Originally Posted by Zure
What's everyone's gemming strategy for 2.4?
For the first time, I think I'll be picking up all of the socket bonuses available to us:
Poweful Earthstorm Diamond (stun resist) requires 3 blue gems, as I believe MSD is being changed
3 Great Lionseyes (10 spell hit)
1 Vivid Chrysophase (5 spell hit, 6 stam)
Giving me 4 yellows for the 4 yellow sockets on resto gear (helm, neck, shoulders, chest), 1 blue for the meta, and a total of 2.89% hit.
Then 2 Blessed Tanzanite (11 healing, 6 stam) in the chest to activate the metagem
and 2 Durable Fire Opals (11 healing, 4 resil)... my optimal gem.
For a total of 422 resilience (which seems more favorable now that it mitigates mana drains). Thoughts? What are you planning on doing?
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I've been thinking about the new spellhaste lowering gcd and the new 4p set bonus and with that I'd like to test/model a 2.4 resto concept that rotates around haste, nature's grace, and regrowth.
Imp regrowth crits alot and with the 4 piece set bonus and ~160 spell haste rating (through the new gems, new battlemaster trinket, new ring, new neck, and new cloak), regrowth gets down to around a 1.63 second cast time at the expense of around 160 healing and 32 resilience (by giving up healing/resilience gems, season 2 ring and the healing battlemaster trinket, assuming you gem healing gems into red slots and resilience gems in yellow slots. More stats are lost if you have epic gems). However, Lunar Guidance can help with the lost +healing to some degree.
Here's the build that I was envisioning:
Talent Calculator - World of Warcraft
Your GCD goes down to around 1.36sec and cyclone with Gladiator Gloves goes down to a 1.26 cast.
I'm not too sure about the game play, but the idea would be to use a (downranked?) regrowth often to proc nature's grace. Since the NG buff is 15 seconds, you can cast a few hots after the regrowth before you have to use the NG buff for cyclone (0.76 second cast), roots (0.86 second cast) or even a bigger regrowth (1.13sec cast)
Mana will definitely be an issue, but with Idol of the Crescent Goddess (Hydross), regrowth costs 65 mana less. Alternatively, the Vengeful Idol means your lifeblooms are blooming stronger as you will likely not rolling LB as much. If mana is more of an issue than anything else, Moonglow could be specced over points natural perfection.
Rank 6 Regrowth crit heals for around 1500, with another 1000 or so as a HOT, which is around what a 2 stacked lifebloom will tick for as a HOT before it blooms, for less than a 2 stack LB. Rank 7 Regrowth with the Hydross idol would likely hit for more for the same ~440mana
Thoughts?