Duct Tape and a Prayer » Another quick thought on set bonuses

February 8, 2009
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Originally posted here on 1/19/09.

I’ve been thinking about set bonuses for priests, because I’m dissatisfied with the bonuses that the current Tier 7 sets have. Below are some thoughts for replacements – or perhaps T8 bonuses. I’m not separating them into 2-set and 4-set yet; they’re all jammed together. Also, some of these are pretty good; to which my response is to ask why set bonuses are required to be mediocre at best?

Your critical heals have a chance to dispel a harmful magic effect or disease from the target. (This is kind of the inverse of Glyph of Dispel Magic.)
Your Prayer of Healing affects up to five members of your raid, if you are in a raid group.
Your Binding Heal now heals one additional group member within 10 yards of you.
Heals cast on you have a chance to also heal a nearby group member for 50% of the effective healing done to you.
Your Circle of Healing’s cooldown is reduced by 3 seconds.
Your Smite does 10% less damage, but has 10% additional chance to critically strike. (This one may be better suited to a glyph.)
You gain the Power Word: Shield effect whenever your Power Word: Fortitude is dispelled.
Your Vampiric Touch grants its Replenishment effect to up to two additional raid members.
Your Levitate is no longer dispelled when you take damage.
Your Shadow Word: Death’s critical strikes restore 10% of the spell’s mana cost.
Your Mind Sear deals 25% damage to your target.