[MW] Amalgam's Seventh Spine .... Should I?

[Jaewalk]

Hi fellow Monks,

Yesterday the world quest was the Spine. When it dropped for me it titanforged to i860.

Amalgam's Seventh Spine
Item Level 860
Binds when picked up
Unique-Equipped
Trinket
+1353 Intellect
Equip: Your Effuse and Enveloping Mist spells apply and refresh Fragile Echo for 6 sec. When Fragile Echo expires, it restores 3869 mana to you.

Icy Veins lists this as a great trinket for Fistweaving... however I do not get why. The mana seems like almost nothing. It appears the the buff goes to other people to... so, in order to get on myself I have to cast a 22k mana spell? How is this not a terrible trinket.

It would be replacing

Concave Reflecting Lens
Item Level 840
Binds when picked up
Unique-Equipped
Trinket
+898 Critical Strike
Equip: Your healing spells have a chance to launch a Pulse at your target, healing them for 33,840 and bouncing to up to 3 additional targets.
Requires Level 110


I am pretty sure the lens is better... however - 20ilvl disparity ? I am not so sure if somehow the Spine pulls slightly ahead even if much worse it being apple to apple.

Anyone using the spine and getting good results out of it ?

[DontMessWitYook]

I've been using the 840 version of it. depending on your play style and what spells you prioritize, it's a pretty decent trinket.
How it works:
When you cast effuse or EM on someone, it puts a 6 second buff on them that when it expires, you receive the mana. This trinket falls off when u are using EM and/or Effuse twice on the same target within 6 seconds.

If you are able to control yourself on using EM or Effuse once per 6 seconds on any given target, you are effectively saving 4k mana per cast. I find it works better in higher mythic + because you will only ever use EM on a target once every 6 seconds anyways, and 8 times out of 10 there is healing required on more than 2 people, so you are filling with vivify over effuse.

As for which trinket you should use, it comes down to boss fight/dungeon and choice. Reflective lens has a chance to proc off a heal that tops off 3 people which makes it useless. Spine you control. If youre having mana issues over through put then Spines the way to go imo.

[Deleted]

not a good trinket for monks imo.

in mythic+ the tiny mana you get back per fight is irrelevant.
And in raids you dont use effuse and often EM not enough on different people.


the lens is really nice i used it for a long time. Now i have the HoT+Haste buff trinket.

[Verrayne]

Intellect is a much more important stat than crit.

[Meradith]

20 ilvls is a huge difference. Take the ilvl.

[Deleted]

Intellect is a much more important stat than crit.

Intel are already dropping in value. Everyone has loads of intel.