Elemental Shaman, Trinkets quastion (6 replies to this topic)

Hi , this is my ele shaman:
http://eu.battle.net...Amajed/advanced

as you can see my trinkets are Bottled Wishes and Foul Gift of the Demon Lord

which one should I keep if I got 1 of the DS trinkets ?

I use the CD on that trinket every time its off CD


also is my Reforge good or not ?


thanks


EDIT:
also would like to ask which one is better :
Threadlinked Chain or Opal of the Secret Order

Spirit > Hit
Haste > Crit

so I'm confused a bit , which one is better ? IMO I perfer Hit over Crit , therefore Opal of the Secret Order but would love to know your opinion

ofc the Petrified Fungal Heart is better , but didn't drop for my ele yet :/

Hello again Amajed!

I would say that Foul Gift of the Demon Lord is superior to Bottled Wishes. If you compare the two items, you get the following stats,

• from Foul Gift of the Demon Lord: 383 Intellect and an average Mastery Rating gain of between 459 and 510 (some people say the Internal Cooldown for the on-proc effect is 45 seconds, other 50);
  
• from Bottled Wishes: 381 Spell Power (15 second on-use effect on a 90 second cooldown) and 458 Haste Rating.

For your Elemental Shaman (as well as for any caster), Intellect is vastly superior to Spell Power, so this makes Foul Gift of the Demon Lord the clear winner (the Mastery and Haste gains are similar in value, so they should not be used to determine the relative values of the trinkets).

Regarding Threadlinked Chain and Opal of the Secret Order, you need to understand that, as a DPS caster, you do not get benefits from Spirit in the way healers do (i.e., it does not increase your mana regeneration while in combat). As a DPS caster, your mana regeneration while in combat is equal to 5% of your base mana (about 1171 MP5).

Therefore, you need to consider that Spirit and Hit Rating are exactly the same for your Elemental Shaman. So the only factor on which you are going to base your decision is which of the two items provide the best second stat. As you noted, Haste Rating is better than Critical Strike Rating, meaning that Opal of the Secret Order is the better choice.

Oh , didn't notice that the spirit isn't usable in combat, nice to know that

OK so my choice is Foul Gift of the Demon Lord here.


Thanks

Sorry for stealing your thread Amajed

I have also a question about trinkets, at the moment I'm using Foul Gift of the Demon Lord and Figurine - Jeweled Serpent and was wondering if I should replace the figurine with Bottled Wishes

I don't care much about the ilvl, just would like to know which one is better for my dps

my shammy: http://eu.battle.net...urette/advanced

thank you

Amourette, on 04 September 2012 - 10:21 AM, said:

Hello,

Sorry for the late reply, I'm currently moving places, so I quickly glanced at the Shaman forums the other day and I thought you were simply adding a reply to Amajed's question. Therefore, I didn't give it all the attention I should have!

I see that you now have Will of Unbinding and Foul Gift of the Demon Lord as your trinkets, so answering the question seems a bit pointless now, but I will do it for posterity

The answer is that Bottled Wishes is better than Figurine - Jeweled Serpent. Also, you did right to keep Foul Gift of the Demon Lord with your Will of Unbinding, because it is better than both Bottled Wishes and Figurine - Jeweled Serpent.

Damien, on 10 September 2012 - 06:52 PM, said:

My fault, I should have created a new topic:) Silly girl me ^^
Doesn't matter that now it's a bit late, I do appreciate your reply
Thank you

PS. I hope moving is/was going well.

Amourette, on 17 September 2012 - 10:06 AM, said:

Moving went fine, thank you. I'm still waiting on a proper internet connection, which I hope will arrive before MoP