Post by Aylia
Your spellpower will be a lower number than what your healing is now. The
coefficients of healing spells will be adjusted to compensate for this, which means there shouldn't be much difference, if any, in the amount that you will heal for.
As far as comparing current gear to expansion gear, I'm still having a hard time judging the quality of the items that I've seen from the beta. I'm going to have to see what stats my current gear ends up having before I can really have a good basis for comparison. That isn't really anything to worry about now though.
There is indeed probably going to be some overlap with DPS casters for gear, and clothies are going to have it the worst. There will still be some disctintions, for example a healer wouldn't want pieces with hit rating. Some of the other stats might not end up making clear distinctions like they do now. Spirit will still obviously be valuable to a holy priest, but they're trying to make it useful for non-healing classes as well. The new
Fel Armor gives spellpower based on spirit, for example. I'm hopeful that there will be more cloth drops overall compared to the other armor types to compensate for this, but I guess we'll have to wait and see.