Priest Season 2 Dragonflight Tier Set Bonuses Reviewed - Guide Writer First Impressions

RPP Publicado 22/03/2023 a las 17:38 por Jaydaa

Dragonflight Season 2 Tier Set bonuses

We've datamined Dragonflight Tier Set bonuses for all 38 specializations in the Patch 10.1 PTR. Check out all the bonuses and armor models below.

Dragonflight Season 2 Tier Set Bonuses & Models for All Classes & Specializations

Our Guide Writers have provided initial first impressions on the Dragonflight Season 2 Tier Set bonuses. Check out all of our released opinion articles below.
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First Impressions of the Dragonflight Season 2 Tier Set BonusesDiscipline Priest Season 2 Tier Set First Impression

2-Set - Priest Discipline 10.1 Class Set 2pc - Casting Penance on an enemy also heals a nearby injured ally at 20% effectiveness. Casting Penance on an ally also damages a nearby enemy at 35% effectiveness.

4-Set - Priest Discipline 10.1 Class Set 4pc - Every 3 casts of Penance grants you Shadow Covenant for 5 seconds and converts that Penance to a Shadow spell.

Vault of the Incarnate's tier revolved around Palabra de poder: escudo and now Abberus' is slated to focus on Penitencia interactions. The 2pc makes Penitencia also heal or damage depending on how you use it, creating a universal additional benefit to casting the ability we already use near on-cooldown. The 4pc creates a buff for our Penance, turning it into a Shadow spell and granting limited Pacto de las Sombras uptime.

The 2pc in general is average and forgettable, receiving a natural buff for an ability we use anyway. My primary issue is with the 4pc bonus. On paper it sounds great to naturally get an additional buff to your Penitencias but the 4pc bonus looks toxic in the extreme. For one, when ramping in a raid environment you'll want to play around this 4pc buff uptime and sequence it into each major ramp. You're doing that, in addition to preparing Disciplina severa in advance of every ramp, potentially holding Penitencias when your 2pc wants to reward frequent casts. Talk about anti-synergy.

In addition, the 4pc continues to reinforce the bloated and unnecessarily convoluted damage rotation that Discipline has been pushed into with 10.0.5, pushing the spec to weave between 9+ abilities just to do damage such as Penitencia, , Cisma, Purgar al maligno, Halo, Explosión mental, Punición, Palabra de las Sombras: muerte, and Cólera de la Luz to produce Expiación healing.

From a power perspective, the bonuses look very weak for raiding and average for Mythic+. In the latter you can aggressively cast Penitencia in most cases without issue but that spell already was your powerhouse damage ability anyway and once that cast ends your follow-up spells are often not nearly as strong. With other healer specs receiving buffs to 2-3+ abilities at a time from their tier sets, I'm astounded that Discipline's tier set bonus is so meagre in comparison.

I'd vastly prefer a Cólera de la Luz/Cólera desatada centric raid build to reduce the damage button-bloat the spec is experiencing in Vault but I struggle to see how a tier set bonus could change the direction the spec is currently going down. From Sepulchur to Vault, it feels that the amount of work required to execute Discipline optimally is often not rewarded equally and I'm concerned these tier sets will continue that trend if not remedied.

Holy Priest Season 2 Tier Set First Impression

2-Set - Priest Holy 10.1 Class Set 2pc - Prayer of Mending has a 20% chance to duplicate to another nearby target when it jumps.

4-Set - Priest Holy 10.1 Class Set 4pc - When Prayer of Mending jumps, it increases the damage and healing of your next Holy Word by 4%, stacking up to 15 times.

Holy Priest's tier set bonus is focused primarily on Rezo de alivio. The 2pc bonus just naturally increases the quantity of Rezo de alivio which in turn, naturally improves the primarily raid-focused talent Plegarias respondidas. With more Apoteosis uptime, you'll yield more holy words and continue to get strong value from No hago milagros in a raiding environment.

The 4pc bonus creates a stacking buff for your next Holy Word cast and it can stack extremely quickly when there is pulsing raid damage, resulting in a near-constant buff to all Holy Words. Palabra sagrada: santificar will likely be the preferred cast for the full stack buffs, but you'll be stacking these buffs up so quickly and frequently that you won't have to stress over tracking this buff.

