Gearing up your Holy Paladin for Crit | wowgamer's Blog

Mmmm, Crit and Holy. For a long time these two have been BFFs, and Crit was always a priority for Holy Paladins. So much, in fact, that the proliferation of Crit plate in The Burning Crusade and the mad scramble to stack it resulted in the great Illumination nerf of 2007 (to borrow a phrase from BRK). In my gear guide for Haste, some of you asked why I prioritized Haste over other seemingly important stats like Intellect, MP5, or even Crit. Well, I didn't, really. Most Spell Power plate will already have Intellect, so all you really have to do is avoid the ones that don't.

I've never been a big fan of MP5 on Plate, as it is a poor man's substitute for Crit after Illumination was nerfed in Patch 2.1. It isn't specially important now, either, with the help of Divine Plea. Spell Power values only differ by a small margin between items, so I tend not to prioritize that. Haste and Crit tend to be the values that I look for in items because it's easier to pad Spell Power through enchants than it is to raise Haste and Crit. Both are good stats, although nowadays I tend to pursue Haste because I want my heals to land faster. It's extremely useful when healing Death Knights, for example, who tend to take large spikes of damage.
CRITICAL STRIKE FOR HOLY
Of course, Critical Strike Rating is still an important stat to pursue. We already heal for massive amounts, and crits inflate those numbers to eye-popping values. Needless to say, we need to get all the necessary talents to pump up our Crit, which means going down the Retribution tree for Conviction and Sanctified Seals. Critical Strike keeps up Illumination, conserving our mana, and makes Holy Shock more viable in heal options followed by instant cast Flash of Light or extremely fast Holy Lights.

As I mentioned before, with raid gear you won't need to worry about the choice between Crit or Haste, as the items will have those. Gearing up for raiding, on the other hand, forces us to make a choice. I don't quite agree with having a bit of both scattered in different pieces simply because the values aren't that high and we'll need to stack it in order to feel some returns. Here's a quick gear guide for those who choose to go the way of Critical Strike.
 

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