Tier 14 Priest Two- and
Four- set for Disc:
First a reminder of what the set
bonuses are
2-set – Reduces the mana cost of your
Flash Heal spell by 20%
4-set – Reduces the cooldown of your
Penance spell by 4 sec.
2-set
Lets look at how this improves the HPM
of flash heal:
|
2set |
Heal |
Cast Time |
Mana Cost |
HPS |
HPM |
|
Without
|
57890 |
1.44 |
17700 |
40201 |
3.27 |
|
With
|
57890 |
1.44 |
14160 |
40201 |
4.09 |
But let's compare this with other
single-target heals(and ignoring binding heal's self heal):
|
Spell |
Heal |
Cast Time |
Mana Cost |
HPS |
HPM |
|
PW:Shield |
93949 |
1 |
18300 |
93949 |
5.13 |
|
Binding Heal |
40411 |
1.44 |
16200 |
28063 (56126) |
2.49 (5.00) |
|
Greater Heal |
77202 |
2.4 |
17700 |
32168 |
4.36 |
|
Penance (glyphed) |
67203 |
1.92 |
11160 |
35001 |
6.02 |
From a purely tank healing perspective,
2set flash heal is still really low hpm, although it is about 5-7k
higher hps. However, disc's job at the moment (5.0.4) is to raid
heal!
Now have a look at some logs, see
whether disc priests are actually using fheal (chosen at random), and
show how much mana having 2set would/did save them:
Imperial Vizier Zor'lok:
|
Name |
Guild |
Number of Flash Heals
|
Mana saved |
% of Healing |
|
Arnymacsek |
Grim Funeral |
1 |
3540 |
0.1 |
|
Medii |
Midwinter |
0 |
/ |
0 |
|
Shibo |
Insomnio |
8 |
28320 |
2.3 |
|
Sevillia |
Scrubbusters |
12 |
42480 |
2.5 |
|
Healdegard |
For the Horde |
0 |
/ |
0 |
|
Pews |
Vodka |
2 |
7080 |
0.5 |
Garalon:
|
Name |
Guild |
Number of Flash Heals
|
Mana saved |
% of Healing |
|
Stronzium |
Set sail for Fail |
0 |
/ |
0 |
|
Medii |
Midwinter |
0 |
/ |
0 |
|
Hailow |
Legends Never Die |
0 |
/ |
0 |
|
Sevillia |
ScrubBusters |
0 |
/ |
0 |
|
Xabok |
Method |
0 |
/ |
0 |
And from Security's logs for Grand
Empress Shek'zeer over all fights:
|
Player |
No. of Flash Heals |
Mana saved |
% of Healing |
Mana saved on Average per pull! |
|
Care |
168 |
594720 |
1.7 |
31301 |
|
Leeloo |
14 |
49560 |
0.2 |
1709 |
|
Anjanas |
31 |
109740 |
0.4 |
3784 |
So let's take
Sevillia's mana saved from Imperial Vizier Zor'lok, 42480.
Which is 393.3 mp5
saved, equivalent
to 696 spirit for a gnome, or 675 spirit for a human (not counting
rapture, which would devalue it further).
This
means taking the two set over other gear, on a fight where the
occasional fheal is necessary, is only viable when the other gear is
of less than 696 spirit upgrade, and only if you're going to use the
fheals :P
4-set
Bonus:
This
improves the healing of Penance overall across the fight (if we were
casting it on cd orgiinally, and wanted to cast it more)
Recycling
the charts from above:
|
Spell |
Heal |
Cast Time |
Mana Cost |
HPS |
HPM |
|
Penance(glyphed) |
67203 |
1.92 |
11160 |
35001 |
6.02 |
|
PW:Shield |
93949 |
1 |
18300 |
93949 |
5.13 |
|
Binding Heal |
40411 |
1.44 |
16200 |
28063 (56126) |
2.49 (5.00) |
|
Greater Heal |
77202 |
2.4 |
17700 |
32168 |
4.36 |
|
FHeal(2set) |
57890 |
1.44 |
14160 |
40201 |
4.09 |
Penance is disc's highest HPM spell,
with below average HPS. However, glyphed it can be cast whilst
moving (particularly useful in heavy single target damage situations
where moving is important).
Returning to logs to see how many times
per kill penance is used:
Imperial Vizier Zor'lok:
|
Name |
Guild |
Number of Penance Ticks |
% of Healing |
|
Arnymacsek |
Grim Funeral |
18 |
0.8 |
|
Medii |
Midwinter |
0 |
0 |
|
*Shibo |
Insomnio |
63 |
4.4 |
|
Sevillia |
Scrubbusters |
3 |
0.3 |
|
Healdegard |
For the Horde |
19 |
1.6 |
|
Pews |
Vodka |
8 |
0.5 |
*has four
set.
Garalon:
|
Name |
Guild |
Number of Penance Ticks |
Mana saved |
% of Healing |
|
Stronzium |
Set sail for Fail |
0 |
/ |
0 |
|
Medii |
Midwinter |
0 |
/ |
0 |
|
Hailow |
Legends Never Die |
0 |
/ |
0 |
|
Sevillia |
ScrubBusters |
0 |
/ |
0 |
|
Xabok |
Method |
0 |
/ |
0 |
And from Security's logs for Grand
Empress Shek'zeer over all fights:
|
Player |
No. of Penance Ticks |
% of Healing |
|
Care |
213 |
0.7 |
|
Leeloo |
573 |
1.9 |
|
Anjanas |
685 |
3 |
But the only situation I can see
casting penance on cd is sustained tank damage with no aoe, or if a
disc is assigned to the tank. For raid damage it appears to have
little hps benefit to us, and is of no benefit hpm wise.
Now looking at gear, assuming a stat
prio of :
Spirit to comfort > Intellect >
Spirit > Mastery > Crit > Haste
BIS list (pure stat)
Discipline
Head: Tier Head
Shoulder: Tier Shoulders
Chest: HoF Wind Lord
Gloves: HoF Zor'lok
Legs: MGV Stone Guard
For certain fights having the set bonus
may be recommended. For all but Tsulong (which everyone in existence
(and myself) is holy for) I haven't even had 2-set (let alone 4).
Thus, I can only suggest that 4set is probably useful on Sha HC phase
2, but it isn't game-breaking, and I'll add further to this once I've
been able to see Sha in a bit more detail (ie, tonight –
hopefully).
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