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Tier 12 vs Tier 13 2 Piece Set Bonuses

Mark Unread · 5 replies
2 posts
Hey all,

I have my Tier 12 2 piece set bonus with heroic gear (391 chest and legs) and picked up a T13 chest (397) and LFR legs and shoulders (384). The chest is an obvious upgrade, but it breaks by T12 2 piece set, but I can get my T13 2 piece bonus with a LFR piece (legs). What should I go with? Too close to matter?

I use holy shock every cool down and usually save Divine favour for emergencies, so I suspect I benefit from my T12 bonus, more than I would from my T13 2 piece bonus. Thoughts?

Thanks!
Posted Dec 2, 11 · OP
107 posts
T12 2pc should be giving you more of a mana advantage than T13. I'd suggest to keep it and hopefully activate 2pc T13 with other pieces.

4pc T12 isn't worth keeping, especially if you can upgrade overall item level. 4pc T13 will be super sexy.

Did I say "super sexy"?

I meant SUPER SEXY! :thumb:
Yoseketh / Videographer /Standard Deviation - Blackrock / Leveling Holy / @JoeEgo812
Posted Dec 2, 11
2 posts
Sounds good. I'm going to hang on to my T12 2 Piece bonus. The 4 piece T13 bonus is going to make our OP AOE heals go through the roof, I can't wait. Hopefully they don't nerf it first.

Thanks for responding!
Posted Dec 3, 11 · OP
27 posts
Looking at some of my logs for 25m HMs - the T12 2pc is worth 350-450 mp5. Its' value dropped somewhat in 4.3, because it isn't always the right decision to use Holy Shock on CD 95% of the time anymore; sometimes you need to do HR-HR-HR-LoD for burst, and we have other ways of generating HP.

T13 4pc is very dependent on how you use Divine Favor. If you use DF for times of burst healing/HR spam, you get quite a bit of regen from the 2 piece. If you can get 8 Holy Radiances off during the 15 second duration of the 2 piece buff (not unreasonable given that you have a 20% haste buff at the time and are at 1.5 second cast times typically on HR), the T13 2pc is worth 455 mp5 with Divine Favor used on CD. If fight lengths allow you do use Divine Favor more than once every 3 minutes - i.e., a 3.5 minute fight lets you use it twice, the mp5 value increases.

TLDR, I think the two set bonuses are pretty close in value - at least on a fight where you spam heavily with DF up. The 4 pc T12 bonus is terrible; DL, FoL and HL have dropped from being 40%+ of our output to typically under 10% in 4.3. You may want to consider going with both 2 piece set bonuses, at least until 4 pieces of 397+ tier are available to you.
Posted Dec 30, 11
10 posts
I have to agree with Tiberria regarding the = *You may want to consider going with both 2 piece set bonuses, at least until 4 pieces of 397+ tier are available to you.*
Posted Dec 30, 11
18 posts
I'm planning to keep my 2 heroic T12 set pieces unless and until we start getting T13 heroic pieces. Otherwise, when I get 2 T13 set pieces for my non-391 slots, I'll probably switch over. I'm supremely unlucky on drops in LFR though and my guild has 5/10 on my token (only one of which has dropped anyway).
Posted Jan 2, 12
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