Kaanaa
OG
Hello!
I wanted to share some information regarding Flag Carrier weapon enchants, from personal experience and actual numbers.
On my twink Flag Carrier Prot Paladin Kaanaa I've tested the following weapon enchants:
* Icy Chill
* Lifestealing
* Crusader
Now, Icy Chill, I can tell you, still has a ridiculously low proc rate. I know you'll say probably say "We already knew that! -.-" but I figured it's worth sharing since they supposedly fixed the proc rate several patches ago.
After that, I moved onto Lifestealing, which is, from all the input and guides I've looked at, the recommended enchant for flag carriers wielding a one-hander. Sadly, the results were incredibly lackluster.
When I'm battlegrounding, I keep on my recount. It lets me know what spells are being most effective, how often I'm dodging, blocking, etc. and a wealth of other information to help me be a better flag carrier.
Over 10 days, my Lifestealing accounted for only 0.3% of my total healing done. Now, it's worth noting that I have both max Lifeblood (300 Herbalism), Gift of the Naaru (which now scales with AP) and typically use Judgement of Light, however, this was still incredibly low. There are a few other key notes I'll include - usually I only use my Lifeblood when I LOS Aimed Shot hunters after their debuff expires, so the healing there is a little inflated, but I almost never throw self-heals, with the exception of Lay on Hands.
I did notice, however, that the few occasions where I equipped my two-handed axe which is enchanted with Crusader, I was getting quite a bit more net healing. As a result, I figured I'd give it a chance on my one-hander, which is equipped 90%+ of the time.
Over 2 weeks of testing, I received the following with the same gear, same play style, same strategies:
Week 1 --- 2.7% Healing
Week 2 --- 2.2% Healing
As you can see, this, by leaps and bounds, outperformed Lifestealing. The argument could be made that Lifestealing also dealt a marginal amount of DPS, however, the Strength from Crusader's proc appears to provide about the same.
Hope this helps!
Kaanaa
Silver Hand
29 Prot Paladin FC
I wanted to share some information regarding Flag Carrier weapon enchants, from personal experience and actual numbers.
On my twink Flag Carrier Prot Paladin Kaanaa I've tested the following weapon enchants:
* Icy Chill
* Lifestealing
* Crusader
Now, Icy Chill, I can tell you, still has a ridiculously low proc rate. I know you'll say probably say "We already knew that! -.-" but I figured it's worth sharing since they supposedly fixed the proc rate several patches ago.
After that, I moved onto Lifestealing, which is, from all the input and guides I've looked at, the recommended enchant for flag carriers wielding a one-hander. Sadly, the results were incredibly lackluster.
When I'm battlegrounding, I keep on my recount. It lets me know what spells are being most effective, how often I'm dodging, blocking, etc. and a wealth of other information to help me be a better flag carrier.
Over 10 days, my Lifestealing accounted for only 0.3% of my total healing done. Now, it's worth noting that I have both max Lifeblood (300 Herbalism), Gift of the Naaru (which now scales with AP) and typically use Judgement of Light, however, this was still incredibly low. There are a few other key notes I'll include - usually I only use my Lifeblood when I LOS Aimed Shot hunters after their debuff expires, so the healing there is a little inflated, but I almost never throw self-heals, with the exception of Lay on Hands.
I did notice, however, that the few occasions where I equipped my two-handed axe which is enchanted with Crusader, I was getting quite a bit more net healing. As a result, I figured I'd give it a chance on my one-hander, which is equipped 90%+ of the time.
Over 2 weeks of testing, I received the following with the same gear, same play style, same strategies:
Week 1 --- 2.7% Healing
Week 2 --- 2.2% Healing
As you can see, this, by leaps and bounds, outperformed Lifestealing. The argument could be made that Lifestealing also dealt a marginal amount of DPS, however, the Strength from Crusader's proc appears to provide about the same.
Hope this helps!
Kaanaa
Silver Hand
29 Prot Paladin FC