The wording on the item seems to go out of its way to distinguish between the ways in which the ranged and melee procs work: "Sometimes heals bearer of 90 to 120 damage when damaging an enemy in melee and chance on ranged hit to restore 128 to 172 mana to the bearer." The ranged one is neatly ambiguous enough to allow the current behaviour to be the intended behaviour, so I'm not too confident they'll change it. I'm pretty sure if the 15% proc rate people were throwing around were true, the trinket would be ridiculously overpowered for hunters (and no one else :D) if it procced when dealing ranged damage, so they most likely can't put it into the game like that.

In it's original form, the trinket can be used by hunters but is essentially useless to them (apart from the +AP), much like Thunderfury.

In it's new, currently working form, the trinket gains marginal, extremely situational value for hunters and druids in certain forms (rogues and warriors not having mana to be restored at all).

In the new form that we all wish was actually so, the trinket would finally be usable for all the classes that can equip it, so that's what I'm going to assume Blizzard meant to make it =)

I'd use it even if the mana return portion only had a 5% procrate.

Or it could just be a paladin pvp trinket and they "forgot" to put the class label on it.

Paladins deal/receive ranged damage often? Because the melee portion is for health, not mana.

Paladins share their pvp trinket with shamans, which has a very similar effect of mana regen on spell hit instead of ranged hit if I remember correctly.

Anybody have a mod to calculate the time difference between the previous two auto shots (or maybe a rolling avg over more?) - bonus points if the amount of time delayed by previous cast steady/arcane/whatever is reported. Obviously easy to code, but I'm lazy.

Go for revered Honor Hold spear, a lot more AP on that, unless you need the stamina from Sonic Spear.

That is a good point, though it has less agility as well. I see my crit dropping with every upgrade I get, it's pretty depressing.

Probably going to use the sonic spear and various other stamina-rich pieces when I need that.

Yeah it has less agility but eventually more dps due to AP. I got 19.92% crit and 2146 AP unbuffed now. I think it's a fair trade of crit for that much AP.

1833 AP, 17.59% crit unbuffed, marks spec. Lactose's spreadsheet is showing a .22% dps increase for me going from Sonic Spear to the Honor Hold/Thrallmar revered polearm. To me that's a marginal gain for a 30 stamina loss.

Keep in mind there's still stuff that needs to be added to that and stuff that needs tweaking, I wouldn't trust my soul in whatever it spits out at you.

I only tested this prior to 2.0.7, but my pet did indeed chain the lightning from the Curator adds. Even if the hunter just puts his pet on passive and keeps it in the other room, the adds have RST so there's a chance they will make a beeline straight for the pet, making it a big no-no to have out during the fight. My pet also took damage from the Maiden's AOE, and died about four Repentence's into the fight. Not sure about Romulo&Julianne - we got the Wizard of Oz this week. I'm going to test whether or not my pet can be the perma-nuke target for Julianne by telling the other melee classes to stay at maximum melee range.

Netherspite, on the other hand, is my pet's bitch. Hunter pets are immune to Netherspite's Shadow AOE, and take no damage from the void zones. I'm pretty sure they still take damage from the arcane blasts, however.

I used my pet on Curator just fine the other week. Maiden is the one boss I've fought in Karazhan that's pet unfriendly.

If the boss is not pet friendly I put the pet on passive and click the lightning breath button only, he goes, shoots and comes back. It's a pain in the ass and I wish there was an addon which does that automatically. Anyone know any?

Wearing:
Beast Lord -> Helm, Gloves, BP.
CS -> Everything else.
Sonic Spear (+70AP)
Abacus of Violent Odds
Core of Ark'elos (spelling?)
Cloak of Malice (+12AGI)
Choker of Bloodied Feathers
Melmorta's Bow

In bags -> CS Helm, Gloves.

I use that setup when I don't need the 6pc CS for mana regen. I can get about 21xx RAP with AotH/TSA/4pc CS active, no outside buffs. Overall hit rating is at about 91 (5.xx%), and sitting in the low-mid 7k HP range unbuffed. Spec is 7/x/9 (Hawk Eye + full Slayings).

I've found that that pets are really only difficult to use on Prince, and Maiden. Everyone else has been -okay-, although random AOEs tend to take them out fairly quickly if you don't watch it. I don't know if pets can catch Netherspite's beams, but I've been careful thus far to avoid that happening. As far as R&J go, Romulo has an amazing backcleave that hits rogues for about 4k, so pets will get finished pretty quickly. Juilanne doesn't do anything special unless she targets your pet though.

Stamina is a good thing I find - esp. on Heroics where a stray hit is sometimes death, or on a boss like Aran with a nice happy 7.5k blastwave. If I -really- need the STA, I can put on the rest of my CS, which bumps me up another 200-300 HP.

Pet are easily used on prince, just back them off before shadow nova imho. I used my pet nonstop yesterday on prince, he died only once and I ressed him.

Yeah, the only time I ever lose my pet on prince is if there's an unlucky infernal + nova combo. Like I said, Maiden is the only really unfriendly encounter petwise (though note I havn't fought Nightbane, so I can't comment on him).

Pets work very well on R&J to absorb her Powerful Attraction, your melee can stay back further & still fight her and the pet will eat all the stuns; only problem I've had is when our healers are ignoring pet health & let the pet die because it got hit with two Blinding Passions.

How about pets on Aran? We've always just not used pets because of the fear that they'd trigger a Wreath explosion.

Also work well on the R&J fight is the Snake Trap, you place one right on Julianne. She will target the snakes and apply Blinding Passions to it, so it takes a little bit of mana strain of the healers trying to heal that up.

On Aran, as much as you can probably keep the pet up and doing damage(i'm BM), it probably isn't a good idea to keep out, one small mistake and you end up eating a flame wreath. Like my pet getting shackled(priests don't pay attention to pet debuffs) during a blizzard, i'd move and the pet would stand there and then flame wreath would occur and once the shackle breaks, my pet would come back to me and kill us.

Is there a way to make the combat log give the timestamps in miliseconds or is there another addon for that? If there is which one do you recommend?

Mine always has by just doing a /combatlog. Or do you mean in game? That I'm not sure about, the people in the UI forum would probably have a better idea if that kind of resolution is possible with LUA.

Time to learn the awesomeness that is control-3, AKA Stay. Just sic your pet on Aran at the start of the fight and whenever he starts casting Flame Wreath, tell your pet to Stay; it'll stop attacking, but it won't budge until you tell it to attack again once Wreath wears off.