What to gem for SP

[Sirjeize]

In general my priest is an alt and haven't read al to much about it yet. I noticed tho spirit isnt that usefull anymore for a SP.
So is it just Stacking intellect wich would be the best way and reforge to mastery ?

please share your thoughts with a nubby SP

[llDemonll]

Read the stickies, there are tons of topics like this one. Spirit is useful if you need hit, otherwise it is useless.

[Skandulous]

mastery is crap for shadow priest and u should gem str8 intellect or 10 int 10 haste for meta gem and socket bonus if its 4-5 sp or more.. make sure you are hit capped and then if u have leftover hit or spirit then reforge it to haste or crit

[Kamakiri]

How much crit/haste should a shadow priest and a holy priest be looking at?

[Deleted]

Shadow needs to Gem Spirit or Hit for Hit cap, which is now 17%. After that you gem pure Intellect. Crit and Haste are roughly equal in BiS gear so it really doesn't matter what you do with them. They will still be worse than pure Int though. Mastery is bad for PvE but can be abused for high burst in PvP.

Holy should max-out its throughput via Haste. Mana won't be an issue until level 85.

[Skandulous]

Shadow needs to Gem Spirit or Hit for Hit cap, which is now 17%. After that you gem pure Intellect. Crit and Haste are roughly equal in BiS gear so it really doesn't matter what you do with them. They will still be worse than pure Int though. Mastery is bad for PvE but can be abused for high burst in PvP.

Holy should max-out its throughput via Haste. Mana won't be an issue until level 85.

with 2/2 in twisted faith you should never need to gem for hit or spirit

[Merridian]

Shadow needs to Gem Spirit or Hit for Hit cap, which is now 17%.

Are you sure that hit cap is now 17%? Judging by the smite-spec glyph it should be 18% right now. Also, when I've been testing 'new' rotation with 17,28% of hit I've got 2 misses from mind flay ticks which were about 0,5% of miss.

Does enyone know why is our hit talents not counted in character's sheet but drenei's racial is?

[Skandulous]

Are you sure that hit cap is now 17%? Judging by the smite-spec glyph it should be 18% right now. Also, when I've been testing 'new' rotation with 17,28% of hit I've got 2 misses from mind flay ticks which were about 0,5% of miss.

Does enyone know why is our hit talents not counted in character's sheet but drenei's racial is?

make sure u check the hit in the spell abilities of your char info not ranged and there next to it shows your miss chance on targets of lvl 80 81 82 and 83