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Comment by HaklePrime

Dropped from The Black Stalker, in Heroic Underbog

Comment by Ishtar

Best for Tanks, but I think this would be a nice trinket for any class in pvp. Also nice for mages who need stamina for Gruul's lair. Not to mention that the trinket will help absorb fire damage as well.

Comment by frmorrison

Someone guessed that the click ability would act like PW: Shield and allow a caster to not get knock back on casting. That would be cool if that was true.

Anyway, the last 2 trash mobs in Heroic Underbog are worse than the bosses.

Comment by 10076

The trinket would prevent cast interruptions, but only if it absorbs all the damage (ie the hit is less than 68).

The proc 'shield' will absorb ticks of DoTs as well, which makes it great against any class that stacks DoTs on you.

Amazing pvp trinket.

Comment by 37463

https://www.wowhead.com/tbc/item=27529
https://www.wowhead.com/tbc/spell=27169
https://www.wowhead.com/tbc/spell=27179
o.O

Comment by 36389

I read a post on the forums that the mechanic of this trinket makes it such that, while the use is activated, you're immune to crushing blows. The only way I would think this would be the case is that, the coding on the trinket treats incomming attacks as being blocked, and thus, reduced by a set ammount, for the duration. If so, this would be a 20 second uncrushability shield.

Can this be confirmed?

Comment by 29261

The real beauty of this trinket is that it acts like a "shield block" to every hit, therefore meaning that they cant be crits or crushing blows.

I got this on my warrior, and the cooldown does not trigger that of Dabiri's Enigma (+125 block rating) nor Charm of Alcrity (+192 dodge), meaning that you can fire one then the other.

This a real joy, and makes life much more manageable, scaleable and controllable for raiding.

While it's good for me as a warrior, it's simply a MUST HAVE item for a druid tank, who have no other way of mitigating crushing blows.

Comment by Anvil

The use on this trinket is just of disappointing. I use it as a tank purely for the +36 stamina due to lack of other good tanking trinkets.

If you can hit the 490 defense measure without a second trinket, this is a very good choice.

Comment by 5715

All this talk about 16-17 attacks over a 20 second duration is stupid. Has anyone ever heard of multimob tanking?

Comment by 10128

36 stamina
+45 stamina from the netherwing revered trinket
= 81 stamina

x1.25 bear form
x1.20 heart of the wild
x1.10 blessing of kings
x1.03 survival of the fittest

= 138 stam
>>> 1380hp

x1.05 tauren racial
>>> 1445hp

From two trinkets.

You can easily beat 22k HP with these one and more stamina/tank gear.

A crushing blow on a warrior, thought it happens rarely, can be very damaging. A crushing blow on a druid is far less of a problem: more stamina and more armor.

Comment by 80967

If a boss has a 2.0 attack speed, wouldnt it only absorb 680 damage?

Apparently, the enemy would have to have a ~1.176 attack speed to fully use up the shield in the 20 seconds.

So I guess its better to use it against multiples enemies.

Comment by Shada

Agreed. 36 Stamina, that's 3 Solid Star of Elune's worth right there. The on use effect comes into its own tanking trash, never mind bosses. With only a 2 minute cooldown, you can basically use it every pull.

This is a fantastic tanking trinket, whether you're paladin, bear, or warrior.

Comment by 62481

kind of pisses me off when i found out you werent immune to crushing blows when using the absorb feature on it. I once thought this was the best druid tank trinket on the market just for that reason =/

does anyone know of a trinket that DOES make you immune to crushing blows when used?

Comment by Veilside9999

I took this on my hunter alt who i use for pvp/arena, i got plenty of /w calling me a ninja till i mentioned its pvp applications then i they got very upset that they didn think of that too :)

Very nice for flag carriers in WSG.

Comment by 57561

I'm using this as a priest in PvP. An interesting thing to note is that when the shield is active, melee attacks on you do not use up Inner Fire charges, even if they deal damage to you. Very useful trinket when you get focussed.

Comment by 117977

note that it should also be useful for the mage or lock that occasionally needs to AOE a large number of small hitting mobs, this would absorb the minor damage coming from many mobs, which may actually consume the absorbtion limit completely.

question to rogues, if a bleed or dot effect is completely absorbed, would it still break stealth.
this could be tested with a rogue and a priest friend with rank 1 shadow word pain.

Comment by Allakhazam

Anyone know where to get this? I'd love it for my bear tanking. 430 Extra hp is always nice :P

Comment by Allakhazam

thats pretty sweet, i wish they had more of those kind of things for 29 twinks

Comment by Allakhazam

Got it from the Black Stalker on Heroic. Aint an armor trinket but it is pretty damn good for Bear all the same.

Comment by Allakhazam

This is awesome for any class, extra stam is never wasted, plus the absorb use is very helpful; and it works on spells, too.

