So overall, im sure things will work out for us priest again hopefully it won’t get too bad like the priest nerf back in vanilla wow.

I wasn’t going to go for the previous 4-piece bonus — because I wasn’t going to spend a bunch of badges on poorly-itemized gear just to fall back on good ol’ RNG — and I’m definitely not going to now. The only consideration I am putting into the new 4-piece bonus is that:
a) it’s not live yet, so I’m not totally up in arms, and…
b) I’m not on bubble-spam duty.

Lately, my guild has taken an appreciation for my Shadow off-spec, and have been requesting that I start ICC as Shadow, then switch to Discipline for Plague wing, then back to Shadow again for Blood Queen. The reasoning for this is that we’re usually heavy on healers, so in the interests of only running with 5 healers, one of us has to switch to DPS spec. On BQL, my bubble-spamming just can’t keep up with the raw HPS of 2 resto shamans and 2 resto druids, so I go Shadow. Vampiric Embrace makes me feel like I’m actually contributing to raid healing on some way ;)

The new 4-piece bonus (especially if it’s more than 5% when it goes live) might be enough to convince me to pick up the pieces for a bubble-spamming set, but since my guild is so flexible I may just let the shamans have their day and just pick up Shadow set pieces with my emblems.

The change does effect they way people will choose their gear, yes. Blizzard could very easily give priests back some badges or the ability to sell back badge gear in exchange for tier if this change goes live, but I’m not sure if they’ll do it or not.

I’m okay because I planned for 4-piece tier in advance and opted to get non-tier badge upgrades first (belt, gloves, trinket) before going for the tier pieces I wanted and thus I only have 2 pieces and am very close to buying a 3rd. So if this change goes live I can buy the other 2 holy tier pieces instead of shadow tier or a cloak upgrade or primal saronite and I won’t have regretted spending any badges.

This is the final tier of gear and for other classes the 4 piece bonus was simply amazing(like for shadow priests). this set bonus simply doesnt compare with what blizzard gave to other classes/specs. I honestly dont know if it’s worth getting. It might be more worth keeping 2 pieces of ilvl258 t9 around for the PoM bonus.

I think I’m beginning to understand one of Dawn’s points on Wow.com: tankhealers may have turned to the tier because they hoped the 4P was good. Shieldspammers turned their back on it. It seems the opposite may happen after this change and that’s a load of wasted effort/badges.

As for the new 5% bonuses I find it rather interesting for Discipline.

Examples:

Taking my guilds latest Prof P kill into consideration. I was MT healing pretty much constantly so I think that will be more useful to consider rather than the likes of Queen where I am just bubble spamming people.

So on the Prof my absorbtions from PW:S totalled 942,495 DMG so the added 5% would mean that my absorbtions from PW:S would have been 989,619.75.

On Queen my absorbtions on one of the tries were around the 1.5million mark meaning …. quick math ….would result in an extra 75,000 dmg absorbed.

Unlike with the previous set bonus I use both these spells in my rotation / healing. I am speced into IMP Renew aswell so this set bonus would as Disc increase PW:S and Renew by 5%. Obviously, the increase in PW:S is the main thing but I always have a few Renews rolling around aswell so this will also be a nice little buff.

The bottom line is the new set bonus is a static increase. It is something we can rely on there is no RNG element to it. It is also the 1st set bonus IMO which is actually aimed at Discipline. Holy Priests will be confused as the T10 has 2 set bonuses both of which affect different spells. As holy you tend to use either FH or Renew as your filler you dont tend to switch between the two much (except for SoL procs). Similarly, if the Holy Priest is in raid with a Disc Priest they wont be throwing PW:S about.

I had planned to pick up 3 parts T10 Healer Set and 2 parts T10 Shadow set (with an extra healer piece in my bags incase I went holy) for my Discipline Gear, however, if the change in set bonus makes it to live. I may pick up the 4 set and only go for one piece shadow. I will be missing out on a lot of haste which I had wanted but I believe the 5% is much better than say 90 more haste, which I am sure I can pick up in a few other places.

Oh on a side note I have recently started my own little blog and although it is still in its infancy I do aim to try and prgress with it soon. Check it out anyone who is interested.

http://themeditatingpriest.blogspot.com/

Love the blog Lilitharien ;-)

Cheers.
Panzee´s last blog ..So perhaps my last post is a little more relevant now ;-)

B) Yes.

C) I can’t comment on this from my own point-of-view because I don’t have 4-piece T10 currently.

And, yes, I do remember the part about you liking to take a dump on the melee. :P How could I possibly forget that!?

I think the huge problem here is people a) don’t fully understand how a disc priest works & what amazing healers they are 2) zomg meterz don’t reflect how great they are without knowing how to read them & c) didn’t understand how to use the 4 pc and didn’t bother trying to apply it because their minds were made up.

All I can do is write how stupid I think this is! But I’m still going to pout in the corner.

From the perspective of a shield-spamming disc priest, though, you didn’t have a lot of reason to go for the 4-piece. Now you only kinda do, but only if the 5% gets buffed to something more substantial. (Or until they decide to change it entirely, again.)

Unfortunately pouting in the corner helps nothing. :(

The ability to have multiple strings of FH/penance during heroic raids was godly. It was awesome. Seeing my tank get slammed on LK made vocalize more than once how I loved my 4 pc. Even Bubble spammers utilizing a weaving technique benefited more. The numbers on logs do not lie!

This is stupid and I’m going to go pout in the corner.