BRE used to have a roughly 15% chance on hit proc rate in Vanilla, thoroughly tested. Blizzard bumped the proc rate way up after nerfing the weapon from putting a debuff on the boss that would benefit the whole raid to only being a buff to the user. Blizzard then decreased the duration of the effect to 10 seconds, but greatly increased the chance on hit proc rate of the weapon to help compensate for that.
However, after testing BRE’s proc rate in classic. It is only 11% chance on hit! Almost 5% lower. This makes it extremely difficult to obtain multiple stacks of the proc, nevermind maintain the stacks. Basically, the only way to consistantly get and maintain stacks of it now is when doing mass consecutive AOE on trash.
Back in Vanilla, with the 15% proc rate, it was much easier to obtain multiple stacks single target and keep them up.
Please fix BRE, GMs, as the nerfed proc rate greatly diminishes the effectiveness of the weapon.
Thank you.
ADDENDUM
Bonereaver’s Edge has been tinkered with a few times post vanilla (see below link for the patch history on this weapon) so it’s conceivable that at some point after vanilla, the proc rate was tinkered with (if they are using current retail for the proc chance on this weapon).
For instance…
[Patch 4.0.3a] (2010-11-23):** The proc now increases critical strike instead of armor penetration.
[Patch 3.0.2] (2008-10-14):**The proc effect is now a buff on the wielder rather than a debuff on the wielder.
<Blizzard won’t allow me to include links to my post for the weapon’s patch history for some reason, but perhaps another user can post it? It’s from the site gamepedia.>
It is very conceivable to me, that in one of the above patches the proc rate was lowered. Especially for the change from Armor penetration to increased crit chance for patch Patch 4.0.3a.
All of the information of 1.12 vanilla BRE has the proc % at being around 15 - 17% chance on hit (I used 15% as a low end conservative number). Hence the Vanilla 1.10 patches use of the descriptor “substantially increased” in regards to the proc.
Basically, the consensus was that the proc was up around 90% of the time with the authentic 15-17% proc rate since the proc had a 10 second duration that refreshed with each subsequent proc. The only thing that fluctuated during uptime was how many stacks of the armor pen buff you had at a time.
With the non vanilla CATA nerf patch, the proc rate was dropped way down to 11% in conjunction with the proc effect itself being changed to a flat crit % increase instead of stacks of armor pen. Current WoW classic is using this non vanilla proc rate for the weapon
As such the weapon is NOT performing as intended, as with a 50% decrease in proc rate, you can basically never get stacks on single target boss fights, and the uptimes of even just one stack is substantially reduced, from around 90% uptime to only around 30%. Greatly nerfs the weapon, and is a huge deal. Needs to be fixed ASAP.
Thanks!