Comment by Thottbot

"The Black Stalker" (Underbog last boss) on heroic difficulty

Comment by Thottbot

i confirm black stalker heroic.

Comment by Thottbot

Does this share a CD with any other tanking trinket? Like the Regal Protectorate?

Comment by Thottbot

Would it reduce any DOT "tick" under 68 to 0?

Comment by Thottbot

it seems like endgame tanking this wouldnt be that good as most bosses hit hard but not fast enough to reach the full 1150 damage.

Comment by Thottbot

540+ hp in bearform. Screw the use, that alone is worth it

Comment by Thottbot

This trinket basically has pvp written all over it. For anyone wanting to get into, or stay in, a solid arena team, you want to grab ahold of just about the most stam you can get your hands on. Sure there are some "raises crit raiting/spell dmg/ spell crit" or w/e items out there, but in arena (especially 2v2) the battles really don't last long enough for those trinkets to make too too much off a difference. Seeing as most trinket have no type of stam on them, this one's stam use would be great for anyone who doesn't have the engineering abilities to use the poultrylizer or rocket launcher. The use on this is just kind of the the cherry on top; pakes it all that much purdier :). I do however say that some may way to take a trinket with "use: increases spell dmg/attack power for x amount of time" over this for burst dmg in arena to make those matches even quicker. I'm thinkin this is one helluva great pvp trinket, especially for some classes who need to push that stam as far as it'll go.

Comment by Thottbot

Yes, Lets please not forget...this is a trinket with 36 stamina...

/cheer

Comment by Thottbot

AS a PVP trinket it have 36 stam which is the second highest stam trinket currently available(other than the rocket launcher and the polymorpher from engineering).

i got it yesterday and test it out in 2vs2 on my hunter, its really good if u use it properly.

The use effect is:
Very effective: Lock/shadow priest/rogues
whateva: hunter, fury warrior
not very good VS: ALL mages and MS warrior

Comment by Thottbot

should have had some defence on it ..

Comment by Thottbot

For this to have full effect:
1150/68=16,91 ~ 17 attacks

So if you can manage to get hit by 17 attacks in 20 seconds you have effectively 1150 more hp, plus 360+ from the sta ;)
Not too shabby really.

Comment by Thottbot

There are nowadays trinkets with more stamina than the Argussian Compass. For instance:

https://www.wowhead.com/tbc/item=32864/commanders-badge (the dragon can't be used in arena)

https://www.wowhead.com/tbc/item=31858/darkmoon-card-vengeance (very good for arena)

The Argussian compass is still a very good piece, and unlike the two trinkets I mentioned it's a drop.

Comment by Thottbot

and also
https://www.wowhead.com/tbc/item=30620/spyglass-of-the-hidden-fleet

nice to have, but a lil hard to get for non raiding players

Comment by Thottbot

Thanks Heimdahl for needing... the holy pally who's "not going to be a healer forever"...

grrr!

Comment by Thottbot

One other very effective use for this item. Pally tanking. Pallies frequently tank multiple targets at once, so 17 attacks in 20 seconds happens regularly. 68 isn't much mitigation, but add it to the 40 or so a pally gets from sanctuary (since its reduction is pre-armor mitigation), the significant damage decrease that happens when a paladin gets below 35% health (ardent defender), a 60+% shield block rating, and it all adds up. I'd probably go to the madness card for a boss (assuming you already have the vengengence card - the best pally tanking trinket going!), but for clearing trash in a 5 man (reg or heroic) this is probably the best trinket a paladin can get (after the vengence card, of course) for tanking. Well, outside of the items one can get from a raid instance.

Comment by Thottbot

I won this today on my Warlock, I'm using this as my soloing/duoing trinket, used passively for the +stam and on use for when I'm tanking more than one mob.

(hey, I mostly pve with other clothies, I'm the tank!)

Comment by Thottbot

Also this works well against spells like siphon life and I assume weaker dots and every tick the absorbsion kicks in

Comment by Thottbot

if it absorbs some of the damage would that stop an attack from being able to crush you? or does it only reduce the damage and you'd still be crushable wile its active?

Comment by Thottbot

It would reduce some of the crushing blow damage. The only way to eliminate or reduce crushing blows is to inflate your total combined %'s of dodge/parry/block% (rating not value). I'm not possitive whether you can eliminate crushing blows or not. I don't think it's possible to eliminate it. I know that the higher your combined %'s are, the less frequently you will be struck by a crushing blow. This does not effect crit chance. That is directly related to defense rating.

Comment by DonDeLaVega

2.48% drop rate on heroic?
you've got to be kidding me.

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Item Level 115
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+36 Stamina

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Use: Reduces damage from each attack by 68, up to a total of 1150 damage absorbed. Lasts 20 sec. (2 Min Cooldown)

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