Comments on: Pretty Trinket

By: Fricassee

Fricassee — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 16:25:22 +0000

Another thing of note is that haste proc trinkets can sometimes throw off your rythym. Make sure you get plenty of practice with them before using them in raids, or you won’t get the optimum value out of them.

Edit: And also make sure the haste value doesn’t push you past the haste softcap, or it won’t give you the full effect of the passive haste value.

By: Kring

Kring — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:50:40 +0000

You forgot another important aspect. The proc chance. For Abyssal Rune it’s 25%, for the Sundial only 10%. Therefore, the proc will never ever be up every 45 seconds. (On WoWhead you can click on the proc and it lists the proc chance.)

Then, a haste proc is considered at the beginning of your cast, a spellpower or crit proc when your cast finishes. Therefore, you will waste some up time on a a spellpower proc. If the proc is up for 1 more second and you cast a 2 second shadow bolt, the last 1 second of the proc is wasted unused. On the other side if you have 1 second left on a haste proc and start casting a 2 second shadow bolt, the whole cast will be hasted.

Illustration of the Dragon Soul can be pre-stacked with life tap (rank 1) or your pet heal (rank 1) before the fight starts, but these casts might also proc other trinkets or your tailoring enchant and therefore reduce their effect.

By: Everwrath of Silvermoon

Everwrath of Silvermoon — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:40:01 +0000

It’s worthwhile to get one of the non-essential DPSers in the raid (you know, the rogue that’s always hugging carpet by his third eviscerate) to run the World of Logs monitoring software and throw up the stats. Using these, you can look fight by fight at your toon and see which buffs are up (and which debuffs you aren’t avoiding).

You can see pattens emerging where you have regular(ish) procs and see how your DPS peaks during these periods. Turned out a lot of my empowered imp and lightweave procs co-incided with running to avoid stuff during a lot of encounters, and my lifetap buff wasn’t *always* being kept up.

Seeing graphical proof that you’re not running at optimum performance can be a great boot-up-the-back-end without having someone shouting “tap, noob” at you
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By: Curumo

Curumo — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 11:56:44 +0000

A quick note about Illustration of the Dragon Soul: it doesn’t put a debuff on your target. Instead it is a buff on yourself. As long as you are attacking something before the buff expires (every 10 seconds), you’ll be able to stack up to 200 spell power even by attacking multiple targets. I have one and absolutely love it (except for the bug with Blizzard that doesn’t proc it).

By: Cynwise of Stormwind

Cynwise of Stormwind — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 10:47:27 +0000

RT @Nibuca: I happen to have posted about evaluating trinkets today http://bit.ly/3kbIAy

By: Nibuca

Nibuca — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 10:33:47 +0000

@Greshlock Not to.. you know continually pimp it.. but I happen to have posted about evaluating trinkets today http://bit.ly/3kbIAy

By: Nibuca

Nibuca — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 10:17:37 +0000

New MC post: Pretty Trinket http://bit.ly/3kbIAy Evaluating Trinkets #warcraft #mathification

By: Nibuca

Nibuca — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 23:05:52 +0000

@bobturkey
I appreciate the sentiment. I had the same hesitation. That’s why I did back-of-the-envelope math for 11 trinkets (see google spreadsheet). Aside from the fact that they’re displaying slightly different numbers on their weights.. the relative rankings of all 11 trinkets was the same from my calculations as compared to theirs.

So.. honestly it’s better than nothing.

By: Bobturkey

Bobturkey — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 23:01:22 +0000

I love LootRank but their trinket ranking is pretty weak, especially around Use and proc type abilities. Personally I wouldn\’t recommend anyone use the trinkets list from LootRank as is isn\’t reliable.

Seems to work fine for other slots though.

Gobble gobble.
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By: Nibuca

Nibuca — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 22:30:03 +0000

I still need to test if Mithral Pocketwatch stacks with the Sundial.

I will agree that the ranking for BoA stuff is off. I just ignore it if it’s golden/amber.

Once upon a time, for Warlocks, the Egg of Mortal Essence actually -was- an upgrade from Dying Curse. If it procs it is the equivalent of the Embrace of the Spider. It -used- to proc on Fel Armor heals. So it was constantly up. They changed that in um.. 3.1 I think.. so now it only triggers from Life Tap, Health funnel, Fel Synergy and Mana Feed.

Keep in mind also, the lootrank link above has +hit as worth 0 points. So Dying Curse ranks as a fantastic trinket based only on its DPS qualities. If you also need +hit, then Dying Curse is Godly.