This late in the season, it has to be weak, and good thing they didn’t repeat on Forbidden Island.
What happened on Forbidden Island??
Why time gate it and make it this weak late into a season when its just going to get nerfed into the ground in S2
What did you expect? A M+ BiS level item? It was never meant to be. Just keep using your BiS ring and running your mythics. It obviously wasn’t meant for you.
But I guess flexing on the forums is a thing to
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Imagine if the devs actually read this board instead of being locked in the basement by the bean counters. Is anyone truly shocked the good gems are timegated? That’s another month of people paying-n-playing.
Also lol at the clown show of each gem being on a different vendor.
Shadowlands Team++
/waves hand from the depths of 610
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It’s weak probably because they don’t want to have to nerf it.
This is gear, not borrowed power. It’s no different from a set bonus. Nothing suggests this ring won’t work in the future, just that you’ll simply be getting something else to replace it like any other piece of gear.
Why bother releasing a ring at 642ilvl that sims worse than a 619 ring.
This makes no sense
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WoWhead just posted an article: Timegated Gem Selection Causes Cyrce’s Circlet to Massively Underperform in Week 1
Because of the time-gating of the gems for the new ring, we essentially have two options:
- For DPS, Thunderlord/Mariners/Windsinger
- For HPS, Roaring/Mariners/Windsinger
While the healing gem available is actually pretty strong even for DPS. the best 642 Cyrce’s Circlet ring this week is 1,887 secondary stat and a 4 RPPM + Haste% damage or heal proc with no extra sockets. When you compare this to a 639ilvl “normal” ring, these rings have 6,004 secondary stats baseline.
SimCraft – This week’s Cyrce’s Circlet is equivalent to about an item level 575ilvl ring . www(.)raidbots(.)com/simbot/report/uChFuZHDWvt8ZvpNwgXTqE
“Nonetheless, we’re focused on the item level of the ring as our guide for its performance.”
There is a 64ilvl difference in performance…
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Because the 642 ring will be much better than the 619 when it has the good gems
The actual problem is the time gating of said gems
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Any combination of gems should be BIS (they can’t all be BIS but you know what I mean) to meet their stated goal. Otherwise 99% of the playerbase is going to have the same 3 gems because only 3 are good and the rest are terrible.
Well, yeah, of course there’s only going to be 3 options. That’s what BiS is
Not sure where youre getting this from. I have all three sockets filled.
It’s not even worth equipping for alts. You’re better off buying the 584 rings off the vendor and upgrading those. Currently the ring is about on par with a 575 ring.
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I’m pretty sure they mean you can’t add gem sockets to it
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We got baited 
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Did you know that you can add 2 sockets to all jewelry this xpac?
Except for the new one of course. You know, for reasons…
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Why didn’t they just put secondaries on it lmao. We’re supposed to be using it next patch anyway right? So who cares if it’s broken?? One less slot to worry about
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Classic blizzard with the completely unnecessary timegate on gems for literally no good reason at all, imagine trying to make some lame patch and advertise this ring as a must have for everyone and then release it being useless for anyone who takes the game seriously.
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