Tanking trinket?Follow

hmmm. first glance i only thought of our aoe but then have vengence and i doubt HS would proc it but not even sure about aoe think only vengence would proc it but at what proc rate?? besides the spell damage on it not really good in my eyes. doesnt say if that damage is just normal yellow or takes the effect of vengence and adds 285-475 holy. not to mention no clicky for tanking. all in all rather have the dark moon card. 51 sta and some holy damage proc i think it is. furies set

Tested the trinket for 10min or so. It does proc off Consecrate as well as Seal of Vengeance. Unfortunately the proc dam is Shadow, shows as a Shadow Bolt for 285-475ish. Procs pretty much every 15sec, provided 1 of those 2 spells is active, so is aprox 25dps. Not sure how significant that is, but i can see it being situationally useful.

Obviously wouldn't replace Darkmoon Card: Vengeance, but since i don't use avoidance trinkets very often, this would be in addition to the darkmoon card.

Sorry, i was under the impression threat was of some use?

I think in cases where there is heavy AOEing this trinket may have some use on a Prot Paladin. Cases where an avoidance trinket or stam-loaded trinket may not be as needed (Hyjal trash? Murlocs on Tidewalker?). It's situational, and I'd never take it over a Lock or S-Priest, but if I had the opportunity to grab it, I would.

Maybe good for aoe grinding for monies...

edit: assuming it works for consecrate.

Edited, Mar 30th 2008 8:12am by CapJack

As a threat trinket it utterly fails. Using the base conversion that Ialaman was kind enough to post (and I got owned with quite recently) spell power is converted to threat at 1:.63. This trinket, as a shadow power trinket produces (roughly) 25 DPS over the course of 2 minutes for a total of 25 TPS on a single target in those AoE packs.

The proc rate is on the trinket, NOT the mobs, so AoE grinding does you no good. It will still only proc once per ICD of 15 seconds.

Any readily available spell power trinket with an activated ability to produce more spell power will produce more threat in an AoE scenario, produce it across more targets, and produce it in a controlled and reliable fashion. Even then, these wouldn't really be tanking trinkets unless you're 2-3 tiers above the content you're tanking and have almost 0 way to generate threat because you aren't being hit.

15 seconds.

I would have to say then, with a hidden cooldown, this trinket blows for tanking/grinding. It simply won't fire enough to out damage a trinket with a "use" feature that increases spell damage for a set amount of time (I wouldn't think, but no way I'm racking my brain on that math =P). The spell damage increase is nice and high, but 1 mob every 15 seconds (optimal) in an AOE setting = fail, particularly as Shadow damage.

I change my statement: if I see this drop, and no Lock/S.Priest to take it, it's gonna get sharded.

Not to make this into a Mage thread, but is that just Fire Mages? Or would other specs benefit from it as well? I'm leveling a Mage, Frost spec right now, and atm I can't see this thing doing me any good if I were to stay Frost at 70. But, there may be something I haven't experienced yet that would make it good for any spec (only 36 atm).