I’m just curious how you have been processing the trinket Vessel of Tortured Souls for Shadow Priests?
Here’s my BiS snapshot: a7155dc946434349adbbb2c5e70b663e
AMR says Vessel of Tortured Souls is BiS, other sources have this trinket nowhere near the top. Other sources mention Gaze of the Alnseer and Vaelgor’s Final Stare as BiS trinkets, none of these are considered BiS on AMR. AMR lists Locus-Walker’s Ribbon as the other BiS trinket.
I’m not saying AMR is wrong, I’m just trying to figure out why the big difference between AMR and other sources.
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Wowhead: https://www.wowhead.com/guide/classes/priest/shadow/bis-gear#trinkets
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The trinket rankings are currently pretty “by the numbers”, I’m still working on some new simulation techniques to try and capture a few of the timing nuances.
Vessel of Tortured Souls is a tough one… the little orbs it spawns are a real pain to see, so what percent of them you manage to pick up can be highly variable. I reduced it a little in a previous update (I’m saying you can pick up about 70% of them), but we may need to reduce it some more.
That said… the bloodmallet ranking (which is really the simulationcraft ranking, bloodmallet is just a nice site that runs the simulation as-is) for that trinket looks very suspicious – it barely ranks better than a PvP trinket… which means the proc is getting almost no value at all. That doesn’t seem right.
I should have a round of adjustments available later this week sometime – it is of course turning out to be a bit trickier than anticipated. One case that I’m trying to handle better than we have in the past is the tough case of ranking when you have two on-use trinkets equipped. Almost all of them lock each other out, which can really reduce the value of one of the trinkets for some specs.
This isn’t anything new, but it is a hard problem for an optimizer where you want a very stable ranking – if you just run a few simulations on the fly for a couple trinket setups and they rank close together, the optimization result can flip-flop each time you run it because of randomness/margin of error when doing monte carlo style simulations. Thus we have to get a bit fancier and use some statistics to both capture the interaction and smooth it out to get a deterministic result.
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The orbs are indeed a real pain to see, or even notice if they have spawned. I found out an addon yesterday, https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/tortured-souls-tts, so my pick up ratio increased a lot now when I get a TTS message when they spawn.
Ha that’s great that someone made a TTS addon to “fix” the design of that trinket… weird design choice by Blizzard to make it such a pain…