If that's true, then there's a possibility that casting a Whirlwind on twenty mobs, will spawn 40 tentacles?
Something tells me that this might be eligable for a nerf, because that is just staggering considering they apparently do around 100k damage over 3 Mind Flay's/10 seconds. If they don't despawn after combat, and there's an AoE pack right before the boss, we could see some very skewed burst numbers.

Got Gur'thalak tonight then brought it to heroic rag.
In case anyone wanted more data on it -
Here's our logs: World of Logs - Real Time Raid Analysis
The tentacle did 1276.6 DPS.

I have this on live and I am almost positive that the ICD is 2 minutes. I think you may be looking at the time between the buff ending and it appearing again since the duration is 20 seconds.

Just to confirm some of the information going around. Small sample size but its all I had time for tonight.

The proc is very RNG. I went about 6 million damage doing an actual rotation on a dummy without a single proc, yet on another run I had 3 up at one time from only 1 sword after about 600k damage.

Different tentacles can and will attack the same target and it almost feels like they attack w/e you are targeting when they spawn even if they multi spawn from WW/Cleave. After that target dies they seem to have a mind of their own and choose w/e they want.

Average damage of the tentacle. 11 spawned total.


amount of melee and cleave hits in this run.


2 up at a time from 1 cleave. both attacking my original target.

This makes me ask two questions and perhaps someone can answer it: What target priority do the tentacles use (Your target, random enemy in range or target they procced from in case of cleaves) and do the tentacles attack an other mob when their first target dies?

Concerning the logs:
Hits which could have procced the weapon assuming the warrior has a 3.6 offhand (cant acces the armory atm):
189 (warrior) vs 139 hits + eventually all the seal proccs (296) = 435

Seeing that he got about twice the proccs from the weapons as the warrior the seals seem to procc it too.

After some more extensive testing I can confirm a few more things

Confirmed
- Tentacles do scale with target debuffs that increase spell damage, but not player buffs
- They will pick a new target if the original target dies, tho sometimes they spaz out and don't find a new target till its too late.

As for targeting, I thinks its proximity based. I stood between 2 targets and only attacked the one infront of me. Any tentacle that spawned in front attacked the target infront of me, any behind attacked the one behind me.

I stood between 4 targets and hit bladestorm and had 6 tentacles spawn all over the place all attacking different targets, it was pretty nuts.

But that doesn't make any sense. Proc Trinkets are supposed to have an ICD of (5xBuff Duration). There has been only a single Trinket that doesn't follow that rule, from what I know of, and that is Dwyer's Caber. I don't have the trinket so I haven't been able to test, but can you check whether it's always proccing after 120 seconds and not 100 seconds?

More on the sword. Between Wednesday night and Today it was buffed. The ticks went from on average 11155 to 12200-ish and the crit rate skyrocketed.

Stats priority:

Hit>=Crit>Haste>Mastery

I got to about 19% hit when crit became equal to it again. Haste is a little bit behind crit, and Mastery was in the dumpster.

Landsoul, can we have a bit more insight on the stat values? And why does mastery have that much depreciated value? Other that the loss of t12 4pc bonus i don't see any other reason why it should be below haste.

at 20.01% hit 22.64% crit 7.42 mastery
I'm still showing hit > crit
at the above values I'm seeing .6520 for hit and .6445 for crit
Are we going to be going for 27% hit this tier?