High End Weapon Enchants Testing

On the Test realm, I had my 1.6 second fast sword and my 3.5 second slow Polearm enchanted with each of the enchants.  Then I ground on level 48ish elite trolls in Hinterlands.  I used Procwatch to count procs and a lot of Mekaraa to keep my health up while I fought.  Thanks everyone who lent materials and time!

NOTE:  I'm still gathering data and doing analysis.  I don't recommend choosing an enchantment guided by what you see here...yet.

Crusader
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3.5 second.  508 hits 34 procs
->1.15 ppm
1.6 second.  1559 hits 46 procs
->1.10 ppm

Crusader immediately heals you for 115 to 190 (range maybe slightly wider...and it sometimes crit heals for 150% of normal) and grants a +100 Strength buff for 15 seconds.  If Crusader procs again during a previous 15 second buff, you get healed and the timer is set back up to 15 seconds.

Crusader has a 1.1 proc per minute average.  I say average because it can proc on two hits in a row or not proc at all for a a few minutes.  Because one proc can overlap with another, consider that you'll have +100 Strength roughly 1/4 of the time.

Since Crusader is "procs per minute" rather than some fixed percent chance per hit, it will proc just as frequently with a fast weapon as it will with a slow weapon.  However, it is still FAR better to put this on a slow weapon if your class has any kind of special attacks based on damage range of your weapon.  A 3.0 speed weapon gains higher damage range TWICE as fast as a 1.5 speed weapon does from Attack Power bonuses...and Strength feeds into Attack Power for melee.  Keep in mind that Rogues and Hunters only get 1 Attack Power for every +Strength, but everyone else gets 2 melee Attack Power for each +Strength.

Fiery Weapon
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1.6 second.  1053 hits 192 procs
->6.83 ppm
3.5 second.  420 hits 164 procs
->6.69 ppm

Fiery Weapon simply hits your target for 40 fire damage when it procs.  Sometimes it crits for 60 fire damage.  Do not confuse "Fiery Weapon" with the EVIL and VILE and WICKED "Fiery Enchantment" which is applied from a quest object from the badlands.  Make sure that if you pay for an enchant with "fiery" in it that it says "Weapon!"

Fiery Weapon has a rate of about 6.8 procs per minute.  Again, weapon speed doesn't matter.  It has the same effect on a fast weapon or a slow weapon.  However, you should prefer to put this on a weapon for which other enchants aren't a heck of a lot better.

Not counting the crits, Fiery Weapon will do 4.53 DPS fire damage on average.

Icy Chill
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1.6 second.  395 hits 14 procs
->1.3 ppm

Icy Chill puts a debuff on your target that reduces movement "TO 70%" and attack speed "BY 20%"...for 5 seconds...about once a minute average.  As you can see in the testing data above, I was getting so few procs that I gave up early so the 1.3 procs per minute is VERY likely to be off by a fair margin.

Icy Chill is just HORRIBLE.  Something attacking you at 80% of normal speed for five seconds is completely *yawn*.  Moving at 70% speed for 5 seconds is hardly what I'd call slow, having played a Frost Mage.  Plus, the window of slowness is so small that you'll never catch someone or escape from someone because of it.  The only thing going for this enchant is that it's pur-ty.

Life Stealing
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3.5 second.  450 hits.  121 procs.
-> 4.61 ppm OR 27% chance per hit

Life Stealing takes 30 hps from your target and gives them to you.  It can proc off of Seal of Command, and probably other procs.  ...wonder if it can proc off of Rogue poisons...hrm.

I wasn't able to test Life Stealing on the Test server, so I don't have data on a fast weapon.  Either someone can donate an enchant on Alleria for my fast weapon, or put one on their own fast weapon and let me guide you on testing procedure, or we can wait until Test is back up.  I have Life Stealing on my slow weapon on Alleria, so I'll keep an eye on it and improve the sample size greatly in the near future.

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I've been meaning to test out high-end weapon enchants eventually.  Today someone requested this investigation and I'm happy to deliver.

The goal is to provide the guild with precise details on how these enchants work...and how well they work with what weapons.  These are expensive enchants and we want people to get the most out of them.

To this end, I will copy Alastriona to the test server.  I'll also need Enchanters with the right recipes to copy themselves so they can enchant both a fast and a slow weapon of mine with each enchantment in turn.  I believe you can copy your character a few times to the test server, so you'll only need to be carrying components for one enchant.

I would ask that any guildies help by lending the enchanters who assist me the components while they do the character copy.

Here are the enchantments and components I plan to test:

Lifestealing (Zia)
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Large Brilliant Shard (6), <6 lent by Mekara>
Essence of Undeath (6), <I have 7 already>
Living Essence (6) <I have 4 already.> <1 lent by Winterhawk>

Crusader (Mekara, Illithorn)
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Large Brilliant Shard (4), <4 lent by Mekara>
Righteous Orb (2) <I have 1 already.> <2 lent by Mekara>

Unholy Weapon
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Large Brilliant Shard (4), <3 lent by Amerylla><1 lent by Mekara>
Essence of Undeath (4) <4 lent by Winterhawk>

Icy Chill (Zia, Mekara, Skimbleshank) 
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Small Brilliant Shard (4), <4 lent by Mekara>
Essence of Water, <I have this already.>
Essence of Air, <1 lent by Winterhawk> <1 lent by Mekara>
Icecap <I have this already>

Fiery Weapon (Mekara)
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Small Radiant Shard (4), <1 lent by Mekara> <4 lent by Amerylla>
Essence of Fire <1 lent by Mekara>



Total Needed
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10 Essence of Undeath (have 15)
1 Essence of Fire (have 1)
6 Living Essence (have 6)
1 Essence of Air (have 2)
1 Essence of Water (have 1)

1 Icecap (have 1)
2 Righteous Orbs (have 3)

4 Small Radiant Shard (have 5)
4 Small Brilliant Shard (have 4)
14 Large Brilliant Shard (have 14)

Awesome Idea, and look forward to the rest of the results as it's almost time to pick and chose which one's to use, and which one's to ignore.

Thanks a ton

Any chance you could give us some insight into how Omen of Clarity procs for druids?  This is a buff we cast on ourselves that allows us to process a free nuke or heal.  I'd love to find out if the weapon I'm using plays into this ability.

Faythe

Nightshroud, thank you for the information on the enchants! I noticed that you didn't have the chance to test lifestealing on a fast weapon, so the following acticle might be useful which tests lifestealing on a 1.50 speed dagger:

http://rogerkarlsson.com/blogs/wow/lifestealing/