Smite wants spell damage in every slot, and most of this set is cloth that carries spell damage and healing alike. The search picked it from items with published Forever stats that you can get before the first raids: drops, quest rewards, crafts, reputation and vendor goods. It averages item level 60.2. One trinket matters more than anything else in it.

Pre-raid gear

Each slot also lists the items that came closest and what wearing them instead would cost here. Where it says level, the gap is inside the simulator's noise and either item will do.

Trinkets

Talisman of Ascendance, a quest reward from Eastern Plaguelands, is the piece the set can least do without: the next trinket costs 26.1 DPS. Each of the five spells you cast after using it adds 40 spell damage, and it comes back every minute.

Weakness Analyzer is a vendor item from Pix Xizzix, out in Stranglethorn Vale. Our simulator counts its 22 spell damage but not its use, 5 % crit for up to 20 seconds every 90, so it is a little better than its place here suggests.

Staff

Ironbark Staff gives 94 spell damage and 2 % crit. It is an Arathi Basin reward: The Defilers Exalted reputation. The vendor's Crackling Staff is the fallback (2.2 DPS).

Wand and professions

Brilliant Wand is an Enchanting craft that binds when picked up. Our simulator has no wand attack, so only its stats count, and Greater Eternal Wand comes next (level).

The one-boss set leans on three professions: Engineering 270 to wear Spellpower Goggles Xtreme Plus, Tailoring for Truefaith Vestments, which binds when picked up and is made for priests only, and Enchanting for the wand. The benchmark gives every caster Engineering and Tailoring, so the wand is the piece to replace if you have no Enchanter.

Feet

Earthen Silk Slippers is an item-level-36 Tailoring craft with 24 spell damage. Venomspew Footpads comes next (level).

Reputation pieces

The staff and Brilliant Watcher's Signet from The Watchers both need Exalted reputation. Reputation takes longer than anything else here, so start it first.

Enchants

• Staff: Mighty Spell Power, 55 spell damage.
• Head and legs: Arcanum of Focus on both, 8 spell damage apiece.
• Neck: Spell Power, 6 spell damage. Necklaces take enchants in Forever.
• Wrists: Healing Power, 24 healing and 8 spell damage.
• Chest, hands and feet: Mystic Rugged Armor Kit, 6 spell damage in our simulator. A few sets put Minor Haste (1 % casting speed) on their gloves instead, and the three-boss sets that wear the Virtuous Robe put Major Intellect on it.

Consumables

Always bring Flask of Supreme Power (11.8 %), Brilliant Wizard Oil on the staff (3.3 %) and Greater Arcane Elixir (2.8 %).

How much the mana items give depends on the fight. On one boss for three minutes Major Mana Potion is worth 3.7 % and Demonic Rune 2.4 %. On three bosses for three minutes they rise to 13.1 % and 8.5 %, and on one boss for one minute they do next to nothing. The rune costs 600 to 1,000 health, which our simulator doesn't take from you.

The rest are small: Cerebral Cortex Compound (25 Intellect, 0.2 %), Runn Tum Tuber Surprise (15 Intellect when well fed, 0.1 %) and Mageblood Elixir (12 mana per 5 seconds, 0.0 %).