If you don’t want to max cata engineering yourself to 75 to purchase the gems, you can mail the trinket to another character or player that already has it and they can apply the gems to the trinket for you and trade or mail it back.
Hunters overtuning at low level aside, the draw of the staff is too strong for the people that didn’t get GFed artifacts. I’ve been playing 50s almost exclusively so I can’t speak much to the state of the bracket but I can imagine things are out of sync. That imbalance might be traced to the...
If I recall correctly the int offhand didn’t have the sockets or the bonus although the second enchant would still make it more powerful than the staff.
Everyone knocks missles but doesn’t take into account the sheer amount of pressure they put on players. It’s suppressive fire at its finest. Even the fucking sound of them makes players rethink or run.
Crit/mastery if you want massive SF and cbolt crits. I just geared a lock last week w/ 30%+ crit and 50%+ mastery for some casual one shotting and it’s a fuckin blast
Nothing too crazy but when my feral was 19 and I queued a dungeon to level to 20 and did a freehold, Harlan’s loaded dice dropped and proc’d socket + speed as I dinged.
/reload and you’ll have an NPC from your class hall appear to you. You’ve gotta chip away at class hall stuff first. For instance on a warlock you’ve gotta do an entire scenario before given the option for the artifact