Which triumph trinket?Follow

Good question. The haste-trincket is very nice for Arcane mages indeed, dps-whise one of the best atm. However, the 245 Int+128 trincket is also very nice for a mage, sice u will gain 2500(!) mp, 1% crit and +25 sp cuz of all that int.

I'd say, go for haste, unless u got big mana-issues, then take the Int-trincket. Or have both ofc :)

Rawr shows Talisman of Resurgence 3rd best for me for arcane behind reign of death 258 and 245. I keep it macrod with arcane power/icy veins and like it quite well.

I assume RAWR values that one higher due to extra mana (I know we gain more than just mana) = less down time evocating, using a mana pot etc. Try reducing the fight time to see if that affects where it is placed.

edit: reducing the time made it more valuable. I am guessing this is due to the on use ability having a higher %age of uptime

Edited, Dec 1st 2009 5:02am by KevMc

I am no hero with macro's, but would that be something like:

/use Talisman of Resurence
/cast Icy Veins
/cast Arcane Power

Cuz somtimes when hitting Icy Veins the Arcane Power is not available straigh away?

I use MI as my o-sh*t button and also at the beginning of the fight so that I can go all out while the tank gets threat then if I am in danger of pulling I pop invis. That macro will work fine (as long as the trinket is spelled correctly), I would put a #showtooltip at the top followed by the spell so that you can see it on your bars with cooldown.

So that may be something I will get after I get my last piece of t9 (3/4 right now) with 72 badges.

Majority of proc trinkets have a cooldown of 45 seconds as opposed to 2 mins for on use trinkets and you have to factor in for human error/forgetfulness :)

In a basic 5 minute fight it breaks out like this

Use trinket can be used 3 times

fight
start 2 4


Proc trinket will hit 7 times in best case scenario, although just a few second delay after each proc will knock the last one past the 5 minute mark

fight
start :45 1:30 2:15 3 3:45 4:30



Use trinkets=3 hits x 20 seconds=60 seconds uptime


proc trinket=7 hits x 10 seconds=70 seconds uptime(if they all hit immediately, a 5 second average to proc after cooldown knocks the last hit off the back of the fight)

Obviously a 6 minute fight will give you an extra proc on an equip trinket but used 5 minute as the fairly standard theorycrafting fight timer.

Other things to consider is on proc you cant control when it goes up so just hope you arent about to have to switch to unbuffed targets or watch the worms(for example) burrow right when it goes up. On use can be stacked with other cooldowns via macro.

Not all ability cooldowns line up but it gives you the ability to get the trinket lined up more often with either icy veins or arcane blast, or both.

Volatile power is my personal exemption from this because i dont like the fact that it takes half the proc timer to get the debuff stacked to full.

Also I usually dont use mana pots except on rare occasions. Usually speed pots (and a mighty frost resist on 25man phase 3 anub hardmode).

Edited, Dec 1st 2009 6:07pm by Toxicityoh