Question regarding Spriest mainhand and cloak enchants

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I'm pretty close to getting my level 24 spriest twink to bis, but there are two questions still bothering me, and that is what enchant to go with on cloak and on mainhand weap.

Right now, on Cloak, I've got +12 pvp power. The only other offensive options I see that appeal are +8 intellect and +10 crit. I'm wondering which of these would benefit me the most - my focus being on offense over survivability.

On main hand, I had power torrent, but I switched it to soulfrost. The tooltip for Soulfrost says it scales down to +40 shadow spell power, but once you enchant it, it actually gives you +54 at level 24, and that's a constant buff, it's not proc-based. Power torrent, on the other hand, sometimes increases Intellect by 75 for 12 sec when dealing damage or healing with spells - and I found that it proc'd fairly frequently (as opposed to Jade Spirit, which was dreadfully absent most of the time). I'm wondering if the extra 21 SP and small crit % on proc is a better choice than a constant +54 SP?

Here is the spread sheet I've been using to see how enchants scale down to 24:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet...ZQWmZKWHE3c201UXc&f=true&noheader=true&gid=17

Any advice or tips would be most appreciated, I'm still figuring out what works and what doesn't. Thank you in advance!
 
On my Shaman, I use Jade Spirit because I found it was up much more frequently than Power Torrent. I even have constant occurrences in which it will proc again before it has even worn off from the first proc. I personally farm doubles of almost every weapon for each twink, unless an enchant/weapon is shared between two. My Mage has one with PT, another with Soulfrost. I personally equip my Staff with Power Torrent until it procs and then switch to my secondary weapon with Soulfrost. Mind you, this does consume a GCD but as a caster I am constantly moving as is and generally make the swap when ideal. In addition to Jade Spirit being incredibly reliable for me, the Spirit bonus when nearly OOM is a nice bonus. I've had duels against players or been in situations in which I was unable to leave combat and have gone nearly OOM. Thankfully, the secondary effect to Jade Spirit bailed me out.

TL;DR
I like 10 Crit to Cloak. I used PvP Power before but have found that the Crit generally nets me more burst and with it, more success.

If I was a Priest I'd have one Mace with Jade Spirit, due to it's incredibly reliable proc rate and Mana Regeneration bonus, and another weapon with Soulfrost. Dat max SP.


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PvP power on cloak is best for all dps classes, a near 3.5% dps increase beats anything else you are gonna put on it.

In terms of wep enchant, I think going Soulfrost for the static 54 SP is better than PT in the long run, but I guess it's just a case of playing with both and it being down to personal preference
 
okay, so, if the responses so far are any indication, Jade Spirit > Power Torrent, but keep soulfrost, just get another mace and dump Jade Spirit on it.

But let me rephrase my question, and now it's purely hypothetical: If you could only have one main hand (without having another in your bag), and you had to choose one and only one enchant to use on that main hand weap, which enchant would you go with and why?
 
This is a pretty good thread for newcomers as myself. I'm thinking of making a Spriest but I have just one problem, I can't find a BiS list or someone's armory to follow. If anyone has any list's or armories of decent Spriest's they can link it would really be appreciated. And again the information in this thread is great. :D
 
Can anyone confirm whether or not this CD information is true: " Power Torrent procs 75 intellect from 1-60 with a 45 second cooldown while Jade Spirit procs 62 intellect with a 50 second cooldown" - - if so, Power Torrent is the clear winner, right?
 
Chrome said:
Can anyone confirm whether or not this CD information is true: " Power Torrent procs 75 intellect from 1-60 with a 45 second cooldown while Jade Spirit procs 62 intellect with a 50 second cooldown" - - if so, Power Torrent is the clear winner, right?
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Jade spirit has no icd as far as i know.
 
Jade Spirit used to have an ICD, but they removed it. Soulfrost is best all-round, no question about it. If you take PvP Power, or Crit on cloak, depends on whether you like a higher constant damage, or the chance to do more damage more randomly, and the chance to have a higher burst. Consistent damage is better imo. The ultimate set-up would be to got Jade Spirit proc, then switch to Soulfrost and see everything flop.
 
ICD or no, there's something kind of crazy about 75 int at level 24 that just seems to add up to absurd facemelt when Power Torrent procs. But it's totally luck of the draw, it has to happen at the right time/moment. I appreciate Whatgoesup's sentiment that, "it depends on whether you like a higher constant damage, or the chance to do (even) more damage more randomly" - - because I learned something about my play-style (or what I enjoy about my play-style), and what I learned is: the chance to do "even more damage randomly" is far more appealing to me then the "higher consistent damage" scenario. That said, I've decided to go with power torrent and soulfrost on the main hand and backup main hand respectively, and crit on the cloak. Thanks everyone for the feedback, it's greatly appreciated. I tried posting this question on blizzard forums and the responses were a joke, at best.
 
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