Looking through the patch notes, I was quite impressed to see the following being added to the PVP armor sets;
Arena Set Bonuses: The two-piece set bonus for all Wrath of the Lich King Arena sets now provides 100 resilience and 29 spell power or 50 attack power. The current four-piece bonus will remain, however it also now provides 88 spell power or 150 attack power.
So that’s +10 energy, 100 resilience and 200 AP. Not bad at all.
However, what really caught my eye at the weekend was the data-mined set bonuses of the upcoming T10.
Rogue T10 2P Bonus – Your Tricks of the Trade ability now grants you 15 energy instead of costing energy
Rogue T10 4P Bonus – Gives your melee finishing moves a 13% chance to add 3 combo points to your target.
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The 2P bonus seems like pure PVE (just an incentive for rogues to hold hands and play nicely together), but I’m thinking with a bit of RNG luck, the 4P bonus could be a killer, especially with an MP build. Anyone else fancy the chance of a 5CP envenom followed straight away by a 4CP envenom? It will be interesting to see how balanced the options are and whether certain rogues will go back to running a mix of PVP/PVE again.
On the down side it means sitting through hours and hours of raids – oh joy :/ I also play without the vigor glyph, which might not be too smart a move without the extra energy from the 4P PVP set.
I may be wrong, but I think they swapped the 2 and 4 piece bonus quite a bit of time ago, and now that nice bonus can be taken only with 4 pieces.. a bit too much probably to be tempting enough.
lol yeah it’s november not october…… meh, have changed the numbers around. Thanks for the heads up, serves me right for being gone too long :/ Might be interesting to play with 4 pieces T10, but that’s one hell of a resilience nerf….
Just so long as I can be competitive in PVP without having to PVE im cool with whatever bonus they offer on gear obtained by raiding.
There was some elaboration on the former 2p over on EJ:
“The 2/5 T10 gives an expected .13 * 3 = .39 combo points per finisher; this is roughly the same number as 2 points in Ruthlessness.” (http://elitistjerks.com/f78/t64665-incoming_rogue_changes_discussion/p21/#post1416611)
3 CP is of course an incredible burst but might be lackluster: proc on target switch/at 5%. In addition you’ll lose the 200ap and 100 resilience set bonus + the resilience and stam on the pvp gear.