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Nevermelting Ice Crystal
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Khraven
I'm gonna venture a guess that b/c it's Use and not Equip, it's not as good as you think.
Edit...also the long 3 min cd sucks
Post by
Merf1980
I gotta admit, that's a MUCH better idea than the trinkets from ToC that go the other way (they build over time rather than diminish). I'm pretty sure I'd rather have Haste then Crit...but 111 spellpower is pretty nice as well.
In other words, I'd use DKP on it, but I'm not gonna farm for it.
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Merf1980
Oh wow...then I will definitely go for it, that's too good to pass up from heroic loot.
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Kylishrak
I got this, as well as the sword Seethe, in my first runs of FoS and Pos Tuesday night. Both are working quite well for me ^_^ So really, unless you have something better I can't think of any reason not to grab it unless given the chance. And the fact that it's just from a heroic is nice, too.
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chknnuggts
Elitist Jerks is already hashing out its viability:
Simulationcraft was started with patch=3.3.0, optimal_raid=1, 300s Patchwerk fight, iterations=10000. The result for Corruption:
Profile DPS DPS% Ticks T-Hit T-Crit T-Crit%
Flare
2271 22.8% 128 3506 7328 47.2%
Crystal
2529 24.9% 128 3469 7250 64.6%
So Corruption indeed got 17.4% more crit for the entire fight (losing the 120 crit rating of Flare of the Heavens accounts for the missing 2.6% from the predicted 20%). The overall DPS went up from 9982 for BiS w/Flare to 10153 for BiS w/Crystal.
TL;DR: If the Nevermelting Ice Crystal will indeed buff Corruption as modeled in Simulationcraft, it will be a very powerful trinket for affliction locks, beating Flare of the Heavens clearly.
In a second quick Simcraft I built a profile with Flare of the Heavens and Nevermelting Ice Crystal, tossing out the (iLevel 258!) Reign of the Dead. This resulted in an overall DPS of 10143, confirming that the Crystal is nearly as powerful as the Heroic Reign of the Dead. Nice indeed.
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It appears that Corruption retains the crit buff since it is refreshed (via Haunt) rather than reapplied during the fight. If you keep refreshing Haunt, corruption will retain the buff for the duration of the fight.
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chknnuggts
My understanding is that the SP is reset upon refresh by Haunt and, from what I've read, only the crit buff is retained (I assume whatever your crit rating was upon initial cast is retained). I honestly don't know about Haste as I haven't seen any discussion on the topic. Since BLust/Heroism don't add haste - they just boost casting speed - they should have no effect on corruption damage ticks.
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