Emblem T9 Set Bonus?

[crowdx]

Hi all,
so I have been farming all weekend and now have 190 badges on my two warlocks and resto druid (druid is already pretty well specced) and so I am wondering should I go with the set of T9 gear or for the two offset peices and the rest as the set?
Has anyone got experience of what impact the set bonus makes for warlocks?
Thanks for any advice

[Niley]

Set gear. For locks that would be everything but the robe, make merlins robe if you want(set robe is pretty bad).
4 piece isn't amazing, but still adds more dps than another non set piee.

[crowdx]

So the 4 piece set would make up for the lost stats of the offset head and shoulders from triumph badges?

[crowdx]

So I am about one dungeon run away from being able to get the head and shoulder offset and then get the legs and hands for the T9 set. So does everyone think this would be a waste of emblems or would I see a difference in getting the offset pieces, i.e. 120 emblems for head and shoulders vs 80 for the set pieces?
Need advice :P

[jimbobobb]

Set pieces for 4, and then something crafted for the fifth. As Niley stated, the warlock tier 9 robe is pretty bad, so get a robe made.

Also for the druid, you DEFINITELY want that four piece. Heck you probably don't want to replace that four piece until you're ready to put on four pieces of tier 10, and even then it's still being debated as to whether or not in it's current state, tier 10 4 piece is better than the tier 9 4 piece (which is balls amazing) for druids.

Short bit: Get 4 piece tier 9. For the fifth piece, buy a piece of tier 10 with your frost badges or make something. The bonus to dps (and healing on the druid) will offset the slight increase in stats you would have gotten from the off-pieces

[crowdx]

So I tried on the warlock 4 pieces, all excluding the chestpiece which I went with the Merlin's Robe piece, the big issue I ran into is I lost a ton of Hit, I was coming from the Ebonweave hands and robe and so the upgrades lost all that hit.
What options do I have to get back the hit:? Go with the trinkey and maybe a ring? Seems like I moved sideways in spellpower by the time I have upgraded?
Any advice on fast way to regain the hit?

[Multibocks]

Wow Im actually swimming in hit. So much that I only need the druid/spriest debuff to hit raid bosses 100%. If it really bothers you, pick up 3% from talents in the affliction talents.

[crowdx]

Well it looks like your offhand is something that I will need plus adding the 128 hit trinket and that will get me back up in hit. I am already talented to get the 3% hit from affliction tree.

[crowdx]

So I upgraded Darkpowerz and then ran a quick run through the first three bosses in Nexus and I think i really need some help on stats. I gemmed some of the gems non=epic due to funding and went with the next level down in most cases. Now my crit, spell and hit are all ahead of my other lock Dailyauction (he was my bank toon lol) and they are showing neck and neck in recount on the test fights???
Can someone give a quick look at Darkpowerz and see if I have missed something obvious, for the test I had him equipped with the 126 hit trinket which brought him to about 250 hit vs Auctiontoons 196. Should I not be so focused on hit? Just go for raw spell power? Darkpowerz is also way ahead on crit and so I am really confused.
Help!!!!

[Clone]

Against heroic bosses You only need 158 hit rating, if you have Supression that is reduced to 79, if you also have a draenei in your party that is further reduced to 53.

Source http://www.wowwiki.com/Spell_hit