02-20-2008, 01:11 PM
Naruth Wrote:Of the rare quality gems, [item]Royal Nightseye[/item] is sometimes called âthe bestâ gem for healing priests, because it gives a bonus to healing with a little boost to your mp5, which is good padding for those fights when you cannot be out of the 5 second rule.
I thought I might add a further reason why [item]Royal Nightseye[/item] is the "best" gem for healing priests. Not that mp5 is better than spirit, but this particular gem benefits extraordinarily from rounding error. Because it is a dual-color, each of its stats gets cut in half from the single-color gems of the same type. So In this case, Royal Nightseye is half a [item]Teardrop Living Ruby[/item] and half a [item]Lustrous Star of Elune[/item].
That's +9 healing, obviously, but +1.5 mp5. This gets rounded up to +2 mp5, giving you a "free" 0.5 mp5. Alright so this is min/maxing, but if you're going to invest in a rare-cut gem, you should min/max. mp5 is very highly valued in itemization points compared to stats like spirit (compare 3mp5 from Lustrous to 8 spirit from Sparkling) so you just get more out of a [item]Royal Nightseye[/item] than any other gem that could fit the same slot.