Pendulum of doom!
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Chops
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If I understand the proc mechanic correctly (and I've never had the pleasure of owning one, just talking to people) then its a chance "on event" to proc... events being attacks and even its own proc can proc it. This (in my opinion) makes ret a poor choice. Fewer events that will proc the wound means fewer procs. The flip side of this is that the proc can serve to fill in the "gaps" on a ret's... lets call it "slow" rotation and make their already scary burst even scarier.
Shaman become the funny choice here. Windfury gives you lots of events every time it procs and those events can proc lots of procs and you can *potentially* but very rarely just... delete a twink with it. POD shaman kinda live and die by the proc though and to be fair, the scariest shaman I've run into are spec'd Nova or run a more spellhance build. Not to say it cant work, but I feel like a POD on a shaman goes in its tool kit, rather than being the main show... if that makes sense?
Warrior has a consistent string of reliable events that can proc POD and I think (though, being a 39 warrior myself, I might be biased) that this is your best choice of class for the POD. Granted, you're gonna spend a lot of time in sword/board and not swinging it but when you do get to slap on a 2hander and do work, I think warrior makes the best use of it. Big bleeds, consistent overpower ever 5 seconds, sweeping strikes... you're gonna hurt.
All that said, this is WOTLK 2, Electric Boogaloo. Play what seems fun and exciting to you. And know that not having a POD doesnt break those other classes. It's also not gonna make those classes. The heirloom axe is really quite good and outside the proc, stands its ground with the POD. After accounting for the AP from str, its worth 7 less top end dmg but comes with like 1.4% more crit and 190 more health. So if you wanna play these other classes, dont feel like you cant without a POD. I do just fine swinging my heirloom axe on my warrior.
Beachcomber
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I will have to echo what Chops said, although from purely anecdotal experience. Historically with Ret and Enchancement I found myself begging for procs of any kind. Warrior seems to benefit the most from using PoD because of the abilities that contribute to procs.
I am absolutely on board with Staff of Jordan for shaman. In fact I just got one to drop recently from the stone sentry event in Uldaman. I've also been monitoring AH on my server since Vanilla and have never seen one. So I farm Uldaman a lot. Even if I wouldn't use a PoD, the sale of it could fund all future twinking activity lol.
I am absolutely on board with Staff of Jordan for shaman. In fact I just got one to drop recently from the stone sentry event in Uldaman. I've also been monitoring AH on my server since Vanilla and have never seen one. So I farm Uldaman a lot. Even if I wouldn't use a PoD, the sale of it could fund all future twinking activity lol.
Cleatuss
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I have a pod on my 39 Sham. Every once in a blue moon you will erase even the best twink. Spellhance is really good from what I’ve seen.
Staff of Jordan hits is hard on a shaman as the pod. It just doesn’t have the proc. That proc is really sexy when you have a triple WF.
Staff of Jordan hits is hard on a shaman as the pod. It just doesn’t have the proc. That proc is really sexy when you have a triple WF.
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Cleatuss
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Enhance POD is fun when you one shot a bear druid but the proc rate is not as good now. I need to play it more, but if i had my way it would be Orc warrior for a new pod