as it looks, there are 2 possibilities.
one set, that focuses on Awakening uses and CD reduction
one set, that gives a party buff for movement speed and dmg.
i mean, the obvious choice would be the party buff set, also every streamer recommends it… but, what about the awakening set?
also sounds really really good!
(with lvl 3 awakening) 9 Awa uses, -CD … extrem blessed aura uptime.
what do you choose, and why?
In higher endgame the suports job is not to heal but to provide dmg buffs and shield for more dmg uptime thats why party buff set is superior
but awakening set → more and more often awakening skill, more shield, more dmg reduction, and dmg buff from more blessed aura uptime.
so by your definition, this set should also be good?
If you read the set description carefully, you only get 20% ult cooldown reduction, the extra CD reduction effect applies only to normal skills.
Meaning if ult is at around 100cd cooldown now with lvl3 awakening and 1500 swiftness, you lower it’s cooldown by 20ish seconds. Which is good, but not really that relevant because other bonuses aren’t as good compared to huge speed buffs aura provides.
I see it more like the awakening set is for classes that can’t waste engraving points in awakening, but still need to have it. We as supports already run with awakening lvl 3 so adding even more CD reduction / uses to the skill is kind of a waste considering there is a set that no other class than support would use and gives such a good pt buff
this would also result an more DMG buff uptime, from wrath of god and heavenly blessing.
i am trying to defend the awakening set, since everybode appears to default to the other set, since streamers say that.
maybe there is a real alternative? would love an alternative, and not a strict “you have to get this set to be viable in legion raids”
Swamp of Yearning have 8% unconditional damage boost (this is like an equivalent of a half of Hit Master) at 6pc set. This is a multiplicative damage bonus meanwhile the attack buff that you give with Heavenly Blessing/Wrath of God is additive to the total Attack Power after calculation, so the damage gain that they gain is not exactly as high as you think. This damage multiplier also have more than 100% uptime, unless you AFK for 16sec or you die.
Swamp of Yearning literally gives Attack Speed (this is an underrated stat and this will always give you DPS gain unless you cap out to 140%) and we give a free half-powered Hit Master within the range.
You only go Domination because Yearning set needs 4pc Vykas and we don’t have Vykas currently, so we compensate it by running Domination set to get the CDR.
You lose the 50% of the effectiveness of the Dominion Fang set if you use it as your Relic set because on Raids you will only take advantage of the CDR, and the Skill Damage bonus part of the set is literally 0 value on you.
Meanwhile, on Yearning set, you get the value of the 2pc immediately, and 4 to 6pc sets of the set is literally made for supports.
Sry it would be nice with option but its not even close…
thank you very much for the well informed post. i understand 
so, best way is to get 2 pc Yearning, rest Domination, and after Vykas drops, replace everything for 6 pc Yearning?
Yes basically.
Though, you’d want to get Domination first, then Yearning since Domination is much more impactful to get as the first relic set bonus to get over Yearning (since you need weapon for Yearning which can take 2-3 weeks)
gotcha.
so game plan:
this is all assuming the Materials don’t change in our version, and we need Vykas and Valtan mats.
(maybe we will only need valtan? like they changed it for argos)
There is also the destruction set which gives barda the skill to almost permanently have a HoT in their party and endurance buff plus a % dmg increase when you reach certain stacks , but the uptime of the % dmg buff is not as high as the other set so it’s not used , same thing happens with the awakening set, not really used.
Movespeed is also huge because it enables raid captain engraving.
Most classes with swiftness builds are at around 120-125% ms when their buffs aren’t active, if they even have any and your 15% boost maxes out the movespeed, giving raid captain full 18% damage bonus.
