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Comment by Marclivis

There is no proc rate, it happens on every attack / spell that is successful.

Comment by 17498

You can get this by handing in the Blessings deck that can be created by gathering the ace through eight of Blessings cards that drop off random 61-70 monsters.

The Ace drops off Warp Splinter (Botanica), Harbinger Skyriss (Arcatraz), Pathaleon the Calculator (Mechanar), Aeonus (Black Morass), Omor the Unscarred (Hellfire Ramparts) or Warlord Kalithresh (Steamvaults).

Chances are that they only drop in Heroic, but it's not confirmed yet.

Comment by MetalGenocide

The 10 seconds gets refreshed when you hit an enemy.

Comment by 7328

does this work for hunters? It should, the buff does also increase RAP

Comment by 42159

80 spell damage is awesome for a trinket if you can keep it up. Better than the heroic trinket which averages as just under 70 damage. However if it wears out a few times in a fight and you have to restack it, while you're restacking it it's worth on average 40 spell damage (8+16+...+80)/10=40 (actually a little less since you start at 0) and the heroic trinket gets a bigger benefit to its "use" feature the lower your % time attacking is.
For fights where you can keep it up it's better, and for fights where you stop attacking for longer than 10s relatively often the heroic trinket is better.
Both trinkets aren't really close to quagmiran's eye even after it was nerfed although quag's eye gives a lot of DPS that also costs more mana, but then again most of the time it doesn't matter.

Comment by cyborg99

Not sure if it was asked in all the downranked comments, which is unlikely, but does Seal of Righteousness proc the +damage portion of it?

Comment by 28115

Wow this trinket is amazing for a feral druid! in cat form our base att speed is 1 sec so we would refresh this constintly! so as long as the fight lasts over 20 sec that means that we get a constent increase of ap by 120! cant argue with that! but from a pvp stand point i would still use my https://www.wowhead.com/cata/item=29383! but pve i would say this trinket is better for the longer fights.

Comment by 27471

It works with ranged damage as well.

Comment by 57645

I got this trinket and tested it, the proc happens on *any* offensive spell cast that hits, including curses, fear (and the aoe version thereof) and dots. The proc stacks up to 10 then stays there for as long as you refresh it before the duration runs out.

Edit: oops, wasn't meant to be a reply, oh well.

Comment by 57645

Another interesting point is that you get a stack for every target hit by an aoe effect. Also, strangely enough, wand hits proc the melee effect. (thus I'd assume that hunters gain ap from it as well)

Comment by 58570

Just tested this. As a Mage, it procs on ever Arcane Missiles wave. It's very handy to get them stacks up quickly no matter what spec you are. Takes a bit longer in the end to go fully out but when a fight is long enough, it'll do its job well on the DPS part.

Comment by 39827

The proc occurs when your harmful effects land. This includes debuffing your target, curses, vampiric embrace, dispelling, each wand hit, etc. Channeled spells and dots will not cause the effect to proc multiple times.

The proc is a buff on the player called Aura of the Crusader. As such, you can attack one target and gain up to 80 spell damage. You can then target another mob within 10 seconds and still sustain the +80 spell damage buff for an additional 10 seconds. Spell damage does not start over at zero as some people have previously theorized.

Outside of bosses, the behavior of this trinket makes it very good for arenas, farming, and other times in which you encounter multiple enemies in a short period of time.

Comment by horuszero

Just got the deck this morning, it is awesome for warlocks, damn near procs off everything. Banish, All types of lock fears, non damaging curses like CoS and CoE, just about everything you can bascially cast. It will not proc off dot ticks per say just inital application of the dot. Wands proc the melee side of the card, which you can have both melee and spell damage buffs going at the same time.

Comment by 58825

So if a shaman uses FT on the weapon, he will get both 6AP and 8SD at the same time? or say, a hybrid class can get full use of it, is that right?

need someone to confirm Thx

Comment by Exavier

Highly recommended for the PvE Ret paladin. Both buffs are quick to stack up and easy to maintain.

AP buff

Auto-attack
Seal of Command swings (no other Seal damage)
Crusader Strike

SP buff

Judgement
First tic of Consecration (one stack per mob affected)
Exorcism
Holy Wrath (one stack per mob affected)
Repentance
Hammer of Justice
Arcane Torrent (one stack per mob affected)

Comment by 58741

Every1 can use this trinket...
for melee and hunters it will be attack power gained,
for spell users it will be spell dmg.
as told above Ret Pally user uber with this as well as Enhancement shaman.

Comment by Thunderfury

Not sure though if this trinket is a wise choice if your a fury warrior that does alot of PvE. It would give you (6x20) 120AP pretty much all the time you're killing something, but wouldn't it then be better to get a item with some attackpower and a procc? In my oppinion there's several items that would fit better for warrior, I would rather pick up the one from Gruul then put alot of gold into getting this trinket.

Comment by 44554

For casters:
-dot's initial cast will proc it
-direct damage spells will proc it
-AoE spells will give 1 charge for each target they hit.
-Non damage spells flagged as 'harmful' will proc it (means any spell that would aggro a mob, like counterspell, but not spells like detect magic)
-"Immune" wont proc it
-Resists wont proc it

the 10second duration is renewed every time a spell lands, making it great for long, non-stop fights.

For melee:

-each normal hit will proc it
-each special attack will proc it
-multitarget attacks will proc it as many times as they hit

makes a nice trinket for a rogue i guess, not as good for dps warriors or other classes that dont value AP as much

Oddly enough, wanding gives the AP buff so i am guessing all ranged attacks do, without having tested it.

Comment by Serathis

Seems this is one of the best darkmoon cards so far. During a bossfight you can gain +120 AP in no matter of time (20 hits while DWing doesnt take long) and keep it up for nearly the whole encounter. If you lose the buff, its easy to get it back.
Simply the best if you ask me (and probably will be very expensive)

Comment by 5315

It's Best Trinket for Retri Paladin.

+120 AP
+80 SD

Comment by jcj64200031

This trinket rocks for arcane mages. we get 1 spell hit every 5 seconds with arcane missiles, and with POMing and fireblasts added in, it takes only about 15 seconds to max the buff out. and in an instance with large pulls (like shadow labs) It would add an insane amount of damage (and seeing as how "sheep" is an aggresive spell, it too would probably make this proc)

Comment by 39663

I have this trinket, and have used it throughout all of SSC and on Al'ar and Void Reaver in The Eye. It's a truly insane trinket, adding damage by the bucket-load for trash-pulls and bosses alike (where "trash" means 25-man raid trash, not the 3-mob pulls in 5-man instances).

The only tricky part is to learn how to keep the buff up throughout the fight. 10 seconds might sound like plenty of time to land a new spell, but in reality it's rarely enough to keep it up constantly for highly mobile fights (Spout-dodging on Lurker, running from Arcane Orb on Void Reaver), or fights where whatever you're targetting becomes untargettable for any extended period of time (Lurker when he dives, Al'ar phase 2). I usually try to watch the buff-timer and apply a Vampiric Touch or similar whenever it's about to run out.

