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My experience is that this is, bar none, the best set bonus ever created for priests (and I don't make that statement lightly). As Rollins says it requires some thinking and tinkering with ranks to get it quite right, and I don't claim to have done all of that yet, or even finished thinking through it--I just got my second piece on Tuesday. I can share my results from last night's raiding, however, as an example. (All of the following is done either using the client version of WWS, or using a slightly modified version that logs overhealing for each of my spellcasts--it's a total hack, but it does what I need)
Healing the Karathress tank over the entire fight I generated 25% overhealing and 4600 mana over the 7.5 minutes it took us to finish the fight, or approximately 51.1 mp/5. Just looking at the first 4.8 minutes while the raid was killing the other mobs (and while I was solo/duo healing the tank) the mp/5 drops slightly to 48.2 and overhealing drops to 21% Cut out the egregious overhealing from the 5 mana-free spellcasts (it's mana free, why wouldn't you use max rank gheal?) and the number's more like 16% overhealing. Those overhealing numbers aren't fantastic, but I don't think they're terrible either and the set bonus is still unbelievable.
On lurker I was also MT healing and got 3300 mana over the 11 minutes of the fight. If you account for the amount of time he spends spouting or underwater though (WWS shows his dps time as 45%), I get ~56 mp/5. (I didn't use anything but renew in phase 2, I wanted to see how a couple of apps would handle a little bit of tank healing *grin*)
From watching SCT during the fights, many of my heals were coming very near but not quite topping the tank off much of the time, I actually feel like I can significantly improve on these results by switching my precast heal from rank 3 to rank 4, or by swapping in for some +healing gems where I have healing/mp5
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