Solo farming and dungeon healing at the same time at 60?

[ct30 0]

Hi everyone

 

I recently hit 60 as ret with repentance and the rest of the talent points in holy. I gathered  intellect gear some +healing gear (still crap tho) while leveling to heal when I was in dungeons.

The question is if I spec the tradtional 31/20/0 spec my dmg will be horrible when I need to solo farm stuff (defend myself world pvp), is it something you have to accept or can you get away with the 20/0/31 spec and heal efficent in level 60 dungeons ? (I will miss out on 5% spellcrit, divine favor, imp. wisdom, holy shock and lasting judgements)

Im not gonna raid now since I need to get decent gear first, so the question is only for dungeon healing right now.

 

Thank you  

[Whitewolf 1]

Get a fast attacking weapon

Use judgement of the crusader

Activate seal of righteousness

Spam judgement and consecration and your other damage spells when applicable. When low on mana switch to seal of wisdom and JoW. If you have a set of spell damage and healing gear use that and switch to judging wisdom first and use SoR. SoR damage can also proc any on melee hit effects. Because of this you want to get some on melee hit gear to boost your damage as the majority of it will be coming from SoR and your melee swings.

If you find you end up killing faster drinking instead of adding SoW when low on mana feel free to do so, just costs money if you don't have a mage whip some up prior.

Mathematically speaking, if you have enough spell damage gear you can close the gap some but you will at most be doing around 60-70% of the damage output of a Ret spec. Based on my prior classic WoW experience, the biggest talent to have is illumination. If you have that and a skilled tank, you won't need the safety nets of divine favor and holy shock. You should be attacking any spare moments you get to get those precious mana procs from wisdom which at max rank is approximately 20 mana per sec or 35-39 mana if you judge with a 1.9-1.5 speed weapon

[Muldreg 3]

I am currently 21/0/30 and have no problems in raids or dungeons with my healing gear. Granted my healing set is 98% pre-raid BiS. 

As someone who didn't hit 60 on Elysium until March, I felt it important to stay ret for a while for soloing purposes. 

As stated above, the Illumination talent is the probably the most important talent in the healing tree. If you have yourself a decent set of +heal gear and that talent, you should be just fine staying as a ret build for all your solo/farming needs.