I haven't tried using Mind Vision to keep it up yet, but as Mind Vision doesn't aggro stuff you land it on, I wouldn't expect it to proc it, and I believe it's a bug if it does. It wouldn't really help everywhere though (Al'ar phase 2 fe, as he can't even be targeted while meteoring), unless it works while mind visioning friendly targets as well. I'll have to test that, I think. 65 mana (MV rank 1, 100 yd range) would be a cheap price to keep 80 spelldamage up constantly.

Comment by 5117

this must be paladin only trinket!

Comment by 23914

If you're a rogue, this combined with wrath is an amazing combo for those long boss-fights, where you'll be able to significantly buff your damage output and make up for a lack of crit (if you have one). If your crit's fine then a different trinket (instead of wrath) is probably a good idea.

Comment by 62841

it is the best warlock trinket ingame, except the ashtongue-trinket (https://www.wowhead.com/cata/item=32493)if there are a lot of mobs i can put my dots on.

Comment by Shikka

GoGo enhancement shaman, they get the AP for their melee attacks and the Spell Damage for their shocks <3

Best trinket ever, give more of such items.

Comment by 18009

great for most boss battles for rogues... an extra 120ap is pretty sweet... a dagger rogues should be able to cap stack it in ~4-5sec and maintain it EASY

Comment by aleols

From the PTR patch notes for 2.2.0:

Darkmoon Card: Crusade: This item can no longer trigger from Mind Soothe, Soothe Animal, or Mind Vision.

Comment by 69859

I am a hunter with this trinket and these have been my observations:

1) Range attacks apply both range and melee AP buff at once.
2) Arcane shot, multi shot, steady/aimed all will apply the AP.
3) Kill Command applies the caster spell buff. I am unsure as to what stacking buffs do since the mobs i tested on were weak, but I am sure KC procs spell dmg. I will post an edit if I find that stacking spell dmg increases KC dmg.
4) Pets do nothing as far as trinket: cannot proc it, gain only % contribution from your stats and cannot reapply it.

Comment by Caffi

Does anyone see the potential for this trinket with a paladin? ANY paladin?

Any time you have 2-3 or more enemies you just cast consecration once, and the spell damage will be stacked 10 times in the matter of seconds!

The proc would increase the spell damage for crusader strike, any holy damage seals, and of course, consecration as well.

As of right now, this is my main goal to gain for level 70.
If anyone knows a better trinket (Im kind'of on the lookout), please tell me ^^

Comment by 22732

after you reach the maximum bonuses will they be the same as long as you hit something, or the round starts again from the 1 bonus?

Comment by 4274

Did some testing on how this procs for mages. Perfect for an Arcane mage, decent for a scorch mage, but deep fire might want to look at something more burst focused.

Single-hit spells grant 1 proc
Fireball, Scorch, Arcane Blast, Frostbolt, Ice Lance, Pyroblast

AOE spells sometimes grant multiple procs
Arcane Explosion grants 1 proc per enemy hit.
Flamestrike grants 1 proc per enemy hit, the dot does not grant additional procs.
Cone of Cold grants 1 proc only.
BLIZZARD DOES NOT PROC THIS TRINKET
Could not test with Blastwave, input would be helpful.

Molten Armor and Ice Armor do not give procs when their effects land.

Non-harmful Combat spells do proc this trinket.
Slow, Polymorph, Spellsteal

Could not test:
Improved Wards spell reflect
Blastwave
Water Elemental
Dragon's Breath

Comment by 30706

For elemental shamans, this trinket sadly does not proc out of extra lightning bolts/chain lightnings granted through Lightning Overload. To answer the question about The Lightning Capacitor, I reckon since it doesn't proc out of an extra cast coming from a talent, it's highly unlikely it will proc from an extra cast of a trinket. I haven't tested this but I'd say the chance is a slim one.
Otherwise it stacks up with all direct damage and "harmful" effects including purge. Starting a fight with Rank 1 Lightning bolt (0.5sec cast) spam is a nice way to build up the trinket while the tank is still gaining agro.

EDIT: In 2.2 this is now changed. You gain one proc for each Lightning Overload bolt, which leads me to complete cluelessness whether The Lightning Capacitor procs will proc this trinket.

Comment by 85796

Just asking!!!! The card says also for ranged attack it will stack, but if i check the site from WoW Europe or ingame it doesn't say it at all.
So is it also working for ranged or is the text above wrong? Maybe someone, a hunter for example, can anwser this.

Comment by Banatu

Very nice trinket for a BM hunter, especially when using the Steady Shot macro and a Scorpid pet.

About 12.5% of the hunter's RAP contributes to pet's Spell Damage (+15 in this case), which affects the poison ticks of the Scorpid.

Naneme said that it works for hunters only three posts up. Please read the comments next time before you ask a question that has been answered.

Comment by 30136

Stupid question, but does this work with warrior's Thunderclap and maybe Demoralishing Shout effects?

Comment by 81679

The darkmoon card: wrath procs on lightning shield so this should do it too.

Comment by 30408

Does this proc for each tick of Drain Life just like it procs each tick of Arcane Missles?

Comment by Exavier

This has been changed for us paladins. As of patch 2.2, auto-attack and Judgement now proc both the attack power and spell damage stack. Previously, attack only added an AP stack, and Judgement only added a SP stack. Having Judgement proc the AP one is really just gravy, this is a nice buff to the card since you no longer have to constantly cast Judgement or Consecration whenever they're up to keep up the spell damage stack going.

Seal of Command will also proc both stacks. Nothing else about the trinket appears to have changed.

Edit: A slight correction, this new effect appears to only work when one of your Judgements is on the target. It seems the spell damage portion is now increased by the refreshing of a Judgement. Oddly, Crusade Strike does not proc the spell damage portion, and I'm really unsure why Judgement increases the AP bonus. *shrug* Whatever. :P

Comment by 60300

As of patch 2.2, the mage spell Scorch stacks 2 debuffs instead of 1.

Comment by 48152

Just did some testing with this trinket.
Perhaps its just me being stupid but i have had this trinket for a while and believed that the gained dmg from this trinket applied to the ongoing dots that i had on a mob. This is not the way it works.
If u get up to the 10th proc, u will have to recast the dot to get that amount of dmg. It will not instantly go higher.
Useful info for the stupid one's. :D

Comment by durenas

Does this proc off reflective damage that is cast upon the caster, such as holy shield, or blessing of sanctuary? Also does this proc off Darkmoon Card: Vengeance?

Comment by 86033

Procs from wand attacks will stack 20 times, not just 10.

Comment by 94302

note this guys ..

for some reason ..

when i scorch ..

it stacks 2 times !!

by the time i'm done with the 5 stacks on a boss / mob .. it reads 10 .. TEN ..

whereas fireballs .. pyro's .. give you a 1 stack per hit ..

nice way to start dpsing for a mage .. ^^

Comment by 48152

For warlocks:
PTR Patch 2.3.0:
Shadow Embrace: This talent's effect can no longer trigger other effects.

