Raid Ready: Cataclysm gearing guide for Holy/Disc Priests

This is my unofficial list of what gear to get, what stats to go for, enchants, gems, etc. Feel free to add comments, suggestions, pointers, etc.

Our stats and what they do

• Spirit: Your primary mana regen stat
• Intellect: Increases your total mana amount, your spellpower, and your spell critical hit
• Stamina: Increases your total health
• Crit: chance of spells doing extra damge/healing
• Haste: increases spell casting speed
• Spellpower: increases spell damage/healing
• Mastery: for Holy, your direct healing spells heal for an additional 15% over 6 seconds. Each point of Mastery adds 1.25% healing over 6 seconds. For Disc, increases the potency of your damage absorption spells by 30%. Each point of Mastery increases the potency of absorbs by an additional 2.5 %

Generally speaking, Spirit and Intellect will be your primary stats. Crit, Haste, Spellpower, and Mastery will come as you get gear and reforge, etc.

Also, Holy and Disc priests share the same stats now, unlike in Wrath where we favored certain stats over others, so you'll no longer need to maintain seperate sets of gear for Holy over Disc except in minor cases.

Enchants

Head: Arcanum of Hyjal

Shoulders: Greater Inscription of Charged Lodestone

Chest: Enchant Chest - Exceptional Spirit, Enchant Chest - Peerless Stats

Wrists: Enchant Bracer - Exceptional Spirit, Enchant Bracer - Greater Speed, Enchant Bracer - Greater Critical Strike

Hands: Enchant Gloves - Greater Mastery, Enchant Gloves - Haste,

Legs: Ghostly Spellthread

Feet: Enchant Boots - Earthen Vitality, Enchant Boots - Haste, Enchant Boots - Mastery, Enchant Boots - Lavawalker

Belt:  Ebonsteel Belt Buckle

Cloak: Enchant Cloak - Greater Intellect, Enchant Cloak - Greater Critical Strike

2H weapon: Enchant Weapon - Power Torrent, Enchant Weapon - Heartsong

Main Hand weapon: Enchant Weapon - Power Torrent, Enchant Weapon - Heartsong

Off-hand item: Enchant Off-Hand - Superior Intellect

Gem recommendations

Blue: Sparkling Ocean Sapphire

Yellow: Fractured Amberjewel, Quick Amberjewel,Smooth Amberjewel

Red: Brilliant Inferno Ruby

Purple: Purified Demonseye

Green: Zen Dream Emerald

Orange: Artful Ember Topaz, Potent Ember Topaz, Reckless Ember Topaz

Meta: Ember Shadowspirit Diamond, Revitalizing Shadowspirit Diamond

The gear recommendations below are based on what would be the best gear in each slot to get you ready for raiding. This is by no means a definitive or exhaustive list, but it should get you pointed in the right direction.

Gear recommendations

Head: Mask of New Snow, Aurelian Mitre,

Neck: Tauntka's Necklace, Quicksilver Amulet, Pendant of the Keep, Eye of Many Deaths, Celadon Pendant, Amulet of Tender Breath, Acanthia's Lost Pendant, Yellow Smoke Pendant

Shoulders: Summer Song Shoulderwraps, Mantle of Loss, Kyrstel Mantle

Chest: Musk Rose Robes, Anraphet's Regalia, Corsair's Overshirt, Robes of Arugal, Robes of Embalmed Darkness, Robes of Rampant Growth,

Wrists: Crimsonborne Bracers, Baron Ashbury's Cuffs

Gloves: Gloves of Purification, Dolomite Adorned Gloves, Daughter's Hands, Flamebloom Gloves

Rings: Veneficial Band, Ring of the Great Whale, Ring of Frozen Rain, Kibble, Diamant's Ring of Temperance, Band of Life Energy, Ring of the Boy Emperor

Belt: Evelyn's Belt, Belt of the Falling Rain, Cord of Raven Queen

Legs: Sunderfury's Sundries, Leggings of Iridescent Clouds, Leggings of Charity, Curse-Tainted Leggings

Feet: Hekatic Slippers, Boots of Lingering Sorrow,

Cloak: Springvale's Cloak, Solar Wind Cloak, Periwinkle Cloak, Cloak of Ancient Wisdom, Azureborne Cloak, Solar Wind Cloak

Trinkets: Blood of Isiset, Corrupted Egg Shell, Gale of Shadows, Rainsong, Sea Star, Witching Hourglass, Tendrils of Burrowing Dark, Tear of Blood, Tyrande's Favorite Doll, Mandala of Stirring Patterns

Staff: Emberstone Staff, Insidious Staff, Soul Releaser, Staff of Isolation, Staff of Siphoned Essences, Staff of Ammunae, Staff of Sorcerer-Thane Thaurissan

Main hand: Elementium Hammer, Scepter of Power, Shimmering Morningstar, Torturer's Mercy, Biting Wind,

Off hand: Air Raid Beacon, Bone-Inlaid Sarcophagus Key, Book of Origination, Apple-Bent Bough, Bioluminescent Lamp, Divine Companion, Prophet's Scepter, 

Wand: Cookie's Stirring Rod, Wand of Dark Worship, Wand of Untainted Power, Wand of Untainted Power (heroic)

Some additional notes:

*For weapons, a dagger or mace and an off-hand is best, though if you must use a staff, that works too.

**For cloth armor, I mostly listed items with spirit. It's ok to take gear that doesn't have spirit on it if it's an upgrade or to balance out other stats. Just make sure you are avoiding +hit gear

***Most gear listed above is either ilvl333 or ilvl346. This is heroic-quality gear. To run heroics, you need a minimum gear level of 329 (though I would recommend 333 or higher if you can get it.)