Ultimately, for those like me who are asked to serve as tank healer in some fights and raid healer in others, it behooves us to maintain two gear sets–one stacked for haste and longevity, the other stacked with as much crit and as little mp5 as possible. (For me personally, this means I have one set that brings my CH down to < 1.8sec and another set that puts me at ~40% crit raid-buffed.)

That being said, I always appreciate the guidance and discussion fostered by such lists as these. And it is certainly easier to critique than to create.

**Intell: Gives you Mp5 via Replentishment due to a larger mana pool (this is given to you from Shadow priests, Ret paladins and hunters) Also, gives you spell power and crit. It was the best stat and still is – period.
**Spell power: This increases the healing of your spells. Don’t get it? Stop playing a Resto class.
**Haste: Ulduar requires fast-action healing. This now takes a SLIGHT priority over Mp5. Read below for clarification.
**Mp5: With Ulduar gear granting more and more intell, Mp5 is taking a lesser and lesser emphasis. This stat remains to be the staple stat of resto shamans.. stack it up to about 400 Mp5 (while casting) for Ulduar. Much more than that will cause your healing output to suffer more than you want it to.
**Crit: Used to be a stat that I preferred over Haste. Recount has proved that deaths due to splatter damage (over all raid damage) were a rotation issue that crit could not solve. The answer was haste. You will get all the crit you need from uld (and Naxx) gear and a good resto spec. Do Not socket this stat.
**Stamina and Spirit: Don’t socket these. Nuff, said. Vastly more stam than you will ever need comes on your gear. Spirit for a shaman is like Intellect for a warrior – totally useless.

I will provide answers and/or data if requested.

Pandora’s Plea is by FAR and FAR the best-in-slot trinket for a resto shaman. How you could have missed this, I will never know. If you could get two of them, I’d suggest doing it. Sadly, this is not an option.
Living Ice Crystals = 43Mp5 and a 3K heal
Pand’s Plea = 71.28Mp5, 1782 Mana, 18 base Hl Pwr and 850 Hl Pwr on proc
…not even a question…

Lowering the emphasis on Mp5 in your future guides (as better and better gear becomes available) will increase said guide’s accuracy and helpfulness. Just my opinion, Mayne. All-in-all, i love your posts. I read out of interest far more than I post :

God Love and Game On!
Guessur

@drug I do agree that pandora’s plea should be on there and was in my original draft (some how I seem to have miss edited it out) so I’m going to toss that back up there.

@Rhukko I don’t know about that, in practical application I’ve seen a more significant boost in my regen with siphon and crystals over soul of the dead. I was pushing almost 40% crit when using it in a raid and just wasn’t seeing the returns. Maybe I was just unlucky, I’ve heard of people getting long stretches of trinkets bottoming out on them.

@Jossalin Those are all good contenders as well.

@Boni: Ask and you shall receive. I’ll do a 10 man exclusive gear list in a day or so. The ironic thing is some of the absolute best items (IMO) for shaman come from 10 mans.

The beauty of shaman gearing now is we have a lot of options depending on how we want to build our characters. Realistically we’re going to be carrying multiple sets of items around. Already my bags are filled with conditional gear for certain fights just so I can eek out that little extra edge.

http://www.wowhead.com/?item=40382

http://www.wowhead.com/?item=45563

TRINKETS
Show of Faith (SP, mp5 bonus proc) – Yogg-Saron 25 hard mode
Sif’s Remembrance (SP, mp5 bonus proc) – Thorim 10 hard mode
Pandora’s Plea (int, bonus SP proc) – Mimiron 25

RINGS
Fire Orchid Signet (int, stam, yellow socket, haste, mp5, SP) – Freya 10 hard mode

SHIELDS
Wisdom’s Hold (int, stam, blue socket, crit, haste, SP) – Thorim 25 hard mode

WEAPONS
Constellus (int, stam, blue socket, crit, mp5, SP) – Algalon 25, other hard mode bosses