[ARCHIVE] 1.1.5 Sith Sorcerer Healing Compendium

[Taggard]

(01-18-2012 04:21 AM)Petrus Wrote:  

(01-18-2012 04:05 AM)Taggard Wrote:  Petrus, I am curious as to why you recommend stacking power after achieving a baseline for the other stats, when Willpower seems to be superior. According to the original post, "Willpower provides 0.2 to damage and 0.14 to healing per point. Force Power provides 0.15 to damage and 0.12 to healing per point." In addition to this, Willpower is increased by a percentage from buffs and talents. Would it not be better to stack willpower over power?

So two things - First off, WP is your primary stat, and yeah, you should mostly* focus on that one. That said though, WP isn't really taken into account as far as itemization goes. Better ilevel items always have more WP. That's why I didn't really include it in my list. The same can't be said for any of your secondary stats, and to gain power on an item, you'll lose something else.

*I say mostly, because while WP never hits DR and therefore will always give you more "bang for your buck", sometimes having less willpower, but gaining more surge/etc, is better. This is really going to depend on your thresholds. I personally have less WP than I could (about 150 less) because the 25ish extra healing power, and the extra crit rating, I get from it, just isn't worth the 25% surge rating I get instead.

Secondly - I'm pretty sure your numbers are wrong, and if you grabbed them off this thread then it needs to be updated. Power actually gives more damage/HP than WP does, but WP also increases other stats, which is why it's slightly better than power if you're just comparing one to the other.

Since everything is based off DR though, and we really do need to reach certain stat thresholds, I am going to say that WP isn't always your "best" choice, if you're talking about the overall playability of your character, although it will always result in the most points gained.


So to sum it up: Yes, WP is generally your primary stat, however I personally am rolling with about 1800 WP buffed instead of the 1950 I could have (fully buffed), because I've taken gear with less WP, but better itemization. Hopefully once more people on my server can make mastercraft mods, I'll be able to change that, but right now it's just SO much better for me to take an 80WP/50 surge item over a 100WP/50 alacrity item.

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I should also say, although I think it's assumed by most people, that all this above is mostly based upon my opinions, and feelings from playing the class. DR and stat interactions is just too complicated and nuanced and situational to be turned into hard data just yet. I've been playing healers for a long, long time, and I feel as though I've got this spot on, but I just want to clarify that most of this is based upon an equal mix of numbers from this site, and my intuition, rather than just the hard data that most people would prefer.

My mistake, I saw that the original post had been edited only a few days ago and assumed the information was correct and up to date. Others have pointed out that this it is not.

I agree with your itemization approach. I recently dropped a bunch of alacrity in favor of ~150 surge rating, and saw my critical heals shoot up from 4k to over 5k. The loss of alacrity was virtually unnoticeable, which is why I'm pretty disappointed at the stat allocation on our tier armor. I have also been using a handful of "Stalker" items (intended for assassins) over the sorcerer equivalents because they either have more willpower (only at the cost of endurance) or they have surge rating instead of alacrity. It's a bit irritating having to check if another class's item is actually better than your own.