Yes, I am sorry for my long abscence. Thought I would take a moment to show you all what’s been keeping me so busy.
That’s Buffy and Giles, yes I am a nerd, I know this. Anyway, she’s been keeping my hands very full, but I definitely plan to get back to writing here more soon!
Hope everyone has been enjoying all the new content in the patch. We managed to kill kalecgos last night, stressful but fun fight!
Well here we go again, I am gonna go ahead and look at the other new items available from badges come 2.4. Again we will assume 450 Int and 350 Spirit, as well as being specced heavily resto.
Gavel of Naaru Blessings
Badge Cost: 150
What you Gain : (+81 Healing)
One Handed Weapons are hard to compare, because you can often make up for a main hand or off hand’s shortcomings with the other. This is also difficult because healing weapons beyond karazhan are hard to come by. The drops are rare and many guilds don’t stick around to farm Lady Vashj for healing maces, however Lightfathom Scepter being around the same item level is a good baseline.
Comparison : (+18 Healing)
Conclusions :
While at first glance this mace might not seem so appealing because of the massive amounts of Intellect and Stamina over other stats like healing, mp5 and spirit, it really is a nice weapon. It gets a small boost to mp5 due to the new intellect conversion and a little survivability never hurt anyone. A nice pick for those who never got their hands on Lightfathom or for any BT/Hyjal Druids looking to dump some of that new mp5 for more healing.
Anveena’s Touch
Badge Cost : 60
What you Gain :
We’ll use another Lady Vashj item to compare.
Comparison :
Conclusions :
This is a very nice ring and they are another item that is hard to come by. It is on par with the Revered Hyjal Ring as well, almost identical. Again the Intellect gives it even more mp5 in addition to the 11 already on it. I definitely think its worth 60 badges.
All in all there are some really items to be picked up if you managed to save a ton of badges and if you didn’t with there being drops from 25 mans as well there will be plenty of ways to get them pretty quickly!
Well it appears that patch 2.4 is getting pretty close. SO I decided to take an in depth look at some of the new badge items since I’ve been hording them away for quite some time. When breaking things down its a bit hard to calculate mp5 now since its dependant upon your personal stats. SO those calculations will be based on having 450 intellect and 350 spirit; two numbers I feel are pretty reasonable to attain. Also, I will assume you are specced heavily resto and have all the talents that increase your healing and regen, excluding Lunar Guidance and Dreamstate. If you want to see the real regen numbers for yourself I highly suggest you download RestoCalc. This is just to give you all a general idea 
Lets begin!
Oakleaf-Spun Handguards
Badge Cost : 75
What you Gain : (+10 Spirit, +35 Heal)
An item just below T6 in Item Level, we’ll use that for our comparison.
Comparison : (+10 Spirit, +35 Heal)
Conclusions :
While T6 is the clear winner here its not by much and these gloves are a great pick up for anyone in anything below that.
Grovewalker’s Leggings
Badge Cost : 100
What you Gain : (Golden Spellthread, +10 Spirit, +22 Heal)
We’ll do two comparisons here, T6 and the (current) Holy Grail of Healing pants for priests and druids Leggings of Eternity.
Comparison : (+10 Spirit x3 | 11 Heal/2mp5 x3, Golden Spellthread)
Comparison : (+10 Spirit, Golden Spellthread)
Conclusions:
You really see the change to mana regen with this comparison. Leggings of Eternity, which on the current build are thought to be the best take a huge hit to regen when compared to the two items with more Spirit. The closer comparison is between T6 and Grovewalker’s and in my opinion Grovewalker’s is a very small upgrade to T6. So if you were debating whether these were worth 100 badges, I definitely think they are if you are in anything other than T6. If you are in T6 then you may not want to spend those 100 badges and that’s fine, they are incredibly close.
Shroud of Nature’s Harmony
Badge Cost: 100
What you Gain : (+22 Heal, +6 Stats | +15 Spirit | +6 MP5)
We’ll do a triple comparison here with T6, Don Rodrigo’s Poncho and Shimmer-pelt Vest.
Comparison : (+6 Stats | +15 Spirit | +6 MP5)
Comparison : (+6 stats | +15 Spirit | +6 MP5)
Comparison : (+6 Stats | +15 Spirit | +6 MP5, 11 Heal/5 int, 10 Spirit x2)
Conclusions:
Its fun to see how the different enchants effect your MP5 in this comparison. All 3 seem to be good choices now with, in my opinion, +15 Spirit winning out in the all around regen category. ANYWAY Tier 6 still reigns supreme here, if anything because of those 3 sockets giving you lots of options. If you are in Shimmer-pelt or Don Rodrigo’s its an upgrade, but a 100 badge upgrade? I am not so sure. If you have to make a choice, I would definitely invest in the pants over this chest piece, while its very good, you won’t see a huge change to your numbers unless you are wearing something like Tier 4 or pvp gear.
I’ll try and continue this later in the week, looking at the other new items available compared to what you may currently have equipped. If you are wondering why I chose such high level items for the comparison, its because these new badge items really are that good. I definitely encourage you to download RestoCalc, even though its still not 100% (noticed an extra gem slot for Oak-leaf as I was writing this, oops!), to see the regen changes with your own stats, your own intellect and spirit values really will change the numbers quite a bit!
Happy Badge Farming!
I’ve been in the process of cleaning out my addon and wtf folders and redoing my UI. Its long overdue! I figured this would be a good opportunity to share some of the addons I use and those I refuse to uninstall! I am a bit of an addon addict so it was hard to narrow it down, but here it is
Man its been a crazy couple of weeks!
First, a new version of RestoCalc is up in the RestoCalc Section. Not much new except the Lifebloom coefficients have been adjusted to what they are on the current PTR. For those who would like to just know what those base numbers are, its approximately 52% for the tick and the new coefficient for the “bloom” is about 34%. I am having a hard time keeping up with SO many changes, but rest assured when patch 2.4 is looking more final, I will take some time, do some research and make sure everything in there is accurate. In the mean time, please continue to let me know of any typos or mistakes, or if any numbers are really off; bug reports can be sent to me at healerlfg@gmail.com.
Next, I managed to finish my guild’s new website. I am pretty proud of it, its over at http://www.pwnnip.com. I found some nice artwork I liked for the banner and at the insistence of one of my more stat happy guildies wrote a custom Loot Tracker. That whole thing is still under development but I am happy with how it came out so far.
I have another deadline for a site this week and a e-commerce site I am developing on top of that, so it hasn’t left me much time to play in Azeroth, let alone write about it 
AND, yes there’s more! We are bringing a new puppy into our home in the next couple of weeks, but that’s definitely time I don’t mind spending outside of WoW.
I will try and keep the updates coming and hopefully things will calm down on my end soon!