-NVM-

Edited, Nov 6th 2006 at 9:00am PST by Pharalax

i'm looking at this on another priest on my server thinking 'mmmm tasty, must drop from nefarian, cos i've never seen that before'. so i come here and find it drops from Vael with a 19% chance!

what a rip-off. we've been farming the whole of BWL for over a month and first killed Vael around the beginning of the year yet not one drop :(

ppl that compare this to junk like the jeweled amulet of chainwyn seriously dont understand how certain stats in this game work. did you really think blizzard would make a common BoE drop from BRS better than BoP item from BWL?

Woot rolled a 97 on it druid neck ftw

People comparing this to jeweld amulet might not realize the power of mana/5sec.

18 int vs 12 int, 6 int difference, which equates out to 90 mana, over the course, which would be 10 ticks or 50 seconds of this item


Not many endgame fights are under 50 seconds, the 10 spirit on Jeweled does help, but for spirit to be good you need intentionally regen, this guy keeps on providing

Give

OMG this thing rocks for Priests. Anyone who doesn't know how valuable +mana/5 is has prob never used the muse mod, or never done 40 man raids. The mana that you would get from this is unreal compaired to those other items. And if you are in a good guild they usually chain pull up to boss's before you ever get the chance to get to FM anyways

well lets take a look at the alternatives then:

Frostwolf Advisor's Pendant
+10 Stamina
+10 Intellect
Passive: Restores 4 mana every 5 sec.

PotFD: -1 stam, +2 int, +5 mana / 5 sec

Choker of Enlightenment
+10 Intellect
+10 Spirit
+9 Stamina
Passive: Increases damage and healing done by magical spells and effects by up to 18.

PotFD: -10 spi, -18 dmg/heal, +2 int, +9 mana / 5 sec

Choker of the Fire Lord
+7 Intellect
+7 Stamina
Passive: Increases damage and healing done by magical spells and effects by up to 34.

PotFD: +5 int, +2 stam, +9 mana / 5 sec, -34 heal/dmg


i think it's pretty clear that a caster is better off with any choker. for healers, it becomes a bit more tricky.
i'd say the Choker of the Fire Lord is better for all healers, but this is also the very best for any dd caster class. the probability of you acquiring is rather slim (in my guild it's even DD caster only loot, you cant even roll as a healer).
so that leaves Choker of Enlightenment & PotFD. i'd say the choice between those two depends on build:
manaregen build? go for PotFD
+heal build? go for CoE

i'm a crit/regen shaman, i'll take PotFD...

You can get very close to the same necklace from being honored with AV....

This thing blows.

People who play Warcraft have the ABSOLUTE DUMBEST OPINIONS OF ANYONE I HAVE EVER SPOKEN TO. If people have been not so subtly telling you its not good for you to talk your entire life, it might be time to listen to them.

Mage Item...

The 9:5 ratio works out to be 18 Spirit if you have Mage Armor on. If you don't, it works out to be a benefit of 1.8 mana per SECOND. In an Onyxia battle you would gain about 540 mana just from the effect, and that's if you're casting ALL the time (you won't be).

The 12 int gives you almost a 1% crit chance, so....

+0.91% crit chance
+18 Spirit {works during casting}
+9 Sta

Not a bad Mage necklance if you know what you're doing.

:)

hmm... isn't te stormpike reward better?

Edited, Fri Jul 29 15:34:49 2005

hunter's gear !!