Priest set bonus error?

#0 - March 19, 2009, 3:23 p.m.

Blizzard, on behalf of the priest community, please please tell me you will fix the t8 priest bonuses:

Priest T8 Bonuses:

Q u o t e:
Priest T8 Shadow 2P Bonus -- Increases the damage done by your Devouring Plague by 15%.
Priest T8 Shadow 4P Bonus -- Your Mind Blast also grants you 15 haste rating for until cancelled.
Priest T8 Healer 2P Bonus -- Increases the critical heal chance of your Prayer of Healing by 10%.
Priest T8 Healer 4P Bonus -- Casting Power Word: Shield also grants you 15 spell power for until cancelled.

I'm not expecting anything broken.... but 15 spellpower seems pretty useless imho.

Ghostcrawler

#15 - March 19, 2009, 8:48 p.m.

4P shadow is like 240 haste rating.
4p healing is like 250 spell power.

Those may not be the specific numbers, but that's the ballpark IIRC.

Ghostcrawler

#20 - March 19, 2009, 8:56 p.m.

Q u o t e:
So 250 spellpower for 5s after casting PWS. How does this benefit Holy Priests?

Your heals are improved by spellpower. PW:S is a priest spell, not a Discipline only spell. We do not necessarily design set bonus to reward you for doing what you already do. The most interesting bonuses require you to change how you play, slightly, in order to derive max benefit from them. This is a goal and not a hard and fast rule, so there is no need to point out examples where it is not the case.