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I have said mutliple times that the balance 4 set PvP bonus is incredible and every moonkin should have it if you are PvPing. However, if you are building a resto set, should you go for the 4 piece bonus or get the additional resilience?
My suggestion is to go 2 and 3 on the resto PvP set with the balance set in order to get the 400 additional resilience. (Note: This will hold true until 4.1 at least. With the resilience change, this answer may or may not change.)
Let us take a quick look at the restoration 4 piece set bonuses. The 4 piece set restoration bonus for PvP is:
4 Piece: Reduces the Cooldown on your Swiftmend ability by 2 seconds.
4 Piece: Increases Intellect by 180.
Swiftmend is currently on a 15 second cooldown. It also should be glyphed anyway so that you can keep HoTs up while using Swiftmend. In addition, if you have talented into Efforvesence, which I have, then you have another HoT being used. The difference between 13 seconds and 15 seconds is neglibile if I'm not alive though.
As for the 2 piece + 400 resilience bonus for the restoration set, it decreases damage by 6.87% going from a full resto set to breaking it up between 2 restoration and 3 piece balance set or vice versa. 6.87% is alot of damage mitigation. If someone hits you for a 30k hit in the 4 piece restoration set, you will decrease the hit to 28k hit with a 2 and 3 setup. The 2k difference could be the difference between saving yourself or a flag carrier and dieing.
So, the next question is if you are like me and have the full balance PvP set, what two pieces of restoration gear do you pick up for honor. Looking at the difference betwen balance and restoration, here are the importance of stats as of right now.
Moonkin: Spirit (to 5% hit cap) > Hit (to 5% hit cap) > Intellect > Haste > Resilience > Critical Strike > Mastery
Restoration: Intellect > Spirit > Haste > Resilience > Mastery > Critical Strike
Some explanation. In the moonkin order of importance, spirit is only useful to the PvP hit cap (which is 5%). Hit can be used but none of the PvP gear for moonkins I have seen has hit on it anyway. Then as a DPS, you want the things that will increase your DPS, mainly intellect and haste. From there, you want to stay alive, so you get resilience (although you would never gem for resilience anyway). From there, critical strike rating and mastery. However, for healers, this changes up slightly. The purpose of the healers is to stay alive and to keep their target alive. To keep their people alive, you need the strongest heals you can get. You will get this from Intellect, Spirit, and Haste. Spirit also helps with in combat mana restoration. From there, resilience is the next most important stat in order to keep yourself alive. Again, I wouldn't gem or enchant for resilience, but you can if you want. From there, mastery and critical strike rating with mastery being ahead of critical strike for restoration.
Since spirit is the second most valuable stat to a restoration PvPers, it should go without saying that you want to pick up the PvP pieces with spirit. With the spirit PvP set, there are only two pieces with spirit, while the moonkin set has no Spirit on it. The Bloody/Vicious Gladiator's Kodohide Spaulders and Robes (links are for the Vicious set) would be my choice. Combined, they give you and additional 311 spirit in the Bloody set and 360 with the Vicious set. In addition, you should have picked up some other gear with spirit already to hit your hit cap as a moonkin so you should have a good amount of spirit.
So, if you are doing both balance and restoration in PvP, you shouldn't have to change up your gear alot. You may however, want to get the resilience bonus from not going with your 4 piece restoration set by splitting up your moonkin set into a 3 balance and 2 restoration piece set.
2 comments:
i can see where your going with your build, i'm guessing with stacking haste, that you are using HT as a mainstay ability. In PVP i've found it better aiming towards 'exclusively' instant cast abilities, reducing the potential to be interrupted etc, and ofc, ToL opens up extra instants wen u use it.. if you cant heal while interupted, well you cant heal. from experiance, and most of the guides i've seen, resilience and intellect are your prime stats after you reach spell hit cap (if your doing cc work, then spell pen is uber important, but im guessin as your boom pvp thats something you'll already have) right, thats my 5 dollars worth, its an opinion and nothing more.. what works for 1 doesnt work for all.
Well tou are planning that kind of build, it is a nice idea. For resto druid i think the best buid is using instant cast and the ability to move faster, instant to release it in a short time and speed for the attack then back strategy.
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