The specifics on the legendary metagem in 5.2 have been released:
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Concerning ret:
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Originally Posted by Ghostcrawler
Capacitive Primal Diamond – 15.00 base RealPPM on landing melee/ranged abilities and swings. No ICD. At 5 stacks, fires Lightning Strike, which deals [280 + 75% AP] Nature damage. That base proc rate is multiplied by an additional coefficient by spec:
- Retribution: 1.923
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Which means the gem has a procrate of 15x1.923 = 28.845RPPM. It should be firing roughly once every 2 seconds, increased by haste, for a Lightning Strike every ~10s.
I'll leave the full math to those better suited, but I'm guessing this will work out nicely. Here's the full set of coefficients:
- Assassination: 1.535
- Combat: 0.99
- Subtlety: 0.98
- Feral: 1.934
- Windwalker: 1.084
- Beast Mastery: 1.604
- Marksmanship: 1.594
- Survival: 1.449
- Enhancement: 1.093
- Retribution: 1.923
- Frost DK (2H): 1.309
- Frost DK (DW): 1.572
- Unholy: 1.34
- Arms: 1.771
- Fury (TG): 1.784
- Fury (SMF): 1.951
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Of interest is that we have the 3rd highest proc rate coefficient. I'm not sure I understand GC's
explanation of it:
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Originally Posted by Ghostcrawler
Three reasons. A) RealPPM procs still scale more frequently with haste, which many specs have drastically more or less of. B) The proc that it gives you in this case scales directly with AP, which many specs have drastically more or less of. C) It’s not terribly uncommon for A or B (but not usually both) to occur on a trinket, and we can swallow that much variance. And there are typically other options for trinkets if one underperforms for you; there isn’t here, and we want the legendary metagems to be equally awesome for everyone. As a sidenote, we didn’t do that spec variance yet for the Sinister (caster DPS) one, but are still considering doing so. The situation there doesn’t seem quite as skewed as it did for the physical DPS, so we haven’t yet, but still very well might.
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We stack a ton of haste, which I'm guessing places us in the lower tier of raw AP across those specs? In any case the gem would have always been the best choice, but there are the numbers.