3.3.3 – Priest Tier-10 4-Piece Healing Set Bonus

Posted by Bati on March 3, 2010
Posted in: Patch Wotlk. Tagged: , , , . 20 Comments

This really deserves a fresh post because I don’t like it…

Priest
Item – Priest T10 Healer 4P Bonus – Increases the effect of your Renew and Power Word: Shield spells by 5%. (Old – Your Circle of Healing and Penance spells have a 20% chance to cause your next Flash Heal cast within 6 sec to reset the cooldown on your Circle of Healing and Penance spells.)

I remember when I first time saw the set bonuses for priest I totally hate them, also compared with other healing classes and there bonuses.  After a bit of thinking, sheets for gear choices I decided to go for set bonus after all.

A bonus is still a bonus so why not?

I did took the decision a bit late (after I already brought the chest with badges) but that meant just a few days delay for the 4 set items.

Current set bonus: Your Circle of Healing and Penance spells have a 20% chance to cause your next Flash Heal cast within 6 sec to reset the cooldown on your Circle of Healing and Penance spells

This is actually pretty nice if you manage to make use of each proc and this is not a hard thing. Derevka did a nice post about in 4 Piece Tier 10 – A Pleasant Surprise and I totally agree with him. In same time this second bonus made to look apealing the first one as well because Flash Heal would have been more present.

There are so many times when a chain proc saved the day at Sindragosa heroic, BloodQueen or… to be honest most of the bosses in ICC.

I am not very good at math regarding how much this set bonus increased my output  but I like for sure  and made healing a bit interesting.

Future set bonus: Increases the effect of your Renew and Power Word: Shield spells by 5%.

Well … we will be back at staring at frames and spam renew. wtb druid? I don’t have nothing against druids but we are priests from what I remember and this flat bonus is just …. lame. In the same time this change will make first set bonus close to useless from a holy point of view. If before the logs showed me up till 1% or more… depending on fight, now, this will be what? 0.0001% from healing done!!!?

In conclusion…

I didn’t qq to much before and if anyone did was mostly because we didn’t had the time to test it, plus with only a few bosses up in ICC the bonus didn’t really find his place in a certain fight.

In same time, majority of priests picked up already some non set pieces because they fallowed some lists find over Internet on blogs, forums and at the end they felt sorry. For those people this change might sound … better but in fact is not. It will show only a bit increased in healing done and we end up with the class that had the worst  tier when we killed the bad Arthas.

I really hope it won’t go live!

20 comments on “3.3.3 – Priest Tier-10 4-Piece Healing Set Bonus”

  1. Yep… I hate it too.

    Frankly… I am not happy with this change. I’ll do a blog post about it when I get a spare hour or so.

    Generally speaking, the existing Bonus was awesome- no doubt. For holy my Effective heal with COH went up ~35% with the bonus. (Data from 2 weeks of Professor Putricide kills) as disc, while harder to tell… resetting Penance’s CD (especially on heroic ICC) on tank healing has been invaluable.

    A flat 5% increase, while might SEEM nice… unlike DPS, flat healing increase dont always mean “awesome”. More throughput necessarily doesn’t mean more healing done– we are not dps. The existing 4pc bonus required you to think and use the ability as you need it, while the new incarnation is likely going to (especially holy) be overheal. I’m not impressed.

  2. Interesting. Admittedly I haven’t tried the T-10 4pc bonus (yeah right, like I’d have that many badges), but I thought it would be kind of… throwing off my timing.

    I wonder why they are making this change. Were people complaining about the current bonus? Was it too powerful or not powerful enough?

  3. To powerful, for sure it wasn’t but people like to complain when some thinking is require.
    Having a 20% chance to proc a spell that also has a cd made the bonus to look not very appealing. In same time, crying priests that aren’t capable to track a proc will never make a good use of this.

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  8. Yeh i totally agree, i did have a little cry at a dics priest point of perspective due to penance already hving quite a low cd it wont overly affect its game play i reckon they should make it so it offers both specs nice bonuses for example
    they should keep the holy bonus as it is right now for circle of healing but for disc priests hv it increase shields absorb % instead of the pennance thing, which i find not overly that useful which is probably why most disc priests QQ’d about it and it being changed to flat out increase

  11. MMO-Champ says: * Priest Tier-10 4-Piece Healing Set Bonus: Redesigned. This bonus now increases the effectiveness of the caster’s Power Word: Shield by 5% and Circle of Healing by 10%.

  14. close to end now… i have tested last night in raid on priest. Will post screen shots when i get home. Unfortunately the tweaking for my raiding takes more but the general layout is ready.

    during week i am kinda limited on time so don’t expect nothing, really.

  19. thats not a bad idea. i mean… not like you need all my powar aura settings or grid… or do you? and i wanted to also work on the msbt triggers more

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