Breakfast Topic: Which tier 10 bonuses appeal the most to you?
by Matt Low 
Oct 11th 2009 at 8:00AM
Blizzard has released information on the upcoming tier 10 sets in the 3.3 patch! Some of the bonuses have changed since their original inception. Set bonuses have been around since vanilla WoW. They were used as incentives to try to unite pieces together and provide extra abilities when you had enough of them. They're not supposed to be the main focus of a set. A bonus is just that: A bonus. It's supposed to be a bit of a boost to whatever role you're playing. Still, these are some great bonuses to help us finish Arthas off.
My favourites from tier 10?
Priest (Healing)
- 2 piece bonus - Your Flash Heal critical strikes cause the target to heal for 25% of the healed amount over 9 sec.
- 4 piece bonus - Your Circle of Healing and Penance spells have a 20% chance to cause your next Flash Heal cast within 6 sec to reset the cooldown on your Circle of Healing and Penance spells.
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Breakfast Topics
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 3)
SithLlenniuq Oct 11th 2009 8:07AM
Plus AGI !!!
Hunters can never have enuff AGI
Maus Oct 11th 2009 8:17AM
Paladin's (Retribution) updated bonuses RAWK.
JrSlacker Oct 11th 2009 8:22AM
I wish I could say Elemental, but the set bonus for both 2 and 4 piece are pretty bad...Hopefully they listen and change it, or hopefully the actual stats will make up for it....
Winterhoof Oct 11th 2009 8:31AM
I hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate HATE feral T10.
2 piece is trash, and 4 piece is a return of a old feature of Primal gore (Seriously, if it was that "OP" to not have on the talent, why end up giving us it anyway through a Tier bonus?)
IMO both T9 and T10 are tanking bonuses and nothing more, IF they had the T8 2 piece (clearcast on rake and rip) retained, they'd at least be twice as good as they are.
Chuck Oct 11th 2009 1:52PM
I'm going to have to disagree.
When you think about how many time you use rip in a fight, all that energy is going to add up to alot. If you do some math, you'll save MORE energy in a fight (probability speaking) from this allowing you to do more DPS. For tanking it's awesome too. Having a DOT that can crit while tanking is nice for steady threat, as well as it helps swipe helping us out AL LOT with AoE Threat.
4 Piece.
Having the old primal gore back in the form of a set bonus? Hell yes. For most druids, including myself, this is going to add 600-1200 DPS to most of us. This is incredible. As for tanking? Hell yeah a new tanking cooldown that can be used every minute to mitigate damage, or be used in conjunction with other cooldowns!
The trend here seems to be that everyones 4 piece for DPS is OP. Damn, look at the mage and lock one.
jam Oct 11th 2009 3:14PM
You're clearly clueless. Critting rake is very powerful.
Sten Oct 11th 2009 8:29AM
Mage (4) bonus is insane.
# 4 Pieces: Your Mirror Image ability also causes you to deal 18% additional damage for 30 seconds.
using this along with other cooldowns on bloodlust will be a huge dps increase :O
Wolftech Oct 11th 2009 9:08AM
That is awesome. What is even MORE awesome is the 2 piece bonus.
"Your Hot Streak, Missile Barrage, and Brain Freeze talents also grant you 12% haste for 5 seconds when the effect of the talent is consumed."
I play arcane. My MB is up pretty much every couple of casts of AB. Free 12% haste bonus! Yes please :)
killercactiii Oct 11th 2009 10:57AM
Definitely excited about this. Much better for arcane than T9 bonuses.
Corey Oct 11th 2009 1:55PM
this
Mutak Oct 12th 2009 10:00AM
The newer bonuses are better for dps, but the 4pc bonus from Ulduar is the funnest bonus we've had in a long time. I swapped to Arcane recently just for a change of pace, and i gotta tell you when i hit that golden moment of Clearcasting and 3+ procs in a row, i giggled as the arcane missile machine gun took off. Reminds me of the very short period in BC when the Mystical Skyfire Diamond made AM spam the way to go.
ChaosPrime Oct 11th 2009 8:34AM
Druid T10 Feral 4P Bonus - Your Enrage ability no longer decreases your armor and instead decreases all damage taken by 12%.
Enrage has a 60 CD, lasts for 10 seconds, so 1/6th of the time I'll have 12% damage reduction, or 2% overall.
/Love Blizzard
tim Oct 11th 2009 4:44PM
You forgot the most OP Druid bonus of them all - having an animated venus fly trap on your shoulder!
marzz Oct 11th 2009 9:04AM
I'm still curious what "Reduces the cooldown on your Eclipse talent by 6000." means.
Hazath Oct 11th 2009 1:58PM
6000ms, or 6 seconds. But, it recently got reworked into:
2 Piece Balance: When you gain Clearcasting from your Omen of Clarity talent, you deal 15% additional Nature and Arcane damage for 6 seconds.
4 Piece Balance: Your critical strikes from Starfire and Wrath cause the target languish for an additional 5% of your spell's damage over 4 seconds.
Arbitor Oct 11th 2009 4:57PM
Its simple, the new cooldown on eclipse..... ITS OVER 6000!!!!
Evelinda Oct 11th 2009 9:06AM
sorry, but have you gotten updated info on the set bonuses? because the priest bonuses you have listed on the previous t10 bonus article are quite different to the ones you have here... can we have the update too? :P
having said that, i'm loving the druid bonuses over there... i run resto/feral tank, and those look like fun to me!
Tridus Oct 11th 2009 9:06AM
The Priest ones do look pretty good. They must be trying to apologize for the laughably pathetic T9 4 piece we got stuck with.
Maxpowr Oct 11th 2009 6:17PM
The priest healing bonuses are okay. Definately an improvement over the old 2-pc though.
Given my flash heals are criting for over 10k now, that is 2500+ extra healing. Even so, that hot from the crit flash heal is basically the equivalent of 1 renew tick over 9-seconds.
The problem with the 4-pc is that the proc rate is so low. Even for holy, there should be no reason to spam CoH again. You were better off casting PoH then. The CD is only 6 seconds also. Penance with a longer CD has a much better chance to proc.
Rai Oct 11th 2009 9:27AM
15 energy whenever a rogue uses Tricks of the Trade?
Doesn't sound like much but it's going to come in very useful and ensure that some rogues actually use it to keep their threat down!