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Shaman Season 1 Dragonflight Tier Set Bonuses - Guide Writer First Impressions
Dragonflight
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13.10.2022 um 08:00
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Dragonflight Season 1 Tier Set bonuses
have hit the Beta and are currently testable as part of the beta content preview. Our
Shaman Guide Writers breakdown their initial impressions on these tier bonuses, offering insight into the implementation, relative strength, and even some valuable feedback.
We've datamined Tier Set bonuses for all 38 specializations in the Dragonflight Season 1 Beta. Check out all the bonuses and armor models below.
Dragonflight Season 1 Tier Set Bonuses & Models for All Classes & Specializations
Our Guide Writers have provided initial first impressions on the Dragonflight Season 1 Tier Set bonuses. Check out all of our released opinion articles below.
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First Impressions of the Dragonflight Season 1 Tier Set Bonuses
Our Shaman Writers, HawkCorrigan (Elemental), Wordup (Enhancement) and Niseko (Restoration), have dissected the newly datamined tier set bonuses to give a deeper first look as to how these bonuses will likely affect their specs in Dragonflight Season 1.
Elemental Shaman Tier Set First Impression
2-Set
-
Schamanenklassenset, Elementar, 2 Teile
-
Blitzschlag
,
Kettenblitzschlag
, and
Lavaeruption
increase the damage of your next
Elementarschlag
,
Erdschock
, or
Erdbeben
by 5.0%, stacking up to 5 times.
4-Set
-
Schamanenklassenset, Elementar, 4 Teile
- Casting
Elementarschlag
,
Erdschock
, or
Erdbeben
increases your Mastery by 7.5% for 5 sec.
The currently announced iteration for the Elemental tier set seems pretty good for the first tier. Both effects work pretty well with a multitude of different talent choices. The
Schamanenklassenset, Elementar, 2 Teile
gives us a significant power spike in damage when acquiring it and synergizes well with the in comparison slightly weaker
Schamanenklassenset, Elementar, 4 Teile
.
The 2-set bonus gives a stack per cast as well as overload, working well in Single Target fights with
Kraftsog
when used on the
Blitzschlag
effect.
In AoE the 2-set bonus becomes a lot less valuable, because of the high Maelstrom generation of
Kettenblitzschlag
in bigger pulls leading to less stacks per spender in theory. If people are using
Echos der Großen Zerschlagung
, they will likely play around this fact, by casting
Erdbeben
with 5 stacks and immediately following it up with
Erdschock
/
Elementarschlag
. This is at odds with the 4-piece bonus, which dislikes spenders being used consecutively. Especially with
Nachbeben
this AoE rotation seems very awkward to execute and turns
Anschwellender Mahlstrom
into an actual damage gain. The issue here stems from having an "enabling cast", consume the same resource as the payoff without an increased effect.
The 4 piece effect has a near permanent uptime still, even with the reduced duration. Both effects inflate the value of the cap stone talent
Berge werden stürzen
and
Echokammer
by quite a bit. Increasing the damage done by overloads synergizes well with the additional mastery from the 4-piece and enabling spenders to also overload benefits from both 2- and 4-set bonuses.
All things considered, this tier set will not change much about the spec, the gameplay or the DPS significantly but is just a nice little damage bonus on top. Currently I assume that it is pretty much equal to the effects given to most other specs in pure strength.
Elemental Shaman Guide
Enhancement Shaman Tier Set First Impression
2-Set
-
Schamanenklassenset, Verstärkung, 2 Teile
-
Sturmschlag
increases the damage of your next direct Fire, Frost, or Nature spell by 10% and causes it to generate 1 additional stack of
Waffe des Mahlstroms
.
4-Set
-
Schamanenklassenset, Verstärkung, 4 Teile
- Consuming
Waffe des Mahlstroms
stacks increases your Haste by 1% per stack for 4 sec.
Enhancement is one of the specs that's already had its bonus completely reworked, so it needs to briefly be mentioned what the original one provided (and its issues). The original focus on
Lavapeitsche
- which is a talent with high variance in impact based on your build - and cooldown reduction, something we didn't really need because of how GCD locked and active the spec is regardless of what you pick. It originally totalled a roughly 3%~ damage increase even with a build that leaned into its strengths, which shows how weak it was.
