T8 protection set bonuses

cinderblockThe tier 8 set bonuses have hit the PTR and now we know what the bonuses to the protection set will be.

  • (2 Piece) Increases the damage done by your Seals by 10%.
  • (4 Piece) Shield of Righteousness now increases your shield block value by 225 for 3 sec.

Edit: I’ve been think about this a lot actually, and I’m not as impressed with the 4 piece bonus as I was in my sleep-addled state last night. For one, does the BV bonus kick in after you cast ShoR, or during? Will our shield slam see a benefit from that bonus? If not… 225 more damage blocked… woo?

The four piece bonus from T7 was much, much better, considering it had multiple applications (keeping bubblewall up longer, or pulling damage from the raid via Divine Guardian for another 3 secs.

The four piece bonus is kind of disappointing this time around. I mean, I have a trinket that does twice its value already!

Hopefully they tweak it before live.

Update: Galyan illustrates (er, literally) this better than I do with his fancy mathamawhatsits.

3 Comments to “T8 protection set bonuses”

  1. Galyan 19 March 2009 at 9:55 pm #

    I agree that the 3 piece bonus is not great. I am sure that the block value takes place after SHoR is cast and you will see no benefit to your threat numbers from that spell. 3 seconds of increased block value combined with a slow hitting boss will probably never get used. This is a trash tanking bonus. The block value isn’t even all that high either so it kinda sucks.

  2. Galyan 19 March 2009 at 9:59 pm #

    You know, now that I think about it. SHoR is cast every 6 seconds so the extra block value will be up 50% of the time. 225 is nothing to laugh at when tanking trash, but I still think it will suck but not as bad. Also, think about the extra block you will have when you hit the SHoR->Judgment part of your rotation. (352+225)*1.3 = 750. So, there will be times when your block value is insane during the rotation. Once again, it has advantages in trash tanking.

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