How much spirit should holy priest aim for in raids?

[Ultima]

I haven't found much need for Spirit beyond ~2900. The less haste you have the lower this number will be, but anything under ~2500 is quite uncomfortable.

Really? Wow, my Spirit sucks.

I'm at 2200. Too many non-Spirit pieces with Crit reforged to it.

"- 326 Mastery Rating -> + 454 Haste Rating
- 263 Crit Rating -> + 135 Spirit"

[harky]

Core of Ripeness is 321 Spirit average. You're effectively at 2500+ already. :P

The same is factored into that 2.9k number for me with Tsunami's 400 Spirit. I love over-budget trinkets.

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Really? Wow, my Spirit sucks.

I'm at 2200. Too many non-Spirit pieces with Crit reforged to it.

"- 326 Mastery Rating -> + 454 Haste Rating
- 263 Crit Rating -> + 135 Spirit"

Well, I followed EJs recommendations spot on and they say you should only pick gear with int as major and spirit as secondary skill, so I never even rolled on gear without spirit. This gives you over 2500 spirit in heroic gear (with enchants and gemming of course).

[Ultima]

Core of Ripeness is 321 Spirit average. You're effectively at 2500+ already. :P

The same is factored into that 2.9k number for me with Tsunami's 400 Spirit. I love over-budget trinkets.

Sure sure, are you rocking any non-Spirit items?

And if so, do you want to do use those or no choice atm?

[Devotions]

Well, I followed EJs recommendations spot on and they say you should only pick gear with int as major and spirit as secondary skill, so I never even rolled on gear without spirit. This gives you over 2500 spirit in heroic gear (with enchants and gemming of course).

At a certain point, the extra Int on a piece (along with useful stats like haste/mastery) will outweigh the spirit on a piece (obviously still reforge to spirit). Harky has posted some very useful stat weights for use in pawn/wowhead/etc.

So you want spirit pieces, but some things (Flamebloom gloves, the epic rep gloves) are worth the upgrade for some people.

[harky]

Sure sure, are you rocking any non-Spirit items?

And if so, do you want to do use those or no choice atm?

I have two. The neck from Valiona and the boots from Chim. Both are reforged Mastery -> Spirit. I'd rather have Spirit/Haste items there, so no real choice. Of the options in the tier I would consider them the best items for those slots. Not that they're optimal items for those slots, but that there's nothing better. I was contemplating the Spirit/Haste boots, but I was first in line on the 372 boots.

[drnoisewater]

I have 3k spirit and its great, at ~2700 i began to add haste. I have reached the soft cap 12.5% for extra tick and now I am reforging into mastery. Its really fun waiting for pally tanks to drink in heroics, and not having to have CC as i can spam Flash heal for quite a long time. I rarely have to use shadowfiend and i never have to use hymn of hope. Heartsong is an excellent enchant as it procs quite frequently, and if u have lower spirit this will help tremendously. I recently did pugged BH and the pally healer couldnt keep up with me at all, so i would say between 2.5-3k is good and then u can go for haste and mastery to increase throughput as oom will be a thing of the past.

[Klexin]

I’m currently using Core of Ripeness and Tsunami card trinkets. Last night Maloriak dropped Jar of Ancient Remedies. I didn’t roll on it. Bad idea? I thought I might use it in place of Core of Ripeness but then I lose all that intellect. I am just wondering what I should do if it drops again and I have the chance to get it. Should I replace my Core of Ripeness or just stick with what I’m using?

With buffs and 5 stacks of my card I’m currently at about 2.7k spirit.