Are we sure this is indeed the correct effect? That effect (Portal of Madness) has been in the game for quite some time (spell index of 25000 or so), wheras the aura of madness effect from the card is comparatively new (spell index of 40000) and not present on the live servers yet. It would be odd for them to patch in this effect so long ago, and only now put in the item which uses it - not completely unreasonable, but odd.

Significantly though, if you consider its spell index, it is in a similar region to all the other "Madness" effects relating to ZG, which leads me to suspect that it has something to do with that, rather than this new trinet.

A better trinket would have been "Shackle an enemy in 'Demon Chains', rapidly draining its HP while replenishing your own until Demon Chains are destroyed".

... Wait, that sounds familiar as well.

I'm guessing that portal of madness spell in the file is what the imps in front of the edge of madness cast that summons the voidwalkers.

I'm really surprised there is no healing trinket at all... has blizzard said anything about that? I'd imagine people would be upset. Maybe to make up for more healing then damage trinkets in raid pve?

But those imps didn't periodically resummon more voidwalkers, it was 2 per portal and that was it.

Honestly seems more in line with something out of LBRS and those warlocks that opened up portals that started pouring demons in (imps/felhounds)

Either way it has nothing to do with the card, obviously.

For an affliction warlock without devastation, it will stack from immolate and shadowbolt. In a cycle I get about 5 or 6 of these, then a dot refresh. If I can't get at least one direct damage spell in 10 seconds due to dot refreshing, etc, then it will be less effective. My guess is that spell miss will also fail to keep it procing, so spell hit is likely still king on bosses.

I'm at about 10% crit (14% after I respec out of supression and into devastation), so it is worth up to 5% and as low as 2.5%. With improved shadow bolt that is a fairly good dps increase.
For fights where I will cast for a long time and stand still it should be very very good. I'd probably wear both of those, for constant 80 spell damage and more improved shadowbolt uptime. Though there are several others that are in the same range of effectiveness.

For trash? Nope, icon of the silver crescent + something else. Both of these just increase the effective time it takes for an affliction warlock to 'ramp up' dps. So unless its targets that live for a long time (40 seconds+) , these both seem to be things to avoid for an affliction warlock, even with very low crit%.

How would you see these fit druids (in feral)? Obviously vengeance is crap, and crusade as well (since druids have loads of AP anyway, and 6 AP stacked even 20 times is pretty much nothing). Wrath sounds really interesting though with 1.0 kitty speed.

I agree completely, but the post to which I was responding specifically said, "The Wrath card is interesting on an Affliction Warlock or Shadow Priest..." It caught my attention, because I had the exact same thought (about using dots and channels to build up the charges for "free" crits) until I double checked the original post.

Do these have a minimum level requirement to equip (or acquire)? The old ones were level 60 required, I assume these will be level 70?

Given current itemization for warlocks I can see a huge benefit to the crit trinket. You can focus completely on spell damage and stamina items like frozen shadoweave and spellstrike loaded with glowing nightseye and leave one slot open for the card (reference previously posted graph for how beneficial the trinket is with little else benefiting your crit rate). This, combined with improved shadowbolt will allow for a very significant boost in damage for the warlock and the raid, given a deep affliction or demonology build. I would like to see some sort of comparison between that model and one including ruin. I don't trust myself with the number of variables in that equation to arrive at a proper picture.

What does weapon speed in the off hand buy me?

I understand slow speed MH weapons but the off hand can be choosen soley on the basis of DPS rating and stats. Speed and top end damage mean nothing in the off hand.

Well, faster weapons eat more flurry charges with crappy OH swings, but are able to proc it more often.

Wasn't there a bug with Flurry and same-speed MH/OH weapons?

Aside from that, a faster OH techncially means more rage from UW, but I don't see it harped upon to the same extent that rogues use fast OH weapons for poison procs.

The new cards are cool, I'm glad they're adding onto the Darkmoon stuff. The cards will no doubt be extremely popular (even though the theorycrafters here are already picking them to shreds) just due to the manner in which they're acquired.

That flurry bug was fixed a while ago.

UW gives a higher chance to gain rage with a slower weapon, but then faster weapons hit more, so I think it evens out for a Warrior.

The cards will be popular because they are epic not to mention decent boosts in damage.

It's a net sum zero equation situation. Flurry only delivers increases in "next attack" DPS and thus has no bias to a weapons top end damage. So you want your highest DPS weapon to eat most of the charges whether that's your off hand or main hand.

You get more of an "Oooo-Ahhh" effect from Flurry using 2 slow, big top end damage weapons but it's nothing more than that. Just an Oooo-Ahhh thing and not an actual increase in DPS.

Yeah, thats what it looks like it probably is most likely after further looking since its been in the game a while the spell most likely (its located next to spells for summoning things like the Postman in Strath).

Likely won't know for sure what the trinket does till well someone gets it since its a server side script.

If those effects for Madness are correct, what uses does it have? Ret Paladin and Enhancement Shaman, I guess, but it seems a little too...uhh...random!

It probably isn't just a random one of those. Since there are 9 classes, and nine effects, maybe each class is mapped to only one of them.

Kleptomania is obviously rogue-like, for example.

Just for fun-

Delusional: Hunter
Dimentia: Warlock
Kleptomania: Rogue
Manic: Shaman
Martyr Complex: Priest?
Meglomania: Mage?
Narcissism: Paladin
Paranoia: Druid (Or flip with Shaman I suppose)
Sociopath: Warrior

Just random guesses really, This seems a bit narrow-focused for a general use of a trinket slot, but I think it could be pretty amusing- it will boil down to how hard these are to get ahold of.

I think it would be a far more fun trinket if the effect was random instead of tied to a class.

Since instant attack abilities proc flurry, you receive more benefit with slow MH and OH weapons.