I guess that also means this trinket. Enjoy it while u can. :P

Comment by Abraxin

I'm a tankadin and am seriously thinking of getting this. Want to pair it up with Vengeance card, too. though, I do not know how wise that would be. Obviously after I get the 102.4% avoidance, it would be nice :) But I doubt I'd need any more +spell and the +AP is kinda pointless for a tankadin lol. Still, I'll be getting this for my Ret set ;)

Comment by 97575

can someone confirm that the card no longer procs with dots and stuff and ONLY with spell landing?

Comment by 98124

I just got my Trinket today and it does proc off each dot. Its very easy to max it out and keep it proc'd as an afflict lock. Also just a side note when i went to turn in my Blessings Deck with all 8 cards the NPC quest turn in did not take my blessing cards so I was able to keep all 8 and i still got my trinket. I thought at first that maybe i had to have the cards in my bag for the trinket to work but I mailed all the cards to another char i have and the trinket works fine so now I can go sell the cards and make some of my money back.

I did have my doubts about this trinket really being put to good use as I heard someone say that u will never get it to fully proc but thats not true, im able to max my proc on this trinket with no prob so its basically another 80 bonus spell damage. I'm glad I made the investment this trinket ROCKS!!!

Comment by Maerzadi

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Comment by 75113

Really nice trinket for raids,start with lvl1 arcane missilles
But i have a question.can this efect refreshing when be 10stack?

Comment by 102576

This + Icon of the Silver Crescent https://www.wowhead.com/cata/item=29370 is one of the best combos imo. And the effect is so easy to get up as a mage. I use Ice Lance to get my Winters Chill and this up and then just spam away at my Frostbolt :) Simple as pie.

Comment by 23078

While this deck is nice it seems to me that if you're looking for additional attack power, and are going to use a trinket slot, you'd almost be better of with anything else with an AP buff.

At a maximum this trinket is going to give you 60 AP. Even the Royal Seal of Eldre'Thalas gives you 48 and you could easily come into BC with that one...

Comment by Flyv

This item is one of the very few rare things that are equally good for physical DPS and caster DPS. That makes it particularly valuable to druids; it helps you with both feral and balance attacks. Worth the investment if you ever respec.

Comment by 80419

Shadow Embrace was changed in 2.3 to not trigger this and similar effects.

Comment by 36343

Also procs on when shamans Lightning Shield gets hit. So probly thorns on Druid also works?

Comment by 56502

Procs on EVERY single effect you can do. Slow, Polymorph, Counterspell, anything! If you cast an AoE, you will proc for EACH target hit by the spell, as well as each individual pulse from arcane missiles. Highly recommended for mages!

Comment by 99418

This one is worth every copper I have invested in it. As a destro warlock you can spam CoS quite early in every boss fight without getting aggro too soon. So you can start with your SB nuking fully "crusade buffed", i.e. with +80 damage.
You will also need some good hit rating since every miss costs time on the crusade proc so don't forget to cast a quick CoS now and then between other spells if the time is running out. ;)

Comment by mrmental

The spell part stack 10 times, but the melee stacks 20 times. So it gives you 120 AP not 60.

Comment by 98350

Incredible for an enhancement shaman, Unleashed rage increases the bonus AP gained and MQ will add to spelldamage on top of the normal +80 spelldamage bonus.

Comment by 76605

yes, to the previous poster who said it didn't proc off of blizzard. That's not true. every target and every tick of damage for each target. So less than half way through your blizzard channel the proc is maxed out. It's a wonderful trinket. Not all that good for quick kills as the ramp up time limits how much use you will get, but for longer fights or classes that attack very quickly, it is well worth it.

Comment by Athene

Actually, wether this is the best retradin trinket depends wether you are pure hardcore raider or not.
Spelldmg is 99% useless to a retradin(and will be nerfed even more the next patch), and the 120 AP doesn't exactly stack up in 1 second...

I've done som match on this myself, and you wont actually get a stack of 20x6 AP untill 34 seconds into the fight, IF you actually manage to time every melee, CS and judgement perfectly... Which you most probably wont.
Having this top off at 120 AP after a _minimum_ of 34 seconds, this means this trinket is far from the best retradin trinket if you use it for PVP or non-raidbosses.

If you compare this to Abacus of Violent Odds (https://www.wowhead.com/cata/item=28288), then Darkmoon: Crusade needs _atleast_ 84 seconds before it boosts your damage more than the Abacus would.
Any fight shorter than this would give you greater benefit from Abacus that Crusade, while any fight longer than this would make Crusade the better one.

Now if you look at the JWC BOP trinket Felsteel Boar (https://www.wowhead.com/cata/item=24124), then Crusade needs _atleast_ 81 seconds before it boosts your damage more than the Felsteel would.
Again, any fight shorter than this would give you greater benefit from Felsteel than Crusade. Additionally, Felsteel Boar is a really great PVP trinket, because of the surprise factor and the fact it’s attack actually slows down the casting time of a caster opponent. Really great trinket!

Then we have the trinket from Black Morass, the Hourglass of the Unraveller (https://www.wowhead.com/cata/item=28034). There is no clear answer to exactly how much extra damage it does, since it totally depends on the rest fo your damage and your total critchance, but when you get your total AP above 2000 and your crit rate is above 25%, I really do belive this one is better than Crusade.
I can tell that 300 AP would increase _my_ damage by 18,5% in those 10 seconds, and that’s a lot!
It does have an internal CD of 45 seconds, and with that taken into consideration, the trinket will increase my average effective DPS by about 35-40 nomatter how long the fight is (in theory, nothing is certain with proccs).

I did save up every little piece of Blessings cards to get Crusade, but when I did some math on it, and discovered that it’s a pure raidtrinket, I lost my interest and sold every card. It’s just not worth the 1700g I payed for all those pieces.

Comment by Trollinmotor

I'm fairly new to the game and I love playing a hunter. I read through all of the comments and I find no comments on if this deck is good for a hunter. It would seem so for the AP alone. Any comments plz reply thx.

Comment by 91592

For Enhancement Shaman:
Windfury procs will not trigger the melee buff, only white hits and Storm Strike (for 2)

Lightning shield will proc the spell buff ticks

Comment by Rubert

I got this recently and I was quite suprised to find out that Avenger's Shield and Hammer of Wrath gives attack power instead of spell damage. Also, Holy Shield doesn't activate the trinket either on casting or when blocking attacks.

Comment by 118326

#2 Trinket in Game for a Fury Warrior on a Boss. 120 AP constant after no more then 20 secs. It has a static 29.89 dps

#1 trinket is From ZA it has a Stagering 37.36 dps.

Comment by 6780

Nice kitty druid trinket. Fast 1.0 attack speed means that it will stack up fast.

