When to Break Tier

Classes Shaman
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Yo, I’m sure some of y’all out there are smarter than me.

I have shoulders, head, hands, legs, and chest all of which are 10-20 ilvls higher than my S3 tier pieces in those respective slots.

Would the gains be worth me dropping the set bonuses to equip the large ilvl upgrades?

I am going to be sad to break my 4 piece and watch riptide take a 25% nerf, and while I play a heavy riptide centric build (which worked up to 23s very comfortably last season), I can adjust my talents around to come up with a new build.

Which, as I type this out, i guess I could just take off my tier, modify my talents, heal a few low 4-5 keys and see how it feels in comparison to maintaining the set until I can swap it with the less-than-appealing S1 tier.

2

The rule of thumb that I have always followed is to keep a 4 piece until I could get the 2 piece from both the new and old sets, and then run that until I could get the 4 piece from the new set.

Don’t forget you should be able to use the catalyst thing to convert some of those pieces you have into tier gear.

3

Break tier at 2 piece.