The other day I queued with an unholy dk and rdruid at 2k cr. The dk told me if I had the hm mechagon trinket upgrade or sporepods I’d be tanky enough to make destro and rmx easier to deal with. Are there any other trinkets close to those that I can aim for? And if I get a 430 sporepods should I use that over my 440 safeguard or 455 coral?
Safeguard’s not even good because it can be predicted and instantly dispelled. Yes, you should use Sporepods. It absolutely outclasses Safeguard. A 430 heals for quite a bit.
Ok cool. I thought sporepods being dispellable as well made it worse?
It is a weakness to it, but the way the proc works, being random, I mean, means that they shouldn’t reasonably be able to dispel it every time. Especially if you are running with an RDruid, who can add extra layers of buffs. And even though it’s random, it does proc a decent amount. As opposed to a predictable proc once every 3 minutes, at best.
And if you have a lot of Haste, it makes the heal go off faster. I think at worst the buff lasts for 4 seconds, before it actually goes off and heals. But I’ve had enough Haste before to reduce it to like 2.5-3 seconds, averagely. Which is nice, as it reduces the amount of GCDs your opponent has to react to it, in time.
Very nice. Thank you very much. Also, what do you think of ashvane’s tank trinket? Is that worth using?
I apologize, I didn’t really do anything in Retail since Eternal Palace came out, so I don’t really know how good the trinkets from there are.
I personally heard from people that it’s bad and you hardly notice it, but I can’t say for certain, as that is all hearsay.
I personally, as Ret at least, was just running an on-use Trinket, like the Badge. But in my specific case I swapped to Vial of Animated Blood because Avenging Wrath’s CD got reduced. I don’t think similar happened to Arms, though, so Badge is probably your best bet. Badge or Medallion. Both are good.
Badge adds more dmg but in a shorter time frame. Medallion adds more survival, some damage, and a bit of a longer timeframe. Take whichever you prefer.
I swapped to the on-use after Maledict got nerfed. Idk if people are still running Maledict even now, but I assume not. I just don’t know for sure, as I haven’t been playing.
If Maledict is still the best trinket, I’d say just have your whole group run that. But it only was good last season if everyone was running it, and you chain used it.
Otherwise, I’d just go with an on-use for your second trinket, and maximize your burst.
Use a badge and insignia and just do big dam
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That simply doesn’t work against lock caster or rmx who can cc healer for a really long amount of time.
Maledict is stil good vs rdruid teams and I’ve heard the tank trinkets are op so id say getting them is probably worth.
Oh I’ve heard people started using the on use health pvp trinkets now instead of safeguard in arenas since its half the cd of safeguard and basically works the same just isn’t a shield.
That’s good to know. Thanks!
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The thing that makes safeguard good is thar it prevents a killing blow, battlemaster’s wont save you if youre stunned
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A few warriors including snutz do it
Arms feels in a really good spot right now. I am still lacking some vers and trinkets, but I enjoy it.
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He must have God like teammates. Double lock or firemage lock focusing you would be instant death if you went full DPS mode. Does he have YouTube vids playing?
Probably not, just caught a few games on stream and it worked well for him. That’s a lot of vers from those two trinkets
I have 15% versatility with my gear…how much do you think he had? 20% +?
https://i.imgur.com/hqjONj0.png
here’s a game where i believe it was only the HM mechagon punchcard on the warrior
that is a TON of free healing on a spec that has 0 healing outside of prot traits or impassive visage
that alone pretty much passively outhealed dk
plus you still keep the 170 vers + 50 x stat from yellow punchcard
it’s nuts
afaik greentko only uses sporepods when qing armsdh i think personally the punchcard is significantly better
and you’ll automatically win against lock teams with 2 tank trinkets over maledict
a lock with 3 maledicts taking 50k dps wont die till healers oom or dampening anyways unless it’s against RM
just ooming the healer while taking 0 damage over 9 minutes will always just hard counter destro
as for rogue mage, arms/dk/x vs rmpala usually comes down to killing the warrior
2 tank trinkets means they have to go hpal/rdruid/rsham and you’re able to play duel/disarm and pretty much ensure every kidney go is wasted unless they cover you really well which is on the dk to stop
This is very helpful. Thank you so much!
Update: I got the hm mechagon punchcard and used it with a 430 sporepods…I was able to take the damage from a lock and shaman so they switched to my lock teammate 
When that happened I popped duel on the lock. Games did go longer but it was a higher chance of winning. Ty guys for helping me out!