Hey guys, I was fortunate enough to pick up the Ji-Kun trinket this week. I also have the Thunderforged Zarat sword from Council. Needless to say those two items coupled with the copious amount of blue sockets in my gear I'm way over hit cap. I'm over 9% hit atm. I'm debating if I should be just switching to straight up haste gems in the blue sockets. The problem is, pretty much all the socket bonuses are nice strength bonuses.
My armory: http://us.battle.net/wow/en/characte...yleah/advanced
For example, the tier15 chest. Gemming for the socket bonus with (str/haste in red, haste in yellow, haste/hit in blue) yields 260 str, 640 haste, 160 hit (wasted). Or, if I just put all haste gems I'd get 960 haste. So the number becomes 260 str vs 320 haste. My gut tells me that the strength is better.
Also, tier15 legs. Nearly the same situation except only two sockets. It ends up being 160 haste vs 120 strength.
In my t14 shoulders, with only one socket, it becomes 160 haste vs 60 strength. Same number comparison in my weapon.
So just looking for opinions on the matter. Like I said my gut tells me that the bonus is worth it in my chest/legs, but probably not in the shoulders/weapon.
On another note, having just received the Ji-Kun trinket this week I've only had limited time to play with it, but it seems like it's not always proc'ing near the pull. I've yet to look at the logs for confirmation, but just eyeballing my buffs during several attempts (and trying to line up my ES with full str buffs) I think it was not proc'ing at all during my wings/guardian/pre-pot on several different attempts. It was kinda my understanding that what made the trinket so powerful for ret was the proc often (at least on the pull) lined up with all our cd's for some amazing burst.
In fact going through and looking at the logs I can see on Iron Qon, the trinket proc'd right as my AW was ending. Twins it proc'd right at the start of my AW. And on two Lei Shen parses it proc'd several seconds after my AW burst was over in both. Seems pretty sporatic. There was a time when it didn't proc for 2minutes, and then proc'd 3 times almost right in a row.