Originally Posted by
Windry
Now I know the first thing some of you will do, is contest me on reforging the hit into crit. Here's the thing that you, and all the other diehard fans of Flashfrozen Glob need to understand: you are over-valuing hit.
As I tried to explained a few times in this thread, most often, when you add hit rating, your overall gear set up (after reforging) will actually end up with more crit (if we're lucky) or more haste (which is the less desired, but more common scenario).
Yes theoretically, if we were way bellow hit cap and we have to utilize every bit of hit on that trinket, yes it would be better than Brew Trinket (still not better than Alch Stone).
Realistically however, that will not be the case.
For same reason that realistically we don't gem:
Red: 320 Expertise
Yellow: 160 Crit/160 hit
Blue: 320 hit
We also cannot value the full amount of hit and expect to not reforge that into crit.
Even if we don't reforge this trinket's hit into crit, with your current set-up, we are missing out an opportunity to move haste/mastery into hit on another piece which would ultimately lead to haste/mastery being moved into crit.
Now the activated:
Zen Alchemy stone's proc is clearly worth more than Resin's activation... so I don't even know why you would make that comparison. Mithril Stopwatch gives you a stronger proc/activation and it has a higher % uptime.
Obviously the benefit of Resin Glob is that you can control the activation and not worry about whether or not it procs at the right time. However, any normal opening pull into Combustion will have all your procs up for the 1st Combustion. This is because of the design behind ICD and high proc chance. Simply put, everything's going to proc at the start of the fight.
So for the opening combustion, both the Stopwatch and the Alch Stone will contribute to a higher combustion. Then Resin Glob will not line up with Combustion again until 7:30 and then 15min mark. Now if you choose to sit on 30 seconds of the Trinket being ready with the 3:00 combustion, that's fine, but then we'll drop the uptime from 16.6666% to 13.8888%. Then you also have to take into account that with their 55 second ICD, you should have a solid chance that both Stopwatch and/or Alch Stone would also be up for the 3:00 combustion.
Lastly, Engineering is one of the 2 best professions for Fire Mages, and Resin Glob will conflict with Synapse Spring. The other 2 trinket's procs are already stronger, Synapse Spring added on top of that will completely destroy Resin Glob's activation.