The new bonuses however are significantly better and much more flexible regardless of what talents are taken, because they focus on universal mechanics - rounding out at around 10% total gains, which is much closer to where the expectation is. The best change personally is the 2pc
Schamanenklassenset, Verstärkung, 2 Teile
opens up much more skill expression between which element you care about, and varied talent picks paired with it. While I do think complicated bonuses (which this still is) aren't really ideal for the first tier when players are adjusting, this is the closest you can get to something that works with all parts of our relatively varied toolkit.
Thankfully, the 4pc
Schamanenklassenset, Verstärkung, 4 Teile
is one that's extremely simple, fairly powerful and has no clashes with talent selections because it still provides a solid benefit with
Überquellender Mahlstrom
. My only criticism is the low duration which means there might be some rotational clashes that we don't need right now as the spec settles, but that looks like it's going to be managed almost by accident with our increased focus on
Waffe des Mahlstroms
spenders.
As it stands right now what's been changed is very close to the direction I was hoping for Enhancement's bonuses - something simple yet universally useful that doesn't get in the way of our talent selections. We already have a widespread number of choices, but a Tier set that sends it in one direction would ruin that, which this new change elegantly avoids.
Enhancement Shaman Guide
Restoration Shaman Tier Set First Impression
2-Set
-
Schamanenklassenset, Wiederherstellung, 2 Teile
- While
Totem des Wolkenbruchs
or
Totem des heilenden Flusses
is active, your chance to critically strike is increased by 10%.
4-Set
-
Schamanenklassenset, Wiederherstellung, 4 Teile
- Your critical heals have 215% effectiveness instead of the usual 200%
The Restoration Shaman tier set bonus is, as promised by Blizzard, quite boring and will not change things up a lot. Both effects are very passive, and their effectiveness is maximized by pressing your
Totem des heilenden Flusses
or
Totem des Wolkenbruchs
whenever there is healing to do, as you naturally do. For a first tier set after a talent overhaul, I think the design is fine. Gaining some crit whenever you need to heal via
Totemische Inspiration
benefits a Restoration Shaman exactly where we're good at already, and then increasing the multiplier of critical strikes from 200% to 215% leads to a cute little synergy. Increasing the multiplier means that a heal which does 100 healing crits for 215 instead of the usual 200.
Set Issues
One concern is that the 2-piece
Totemische Inspiration
uptime will vary between talent choices, as
Totem des heilenden Flusses
has a lower cooldown than
Totem des Wolkenbruchs
- baseline
Totem des Wolkenbruchs
will end up with 33%
Totemische Inspiration
uptime while
Totem des heilenden Flusses
is at 50%. That uptime is increased quite a lot by various talents (2 charges,
Totemische Konzentration
,
Kraft der Totems
,
Wassertotemmeisterschaft
) but those apply for both and thus don't need to be included for comparison. You will want to pick these talents up to play into
Totemische Inspiration
.
When you consider that you tend to overlap charges of
Totem des heilenden Flusses
while you can't do that with
Totem des Wolkenbruchs
in the first place, and that you play more into
Totem des Wolkenbruchs
in general, it likely evens out somewhat. I don't believe this will be the deciding factor between picking up
Totem des Wolkenbruchs
or not, yet it is not ideal to have an impact on talent choice when the first set was supposed to avoid this.
Numbers
Each set bonus hovers around the 3 to 4% healing throughput increase mark at the crit rating amount we're going to have, so roughly 7% for the whole set. This is definitely on the low side when it comes to healer sets but can be easily fixed with some number adjustments on either set bonus. The
Totemische Inspiration
applies a crit bonus directly to our healing and damage spells, and as such you won't see it in your character information, but it is working fine. When it comes to tuning, I'd prefer if the 4-set gets increased since touching the 2-piece will offset the
Totem des heilenden Flusses
/
Totem des Wolkenbruchs
balance even more.
Feedback
Aside from numbers tuning I'd like to see the 4-piece expanded to damage as well, there is no real reason for it to be only healing criticals in my opinion and it creates more motivation to pick the set up for Mythic+. The 2-piece already works on damage spells, too. With the current numbers and it not affecting damage spells I wouldn't be surprised if some people choose to forego the 4-piece in favour of better stats for Mythic+.
Restoration Shaman Guide
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