... but the assumption of BT on GCD bring some worries on my table, because i have too much haste and with the ulduar gear it will be even more haste...
Chris Anthony
· 8 months ago
Too much haste, I think, doesn't start to become a problem until you hit diminishing returns - I'm not sure what that point is. Penance, for instance, will continue to benefit from haste long after the soft cap - I think you need to hit 3279 Haste Rating (less with Borrowed Time and Enlightenment) to reach 1.0s on Penance, and even more (6500+) to get Greater Heal down that far.
Still, most of our spells as Discipline priests will be short casts, like Flash Heal, or instants, and the limit of their benefit from haste is 433 Haste Rating. (More haste will lower the casting time of, say, Flash Heal, but that's of little benefit when you can only cast once per second.)
Fortunately, we can get a lot of benefit from the Ulduar gear that's nominally DPS gear. It tends to have crit rather than haste, and so if you reach the haste cap (as you apparently have), you can trade out some of that haste gear for crit gear, as long as you keep it above 433!
Incidentally, it may also be useful to know that when channeled spells are affected by haste, they have the same number of ticks divided evenly across the hasted cast time. So Divine Hymn, for example, normally ticks every 2 seconds for 8 seconds; at my 425 haste, it ticks every 1.67s for 6.68s; and with Borrowed Time up, it's every 1.34s for 5.34s.
Zusterke
· 8 months ago
So, in fact, it hastes 2 spells. Your PW:S and your next spell. Very nice :)
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... but the assumption of BT on GCD bring some worries on my table, because i have too much haste and with the ulduar gear it will be even more haste...
Still, most of our spells as Discipline priests will be short casts, like Flash Heal, or instants, and the limit of their benefit from haste is 433 Haste Rating. (More haste will lower the casting time of, say, Flash Heal, but that's of little benefit when you can only cast once per second.)
Fortunately, we can get a lot of benefit from the Ulduar gear that's nominally DPS gear. It tends to have crit rather than haste, and so if you reach the haste cap (as you apparently have), you can trade out some of that haste gear for crit gear, as long as you keep it above 433!
Incidentally, it may also be useful to know that when channeled spells are affected by haste, they have the same number of ticks divided evenly across the hasted cast time. So Divine Hymn, for example, normally ticks every 2 seconds for 8 seconds; at my 425 haste, it ticks every 1.67s for 6.68s; and with Borrowed Time up, it's every 1.34s for 5.34s.