In this post, I'll cover each stat in order of priority, as well as provide Lootrank lists for pre-raid, normal raids and heroic raids. Please note that everything in this post is based on my current spec and my own experiences healing in 10mans.
Intellect:
Intellect is your most important stat. Each point of intellect on your gear as Discipline is worth 1.62 spell power, 1.26 intellect, 0.0015% spell crit, 19.4 mana, as well as 0.097mp5 from replenishment, 1.358 extra mana from Rapture (currently provides 7% of your mana back, the tooltip in-game is incorrect) and boosting your in-combat spirit regen (I'd give you a number here, but it changes with different values of int and spirit). These numbers are with raid buffs and with Ember Shadowspirit Diamond equipped and active. This is due to the tree bonus Enlightenment and the class-specific equivalent to the armour bonus non-clothies get, Mysticism. The only slots that it is acceptable to have non-int items in are your trinket slots. If you have any non-int items in other slots, you are doing it wrong.
Spirit:
Spirit is your second most important stat. The general rule of thumb is that every item should have spirit on it, but I have found that one or two items without spirit on isn't the end of the world, as long as you reforge your least valuable stat on that item to spirit.
You can calculate your in-combat spirit regen based on the following formula:
((0.001 + Spi * sqrt{Int} * 0.003345) * 5) / 2
Haste:
Haste is your best throughput stat after int due to the nature of healing in 10mans. Shield spam in 10mans is unsupportable due to the lack of raid-regen buffs. For example, you may not have a resto shaman (we don't) for Mana Tide Totem, or any other priests to provide Hymn of Hope, or any caster druids to provide a decent Innervate. This means that you will be using direct heals and Smite (if you are Atonement specced) more than Power Word: Shield.
I have provided a table of haste thresholds here from Elitist Jerks - the original table comes from the Discipline post, which much thanks to Rosin for giving me permission to use the information in and link to his posts.
Condition 50% (GCD) 37.5% (Renew x 6) 12.5% (Renew x 5) 85 6402.9 4802.3 1601.1 85, 1/3 6212.7 4627.9 1458.4 85, 2/3 6026.2 4457.0 1318.6 85, 3/3 5843.4 4289.4 1181.5 85, 5% 5488.2 3963.8 915.0 85, 5%, 1/3 5307.0 3797.8 779.2 85, 5%, 2/3 5129.5 3635.0 646.0 85, 5%, 3/3 4955.3 3475.4 515.4 85, BT 4043.9 2639.9 85, BT, 1/3 3877.1 2487.0 85, BT, 2/3 3713.5 2337.0 85, BT, 3/3 3553.1 2190.0 85, 5%, BT 3241.5 1904.4 85, 5%, BT, 1/3 3082.7 1758.8 85, 5%, BT, 2/3 2926.9 1616.0 85, 5%, BT, 3/3 2774.1 1475.9 80 1639.5 1229.7 410.0 80, 1/3 1590.8 1185.0 373.4 80, 2/3 1543.1 1141.3 337.6 80, 3/3 1496.2 1098.3 302.5 80, 5%, 1/3 1358.9 972.4 199.5 80, 5%, 2/3 1313.4 930.8 165.4 80, 5%, 3/3 1268.9 889.9 132.0 80, BT, 1/3 992.8 636.8 80, BT, 2/3 950.9 598.4 80, BT, 3/3 909.8 560.8 80, 5%, BT, 1/3 789.3 450.3 80, 5%, BT, 2/3 749.5 413.8 80, 5%, BT, 3/3 710.3 377.9
Mastery:
Despite the fact that shield spam is not viable, you will still be using shields often enough that Mastery is your second best stat.
Crit:
How can crit be the least important stat for Discipline? Doesn't our healing rely heavily on Divine Aegis? I have 1 thing to say to people who ask these questions: L2read tooltips - Prayer of Healing now guarantees a Divine Aegis on each target that it heals. Intellect provides spell crit too, so you will gather crit passively from your gear.
Reforging:
Obviously, if an item of gear doesn't have spirit on, reforge your least valuable stat to spirit. If an item has spirit on, but no haste, reforge your least valuable stat to haste. If an item has spirit and haste on, don't touch it, it's perfect already.
Stat Weightings:
Stat weightings will change as your gear gets better, but when you're just starting out and gearing your priest in 5man heroics, I would suggest the following weightings:
Int: 4
Spirit: 3.36
Haste: 2
Mastery: 1
Crit: 0.5
Once you have T11 4set, you can change the weightings to:
Int: 4
Spirit: 2
Haste: 2
Mastery: 1
Crit: 0.5
Lootrank links:
Please note that Lootrank is dreadful at evaluating trinkets, so ignore the trinket section of these links. I will be covering trinkets next. Also, Tier items are not always the top ranked items. Your best setup for Tier 11 4set is Mercurial Mantle, Mercurial Robes, Mercurial Handwraps and Mercurial Legwraps.
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