Druid T10Follow

Set bonuses

* Item - Druid T10 Restoration 2P Bonus - The healing granted by your Wild Growth spell reduces 0% less over time.
* Item - Druid T10 Restoration 4P Bonus (Rejuvenation) - Each time your Rejuvenation spell heals a target, it has a 2% chance to jump to a new target at full duration.
* Item - Druid T10 Balance 2P Bonus - When you gain Clearcasting from your Omen of Clarity talent, you deal 10% additional Nature and Arcane damage for 6 sec.
* Item - Druid T10 Balance 4P Bonus - Reduces the cooldown on your Eclipse talent by 6000.
* Item - Druid T10 Feral 2P Bonus - Your Swipe (Bear) and Lacerate abilities deal 20% additional damage and the cost of your Rip ability is reduced by 10 energy.
* Item - Druid T10 Feral 4P Bonus - Your Enrage ability no longer decreases your armor and instead decreases all damage taken by 12%, and the periodic damage done by your Rake ability can now be a critical strike.



Loving the resto 4Piece and the Balance 2 piece.

Edited, Oct 8th 2009 6:13am by Micros

Feral 4p = wut, Rake can already crit >_>

I'm still not liking the 4p bonus they've had lately for resto. The critable Hots weren't worth taking over the instant-tick RJ until you had levels of critical most druids didn't have.

Now RJ jumps...

Assuming you are rolling RJ on much of the raid already you will be mostly overwriting your HoTs... Sure it's free, but you would be trading the HPS boost of the 4t8 or 4t9 for what is likely going to be mostly an Mp5 boost. Most Druids aren't mana-starved atm, so I'm really struggling to see where they are going with this...

No complaints about 2p though ;-)

Edited, Oct 8th 2009 9:16am by someproteinguy

True.

The hard part for me would be breaking one of the other set bonuses. 4t8 and 4t9 boosted your HPS to some degree. So you be reducing your HPS just by equipping 4p10 and losing your old bonus. I suppose part of the bonus will come down to how intelligently it jumps. If it jumps preferentially to targets without RJ, or to ones that are low on HP it could work out okay, and help make up for some of the loss of HPS from breaking one of the old set bonuses. Unintelligent jumping has the potential to cause HoT overwriting or 100% over-healing.

*shrugs* It still feels akin to swapping your spellpower trinkets for Mp5 trinkets, when you aren't mana starved to begin with...

Then again they could make it not count as one of your RJs, so you could have 2 on 1 target in theory... that'd be sweet :)

Edit: either way that t10 helm is butt-ugly though ;-)

Edited, Oct 8th 2009 9:31am by someproteinguy

I don't see why you're making this analogy. I see this as a HPS increase, assuming that it's not jumping to someone that already has a rejuv on them (unless they stack, which would be sweet). With the nerf to rejuv coming in 3.3, assuming you're blanketing the raid in rejuvs, there will be 3 less people with rejuv ticking on them than there was pre 3.3. The 4pc bonus has the potential to increase the number of people in your raid with rejuv on them. That's a HPS increase. I don't think this is meant to be a "Well now I don't have to cast rejuv as much" bonus.

The interesting thing will be to see if this set bonus procs even on 100% overheal ticks. The wording is "heals", so I'm not sure.

The complaint that I have with the 4pc bonus is that unless they make it smart about who it jumps to, it's a pretty crappy bonus. All other bonuses directly help you heal someone you're trying to heal. This could just jump to someone that is at full health and is in no danger of taking any damage, resulting in nothing but overheal.

No, Rip crits. This will be a nice DPS boost. 2 bleeds that can crit, tyvm.

The 4 piece tank bonus is making me dizzy. I think I'm in love.

Totally! Who could say no to another tanking CD? 12% damage reduction on a 1 min timer? yay! :D

Edited, Oct 8th 2009 11:54am by someproteinguy

The Restoration 4p bonus sounds... interesting.

I wonder what the proc rate is on it. Imagine putting Rejuvenation on the tank and it then jumps to someone nearby (DPS?). Now you've got two Rejuvenations ticking, each capable of jumping again? And since the text says "target" and not "raid/group member," does this mean it can jump to anyone nearby?

Imagine putting Rejuvenation on two guys in Dalaran or at the Auction House...

Edit: What's the Rejuvenation nerf in 3.3?

Edited, Oct 8th 2009 9:33pm by Mazra

Rank 15 Rejuv is hitting for 15 seconds instead of 12.

The biggest reason I'm a firm believer in the T9 being better than the T8 bonus with rejuv is this.

Glyph of Rejuv + T9 4 set bonus = some pretty intense healing tics.

Look at it this way.

Say raid buffed you're on a fight like twins. Where damage is constant. Rejuv normally tics for 2000. A player dips below 50%, you're looking at 3000 heals per tic while under 50%. Now say that crits. You're looking at a tic of up to 6000. Op? Yes.

As for the t10 bonus. This I'm really curious about. Because if they actually plan to make hots affected by your haste I could really see some pretty crazy things happening.

Imagine a resto druid with 1000 haste, spaming rejuvs and wild growth across the raid. Now with the 4 set that rejuv is tick faster and faster, hits another person so on and so forth.

It'll be interesting to see.

t8 vs t9 4pc was one of those fun situational things. On some thing like Twins, Hodir, Saph (even if you would have been totally OPed for it by then :p) critical tick on HoTs can be nothing short of awesome. Anything where there's raid-wide damage it is great. Especially when you can get your critical rate up into the 30% range.

The t8 was another thing. Instant cast 3k heals on someone below 50% (with the glyph) can be a make or break kind of thing. Plus you knew the healing would be well used in most situations. Since it occurs on cast you could control it, while the crit-proc was random and more likely to be over-healing (of course totally encounter dependent). Of course a 3k heal isn't anything amazing either, just nice to have it 'on-demand', so to say.



This is interesting for me since my understanding is that they wouldn't be changing the GCD. So you couldn't cast as many RJs before they ran out. In a sense it would be mean the more haste you got, the fewer people you'd have swift-mendable HoTs on. Even though your output would, in theory, not be decreasing; more healing done in less time is generally better then not though. Perhaps I'm reading into it wrong, but wouldn't your overall stay the same if you had 10 RJs up instead of 12? I guess in the end you are putting out more concentrated healing on fewer people, and they don't exactly have a lot of HP-sapping-aura kinds of fights. *shrugs*

It will certainly be interesting to see how they design future encounters, and how well our spells will work in those.

Moonkin T10 is teh ******. No need to have less cd on eclipse. OoC procs are not really up all the time. Besides....you really want to have more Rng? GrayMatter said some things about it, he has pretty much the same opinion of it as I do:


http://graymatterwow.blogspot.com/2009/10/patch-33-tier-10-set-bonuses.html

Yes, 10 less energy is no huge amount

But it does give you a little more wriggle room in terms of trying to get that 5pt Savage Roared Rip off in time.

I don't know how much of a difference this will make, but I think it's less an energy conservation thing and more aimed at easing the feral rotation without fundamentally changing it...

At least, that's the impression I get.

*nods again*

True, I forgot while the two druids may not be stacking their HoTs on the same target in such a situation that doesn't mean the RJ jumps would listen to healing assignments. ;)

Point taken, I guess in that case you got a 50/50 of it being an potential HPS increase or a mp5 boost. :)