Blizzard Clarifications and Corrections to Dragonflight Season 1 Tier Sets

Dragonflight Posted 2022/10/04 at 3:28 PM by Squishei

Thank you all for your feedback on and discussion around the new Class Set bonuses. It’s helpful to read your concerns as we continue to work on them, and we want to take a moment to share some clarifications and updates. The updates in this post aren’t everything we’re working on - we’ll share more as we make progress.We’d like to start with a note on tuning. Class tuning is ongoing, and some bonuses are farther along in the tuning process than others. That said, feedback on tuning is still valuable, especially around how bonuses affect your rotation or how often they’ll be active.Next, some corrections:

The Preservation Evoker (2) Set Bonus will increase the critical heal chance of Reversion by 25%, not 5%.
The Protection Paladin (4) Set Bonus was missing some values. It should read “Casting Hammer of the Righteous / Blessed Hammer increases your Parry by 4% for 10 seconds and extends the duration of Versatility of Light by 1.0 seconds.”
The Elemental Shaman (2) Set Bonus should be 2.5%, not 2-3%.
The Elemental Shaman (4) Set Bonus should include Elemental Blast. This has been corrected. In general set bonuses will affect talented abilities that replace other abilities.

Here are some more details about how some bonuses work:

The Enhancement Shaman (4) Set Bonus only affects abilities that are on cooldown.
We’re aware that Fire Blast does not benefit from the Fire Mage (4) Set Bonus critical strike bonus - we formatted it that way for brevity. We may revise it to separate the bonuses.
The Affliction Warlock (4) Set Piece grants 40% increased damage to one cast for each charge of Cruel Epiphany - the damage bonus does not stack. We’ll try to revise the description to make this clearer.
The Vengeance Demon Hunter (4) Set Bonus activates at the same rate whether you are using Spirit Bomb or Soul Cleave. You will not have to talent into Spirit Bomb to maximize its value.
The Mistweaver Monk (4) Set Bonus only extends the duration of Renewing Mist once for each Essence Font bolt - it does not trigger from Essence Font healing over time. There is currently a bug preventing Essence Font bolts from Faeline Stomp from activating the bonus, but we’ll fix that.

One of the things we’re keeping an eye on is: bonuses that have too much influence on your talent choices or build. For instance, we’re changing the Frost Mage bonus to not empower Frost Bolt so specifically:

(2) Set Bonus: Ice Lance and Frozen Orb damage increased by 10%.
(4) Set Bonus: Consuming Fingers of Frost increases spell damage by 8% for 6 seconds.

We’re looking forward to sharing more as we continue refining these bonuses. Thank you so much!

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Comment by hashtagfredI just like that they're communicating about 5g3se thoughts and processes.Comment by AcmontyPlease correct fast the abomination that is Resto Shaman 4 pieceComment by morgath99just have the catalyst up from day 1 why do we have to wait till next year to get tiers if we dont raidComment by rcpcdudeOne of the things we’re keeping an eye on is: bonuses that have too much influence on your talent choices or build.Comment by NagisaStreamsjust have the catalyst up from day 1 why do we have to wait till next year to get tiers if we dont raidComment by IDEA7Ehm, I have a very strong opinion about this!Comment by Psycofire We’re aware that Fire Blast does not benefit from the Fire Mage (4) Set Bonus critical strike bonus - we formatted it that way for brevity. We may revise it to separate the bonuses. Comment by mEqDaitojust have the catalyst up from day 1 why do we have to wait till next year to get tiers if we dont raidComment by SirDotsfordjust have the catalyst up from day 1 why do we have to wait till next year to get tiers if we dont raidComment by SundercatOne of the things we’re keeping an eye on is: bonuses that have too much influence on your talent choices or build.Comment by alisonprimeMy question about Evoker DPS 4 piece - Will it work even after the party uses Hero/Timewarp/fury of Aspects/etc? or will it be useless if we have sated?Comment by felektrathey need to change demo set its uselessComment by DrippsJust saying it again for as much awareness as possible: Restoration Shaman 4 piece is a worse choice than just equipping items with better stats. It is literally not worth using.Comment by docbob91wjust have the catalyst up from day 1 why do we have to wait till next year to get tiers if we dont raidComment by xelande33Please correct fast the abomination that is Resto Shaman 4 pieceComment by ekidnajust have the catalyst up from day 1 why do we have to wait till next year to get tiers if we dont raidComment by docbob91wGood changes. Glad they are keeping an eye out. I do wish they did something for fire mage 4 set as one of the builds doesn't use fireballs and the other two spells are 100% crit anyways, all it really helps is 10% damage increase for those, equating in about 2% damage increase. Not enough for a 4 set.Comment by Exasinjust have the catalyst up from day 1 why do we have to wait till next year to get tiers if we dont raidComment by Kerathras We’re aware that Fire Blast does not benefit from the Fire Mage (4) Set Bonus critical strike bonus - we formatted it that way for brevity. We may revise it to separate the bonuses. Comment by MaxinmusSo, what about Destro 4p?

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