Petition for Strength Improvements Part 3; Healers

Though this is a subject I have hit on previously, I thought it might be important to round out the petition for strength improvements series by re-examining holy paladins.

Both Brains from Brawn and Light Infused Armor will fix this holy paladin trash clogging up the loot tables.

Brains from Brawn would be a talent in the holy tree to boost a paladin’s intellect. It would ncrease your intellect by 33/66/100% of your str. The only foreseeable problem here is that intellect gear like cloaks could be less attractive to a paladin because they might want the one with equal str if they get bonus from divine str. The spellpower and MP5 on caster cloaks and rings will keep most holies honest though in my opinion. Few are going to pass up a cloak that has intellect and spellpower only for in the intellect bonus they get from strength.

Light Infused Armor would Increases spellpower by 4/8/12% of your armor. A pally with 20K armor would then have 2400 spellpower. Last I checked Degenerus, a holy paladin in my guild, had about 20K armor and 1800 spellpower. That number may need to be tuned down to 3/7/10% of your armor, but it allows a paladin to scale as their gear improves and, in the same vein as punishing the warriors in leather, discourages them from using mail caster gear. Mail will now make paladins feel even more dirty that cloth does on my resto druid. Similar stat itemization or not, a paladin isn’t going to roll on a marginal upgrade that happens to be mail if they are going to lose a significant amount of spellpower due to the drop in armor.

Allowing holy paladins to use dps hear as healing gear will give them same privilege as any other healer. There will still be drops that are obviously useless to a healer. Hit rating is not a healer stat, and any good raid leader is going to know that before they distribute hit gear.

Spellpower plate for tanking and ret paladins is a long lost memory from TBC, and maybe the last remnants of spellpower healing plate should be left in Icecrown once Artha’s is dealt with.

-Rhab