So the main take away from this topic is that time gating sucks
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Yes it always sucks but in a way only Blizzard could, they made it worse than it had to be.
Always has… It’s the worst, makes me stop playing the game and just come back later.
It’s ultimately just an unfortunate truth about Blizzard’s design philosophy. They have to create content that forces you to keep playing if you want any results, rather than content that just makes you want to play it
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Every dps class I’ve read on the forums has reported a loss. No offense but as heals your minor dps increase isn’t what matters.
I’ve sim’d my alts, dh, lock, enh, and fury. All a dps loss. And they’re not even that geared. But grats on the dps increase on a healer. I’m sure that proves all us dps wrong.
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I have no idea what I’m doing but that ring, at this moment in time, is not happening for me purely for the fact I am not ready to lose 2000 vers or haste just to have some “small chance” of a proc I don’t care about.
I am assuming that when we unlock the next gems (yay for timegating usefulness i guess?), then we can have our two secondaries and then the last gem slot will be whatever proc we want? Right? That sounds ok. But not having the two secondaries unlocked right now is keeping my casual butt from using a ring that is like thirty ilvls higher…
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But you didn’t actually test it? Raidbots isn’t infallible. Any gear that that involves procs/trinkets aren’t usually accurate the first pass.
Depends how close in value those things are, or how relevant and interesting they are.
The gulf in value between the gems is silly, and none of them are unique or interesting enough for me to care beyond which gives me the biggest numbers.
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Unless the proc was buffed in damage and proc rate, it would be impossible for the ring to be an upgrade from any 610 or > rings.
The problem for DPS is that we are being forced to use one of the healing gems at this time.
Mariners Hallowed Citrine.
Your spells and abilities have a chance to bathe an ally in restorative water that jumps to 2 nearby allies, restoring 146809.98 health to each of them.
Whoever decided the gems should be gated shouldn’t be allowed to make decisions.
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Ignoring iL… How can it be an upgrade with no stats?
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I really don’t understand time gating this item. Season 1 is effectively over. A lot of people aren’t going to be raiding because of the holidays and then Season 2 is right around the corner.
Why go to the trouble of making a ring people are only going to use for like a month?
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I doubt that will be the case. As it currently is, it will 100% be replaced by heroic undermine rings unless there are further changes.
I tested the ring in an 8 key last night. The damage proc accounted for ~2.7% of my overall damage on my DH.
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yeah it’s -15k dps vs any of my cheap hero track rings right now.
feelsbadman
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They might buff it for sure, probably next week, i still have no use for it
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I was hoping it came with a merkin.
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I don’t do raids, or M+, only delves, and so this this SHOULD be better than most of my stuff. And it kind of is. Most of my rings are 606-619. But I find the opening iteration of this thing VERY disappointing for how it was portrayed. It’s pretty easy to get, yeah. Just run through some point and click quests. But the item level of the ring seems to WAAAAAY outstrip it’s affect on my toons.
The obvious response is, “this is just the first iteration. Each week we will get a chance to upgrade it and get new gems!” Which is fair enough, I guess. But it just seems like the item level should match the affect it has on my dudes. Gems or not. I know it gives 14k stam, which for me was +5k, so a nice boost from a single item. But this is an epic item and Stam is not nearly as sexy as even a secondary stat.
I also know that some items are intentionally made to be bad vs. other items of the same item level. so that people need to make choices. Like some of the trinkets which have no primary stat and a so, so use ability, but a pretty high seconday stat. But that is not how this ring is being sold by the devs. It is supposed to be, “BAM!” “POW!” I got the Circlet!
Instead I’m feeling more, “Oh, cool. Cyrce’s Circlet. Yeah, OK.” Recognition, but no exclamation points at all.
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Your name is awesome, very apt. Even more so next tier!
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From what I can see it is not good on tanks. 642 variant with “bis” gems sims lowers on my protpal and frankly the abilities seem uninspired. Hard pass
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