Synapse springs is worthless compared to other profession bonuses?

[Brewski]

So synapse springs increases the highest stat by 480 for 10 seconds every minute. So does every other profession bonus. For example enchanting... you enchant your rings and get a passive bonus with 100% uptime. What is the benefit here with engineering? To me it seems like synapse springs does the exact same thing, but it just has 1/6th of the uptime (completely worthless in comparison to other professions). Am I missing something here or what?

[Manabomb]

So synapse springs increases the highest stat by 480 for 10 seconds every minute. So does every other profession bonus. For example enchanting... you enchant your rings and get a passive bonus with 100% uptime. What is the benefit here with engineering? To me it seems like synapse springs does the exact same thing, but it just has 1/6th of the uptime (completely worthless in comparison to other professions). Am I missing something here or what?

Maybe you're missing something, but Synapse springs mk. 2 is 1920 for 10 seconds every minute which maths out to just about 480 constantly.

[Abeto]

It increases your highest stat by 1920 for 10 seconds at level 90, the 480 is for a lower lvl.

http://www.wowhead.com/spell=126731

[MyCelar]

It's better because it's better to have 1920 stats during cds (Average 320 stats), than constantly having 320 stats, especially since it also lines up with 2/3/5 minute CD's (aka hero on most fights).

Consider Nitro boosts and Goblin Glider 2 major combat perks.

[Matt0193]

SS is the best profession perk, since you control when you use it and effectively using it further increases it's value.

I'll use Ret as an example:

- JC is the worst, as you lose Haste/Str or Haste/Exp gems to Str gems in the same slots (Since there are no 640 Haste JC gems).
- Every other crafting profession grants you 320 Str for each profession you have, which is average.
- Engi gives you 1920 Str for 10s, which you use just before you cast ES/LH or every 3rd Holy Prism (Why?) and because ES/LH are snap-shot skills, they do drastically more damage with Engi than any other profession. This bonus is even better when you consider ES/LH are 1m CD, as is the tinker. Engi's only drawback is that it doesn't stack with on-use trinkets which yield a proc (basically anything apart from Freedom trinkets)

And yes, as Manabomb's said; you're looking at the previous Synapse Strings tooltip. it updates when you hit 550 Engi (I think?)

[spinnaker]

I have no idea where you read that. All professions give the same +320 stat buff. In fact engineering and tailoring are the strongest because they can be stacked with other CDs.

JC: Can use 2 serpent's eye gems for +320 additional stats
Tailoring: 2000 int with 25% uptime = 500 int/min, there's already a +180 int enchant that is not stackable, thusly +320 int
BS: 2 additional sockets for +320 stats
LW: compared to other bracer enchants, +320 stats
Engineering: +1960 stat (no idea where you got 480) with 16.66% uptime = ~ 320 stat/min