When i first saw (for me) new trinket from Court of Start - Windscar Whetstone i was really excited about new posibilities, the trinket was really fun to use, it dealt massive damage in big packs and it was FUN.
In December 13th expected nerf came in
[With realm restarts ] Various trinkets from Legion dungeons now split their damage between all enemies struck, and deal increased damage for each enemy struck, up to 5 enemies. Additionally, their damage has also been increased. Tooltips will be updated in a future patch to reflect the new functionality.
- The following trinkets damage increased by 50%:
- Windscar Whetstone
I thought, ok Blizzard we know you wont have us fun but the caption of the nerf didnt seem like its that bad, so i did some testing.
On trinket theres written that you deal 32893 physical demage over 6 seconds.
Single target Damage is very similar to the stated number (it dealt 33 000 but with 2± crits) i really dont know if target dummies have armor or not, but that would solve dmg reduction problem.
What i dont understand is AOE of this trinket, before nerf it seemed like you deal 20k to every mob around you over 6 sec. But after nerf it seems like you deal 47k-53k to 3 targets (it deals 7 ticks over 6 seconds, so that was 21 ticks to 3 targets) and it does aroud 65K to 5 targets (36 hits) Why is the damage so small ? can Someone explain this to me ?
Anyway, for me, that was such an interesting trinket wich i had fun with. Yes, it dealt twice as much damage as previous best trinket like Phial of Putrefaction (252) but phial gives you agility and windscar whetstone doesnt, so you have bigger damage from this trinket but lesser damage from your other abilities wich was fair to me. Also 2 min CD was fine with me, because in reality you dont have super big pull every 2 minutes. Also it was mainly trinket for trash pulls and on tyranical this trinket doesnt matter if you wipe on boss and threw the key, because ST dmg from this trinket was just 20k.
I would be OK with 33k x 5 targets cap = 165k every 2 minutes if used properly on 5 targets wich need to be alive for whole duration of this trinket. But it shows way smaller numbers than this.
So after all , it seems like the trinket is dead for m+ if this is the intention how the trinket has to work (unless its bugged)
If someone can clear this to me, i would be thankful. I want to understand how it works.
Also would like to read what do you think about this nerf.
Have a nice day