as a priest the ONLY two robes of those i would ever wear are Mindsurge (my current robe) and Exalted (which i still carry for situational use). Now take the effects granted by BOTH those robes and add a fade bones and you have this robe. There is plenty of other intel gear to get you well over 7500mana unbuffed even while wearing this.

> But if you are running heal-shifts against big though bosses, +SPI is better.

Spirit vs Mana each 5 seconds assuming you healing 1/3 of time and regening 2/3 of time and have 5 in Meditation:

1 mana each 5 sec:
3/5 = 0.6 mana per tick

Spirit:
1 spi (0.25 at full regen, 15% of 0.25 in combat)
(0.25) * (2/3) + (0.25 * 0.15) * (1/3) = 0.18 mana per tick

Truefaith Vestments has 6 mana each 5 seconds.
Devout Robe has 15 spirit.

As you see, TV is better in regening.


> Sorry, but you cannot add other equipment into the equation. I to have other stuff that adds to +healing, like the Hide of the Wild, which manages to add +healing effect _and_ keep +int bonus and +sta.

Yes, I know. It's full bonus from whole equip. But it says about that +healing is very important, even more important than your talents. And this robe gives you very solid bonus here.
(And yes, I wear Hide of the Wild also)


> Don't forget that this robe costs much in mats to create, and that it is epic (purple).

We found the receipe in a 5men Balnazar run. Yes, mats are expensive (about 400g). But for example, Hide of the Wild also isn't cheap. And don't forget about prestige factor.

> It should be much better than blue items at the same lvl, but it aint.

It is better.

> Btw, if you gonna go the +mana / 5 sec item, I think the Mindsurge Robe is better . You lose a few % on the heal effect, but it adds +10 mana/ 5 sec and +13 int.

You right Mindsurge is a very good robe. I wore it before I found the receipe. But total bonus of Truefaith Vestments is better than Mindsurge Robe. (sorry, don't have enough time for precise calculation)

Edited, Mon Jun 27 05:51:49 2005

"+healing bonuses apply fully to renew and other than in MC that spell is probably my most used spell"

According to Blizzard the full value is only applied to the most powerful spell. So with Renew you are getting a bonus, but its a much much smaller one. And sure, I do use renew, but when the tank is doing his work he takes a lot of damage that renew can't keep up with. If there is lots of AoE effect, the whole party gets hurt. I like more mana over bonus to heal, unless its both as per the Hide of the Wild.

The mana-regen is better, but not by that much.

As for the looks, sure it is a big bonus, and its a bit boring with every priest running around in Devout set. But speaking of Devout, you know that the last two bonuses are, +20 Spirit and then "Increases healing done by spells and effects by up to 55". If you got the other parts, you lose +55 on heal going with this instead of the Devout Robe.

No, I still fully belive this "epic" to be under-powered.