I wanted to get your thoughts on something. Ask Mr. Robot suggests swapping out Signet of the Priory for Reverberating Radio, but I’m a bit skeptical.
As an Elemental Shaman, my damage profile heavily revolves around Ascendance. The Priory ring lines up really well with that burst window, offering high secondary stats exactly when I need them most. Reverb Radio, on the other hand, provides stats in a more random pattern, which doesn’t seem to synergize as effectively with that playstyle.
Hey there - thanks for the snapshot. I’ve been playing my elemental shaman mostly this raid tier, so I hear what you are saying about the ascendance window being a big deal. Elemental dps is very sensitive to fight length and cooldown timing because of this.
The value of a 2 minute cooldown on-use trinket is going to be highly dependent on fight length. It will only line up with ascendance during the pull, and then again at 6 minutes into a fight, so really you are only getting one use with ascendance in a fight. In M+ this could be really good because you are doing huge burst on big pulls that are shorter, and you can potentially get that burst pretty often depending on the timing of pulls. It is really hard to put an average value on that, because we’d have to account for not just the cooldown of the trinket and ascendance, but also the pull timing.
For our optimization we look at one continuous fight. For any fight in the 4-5 minute range, I think the two trinkets will be very comparable.
If you are doing m+ and you know your timing is such that you are nuking down packs with ascendance on a very favorable timing with the on-use, I’d go ahead and use the customize section to give the on-use some more value.