Comments on: Gear Choices Pt. IV – BiS T9 (lazy edition)

By: drug

drug — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:45:59 +0000

Thanks I fixed the broken link.

I’m already curious if 4pcT10 is going to be worth wearing. Honestly, I doubt it, the HoT seems a nice idea but very prone to overhealing.

The design problem for resto shamans is the fact, that we scale incredibly well with haste, but not that good with mp5. Thus non-Hit elemental gear gets very attractive. I don’t really expect every Tier Bonus to be great. T8 had an overpowered 4pc bonus, the 2pc bonus though was pure utility. I think the fact that we might have reached ridiculous numbers of haste anyway in T10 content is going to let us wear the 4pc bonus anyway.

By: drug

drug — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:19:47 +0000

I’m currently at 733 haste, at this point shaman_hep reports still is by far the best stat for me. If at some point shaman_hep should favor another stat, I’m surely going to post about it.

At this point my game plan is to stack haste until I get to 1275. At this point, WoA + Boomkin-/Retri-Aura + haste from gear will cap out at the GCD and LHW. Additional haste won’t reduce the GCD any more and won’t improve your LHW HPS any more (while of course LHW will still land faster). If up to nearly 1300 haste shaman_hep still evaluates haste as my best stat, I will keep stacking it.

Some additional thoughts about stacking haste can be found here:
http://lifeingroup5.com/?p=96

By: Belelros

Belelros — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:01:49 +0000

That’s a good post. I knew the EJ guide and yeah, 4P Bonus is really bad and it’s a shame.

I know that Blizzard reads EJ and, if I were an item designer I would be ashamed if a Resto Sham should wear Elemental Tier instead (not speaking of wearing leather or cloth)

PD: The resto helmet link leads to a 404 Error.

Nice blog!

By: Scott

Scott — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:13:22 +0000

I keep reading everywhere that Haste is the king stat for resto shamans now and but how much is enough? Currently my raid buff stats are right around the following:

3389 SP (with Frost Wyrm Flask)
37.12 Crit (Without Boomkin)
512 MP5 (While Casting)
819 Haste (base haste no food or flask)

With 819 base haste and using Wrath of Air totem, that puts right at 30% haste. I had considered this sort of a soft cap and because of that I have been using SP food and flask. Should 819 be enough haste or do I want to stack more?

By: Charles

Charles — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 19:33:38 +0000

Ah, what a wonderfully timely post! I’ve been pondering over numbers for my resto set in the past few days wondering whether I’m prepared to “upgrade” from that beautiful 4t8 bonus to 4t9. It didn’t really occur to me that 4t9 might not be worth it, and the haste prospects were rather depressing. This makes the decisions a lot easier.