4piece Gladiator

[Vadim]

How important do priests rate this set bonus? I recently picked up my second season two piece and lost 4pc season 1, finding my survivability to go down slightly in 5v5s. PW: Shield seems pretty important against MS assist trains in 5v5. I was thinking of getting 3pc heal/2pc damage season 2 gear, but may just go all out s2 healing gear since I am close to the resilience cap without 2 2pc bonus'.

Opinions?

[Earrl]

Honestly, with the way Resilience caps, I don't feel like the 3/2 piece is even worth it. I went from 423 Resilience to 389 picking up the 4 piece, and my survivability is definitely better with the 4 piece, so I would rate it pretty high. When I am done gearing up, I should be around 430 Resilience because I want to change some gems out.

A lot of Priests try to get as humanly close to 500, but I don't see the reason why. I am satisfied with my ability to survive....now I am trying to put out as much healing as the other healers can. Lot of work to try and balance all those stats around.

[Eve]

With the armor nerf on season 2 gear coming up, yeah I'm just gonna keep stacking 2 sets. Problem is I just don't know which 2 sets (s1 healing/s2 healing or s2 healing/s2 damage).

[Earrl]

I can't say whether or not this armor nerf will be game breaking or not. One thing I will say is that when I had Improved Inner Fire, I did not feel like my survivability was much better against melee. And that was a 2.5% damage mitigation increase....so I would imagine I won't be feeling too much of a pinch either.

When I look at armory of most top Priests in 5v5 and so on, they are rocking between 400-450 Resilience, so to me that is probably the comfort spots. A lot of Priests overdue it and go to like 500, which is fine...but they certainly sacrifice other stats in gem slots, and enchants and so on. They can do a lot more for themselves to balance their character out a little bit more.

As I stated in my post above, I am VERY comfortable with what I can do from a "tanking" perspective....however, I feel like I can always gain more efficiency with what I am doing. So as I continue to gear out, I am just going to push for more Mana / 5 and Intellect.

[Wonder]

I noticed a difference when I put four pieces on, and I'm sure I'll notice a difference when I take them off.

That's all I can really say.

[Dergybear]

Get your resil to 450 with 4piece set bonus and grab stam where you can.


Edit:

Imp. Inner Fire is not worth it, and the armor nerf will definitely not be game breaking.

[Eve]

Imp IF is awful.

The nerf won't be game breaking, but annoying. So many wasted stat points.

[Egotistic]

Yeah, you have to remember it's just not set bonus vs set bonus. Gladiator S2 still has a little more sta, int, dmg and resilience per piece. I prefer 4 S2 over going 3, 2.

[Eve]

Yeah, you have to remember it's just not set bonus vs set bonus. Gladiator S2 still has a little more sta, int, dmg and resilience per piece. I prefer 4 S2 over going 3, 2.

Or if you're holy 3 S2 healing/2 S2 damage!

[Final]

Our 4 piece set bonus is pretty crap compared to everyone else's. Although I'd still rather take the full season 2 than the 2 season 1 3 season 2 for the bonus resilience, just cause of the huge armor upgrade really seems to help. I gotta say I RARELY use my shield enough to warrant a need for the 2 seconds less on weakened soul. It just seems useless all around.

[Virtua]

or you can use 2pc s2 dmg, and 3pc merc mooncloth

[Wonder]

Our 4 piece set bonus is pretty crap compared to everyone else's. Although I'd still rather take the full season 2 than the 2 season 1 3 season 2 for the bonus resilience, just cause of the huge armor upgrade really seems to help. I gotta say I RARELY use my shield enough to warrant a need for the 2 seconds less on weakened soul. It just seems useless all around.
It's probably more noticeable for non-Shadow Priests.