Back to the OP - you've done really well for yourself so far. Just because some of your parts are weak-ish doesn't mean you should just take whatever trash is rotting. It's a strange perspective to try adopting, but imo, Platinum Dragonlinked Greaves are
worse than, say, Leggings of the Fates (picking a relevant example). It's all about the set of gear they're in. Leggings of the Fates are the second best piece of gear in their no-raid set. Platinum Dragonlinked Greaves are the second worst in their raid set.
You have Quickening of Mithaniel, Conservation of Xegony, and a heal focus. I will personally attest (see [Magelo] below) that those focus effects are entirely sufficient for the raiding that your guild is doing if you back them up with good play. When you plan out how to spend your earned points, don't just look around at what's happening atm, but what's on the horizon for loots. Don't look too far past the horizon (he says, stretching the metaphor uncouthly), but be forward-thinking. The major weakness of your current profile is low low spell/dot shielding, and absent Stun Resists. You're about halfway there on avoidance. Your challenge will be fixing those mods without getting swept up and displacing key focus effects, or getting pressured into buying rot trash just because it has hp/mana.
Remember, *everything* has hp/mana. In much the same way that Wisdom and then Stamina and then Mana Regen became ignorable stats, hp/mana is that way for raid gear. No matter what piece you take at that level, it will all have 300ish of this & 300ish of that. Take range slot as an example: the only meaningful differences between Globe of Voltage, Totem of the Chimera, Eye of Rikkukin, Crystallized Glass Staff, Tainted Undershore Rock and Emblem of the Hive (there are three more choices if guild does MPG mastery raids still) are the mods and focus effects. They're all enormous hp/mana upgrades, so you just can't choose based on that.
Happy hunting, gl on drops
Posted: Fri May 26, 2006 3:23 am