Comment by 76136

I have all but the Six of Blessings. And now I'm having buyer's remorse.

I'm a Ret Pali and I've recently started PvP'ing a lot. I have yet to raid, but may start doing the occasional jump into Kara (though rare). Does this trinket hold any PvP value, or are we looking at a strict Raider's item?

If the latter, where would be a good source of info for alternatives?

Comment by 120895

Does the buff you get work well as a dispel debuffer, for example if it is fully stacked(10 stacks) will it take 5 purges to dispel it all or will one purge remove the whole buff?

Comment by 116147

This is still a nice trinket but do keep in mind that you cannot count on the keeping the full 80 damage/120 AP buff up for the *entirety* of a boss fight as almost every boss has some ability that will interrupt your dps for 10 seconds or more, and you will have to build it back up. It is hard to work that into a simulation so don't be fooled by the theorycrafting. That said, it is still a good trinket, but it will not add an automatic 80 damage to every spell you cast.

Comment by Abraxin

I have this on my Retadin and I have to say it is indeed a blessing. I get both buffs stacked so fast it's kinda like having them up from the start lol. I highly recommend this trinket for any melee DPS. I would also like to add that each stack has a chance of procing the Insightful Earthstorm Diamond's mana regen, which is lovely for a Ret pally :) Get it if you can.

Comment by 125105

I have been looking at getting this for my Marksman AoE hunter. However, I would like to know what hunter abilities are "Spells" and which are "Attacks", so I can know how the damage on this is going to pan out before I make the actual investment.

Comment by 93865

Procs from Enchant Weapon: Unholy will cause the spell damage buff to proc.

Comment by 127046

Seed of corruption tigger on seed hit +1 stack, and when the AOE the crusade +1 to each hit on AOE

in Hyjal one seed = +10 stack instant ^^

Comment by 99689

Ret Pally and Enh Shammy wet dream! Just finished the deck can't wait for darkmoon fair to come!

Comment by 57652

Is this a good trinket for a BM hunter? Or is there better trinets worth getting? 120extra AP over 20 ranged shots does not sound bad even though this would be most benificial on boss fights.

Comment by rcmcasper

Shadow Embrace Rank 1
Your Corruption, Curse of Agony, Siphon Life and Seed of Corruption spells also cause the Shadow Embrace effect, which reduces physical damage caused by 1%.

"Each time you land a harmful spell on an opponent, you gain 8 spell damage for the next 10 sec., stacking up to 10 times."

Shadow Embrace may of triggered the trinket's effect prior to 2.3.0, which means casting Corruption + Shadow Embrace would cause 2 stacks of the effect.

However, since most raiding warlocks don't cast these spells (Corruption, Curse of Agony, or Siphon Life) in rapid succession becase they're DoT spells, it has minimal impact on how the trinket works for WARLOCKS.

Hands down, one of the best DPS trinkets for any warlock spec as Shadow Bolt and maybe soon Incinerate will make up most of your overall damage. This trinket should be considered a boost of about 65 DPS on a raid spec'd destruction warlock ( http://www.maxdps.com ).

Comment by 133786

I have also the same question, is this good for BM hunters.?

Comment by Warcraft

I just got this wonderful Darkmoon card for my Protection Paladin and my only regret is not having gotten it sooner. With everything that Paladins do while tanking, stacking and refreshing the buff(s) from this trinket could not be any easier.

As mentioned in a previous comment, the first tick of Consecration will proc one application of the spell damage component for every effected mob. This essentially means that as soon as you drop a Consecration in an environment like Hyjal Summit, you're fully stacked.

While Seals on their own do not proc the spell damage component, Judgements do proc it and so does refreshing Judgements. This means that once you apply any Judgement to your target, your auto-attack (with or without Seal) will start stacking and refreshing spell damage in addition to AP.

One pleasant surprise I encountered was that Seal of Vengeance applications do in fact proc spell damage. Righteous Defense, which I wasn't sure about, turned out not to proc it. Finally, as I anticipated, reflective shields (meaning Holy Shield, Blessing of Sanctuary and Retribution Aura) do not proc it, either.

All in all, I highly recommend this card to any Protection Paladin with enough gear to sacrifice an avoidance trinket. The 80 spell damage is huge for us, and the AP does not hurt either, since a small part of our threat is still generated through white damage.

Comment by defektunge

Note that as an enhancement shaman, you'll only be procing the spell effect with your shocks, which have a six second cooldown. That's very important for two reasons:

It will take you ten shocks to build up the spell damage buff to the maximum, which will take you a full minute of shocking every cooldown.
With twelve seconds between each shock, a single resist is enough to cause the whole stack to fade, and enhancement shamans aren't really known for their high spell hit rating...

The end result of this is that with Nature's Guidance 3/3 and zero spell hit (14% resist chance), you'll be gaining an average of ~29 spelldamage from the spelldamage side of this trinket during an extended fight.

Comment by 66395

How does this compare to Airman's Ribbon of Gallantry? Which would benifit more for a mage?

Comment by Pledioch

I've been an arcane mage for quite a long time, and having this trinket has been wonderful. After quite a few re-specs brought on by my boredom with my current spec, I decided to go back to fire (2/48/11). The last time I was fire was before Icy Veins, and I already enjoyed that, so I figured i'd try out Icy Veins.

The point is...if you're stacking Scorch, with the Incinerate talent, this trinket will almost always stack from your 5 Scorches. Assuming the worst possible conditions (no crits on Scorch or your first 2-3 Fireballs), it probably won't take more than 15 seconds to stack this trinket to the full effect.

In light of this, I think this is a good trinket to have as both fire and arcane. On fights where you can expect to have downtime or interruption in casting long enough that might let the buff run out, you'd probably be better off with the Icon of the Silver Crescent or a similar trinket, but definitely don't write this trinket off.

Comment by 137854

Read the descripton more carefully. It specifies 'melee and ranged damage' and 'harmful spells'. It does not mention physical damage. A wand does magical damage, but is not a harmful spell, it is ranged damage. Therefore it procs Attack Power, not Spell Damage.

Comment by Vylea

Wands do not deal physical damage, they deal the damage of the type of wand, I.e. Shadow, Fire, Nature, etc. So the source is magical, (it is a wand), but the use of the wand is physical, the character literally swings the wand towards the target to release the bolt. So having it proc the AP part of the trinket is not too far-fetched. Not to mention wands have a skill attached to them that has to be learned through use of the wand, unlike spells.

And maybe that is exactly what Blizzard wanted, a hybrid weapon option that was physical but did magical damage.

Comment by 73751

Because wands are a physical attack that cause damage of a specific type.

normally, a magic immune mob is immune to fire damage, frost damage, nature, arcane, shadow, and holy damage. Your wand deals fire damage, so the mob is immune to the damage.

