I am also highly unethused by Sacred Shield generally, given that it is a weak single target, proc-based shield. I just can’t see the mitigation being worth it. Currently, the 4p T7 bonus is equivalent to (if you assume a very conservative 2 holy light casts per 5 secs) more than 150mp5. Again, its a massive step back.

I am not too concerned – I honestly can’t see the current pally bonuses going live as they are. I do think that there may be a lot more competition for shammy mail come 3.1 though.

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my reaction: tons of emo all caps yelling in guild chat for about 15 minutes. these bonuses are not only week, they are worthless.

2pb: in most raiding situation paladins are called on to MT heal. if we do our job and keep our tank capped there isn’t much need for a shock. we can help with a really low raider but that’s about it. basically this bonus fails for 3 reasons: 1) we don’t use holy shock often enough while raiding (which in and of itself doesn’t mean a bonus can’t be built around the spell- 10% extra crit on T7 was solid) 2) the bonus requires us to actually crit with our shock (once again, in and of itself not terrible but it does take a spell we rarely use and then cuts the times the bonus will be procced by about 50%) By now you would expect an amazing bonus per proc but it ends up being: 3) a periodic healing effect on the target, healing for 15% of the Holy Shock’s heal amount over 9 sec? really? a HoT that will tick for ~1k hp over 9 seconds? sure it’s “better than nothing” but when main tanks are getting hit for 25k-30k per hit in ulduar this is almost and ends up virtually being nothing for pvp. however, if you are big into pvp this bonus isn’t too bad. if you have enough resil from offset pieces it might not be a bad idea to throw this on for arena b/c you pretty much shock on cd.

4pb: Increases the damage absorbed by your Sacred Shield by 10%. the amount your shield absorbed is 500 dmg + 75% of current spell power. raid buffed i’m at about 2400. this means my shield will absorb ~2300 dmg. 10% of this is an additional 230 absorbed every 6 seconds. divide 230 by 6 and i’m mitigating a whopping 39 damage per second or 2340 dmg per minute. given the fact that blizz made it so we can only shield 1 target at a time, it makes sense that they would make our shield better, but this is not an improvement.

long story short: if blizz doesn’t retool the set bonuses there is no reason a pally should bother about getting T8 gear. pick out what the gear that is best in slot and hold on to your 4pb from from T7 as long as possible. also i haven’t looked through all the gear but i did notice a several of the T8 pieces have haste and mp5. this is incredibly fail itemization and i’m sure there is better out there. find the pieces that have highest int/crit/haste.

1) It can be cast on any target
2) The mana cost is reduced
3) Serendipity decreases the cast time
4) There’s a 2 PC set bonus to increase the crit%

Granted I use PoH somewhat today, when the situation warrants it, but with the increased output of CoH and the new mana regen changes, is it really going to be efficient? I’m not a math major, so I’m not going to spout a bunch of equations to prove a point, but even with the reduced mana cost I don’t know if PoH is going to be something that will be in my top 3 spells cast in a given fight. If it’s not in my top 3, do I really care about having a 10% crit bonus vs. better stats on another piece of non-tier gear. It would appear as though Blizzard thinks it will be something we’ll be casting quite a bit… which is a little cause for concern as I don’t think I’ll last too long in a fight if PoH is a top 3 spell for me.

The four piece bonus is just… meh. The 250sp is nice, but I don’t cast a ton of PW:S right now to be really excited. It honestly sounds like a Disc bonus rather than a holy one.

Ever the optimist…If these are the holy bonuses, I will have a lot more flexibility with my gear, as I won’t worry about keeping 2 pieces of tier gear (except in my Ark Inventory “Collectible” category).

Ever the skeptic… Maybe Blizz just throws stuff in for Hex miners to post, so people will QQ and they can laugh int heir morning meetings the next day.

But I think the 4 piece is a slap in the face after the Sacred Shield nerf. It might have been a little something something were shield staying as is — I currently drop SS on raid members in advance of AOEs and this bonus would be nice for that job. But now this is essentially essentially its an extra, what 250 damage mitigated OVER 30 SECONDS on ONE TARGET? Seriously? Whoopty frigging do. This must have been designed pre-nerf, and tuned when they were worried about how to fix how awesome SS was. Well, they fixed SS for good, now they gotta go

I think the T8 2 together with the T7 2 piece might be the best combination. 10% more Shock crit, and a 15% hot on crits. Nice.

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I really hope that there’s a mistake there. 15 is almost nothing ><

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