This tier set, hard focuses the spec on the talent choices that were already preferred in Vault of the Incarnates. That of No hago milagros, Voz de la armonía, and Plegarias respondidas in particular, rapidly accelerating your Holy Words and improving their efficiency, Holy should benefit massively from this set bonus in a raiding environment. The quantity of Holy Words the spec will have in the incoming tier will be astounding and result in an even lower cooldown on Palabra sagrada: salvación as a result.

It also focuses the spec very heavily on the more AoE oriented build as Tejeluz is likely too much of a point investment and you'll have a buffed up Imagen divina to compete with Palabra divina. The former being even further improved thanks to incoming buffs spawning a Naaru each time a Holy Word is casted, which could result in another competitive option against the tremendous healing Palabra divina can produce, especially in a progression environment.

The primary downside of this tier set is that it is middling for a Mythic+ environment. Rezo de alivio can be an inconsistent spell in dungeons as the group is not always taking damage steadily, causing the Rezo de alivios to expire. While good on boss fights, they can fall off frequently on trash pulls after bouncing off the tank. That aside, I am legitimately excited for Holy Priest's incoming bonus and I think this might be the most fun set bonus the spec has had since Tomb of Sargeras.

Shadow Priest Season 2 Tier Set First Impression

2-Set - Priest Shadow 10.1 Class Set 2pc - When consuming Shadowy Insight, Mind Blast deals 60% increased damage and generates 4 additional Insanity.

4-Set - Priest Shadow 10.1 Class Set 4pc - Every 400 Insanity spent summons Shadowfiend/Mindbender for 5 seconds.

Shadow Priest's second set bonus in Dragonflight revolves around empowering your procs and summoning additional Dominamentes / Maligno de las Sombras by casting Peste devoradora. Functionally, this is very similar to the Balance Druid talent Púlsar Arcano primordial. As the set bonus is currently unavailable for testing, it's impossible to know for sure exactly how Shadow's talents will interact, however the two piece bonus requires and it's likely that both Tormento ineludible and Ídolo de Y'Shaarj will interact with the four piece bonus.

There are a number of large concerns regarding this set bonus from both a tuning and design perspective. The first is how much it focuses in on the bottom left of the talent tree, which contains talents we've been using for all of Dragonflight, and have also been core talent and legendary choices in prior expansions. With the rework coming in 10.1, we've heard from the developers that one of their goals with Shadow was to increase talent diversity which is something this set bonus seems to run counter to with how hard it locks down the bottom third of the tree. Another thing to bring up is that with how often Shadow has centred around Mindbender and Mindbender related interactions throughout the previous 3 expansions, some may be disappointed that they'll be using it for yet another tier.

The two and four piece bonuses also have very little to do with each other, making the set as a whole not feel very well connected compared to other designs we're seeing this tier. There is no synergy between the two bonuses besides the small amount of increased insanity generated by the empowered Shadowy Insight procs.

In terms of tuning, the set bonus also feels very weak compared to many other set bonuses we're seeing now and in the past. The two piece is roughly 1-2%, and If every talent that can interact with Mindbender or Shadowfiend works with the additional ones generated by the 4 piece bonus, then its value is roughly 4-5%, making the combined value for the set hesitantly 5-7%. If the talents don't interact however, then that drops significantly as you're not getting very much value from each spend of 400 Demencia.

Despite these negatives, it is good to see Devouring Plague value being increased by a tier set bonus, as opposed to one of our numerous Demencia generators. In the past when a set bonus increases the value of generators, Shadow's rotation has become more muddled and unintuitive, with spells approaching roughly the same value per GCD and it being difficult to tell which one you should press when (Even at the cost of wasting resources). Making sure that spending Devouring Plague and not capping Insanity are Shadow's main priorities makes the spec easier to pick up and learn, which isn't a bad thing when another goal of the 10.1 rework is to simplify the core rotation.

In conclusion I'm disappointed by the power level of the set bonus, as well as the decision to have it once again focus on Mindbender and pen us into the same set of talents we've been using for the majority of the last five years. I'm hopeful that because this set bonus is being developed alongside an ongoing rework there is time and potential for a reimagining, because while it's nice to see a set bonus that keeps Devouring Plague feeling strong and relevant in the rotation, this doesn't seem like a very engaging way to do it.

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