Comment by 96055

For an elemental shaman wouldnt something with around 30-40 spell and a clickable bonus to spell damage be more beneificial. Saying that because 2 second lightning bolts, which means 5 procs on the trinket in 10 seconds which is 40 spell damage, and you dont have the buff up to start out with anyways. Thanks, Papadraeno

Comment by 108026

An intresting thing i found out with this trinket is that when you cast scorch with your mage (while having improved scorch) it gives you 2 stacks of the buff at once meaning with 5 scorch you will have this trinket on its full power.

Comment by 56282

The total ap/spell damage gain per fight is based on how long that fight lasts and how fast your attack speed is, assuming a static attack speed (wrong - but over 20 attacks or 10 spells probably a fairly reasonable assumption):

Attack Power

Average gain = (60x +120y)/(x+y)

Where x is time taken to hit the mob 20 times so one quick example:

A hit capped bm hunter with an attack speed of 2.0 (roughly average again) using a 1:1 shot rotation:

Average 1 attack every second - 20 seconds to full stack:

= (1200 + 120y)/(20+y)

However this is a more optimum scenario, say we take a class which hits much slower, say and average of once every 3 seconds (probably not possible, but just as an example).

It however only makes sense if we know how long the fight is so best and worse case scenarios:

20 Second trash Mob:

Fast - 1200/20 = Static 60 Ap
Slow - 400/20 = Static 20 Ap

1 Minute Fight:

Fast - (1200 + 4800)/60 = 100 Ap
Slow - (3600)/60 = 60 Ap

2 Minute Fight:

Fast - (1200 + 12000)/120 = 110 Ap
Slow - (3600 + 9000)/120 = 105 Ap

10 minute fight (e.g Nightbane):

Fast - (1200 + 69600)/600 = 118 Ap
Slow - (3600 + 64800)/600 = 114 Ap

The point being that at the length of the fight increases the amount of average ap you gain (assuming you can maintain a full stack increases). Also that even if you are a class with attacks which are unimaginably slow ( 3 seconds), you'll only feel a loss of ap on those fights (trash mobs) which are very short anyway, the returns on the trinket very quickly catch up to those with a much faster (3 times) attack speed.

This is just information for people to quickly work out how much this trinket is worth:
Remembering that most trash pulls are multiple and assuming that a stack can be maintained through mob switching and that most bosses are over 2 minutes long, your going to be seeing at least 100 Attack Power static gain over a fight, whether or not thats the best option for you depends on what other trinkets grant:

For example Bloodlust Brooch when used consistently offers 115 Ap - In very very long fights this trinket might pass it but that is probably doubtful.

Another example was given above of Hourglass of the Unraveller, the example given took 34 seconds for the card to reach a full stack:

Taking an average 2 minute fight:

(2040 + 10320)/120 = 103 Ap

The hourglass has a 50 second internal cooldown (check the page) and a fairly low proc rate, since there is only one post relating to proc rate i'm not going to use those numbers to infer how many times it should be up in a fight (too little informaition) instead taking the 50 second cooldown, in the space of a 2 minute fight it isn't likly to be up more than twice:

300 ap for 20 seconds of the fight, this is fairly generous on the hourglass as the one test puts the proc rate at around 3% (on crits - which does seem a little low), however taking these generous numbers the proc would equal:

300*20/120 = 50 Ap over the course of the fight:

Now whether or not the static 32 crit rating makes up for what is probably roughly a 60 ap difference (remember we're being too fair the the hourglass) is up to you.

A similar formula can be applied to spell damage:

Average gain = (40x +80y)/(x+y)

I'm not going to run through the maths again but in terms of average gains it comes out at around 70 Spell Damage as long as you can keep the proc up.

Comment by Borgoth

To clarify the issue of not proccing on Blizzard: yes it doesn't. BUT, it procs from the slowing effect of Improved Blizzard. Which means, it procs a lot unless the mobs you are targeting are immune to slowing effects (like Shahraz trash packs in BT).

Comment by 149749

As a deep fire mage, this trinket works extremely well in raids and soloing in general. Contrary to what many may believe, this trinket is MUCH easier to stack as a 5 scorch/fireball/renew scorch debuff rotation mage than an arcane mage:

Fire mage: Trinket procs off of every successful scorch AND every scorch debuff. This means that after only 5 scorches you will have 10 stacks. 5 scorches=1.5 seconds*5=7.5 seconds to stack.

Arcane mage: Trinket procs off of ever bolt of arcane missles. 2 complete channels of arcane missles and you will have 10 stacks. 2 arcane missle spells=5 seconds *2=10 seconds to stack. So, believe it or not, this trinket takes another 2.5 seconds than scorch rotation to make it completely useful.

Either way, this trinket is extremely useful. It's basically a 7.5/10 second delayed +80 spell damage trinket. If you have the gold, I'd highly reccomend this as +80 spell damage is a LOT of +damage on any one item.

Comment by 150600

If i have 800 Spell dmg and this card , should i say that i have 880 or 800 and a trinket that stacks up to 80 spell dmg ?

Comment by daboss40

I have a ret pally and im curious. Does the AP buff stack off SoB hits too?

Comment by 64357

Edit #2: This has been fixed in the most recent patch. Both buffs will now appear if both spell damage based attacks as well as physical attacks are applied to a target.

I'm not sure if anybody mentioned this before but for classes which use both spell and melee based attacks, the trinket will reset the buff to the most recent attack. This also includes wands for casters. After the buff wears off, it will return to the original buff (starting from 10 seconds again).

Example:
After 10 casts, a warlock gains 80 spell damage.
The warlock now attacks with his wand several times.
The buff resets itself and the warlock now gains AP instead of spell damage.
After the AP buff wears off, the original buff returns and the caster gains 80 spell damage right away.

I'm assuming something similar would happen when paladins use this trinket?

Edit #1: multiple targets affected by shadowfury all count as seperate casts meaning if you hit 10 targets with shadowfury, you will get the full 80 damage right away.

Comment by 155265

A free low level Rampage, for melee classes.

Comment by 44612

i have a question actually

does each tick of AM stack up or just a first hit?

Comment by 66648

This is the highest non-drop besides a JC BoP trinket that a feral druid (cat) can get according to Emmerald's list.

Moreover, a cat's base attack speed is always 1.0, so we can create a stack faster per successful hit, and our main finisher is Rip, which scales with AP.

Comment by Flameenix

Frostbite procs off this trinket making it pretty awesome for frost mages. :)

Essentially, you get 2 stacks in 1 spell every 15% of your frost bolts, and hey even off your Ice Armour debuff (since that has a 15% chance of incuding frostbite if you invest it on talents).

Comment by 115232

Casting hurricane just makes this tick over once, irrespective of how many targets you hit or how often hurricane ticks. Plus you channel hurricane for 10 secs, which is how long you have to cast a second spell if you want the buff to stack.

It is an ace trinket though. In most boss fights you can keep the buff fully stacked, which amounts to +80 spell damage all the time.

Comment by 31067

is this trinket any good for druids? i'm feral

Comment by 174535

Strangely enough, it does proc of Soulshatter, even if you are not in combat. 1 stack per mob affected by soulshatter.
Don't know if there's any practical use for this odd effect.

