Simple math is telling me that off tier pieces can offer me more than the 4 pc – HOWEVER, many of the pieces I am gathering are only obtainable in Heroic Modes. I have not done a thorough look to if this would be the case if heroic loot was omitted.

I need to play around some more with this, and actually test these assumptions out a bit more. I plan to do a follow up post on this when I have more data (and time…time is a dwindling resource right now), and if off tier pieces do indeed end up being better, and if so, which ones.

Regardless how it plays out, it’s still a boring change.

Well, at least I know I wont be competing for Heroic 277 Tokens. Hello 277 Non-Tier items… at least they have more haste!

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%.

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I think we should continue to watch and wait to see how they keep developing it. This latest change shows they’re considering options. However, it’s still not as “interesting” as the previous version, and the lame 2pc remains.

But mostly I was avoiding all the spirit on that gear. I was instead saving up for holy.2pc + shadow.2pc + Meteor Chaser’s Rainments (and have all but the shadow gloves/pants).

The new 4pc is esp disappointing not because 5% is lackluster, but because I expect it to not get used in many fights. For Festergut, sure it’s great. But for 10 man LK (which I’m working on) I can already block all of infest and will reshield everyone before the next infest comes around.

So I suppose my complaint is that it’s not going to help me where I personally need it. But maybe when we get into heroic mode or the 25 man team catches up I’ll think differently.

Derevka and Ava’s guild (which is my new home, they adopted a puppy, and I happened to be the cutest one at the pet shop) runs with what was listed by Derevka just above.

Both guilds have similar, practically identical progression. A healing setup will practically always work if your healers know what their role is and if they can trust / work with the other healers properly.

I liked our current set bonus for both Disc raid healing and Disc tank healing. I’ll like the new one as well. I like this game. I wish this game would have my babies.

We typically run, Treex2, Pally, Shaman, Priest x2 (varying spec) on our Heroic 25 Runs. It works well for us…

No one is saying that you MUST have a Disc on a MT, just that they are great tank healers and the Penance CD proc just made it all the better.

They are also damn good raid healers, and usually also have one on the raid as well. However, if a disc raid healer is doing nothing but bubbles, they are simple not holding up to their potential. The amount of raid damage in ICC heroic provides more than enough targets to demonstrate a proper weaving technique. So to simply bubble is ignoring a good hunk of your potential and putting strain on other healers. And THAT is an ineffective way to utilize your healers. Granted, every guild will do things differently – these techniques are what we and others have found to work well.

While it’s true that you can not predict when it will proc, hence the argument I see that it’s unreliable – the amount of times it can and will proc is extremely high. As we said, and as many heroic raiders have confirmed, the proof of the out put is in the logs….and a 5% flat increase to shield reflectivity pales in comparison. Even in 25 man fights where I utilize a raid bubble healing technique (LK, Heroic Dreamwalker, heroic BQl, to name a few) this has been invaluable.

If it was a cooldown, perhaps it would address people’s concerns that its unreliable, But as far as I’m concerned, the randomness of it makes it fun. And because it procs so often, it ususally DOES proc when you need it most. As we said -when we first heard about this bonus, it sounded like would suck. However, those that actually tried it usually changed their mind.