The Egotistical Priest
An irreverent and opinionated discussion of the many classes
in the World of Warcraft gaming universe.
Set Bonus
by Vonya
Okay, so here’s the deal.
I’ve been begging Greatfather Winter for over a year now to give me an AoE HoT - and area affect heal over time.
Sort of a BOOM! Everyone around me gets a weak Renew.
I’d be fabulous. It could be expensive (only worthwhile if three people get full effect or something), it could have a cast time, it could have a low range.
But I want it.
And so when I finally got my Tier 4 glove token from Curator, I clicked my heels together and skipped all the way to the vendor.
Because I already had the hat, and that put me in line to get my first Set Bonus!
(2) Set: Your Prayer of Healing spell now also causes an additional 150 healing over 9 sec.
Joy! Bliss! Glee!
I was overwhelmed. Sure, I had to cast PoH to get the effect, and I don’t use it a LOT…I could overcome this.
We had a Heroic Slave pens run the next day (Quagmirran STILL hasn’t dropped the blasted trinket. He’s also holding my hunter’s shoulders for ransom. I am not amused).
I came upon a situation where three group members needed a Flash Heal, grinned wickedly, and cast Prayer of Healing. And there it was! Up in the bufflist, there was my HoT! On everyone!
…but…but what’s this?
Surely I misread.
IT TICKS FOR FIFTY HEALTH?!
FIFTY?
You’re kidding me, this has to be some sick, twisted joke.
FIFTY?
That’s nothing. That’s worse than nothing, that’s absurd, it’s insulting. How can it NOT get a bonus from my healing gear? In what realm of existence is that EVER going to make even a tiny bit of difference in any battle past level 10? This is RAIDING gear!
FIFTY?!
I haven’t checked on my renew in a while, but a month or two ago it was around 700 per tick.
FIFTY. Fifty. Fifty!
I feel like the devs are laughing at me. *facepalm*
September 25th, 2007
I knew there was a reason I wasn’t impressed with T4. I was just a littel under-whelmed by the set bonus, but 50 health, that’s just ri-donk-ulous. I’m going to have to think long and hard about replacing my Whitemend Hood with T4. The Whitemend set bonus ROCKS, 10% of your Int in +Heal… most of us have 300-400 (or more) Int , so that’s 30-40 +Heal, that’s like having another piece of gear or another enchant . Love me those Tailoring Purples!
September 25th, 2007
Yeah… it’s pretty crappy. It’s not really a difference, but a small consideration is that the effect IS affected by talents, so I think you can get it up to 55 per tick with some talents.
It’s still not worth breaking a tailoring set for, but hold on to them! The 4-piece set bonus is uber-pwnage.
September 25th, 2007
It’s not even worth it. 50 HP doesn’t make much of a difference when things hit for 1k+.
September 25th, 2007
Okay, I’m nowhere near the level you are, but fifty? Tell me this is really a coding error and it’s supposed to be, oh, 500??
(I’d be curious to see the language in your first draft, though.)
September 25th, 2007
@Kestrel
If you actually look at the numbers on the tooltip, 50 is about right.
Seriously though, that’s so lame it’s embarassing. I don’t want that HoT dedicated to ME.
I don’t want the tank to call out “Plus 50 health? Who did that? VONYA?!? Gee, thanks, you took care of that pesky hangnail for me, NOW IF YOU COULD FOCUS AND GIVE ME A REAL HEAL TO HELP WITH THIS PIKE IN MY GULLET, THAT’D BE GREAT, MMMKAY?”
September 25th, 2007
If I had to guess, the bonus is likely coded wrong.
If you look at the tool tip for any heal, it displays much lower than what it actually heals for because all heals take into account the amount of +heal the caster has.
My guess is that in this case the + heal is being taken from the person casting the heal also, which in the case of Frisbee is the the person that it jumps FROM and not the casting priest.
That is not to say that is how frisbee works, because the priest is still the caster for the sake of coding even though they are not the one that generates the healing agro.
As an example, the highest rank of Renew has a tool tip that reads “Heals the target for 1110 over 15 sec”, which works out to “Healing 222 damage every 3 seconds”.
Now as Ego has shown us, hers will tend to heal for about 700, thats 700-222=478, 478 MORE per tick than the tool tip!
5*478=2390 MORE or 2390+1110=3500 total.
But if we look at the effect granted by the bonus, we can see that 150/3=50, so there is NO bonus being granted by +heal.
September 25th, 2007
@EgoLock
Oooh, thank you for the mathematicalification!
No healing bonus on a priest-only healing set bonus?
I think that’s GOT to be an oversight. Otherwise why not just give us a set bonus that gives ust +5 agility or something.
September 25th, 2007
Tooltips are often wrong (PW:F for example does not include talents). I have it set up to show how huch healing people are actually recieving in little green #’s over their heads, Ego if you have this (or could turn it on) I would be curious to see what it’s actually healing for.
Excellent point EgoLock!
September 25th, 2007
@Galadria
Unfortunately, that Fifty IS what it’s healing for.
It heals for a tiny amount more on EgoLock, since he has the talent points for increasing the amount he gets healed for.
September 25th, 2007
@Ego
Bummer, I had a glimmer of hope.
September 25th, 2007
@Galadria
*CRUSHES any sign of hope, DESTROYS IT UTTERLY, then cackles madly*
Did you know that “Galadria priest” is one of my top google search links to the site.
September 25th, 2007
@Ego
That’s hilarious!! Espcially since that string does bring up my blog (it’s actually the first result), and I don’t have any google searches of that to my site (there are some similar strings, but not that one)… there’s irony for you!
October 4th, 2007
Thats what I found after I crafted a bunch of my gear before going (late) into Kara. My gear is now better than most of the kara drops for the same slots! Spellstrike and frozen shadow sets rock the house! (I’m shadow in case you didn’t get that..)
So this means I’m starting to pick up healing gear in Kara and heroics if nobody else wants it. When the extra 1/3 of healing -> dmg comes out in 2.3 hopefully I’ll have enough gear to make a really nice hybrid set!
October 9th, 2007
@Priesty
I agree, that change is gonna be a lot of fun. And the crafted stuff is DEFINITELY on par or better than Kara drops.
It is pretty low on stats (in some cases) so don’t shard gear that might be sidegrades but with better stats!