you’re going to hate being CoH in Kara. You’ll never get to use it. There’s just not enough raidwide damage going on early on. When you get to T5 and really in T6, you’ll want it. But for now, go IDS – your mana regen will be happier, your spellcasters will be happier, and you’ll feel a bit more potent.