Archive for August 14th, 2008:
The results are in
On Sunday I acquired the Shattered Sun Pendant of Resolve. As I am Exalted with the Aldor, I was dubious about this necklace which on paper looks great as a threat piece. Would it stand the test in an environment where I want to build threat as fast as possible?
First off, I had to swap gear around. I usually use Shapeshifter’s Signet for the expertise in my threat set, but I needed to swap in a defense ring to be able to still be defense-capped while wearing the necklace. Not ideal.
The test environment was a Heroic Botanica run. I ran with two mages, a feral druid and a paladin. We used little CC (one sheep on all 3+ pulls, two sheep on the one 5-pull in the instance, druid as OT on the satyr pulls at Thorngrim). The run was pretty much flawless with zero wipes and the only deaths were when a Gene-Splicer ran loose long enough to cast Death&Decay on all ranged people. Hooray for battle rez.
Incidentally, said pull was where I threw the towel regarding the necklace. When you dread the sound of a proc, you know the item’s not right for you. Basically whenever I got a proc in the early stages of a pull, I would end up too rage-starved to easily multi-tank mobs. I did not even have the rage to Thunderclap. Mid-instance, I went back to wearing the Barbed Choker of Discipline plus the Shapeshifter’s Signet, and things improved threat-wise. I also did not really notice any big jumps in TPS output even when the necklace didn’t proc, so it was all rather disappointing.
I think I will pick up Shattered Sun Pendant of Might next and will give it a spin. It should work out a bit better, but I will miss the stamina. Strangely enough, I find the Aldor proc superior to the Scryers proc on this piece. Go figure. Why not try balancing the procs so both factions would be fine?
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