I have made a list of gear that in my opinion is the best you can get for raid healing, the list doesn´t inclued gear from any heroic mode instances because i wanted to show some gear that was fairly accessible.
This is the first hps table from Icecrown citadel it shows how high each healer can reach with the right gear and raid composition, the way it´s was made is that the guy over at WOL (world of logs) has taken the top 20 hsp and devided it to get the median hps, you can follow it here each week and see how close you are to the top.
After my first article “getting a new weapon – beyond patch 3.3 “ I have now got Trauma and the offhand Shadow silk spindle and done some testing on Icecrown bosses(- Lich King) in 25 man normal mode. Before Trauma was released my bet was one on the two staffs as our primary weapon of choice but after some changes to how it procs and the opportunity to test it myself it´s now a different story I´m about to tell.
Patience young padwan this is only the beginning on your journey.
I will try in this series of tips to give you ideas and ways to improve your performace as a druid raid healer.So who is this article for?, I wrote this for people that have some raid experience and know how to use addons, read strategies and obtain information about it all but have reached a certain point and think what now.