Originally Posted by Ricard
Now, before the Shard of Contempt appeared in this spreadsheet, I've been normally assuming that the Shard is, like people have been asserting, among the best in the game, certainly the second best available to me. Now that it has appeared in the sheet, though, it has pulled ahead of the DST by a considerable margin for my gear. This was something I didn't expect. Is it a bug in the sheet, or did the Shard come to be considerably more valuable as the proc rate was pinned down? I also did a small test within the sheet, switching each the DST and the Shard for the Bloodlust Brooch (for lack of readily being able to input no trinket at all), and I saw a 21 DPS loss by switching the Shard out, and only a 19 DPS loss for switching the DST out. The closest clue I can come to suggest why this might be so is that my hit rating is rather low (250s with hit rating food), and that would lower the value of DST which relies more on the proc for its EP than the Shard does. I thought I'd post here, though, incase it was indeed a sheet bug.
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So, I think the answer here is as follows:
1) The proc rate on Shard of Contempt turned out to put it towards the high end of the range of the quality estimates that were originally made. While the cooldown was longer than we initially expected, the proc rate was much higher, giving uptime periods toward the high end of the range. As such, the typical characterization of it, so far as I know, is that it's a bit behind DST on the whole, particularly since many rogues go past the Expertise cap with it.
2) Since you're not Expertise capped - and in fact, have no expertise from gear at all - that raises the value of Shard somewhat. Also, since your gear level is a bit lower, the relative value of AP is higher, so the AP proc on Shard is a bit more powerful relative to the other effects than for some trinkets.
So, basically: yeah, it's really that good. As your gear improves DST will likely pass it for a while, though at ultra-high gear levels Shard tends to catch up for different reasons.