Patch 4.2 PTR: Tier 12 set bonuses
by Michael Sacco 
May 5th 2011 at 12:40AM
Death knight DPS
- 2-piece Your Horn of Winter ability also grants you 3 runic power every 5 sec for 2 min.
- 4-piece Your critical strikes with melee abilities deal 15% additional damage as Fire damage over 4 sec.
- 2-piece Your melee attacks cause Burning Blood on your target, which deals 800 Fire damage every 2 for 6 sec and causes your abilities to behave as if you had 2 diseases present on the target.
- 4-piece Your Dancing Rune Weapon grants 15% additional parry chance.
Druid (balance)
- 2-piece You have a chance to summon a Burning Treant to assist you in battle for 15 sec when you cast Wrath or Starfire.
- 4-piece While not in an Eclipse state, your Wrath generates 3 additional Lunar Energy and your Starfire generates 5 additional Solar Energy.
- 2-piece Your attacks with Mangle, Maul, and Shred deal 10% additional damage as Fire damage over 4 sec.
- 4-piece Your finishing moves have a 20% chance per combo point to extend the duration of Berserk by 2 + (20 * ComboPoints) sec and your Barkskin ability grants an additional 10% chance to dodge for 12 sec.
- 2-piece Your periodic healing from Lifebloom has a 40% chance to restore 1% of your base mana each time it heals a target.
- 4-piece When your Lifebloom blooms, it instantly heals up to 2 nearby injured targets for the same amount.
- 2-piece Your Steady Shot and Cobra Shot have a 10% chance to trigger a Flaming Arrow, dealing 0% instant weapon damage as Fire.
- 4-piece You have a 10% chance from your Auto Shots to make your next shot cost no focus.
- 2-piece You have a chance to summon a Mirror Image to assist you in battle for 15 sec when you cast Frostbolt, Fireball, or Arcane Blast.
- 4-piece Your spells have an increased chance to trigger Brain Freeze, Hot Streak, or Arcane Missiles. In addition, Arcane Missiles is now castable while moving.
- 2-piece Casting Flash of Light, Holy Light, or Divine Light on your Beacon of Light target has a 40% chance to grant you 2% of your base mana.
- 4-piece Your Divine Light also heals a nearby injured target for 20% of the amount healed.
- 2-piece Your Shield of the Righteous deals 20% additional damage as Fire damage.
- 4-piece Your parry chance is increased by 12% while Divine Protection is active.
- 2-piece Your Crusader Strike deals 15% additional damage as Fire damage over 4 sec.
- 4-piece Increases the duration of your Zealotry ability by 15 sec.
- 2-piece Your Flash Heal, Heal, and Greater Heal spells cause you to regenerate 2% of your base mana every 5 sec for 15 sec.
- 4-piece You have a chance when you cast a helpful spell to summon a Cauterizing Flame. Friendly raid and party members can use the Cauterizing Flame to be instantly healed for 4625 to 5375. Lasts for 45 sec sec or 10 charges. After using the Cauterizing Flame, players cannot benefit from it again for 10 sec.
- 2-piece Your Shadowfiend deals 20% additional damage as Fire damage and its cooldown is reduced by 75 sec.
- 4-piece While you have Shadow Word: Pain, Devouring Plague, and Vampiric Touch active on the same target you gain Dark Flames, which reduces the cooldown of Mind Blast by 3 sec.
Rogue
- 2-piece Your melee critical strikes deal 6% additional damage as Fire over 4 sec.
- 4-piece Your Tricks of the Trade ability also causes you to gain a 25% increase to one of your combat ratings at random for 30 sec.
Shaman (elemental)
- 2-piece Your offensive spells have a chance to reset the remaining cooldown on your Fire Elemental Totem.
- 4-piece Your Lava Surge talent also makes Lava Burst instant when it triggers.
Shaman (enhancement)
- 2-piece Your Lava Lash gains an additional 5% damage increase per application of Searing Flames on the target.
- 4-piece Your Stormstrike ability also increases Fire damage you deal to that target by 6%.
Shaman (restoration)
- 2-piece Your periodic healing from Riptide has a 40% chance to restore 1% of your base mana each time it heals a target.
- 4-piece Your Chain Heal spell will jump to one additional target.
Warlock
- 2-piece Your periodic damage has a chance to summon a Fiery Imp to assist you in battle for 15 sec.
- 4-piece Your Shadow Bolt and Incinerate spells have a 5% chance to increase all Shadow and Fire damage you deal by 20% for 8 sec.
Warrior (DPS)
- 2-piece Your Battle Shout and Commanding Shout abilities also grant you 3 rage every 5 sec for (unknown).