Comment by 181772

WIth haste and elemental shaman can get this up very fast, especially since Lightning Overload activate its.

1.8 cast and LO this trinket can be put up in 4~6 seconds.

so on a stagnant 2min fight it pretty much adds 114secs of 80 spell damage to your lightning bolt.

very wise to replace your LC and Shiffir Nexus Horn or any of your Heroic trinkets with this.

Comment by Flameeye

Can we use 2 of them together?

Comment by 111827

If you spec in Improved Scorch 3/3 as a mage, that gives you ~315 damage per hit (~1575 for 5 non-crits). That would give you your first 5 stacks of trinket, then casting Arcane Missiles (Rank 10) will do about ~260 DPH (~1300 for 5 non-crits )

Without any extra spell power, you get 2875 damage for the whole 10 trinket stacks.
Assuming you have a decent amount of spell power (~750) it will be about 5k+ and about 10k with crits (7k with half and half).

Now let's say you cast a Fireball next. With the spell power bonus it should be 2k - 3k non-crit with 800 SP.

With a PoM/AP/IoSC/Pyro instead of the Fireball, that would be a NASTY crit.

Now lets say that the Pyroblast crits. That would be about 5k-7k (I crit that sometimes). That's about 17k damage in about a 10 sec period. After that, you still have the SP Trinket buffs and Arcane Power. This gives you 15 seconds (AP is 15, IoSC is 20 and Crusade refreshes) to do as much damage as possible. If you get Improved Fireball (-0.5 casting time) you get a 3 second Fireball. In that time you can get out 5 Fireballs and possibly a Fireblast. Lets say you do ~2000 damage each time + Ignite (If spec'd for it), you get about 27k+ damage done in 25 second period

Comment by 202466

actually u'll got all 10 stacks every time using 5 scorches, because the fire vurnerability debuff causes the crusader aura as well.

Comment by Sykopath

Hunter's spell kill command will proc the spell damage debuff

Comment by Ultimo

Im wondering if this procs on your spell hits and procs the melee AP on my felguard. That was be so cool if it increased my felguards attack power as well as increasing my spell damage. :)

Anyone know from experience?

Comment by 175557

was playing around with this on my hunter

-it will stack up to 3 times on a multi-shot
-despite doing arcane damage arcane shot stacks the AP buff
-interestingly kill command procs the spell damage buff
-does not proc off serpent sting ticks
-volley doesnt proc it
-traps dont proc it
-pet attacks dont proc it however the higher your AP is the more your pet benifits

EDIT: added new findings

Comment by Liax

For enhancement shamans, this is now one of the best trinkets. with the changes in 3.0.2 it provides 120 ap and 112 spellpower. Also gets stacked very fast with fire embue on offhand.

Comment by yujia

This has been changed for paladins. Auto-attack and Judgement now only proc AP stack but not SP stack except Seal of Vengeance. For Retri paladin the only source of SP stack is first tick of consecration which make full SP stack very hard.

Comment by 237305

I have had this trinket for the last 6 months or so on my Fire Mage and it has been awesome.

An added bonus now, is that with the Improved Scorch Glyph, which adds the scorch debuff 3x for every application, it procs this trinket for every one of the multiples.

So with two scorches, I can stack the card.

Comment by 64409

i was playing around with extra mats for inscription, inscriptionists can make the individual darkmoon cards for 3 darkflame ink, one ethereal ink, one resilient parchment, and 3 primal life.

Comment by Erethzium

Wands count as Ranged attacks.

Comment by synaethas

nice one but may not be perfect for a melee class. 10 seconds is too low and easily can be dropped in a boss fight.

Comment by joe7dust

This procs off of Molten Armor, so it should also proc from Thorns.

A nice bonus for anyone leveling a mage to 80 with this. If you have mana shield up and are arcane specced, you get double buffing to your +spell damage.

While Alt tabbed to write this, my spell damage went up +105 from Incanter's absorption, and +80 from this trinket.

Also this provides some motivation to level faster, as you will find yourself pulling that next mob ASAP to keep the 10 sec buff stacked at 10.

Comment by 362585

So any DK's tried this trinket out? Looked it up abit but little great info for DK's with this

This would just be for the lvl grind

Comment by 223216

Any comments on DK use?

Comment by 242555

Death Knight spells only have AP coefficients, the SP aspect of this trinket is wasted.

Comment by 336769

I got an idea for a SP-combo for trinkets:

Darkmoon Card: Crusade (this trinket):
Gives 8 SP with each spell, stacking up to 80

Illustration of the Dragon Soul (https://www.wowhead.com/cata/item=40432):
Gives 20 SP with each spell, stacking up to 200

This combo gives you 280 SP if you got a steady spellcasting. I don't know if there ane any other SP boosting combos, but if there are, post them as a reply to this message.

Forgot about one thing: You may want trinkets that give you stats instead, but just because you think like that, don't downrate this comment.

Comment by seebs

All DK abilities scale with AP, so presumably only the AP part is useful for DKs. Do DK abilities always proc AP for this card, or do some of them give you stacks of useless spellpower?

Comment by 517342

This use to proc both Spell and AP for Retadins but now mostly just AP :( Consecrate and Exorcism being the only ones that proc the spell portion of this trinket )

Comment by Siirenias

Anyone else find it odd that the most innocuously-named cards result in a DPS trinket?

Comment by 704257

"I am the Crusade: Unity guides us all. Walking the crossroads together and united under a single banner, this world will tremble in the wake of our deeds."

Crusade symbolises the bonds we form with our fellow men, be them in comradery or in the intricacies of love and relationship. We all must walk the same path, and alone the road will seem more long and treacherous.

Affinity, union and compassion infuse this card in the upright position.
Choice, doubt and loneliness infuse this card in the reversed position.

Comment by davesignal

'Crusade' isn't innocuous.

Comment by Allakhazam

Send an in game mail message to Tulandah if you are interested or just post your info on the forums and I will get back to you. Selling for 2000 gold on Frostmane Server Horde..but willing negotiate.

Comment by Allakhazam

Sounds like pretty much a 120 AP for melee dps class like rogues or fury warriors while in combat, unless you manage to miss continuously for 10 seconds straight o_O

In my opinion, I'd take bloodlust brooch over this. It gives a permanent 70 ap, but you have that wicked use on it to add 270 ap each... two minutes was the cooldown?

Comment by Allakhazam

I can confirm, each tick of arcane missiles does indeed stack it, and with Empowered Arcane missles this thing totally rocks for dps

Edited, Sep 9th 2007 2:31pm by Stumpsbertox

Comment by Allakhazam

From what I have read in this thread, the impression that I get is that this would be a handsome addition to an affliction lock's gear set. In my fuzzy little head, it seems that it would stack at least at the beginning of a dot spell, and with 3 instants, UA, and immolate you'd have it maxxed out within the first 10 seconds of any fight. Given that I have no specific goals with my lock at the moment(I'm essentially a pvp nut), I'm thinking of hunting down the rest of those cards. Does any UA lock have this? Is it worth the effort, or a waste of time?
Thanks in advance!

