Duedain wrote:
I am not really too sure why Imp Moonkin would grant extra SP off of spirit and as I know it there really is no other mechanic for a Crit Chicken other than this that Spirit gives benefit to.... Pretty sure I will keep stacking Hit (until capped as I am still only 79 and have little hit)>Haste>Crit>Int>Stamina and then if all else fails>Spirit.
The reason for doing this isn't for the leveling boomkins or the 5 man or heroics boomkins. Its for the raiding boomkins who have time and time again stated to blizzard that spirit is not important.
Look at the tier 8 itemization. You will see spirit EVERYWHERE. This is an attempt to make the talent and the spirit stat more attractive to boomkins because they've been doing so much class homogenization with gear that now boomkins will want resto gear.
Tier 7 gear still had a pretty cut and dry difference between resto leather and boomkin leather pieces.
So, if you take a look at the former BiS from all the tier 7 raids a lot of the gear is cloth because it contains better stats w/o spirit. Ulduar now has a TON of leather caster gear with hit/crit/haste on it that blurs the line between resto and balance because it has spirit.
This is why.