- 4-piece Your Mortal Strike and Raging Blow abilities have a 30% chance to trigger a Fiery Attack, dealing 100% instant weapon damage as Fire.
Warrior (tank)
- 2-piece Your Shield Slam deals 20% additional damage as Fire damage over 4 sec.
- 4-piece Your parry chance is increased by 6% while Shield Block is active.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 8)
Sage May 5th 2011 12:43AM
Priest: Holy: 4-Piece - You have a chance when you cast a helpful spell to summon a Cauterizing Flame. Friendly raid and party members can use the Cauterizing Flame to be instantly healed for 4625 to 5375. Lasts for 45 sec sec or 10 charges. After using the Cauterizing Flame, players cannot benefit from it again for 10 sec.
Great, another Light Well that no one will use. Thanks Blizz.
Janaan May 5th 2011 12:50AM
That's what I thought too. I'm a bit disappointed in that 4-set bonus. I like the Shadow one though :P)
Shuckles May 5th 2011 12:52AM
I'd say if your group isn't clicking on Lightwell, you need to call them out on it. Lightwell is one of the most amazing healing tools in the game right now, and being able to give Discipline a secondary version of it through set bonuses is really, really awesome.
Saeadame May 5th 2011 12:54AM
"no one will use" - speak for yourself, I use lightwell, and no, I'm not a priest.
Yams May 5th 2011 1:01AM
My fellow raiders use my lightwell regularly. Even so, I'm not particularly excited about getting a second one who's position I cannot control. The only way I see this being interesting is if we could potentially end up with several of them out at once :P
josh May 5th 2011 1:27AM
don't know about your guild, but lightwell on our guild is really awesome :), in most cases, dps are the ones who remind me at some point to drop it when I forget about it
Lissanna May 5th 2011 1:49AM
New macros coming in 4.2: "Click the Firewell!"
nickchadwick May 5th 2011 2:12AM
As a tank, I love lightwell, can't wait to click two of them!
Erebos May 5th 2011 2:15AM
That's EXACTLY what I said to myself...
/sigh
Another chance to enlighten the world about the wonders of the Lightwell? Yeah, let's go with that...
Rai May 5th 2011 3:57AM
Yes, Lightwell is useful if the priest/other healers is/are focused on keeping the tank alive.
No, I'm still not going to leap through a wall of fire to get to it.
Tridus May 5th 2011 5:46AM
Yeah, because exactly what we needed is a weaker, randomly placed Lightwell that nobody will be able to see because it's a red thing inside a zone where the only color is red.
Genius!
Nadia May 5th 2011 9:04AM
If you're Discipline, it means you get to have a lightwell! I only wish that when it procs, we'd be able to position it like a real lightwell...
Oreet May 5th 2011 9:18AM
I had a surprising PuG of Heroic Grim Batol 2 days ago. The Warrior tank specifically asked me to drop my Lightwell before a boss fight. I normally do it anyway, but hadn't gotten around to dropping it yet.
That was a much welcomed surprise.
Kalah May 5th 2011 10:00AM
People may click on lightwells, but it still isn't as helpful as the other healing tier bonuses which AUTOMATICALLY do their job. :/
Puntable May 5th 2011 10:04AM
5375 HP? If that is not increased by your stats, then you'll need a microscope to see your health bar move. Nobody would bother using it.
Aryi May 5th 2011 10:15AM
I'd be tempted to take 2pc-holy, 2pc-shadow for the lower CD on shadowfiend.
Dumbguy May 5th 2011 11:12AM
I'll have to chime in and say I use lightwell, and am also not a priest. The rest of my raid does as well.
I don't see what's wrong with this. The more often an X-well is available, the more often people see it, the more willing people are going to be to look for it and the more ingrained into their wowminds the behavior will become. Priest *is* the mind control class, after all.
Vinyl May 5th 2011 11:00AM
As a tank, Lightwell is my best friend :)
gamerunknown May 5th 2011 11:01AM
That was the first thing I thought: 2pc shadow (the pieces with spirit most likely) and 2 or 3pc holy. That extra regen is nothing to sneeze at, with a 2m 45s cooldown with veiled shadows you could use it 3 times on certain bosses.
That said I doubt I'll get my hands on any piece unless I get lucky with the new BH boss.
joshua.l.miles May 5th 2011 11:41AM
If the amount of healing isn't either increased or effected by your SP then the lightwell thing is useless, 5K healing every 10 seconds for a raid geared tank would be like giving a WoTLK raiding tank 100 hp every 10 sec for 45 seconds....plus its overall effectiveness depends on how much fire is going to get dropped on the ground in the firelands raids, won't do much good at all if no one can get to it to use it.