Comment by Allakhazam

If on my shadow priest I had misery and shadow weaving and I cast a spell that set them off, would I get +24 spell damage or only +8?

Edited, Jul 31st 2008 11:08pm by pruneyorange

Comment by Allakhazam

does any 1 no if it procs of a paladins seal of righteousness, I now the atack power would proc but is the spell damage part of the hit count as a spell hit or not cause then we could get both benifits 80 more spell damage and 120 atack power

Comment by Allakhazam

i have a tanking pally and this card would be a great trinket to go along with my moroes lucky pocket watch. i use the judgment of crusader and with the seal of command or rightousness...for i deal melee damage and spell dam in the same swing and with reckoning active thats 2 melee hits and 2 spell hits in 1 swing. instant aggro :)

Comment by Allakhazam

Can anyone tell me what the Aura of the Crusade does?

Comment by Allakhazam

' Aura of the Crusader
Live | Test | History
Increases your melee and ranged attack power by 6. Effect lasts for 10 seconds.
Increases melee and ranged attack power by 6.'

Comment by Allakhazam

This card was just made for Enhancement Shamans, should be able to keep both buffs up most of the time...now if only I could get my damn ace.

Comment by Allakhazam

I'm a raiding Shadow Priest.
I have the deck, just wondering about others' opinions.
I have the epic trinket from heroics too, so I think they would go nicely together, what do you all think?

I'm not worried about keeping the buff up... (SW:P rank 1)

SHould I sell it for 2000g for use it for 80 spell damage?

Comment by Allakhazam

If you press on the spell "Apply Aura: Aura of the Crusade" in this items description, it happens to be a proc that activates "Aura of the Crusader" (Paladin aura for 20% mount speed increase). Does anyone know if this is correct? Does it proc with crusader aura or have it constantly, or is it just a Blizzard myth?

Comment by Allakhazam

It would be tough to keep the buff up sor meny slower casting classes, mgaes for etc.
Would it add spellpower off a dot, or just the spell hit? Would guess hit, which makes this less useful for affliction locks :(.
Great for prettymuch every class grinding, but I wouldnt use it for PvP.

Comment by Allakhazam

Well my question is: IS it worth all the money for a rogue to buy this deck? What deck is the best for rogues?
thx for your answers!

Comment by Allakhazam

I got this on my paladin because i wanted to see first hand how it worked with seals and consecration etc. it adds a stack everytime you land a hit and refresh a judged seal and cast hammer of judgement on a character. it also works on consecration but only counts the first tick per monster/player affected. so good definetly for aoe farming and tankadins

Comment by Allakhazam

I'm debating with myself if I even want this. As a rogue, I'm currently equipped with the Bloodlust Brooch and the Hourglass of the Unraveller. I wouldn't replace the Bloodlust Brooch, and I'm not certain I even want to replace the hourglass. The card pretty well maintains a constant +120 AP all the time during a boss fight. The hourglass gives +32 crit rating, which is lots, and gives +300AP on chance with a crit strike.

Seems to me that the overall dps on a raid boss fight may lean towards the hourglass, since the hidden cooldown is apparently only 45 seconds. I've seen the hourglass proc constantly, and my base crit is just over 30%.

So basically, the question is

+120 AP all the time

or

+2.28% chance to crit and +300AP for 10 seconds every 45 seconds.

What a dilemma. Definitely good for mages though since someone mentioned it stacks with each arcane missile hit.

Comment by Allakhazam

I Have a pic of it here! I love this card! Just got it today
http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k138/twinrtturbo/WoWScrnShot_060307_120808.jpg

Comment by Allakhazam

aura of crusade has been removed it seems

http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k138/twinrtturbo/WoWScrnShot_060307_120808.jpg

Comment by Thottbot

If i'm reading this right (and i'd like to think i am...) it says: "Each time you deal melee damage (...) you gain 6 attack power (...) stacking up to 20 times." AND it says "Each time you land a harmful spell (...) you gain 8 spell damage (...) stacking up to 10 times.". This means that mixed classes like paladins and shamans can accumulate BOTH buffs during combat for a total of +80 spell damage and +120 attack power - yes, other classes can do both types of damage but only these use them effectively toguether. I'm not saying that there isn't a better trinket or trinketS around, but for a prolonged battle - a boss or a battleground - where you can keep the proc active, you'll get a permanent +80 SD and +120 AP and that's preety good imo...

Comment by Thottbot

I have info on this card,

First, the buff is refereshed each time you deal damage, even if you have the maximum number of stacks. IE, if I have +80 dmg and I hit again, it stays at +80 dmg but it refereshes the 10 sec.

Second,

Comparing this to the nexus horn on a mage with +800 dmg casting fireball (.9 dmg coeffichent) and a 25% crit chance

Darkmoon Card Crusade Nexus Horn

719+(.9*800)=1439 1.25 % more crit and 20% proc for 225 dmg
719+(.9*880)=1511 26.25*.2 = 5.3%
1500/1439 = ~1.05 Dmg bonus = 14.07%
20 fireballs/min ~1.06 procs = 10.6 sec
5% more dmg 10.6/60 * 14.07%=
2.4% dmg from proc
~2.5% dmg from crit
=4.9% more dmg

DISCLAIMER: THIS IS A VERY ROGUGH APPROXIMATION THAT DOES NOT TAKE INTO ACCOUNT ALOT OF THINGS INCLUDING THE BUILD UP TIME OF THE DARKMOON CARD (GOOD FOR THE HORN), ADDITIONAL DMG TO YOUR CRITS (GOOD FOR THE CARD), TALENTS, ECT. IMO THE CARD IS BETTER FOR RAIDERS AND THE HORN BETTER FOR PVP.

Edit: I compared the card to the horn because they are the only 2 trinkets you can obtain at 70, without a raid group, which have passive effects only (you don't have to click)

Comment by Thottbot

Seems to me like this would be an excellent trinket for mages and warlocks looking to add extra damage in drawn out boss fights and raids.

Admittedly, there are trinkets out there that give a permanent spell damage increase (of like 20 to 56 at most), with the option of gaining around 120 extra damage for 20 secs (2 min cooldown). Such trinkets might be more useful for soloing,

but in major boss fights where I'm going to be casting Arcane Blast or other spells 30+ times, I think having a sustained +80 damage throughout the fight would be invaluable from a trinket. That's a sustained 80 damage after the first ten hits that doesn't disappear after 20 secs, or require a cooldown.

Plus the other bonus, This thing doesn't require any attention to use. Other trinkets require clicking and triggering a 1.5 sec global cooldown to activate, which means dividing your attention briefly to gain a 20 sec bonus. This trinket, you just equip and forget about it.

