Star of Malice

[Valanthe]

Any plans to make this secondary/ranged or is there a specific reason it's secondary only?With the amount of good shields in this tier for priests this item would be a lot better suited as being able to be used in the ranged slot.

[Fyreflyte]

The slot was set to secondary-only on purpose. I realize there are a number of shields that might be used over this, but I wanted healers to have to make that choice, rather than this just becoming "the best" ranged slot item.

[Alvar]

This item is far from best lol, cause it procs only from melee attacks and not from beneficial spells or healing spells.

[Snarks]

No, it would become the best ranged slot item. Range slot items for priests are very limited. Please name me another range slot item (With the exception of claymore for mt shamans) that would even come close to this thing. Its already incredibly overpowered as it is, considering just a few of them give like perma aoe avoid.

[Alvar]

Yeah i know it would become overpowered if it was triggering from beneficial spells/heals. That's why it procs from melee just because Fyreflyte likes to add red stats to items so this kinda red stat that you have to melee a mob to get healing proc. And anyway Claymore pwns everything and it's sad, dunno though how for other priests. If you don't use Claymore in your ranged for healing you probably use Censer of Syllokk.

[Snarks]

Even just on melee it procs a sh*t-ton. It doesn't need to be changed. And you can melee any mob in the game really (except maybe a few avatars/tangrin) even as a MT priest.

[Valanthe]

<cite>Fyreflyte wrote:</cite><blockquote>The slot was set to secondary-only on purpose. I realize there are a number of shields that might be used over this, but I wanted healers to have to make that choice, rather than this just becoming "the best" ranged slot item.</blockquote>The innate problem of course being that when it comes to T8 there are few to none ranged slot-usable items that are really healer-centric in the first place, which was more the point that I was trying to make than that it should just be Secondary/Ranged.

[Pins]

The problem, is the item you're wanting to make ranged equipable, is overpowered as possible for an item that procs off melee attacks for priests.  AE Avoid, raid-wide de-aggro, raid-wide ward, etc.  It's crazy insane.  As Snark states, most people have no idea how powerful this item is, and making it always equippable, would be OP.

[Buttcliffe]

Priests need a few items in t8.... better ranged items and charm slots.... at least like the melee/mage classes get

[Oakum]

<cite>Pinski wrote:</cite><blockquote>The problem, is the item you're wanting to make ranged equipable, is overpowered as possible for an item that procs off melee attacks for priests.  AE Avoid, raid-wide de-aggro, raid-wide ward, etc.  It's crazy insane.  As Snark states, most people have no idea how powerful this item is, and making it always equippable, would be OP.</blockquote><p>I agree with making it rnged/proc'ed with spells is overpowered. </p><p>Of course being a priest item for meleeing making people give up shields makes it much less overpowered since no sheild ally specced cleric will want to use it or any other priest that is nuke specced since the biggest help they give to their raid when not healing is debuffs or extra dps to kill quicker.  </p><p>If the only thing a healer is doing in a raid is healing for the majority of mobs then they are either a mt shaman, cleric and the raid tank or their group is seriously undergeared for the content or just starting new content (therefore not geared past it yet, lol).  Now thats my opinion and notice I said most raid mobs including trash. lol. </p>