Cataclysm Enchants for Healers

MMO Champion has a list of  the enchants available in Cataclysm.  I wanted to list and discuss the enchants that may provide some benefit to healers.  There are some cases in which there will be 2 enchants in the same category with different values.  IE bracer has speed and greater speed.  In these cases, I only listed the highest level enchant.

Weapon

• Power Torrent – Permanently enchant a weapon to sometimes increase Intellect by 500 for 12 sec when dealing damage or healing with spells.

I am assuming that this will be the default weapon enchant for us restos.  Intellect provides mana and spellpower so this enchant is pretty much the upgrade to the current spell power enchant except that it is a triggered increase.

• Heartsong – Permanently enchant a weapon to sometimes increase Spirit by 200 for 15 sec when casting spells.

This enchant seems inferior to Power Torrent.  For more info, please see Moonra’s comment below.

Feet

• Lavawalker – Permanently enchant boots to increase movement speed slightly and mastery rating by 35.

It remains to been seen how important mastery will be in Cataclysm.  At this point, I’m assuming this enchant is better for us restos than the stamina/run speed enchant.  Since I’m assuming that movement speed will still be important in encounters, this will likely be my boot enchant.

• Earthen Vitality – Permanently enchant boots to increase movement speed slightly and Stamina by 30.

This looks like a direct upgrade to the current +15 stamina/run speed enchant.  With the mastery/run speed enchant this is probably suited better for PvP than PvE.

• Haste – Permanently enchant boots to increase haste rating by 50.

Important enchant if you are below the haste cap.

• Mastery – Permanently enchant boots to increase mastery rating by 50.

As I mentioned previously, it remains to be seen how valuable that the mastery stat is.  Since this only gives 15 mastery over the mastery/run speed enchant, I’m assuming that Lavawalker is the better of the two enchants.

Wrist

• Greater Speed – Permanently enchant bracers to increase haste rating by 65.

The obvious enchant if you are under the haste cap.

• Exceptional Spirit – Permanently enchant bracers to increase Spirit by 50.

Since more spirit, gives a higher rate of mana regen.  This is probably the standard enchant if you are already at the haste cap.

• Greater Critical Strike – Permanently enchant bracers to increase critical strike rating by 65.

Now that all HoTs have the chance to crit, crit may become more valuable.  However, I’m not sure that I see a time that this would be used by a resto druid before either of the two enchants listed above.

Chest

• Peerless Stats – Permanently enchant chest armor to increase all stats by 20.

Not much to say on this one.  More stats across the board = good!

• Exceptional Spirit - Permanently enchant a chest to increase Spirit by 40.

Possibly the better enchant for healers that are having mana issues.

Back

• Greater Intellect – Permanently enchant a cloak to increase Intellect by 50.

I think this is the obvious cloak enchant.

• Greater Critical Strike – Permanently enchant a cloak to increase critical strike rating by 65.

I can’t imagine Crit being elevated to the point where it would be chosen over intellect, but I listed it here for completion sake.

Hand

• Haste – Permanently enchant gloves to increase haste rating by 50.

The obvious choice if you are not at the haste cap.

• Greater Mastery – Permanently enchant gloves to increase mastery rating by 65.

Regardless of how effective Mastery is, this is the obvious hand enchant if you are above the haste cap.

Offhand

• Superior Intellect – Permanently enchant a shield or held item to increase Intellect by 100.

No brainer here.

Ring (Enchanters Only)

• Intellect – Permanently enchant your own ring to increase Intellect by 40. Enchanting your ring causes it to become soulbound and requires 475 Enchanting skill to remain active.

Again this is a no brainer if you are an enchanter.

There are a couple slots that you have a choice of enchants to use, but it still seems like most slots definitely have an optimal enchant.

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