I admit, not everyone is going to need for every situation, but definitely those fights and raids which have long prolonged fights I feel it will be very useful indeed for casters.

Comment by Thottbot

wasnt sure if someone stated above or not...

but I just used my gun (I'm a rogue) on a few targets and the thing still procs. It adds AP to melee and RANGED attacks... so for the hunters - this does indeed proc for ranged AP.

Comment by Thottbot

This card is effective for all classes that do dmg, no matter what your spec or build. However, in saying that, there are certain examples where this card becomes better than any other trinket in the game, and as such, for some builds there are better trinkets depending on circumstance.

As much as all the other classes have benefits from this trinket, there is no other class that benefits as much as a ret pally.

Heres why:

When you gain the AP, you normal weapon dmg increases. With spell dmg, all your seals dmg increase. Because Seal of Command bases its dmg off your weapon dmg, the improved AP & SP stack their effect for an additional 120AP, 80 SP. thus, increasing your dmg for every auto-attack and seal of command in a double effect.

No other class can benefit from the double stacking of this trinket except for an enhancement shaman whom does not have the integration of both spell and attack power into auto attack melee strikes.

However, there are flaws, this will hardly proc enough in a non-boss scenario to be more viable than some other trinkets.

Comment by Thottbot

Got this trinket just few hours ago and tried does it work with ranged attacks.

I can confirm it really does work and ap's stack succesfully.

Trenn - 70lvl Troll Hunter - Bladefist-EU

Comment by Thottbot

Can anybody confirm if each tick of Arcane Missiles triggers a refresh/application?

EDIT: CONFIRMED each tick of Arcane Missiles DOES apply a new stack/refresh.

Comment by Thottbot

Paladin here, i confirmed that this nice little card, proc off for seal of command. thus giving you 2 stack instead of one. per hit. but other then that same as above. it also proc off racial, such as BE, mana tap, arcane torrent as well

Comment by Thottbot

imo, this card would be great for a prot paladin too, as i hadn't seen it mentioned in above posts. while tanking (or aoe farming), it would be simple to get stacks up fast using reckoning and judgements. i'm not sure if holy shield damage would trigger the buffs, but if someone could test it out, it would be great.

Comment by Thottbot

yes it is

Comment by Thottbot

I dont know if anyone posted this yet, but I didn't see it and found it important enough to throw on here. I'm a 41/17/3 mage and recently obtained this card. After playing with it a little bit I noticed that spells such as Scorch that add a debuff to increase the fire damage taken will apply the +spell damage buff twice. Also, on a fire crit which causes additional damage over time, this will cause another +spell buff also, meaning with two good scorch spells, I have had frequently 5 buffs from this card in 3 seconds, meaning for a short burst fight or to get the buff up quickly I should be able to have all 10 stacking buffs in anywhere between 6 - 10 seconds, depending on crits. Thought this might be helpful.

Comment by Thottbot

for mages who get this very valuable trinket.

Arcane: each missles from arcane missles is 1 proc. so a full channel of missles is 5 procs. 2 full casts and its maxed out.
having the missles comparable to instant cast speed makes firing missles a proc saver when needed(if proc timer ever gets low)

Frost: spam ice lance til its maxed. this plays two rolls. your getting it maxed out in 15 second(the GCD) and also procing it without making much threat so the tank can generate alot of threat to begin with.

Fire: each scorch is 2 procs(don't know why but it is)and you spam scorch to begin with to get the debuff up so after the 5 proc of fire vulnerability DMC has maxed out for 80 spell dmg.

keeping in mind that the buff will expire after 10 seconds if no spell is cast be sure to use instant casts if you have to run or the boss runs far away. if you see the buff saying 5 seconds or less you should
arcane: quickly hit missles or use ice lance.
frost: lance
fire: lance, fire blast, or scorch.

DMC: crusade is useful for classes other than mages too.

edit: stupidly enough a wand will proc for melee dmg.
also when doing AoE. Arcane explosion will proc on every target you hit(possible instant 10 procs if running stocks or VC) blizzard will not proc. flame strike does not proc either. frost nova, blast wave, CoC will also AoE proc(1 proc for every target) i do not know about Dragon's Breathe as i did not spec into that.

here is my toon(my main)
http://www.wowarmory.com/character-talents.xml?r=Black+Dragonflight&n;=Cfeuer
if you desire to look at the trinkets don't get your hopes up. i have 8 trinkets right now. 2 pvp, a riding crop. and the rest pve that get swapped out and around depending on the situation

Comment by Thottbot

yes mages arecane explosion lets say for example u AE 5 mobs at once.. thats 5 ticks asap( 10 ticks needed for 8 spelldmg) so basically if u AE 5mobs then 80 spelldmg will be up like asap:)

Comment by Thottbot

Im a balance Druid(GO MOONKIN) would this by chance proc also on the Starfire stun, since it procs for scorch's debuff? Or would it also proc on Nature's Grace or treants?

That would be sweet!

To make sure, this card does NOT proc using an AoE right?

and gear wise this would work better for long bosses than trash mobs since mobs dont last long enough to get the benifit of this card, might as well use a trinket thats you have to click.

Dradugun- Alexstraza
BBBBBBBBBOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMKKKKKKKIIIIIIINNNNNNN!

Comment by Thottbot

I play a shadow priest and currently I do heroics and kara. Would it be worth saving up for this trinket? I dont know if its worth it for a shadow priest. (Does it proc off Mind Flay?)

Comment by Thottbot

Over 25 seconds:

It is more DPS to throw 10 shadowbolts than to Drain Life twice (to get the +80 spell damage proc) and throw 6 shadowbolts.

May or may not seem like common sense but I did the math while bored at work. (Accounting for the 10 different average increasing shadowbolt damages with +1200 spell damage and 25% shadowbolt crit while building 10 charges.)

Also, I'm wondering why do people use Icon of the Silver Crescent? My math came out to 43+25.833=68.333 +Spell DPS. Maybe it's affordability? Maybe it's for the shorter DPS Burst Damage? As far as long-fight DPS 80 > 68.333.

Comment by Thottbot

yes as for the shadowpriests..it's almost like what the other guy said earlier..on the first cast (normaly VT) it counts 3x(VT,Shadow vulnerability,and misery) but from then on it's 2x per cast since the misery is already there and the shadow vulnerability is just bumped up from 2x to 4x..etc..
so it would take 4 casts from what i can tell..mabye since each cast renews the misery effect mabye it does do 3x per cast..either way..it's 4 casts to reach the full potential of the trinket (80 spelldmg - 10 stacks).. have fun against Muru:)

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Darkmoon Card: Crusade

Item Level 100
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Trinket

Requires Level 70
Equip: Each time you deal melee or ranged damage to an opponent, you gain 6 attack power for the next 10 sec., stacking up to 20 times. Each time you land a harmful spell on an opponent, you gain 8 spell power for the next 10 sec., stacking up to 10 times.

Sell Price: 10

Darkmoon Card: Crusade

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