Honestly, why the hell not? They design so much redundency into other class itemization (Bracers for instance - Solarian/Rage/Gorefiend are all very specifically Rogue Designed and all within 2-3 months of progression of each other)

As for "creative but crappy" the trinket I just designed there is a 262 AP equivalent (using the str=2.73 agi=2.94 hit=1.9 dmg=12) for a sustained DPS fight that requires no out-of-melee time. It's very powerful for a feral, and not complete crap for the DW classes.

Why do we have to suffer through "very powerful for rogues (Agi/AP/Hit) or warriors/shaman(Str/Cri/Hit), and 'not too bad for feral'" when there's only 11 feral drops in all of raiding (3 weapons, neck, 2 cloaks, 2 rings, boots, 1 really bad idol) not counting the rep/token items.

At the most you are looking at 30% of total damage done from Rip, right?

So, in effect -armor rating is working for 70% of our total damage. Thats not a proportion to be sniffed at when it comes to increasing the raw damage output.

It's the same sort of debate as the stats vs weapon damage one, you either increase your rip damage by a decent margin or increase other damage sources by a lesser margin. Generally your net gain is going to be the same either way and from there it comes down to personal preference and item balance.

Yeah 70% isn't too bad, but only in comparison to other dps stats, rather than compared to other classes.

In the end it's the same old problem. None of these new stats and only a few of the old ones are good for feral dps. Those same stats are of only middling value for other classes.

Until they change that or itemise directly for cats, we're still going to be stuck with using random epics scattered from amongst all sources and tiers of itemisation.

I wasn't pointing at the trinket you designed as being "creative but crappy", I was merely saying that taking that kind of outlook of design when everything now seems to be so min-maxed is a bad thing to do. Trinket design also seems to be very "anti-stat" oriented, so I doubt it would even be considered.

As for the outlook on trinket design, that's how it's always been. Look at the trinkets in BWL or Naxx, they're broad design based rather than individually tailored for one class/spec to gain the majority out of them, and that seems to be the way Blizzard have gone. I'm glad that they've gone for the "one part passive, one part active" type trinkets as it introduces more variability into DPSing. I'm not saying that the rest of our itemisation isn't pretty shit (which to be fair it is comparitively to some other classes) but that in terms of trinket design if you want to be realistic it's never going to happen.

They never really put in much effort in itemizing non class-specific trinkets (well, class specific ones are flawed in general too), hence the fierce competition for trinkets because some of them are so much better than others that even non min-maxers will not take the clearly inferior ones.

I am currently using a'dal's command and Ancestral Ring of Conquest i think its time to change the first one. Any suggestions about rings?

Even after the nerf in 2.2, DST is still the single-most powerful physical DPS trinket in the game. If you use 2pc T4, it is better by an even larger margin. It's certainly stronger than Madness, regardless of gear, well, unless you have zero hit/feral combat skill rating.

DST/Tsunami is the best sustained DPS combination currently for druids, followed very closely by DST/Crystalforged, assuming raid-buffed crit levels of 45% or higher, and capped hit/FCS rating. My model also assumes that you have less than 3 seconds of downtime between CD->Use of the Crystalforged.

[Ring of Lethality], if not hitcapped.

I've been lately trying to improve my kitty setup, including hitting the sweet spot of hit%/FCS. Last time on Void Reaver I was running with Shapeshifter's Signet and 105 hit rating (6.66%...) and WWS parse shows one missed autoattack. Any idea about what might've caused that?

While powershifting you'll inevitably get a default swing or two in. It's probably that you missed a swing while in caster form (as FCS will do nothing and you may not have your weapon skills leveled much).

Can we knock this sort of post on the head now? The armory has a perfectly good "find an upgrade" feature, I'm sure it's just as helpful as this site.