Slainté!
Ah Brewfest, my favorite Azerothian fiesta. There is nothing like rocketing along on a keg-laden Ram, sloshed to the gills, with chaotic oompah music blaring as your zoom by.
I was secretly hoping that rather than replicating all the entry-level badge items again Blizzard would update the trinkets from the TBC years. Namely, Coren’s Lucky Coin. It wasn’t in the cards, and now rather than having an awesome BV trinket for my threat set, I’m left with some silly dodge nonsense.
Speaking of trinkets, how about those two 170 stamina charms? Craziness, though great for starter tanks. I would easily choose the Bubbling Brightbrew Charm (the use effect is a weak Healing Stream Totem) over Essence of Gossamer, though not over the Heart of Iron nor probably the Black Heart, either. A lot of stamina is nice, but the massive amounts of that stat on these two items kind of reinforces my point from Friday does it not?
Of course you’re now going to see legions of fresh tanks duel-wielding barmaids. Such is the siren song of effective health.
I think my one goal of this fortnightly fest (aside from being hailed as Brewmaster Rhidach) is getting a mole machine remote, if only for the easy access to MC it will give.
Tonight we’re heading into Heroic ToC-10. I hope to report good things tomorrow.
Armory Feed
Ahh – nothing like effective health. I have to agree though that I seriously have to look at the extra stam vs the armor value given by the Black Heart. The stam is always there though, and the Heart doesn’t always proc when you need it (Kind of like your argument about Blooddraining vs. Mongoose).
Of course I have to get one first.
I am torn about the Black Heart as well, it has a 25-30% uptime and when it isn’t up you have NOTHING… With the Brew trinket I always have the extra 500 hp.
Not coming out on either side yet, but the armor might not be there when you need it and does nothing against magic damage.