[...] Tree Bark Jacket » Resto druid gems – part 1 Spellpower gems are your first choice, even in non-red sockets. Then, if you need more regen, if a socket bonus is particularly good (usually 5+ spellpower), or if your meta gem calls for different colours, use the hybrid (orange and . [...]

These days I would only really suggest the int hybrid if you’re at low levels of gear and really struggling for mana; that is, struggling so much that you’re going OOM on fights and it’s really giving you a hard time. In that case I would consider sp/int gems temporarily – until I could get a bit more regen, but then quickly swap them out for sp/haste to start working towards the cap.

At top levels of gear, yellow slots should always be sp/haste, never reverting back to sp/int. I intend to clarify this a bit more when I redo my resto guide. I may even split the gems section into a fresh 80 vs standard gemming format.
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Boomy on the other hand…They cheat They get SP from intel AND spirit.. Which is hax, imo :3

maybe these were the changes you meant?
I hope so xD

<3 your PowerAuras exports though.
And your loremaster guide <3

- who cares about a few extra points?

- if you don’t squeeze out every last point, ur doin’ it wrong.

I’ll definitely keep it in mind for times that my sockets aren’t very forgiving. Thanks

For example in my current equipment there is no yellow socket, so I can put the Seer’s Eye in the blue socket that (in combination with a red one) gives the biggest bonus and in the other blue sockets I can put spellpower gems.

If I had 2 items with blue and yellow I would put spell/spirit and spell/int in the non-red sockets and catch 2 socket boni (and +1 spellpower from the rounding) with the same “sacrifice”. (edit: basicly what you listed above)

Then again, we are talking about less than 10 spellpower differences, wich in the grand scheme of things are not that gamebreaking.

My normal gemming would be this:
Blue: 12sp/10spi
Yellow: 12sp/10int
Total: 24sp, 10spi, 10int

You’d go:
Blue or Yellow: 10int/10spi
Blue or Yellow: 23sp
Total: 23sp, 10spi, 10int

So almost identical, but possibly giving you a bit more flexibility to throw more red gems around.

I looked at my current gems – if I swap around my gems I come out 1sp behind, even taking bonuses into account. I think. I’m not great with math

But I’ll certainly keep that in mind as a possibility. In the past I have thought my gems have been good – but someone has pointed out if I swapped something around I could squeeze a few more points out. I’m never afraid to be corrected!

With that one Gem in a Yellow OR Blue socket one can get both requirements for the Insightful Earthsiege Diamond and has all other slots free for pure red gems.