Leveling healing classes in WOW

Blizzard has said one of the things behind the estimation is the amount of time the previous group took to be completed. Maybe I'm mixing my greens up here, but don't '...of the Whale' items give Spirit+Stamina? I thought they were good when leveling healing classes and earn some WOW gold in this game, since they granted both survivability and mana regen (until, of course, you get a rare). When levelling, mana regenerates at such a high rate that you do not need spirit at any point until you hit 88-89, and even then you'd only take it because you smack into a hard spirit curve at 90. Leveling does that now. Before, you could run out of mana after only casting a few spells at low-level.

 

As a Mage, I had to drink after almost every fight when I was low-level and don’t have much WOW gold. The agility-int gear could technically have been used by hunters back when they used a mana bar (int gave more mana, and spirit gave regen, right?) I never went for any int as a hunter, but then, I didn't get terribly interested in exact gear usage until I started grouping more in the last 3 expansions. Intellect gave more mana and if you go way back, increased your chance to skillup on weapons. Spirit regened health and mana, I went for the Agility and Intellect gear on my Hunter. I didn't prefer to use Aspects of the Viper, so I was the opposite of those entire idiot Hunters who put it on and never took it off, doing 50% damage all the time. I would drink when I needed to.

 

But a healer would take int over spirit in vanilla.  'Of the Eagle' I think was the preferred caster random stat item. I dont' remember anyone thinking 'of the whale' was useful.  Although I think there were odder ones like spirit/agilI never put points into improved wand. I always planned to when I had some leftover points and need to buy WOW gold. Never did, then I realized how terrible it was. When aspect of the viper launched, you didn't do 50% damage. That happened in wrath of the lich king. In the Burning crusade it just didn't give you the attack power bonus of Hawk, it would up mana regen, that is all---- In wrath they made it so you would get mana from flipping to it briefly, but a whole Lot of mana----So rock it in hawk...flip to viper when you are low on mana.

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