TheWoWDBEvaluating this trinket as if it were equivalent to a straight +crit trinket overlooks a lot of its real value. What this trinket excels at is making worst-case performance substantially better, not making average-case performance substantially better. For average-case performance, it still offers impressive gains to characters with low crit.
For characters who have buffs that proc on crit -- Flurry, Unleashed Rage, Vengeance -- a long string of no crits can seriously harm your damage output, because you're waiting for that crit to amplify everything else. If you have a 25% crit rate, a streak of 8 attacks without a crit is about 10% likely, whereas with this card, it's only about 7% likely. That's about 1 in 30 fights where Flurry/Unleashed Rage/Vengeance is up consistently where it wouldn't be without. The average crit chance gain is only .6%, but the likelihood of very bad scenarios is significantly reduced.
For characters who don't get AP from agility -- warriors and shamans, basically -- this trinket also offers a way to get a dramatic boost in crit rating without having to load on agility at the expense of attack power, strength, and stamina. You can re-select your itemization to account for the fact that this trinket will boost your crit and minimize your worst-case scenarios.
Equating this trinket with its average case conversion to critical strike rating does not really account for the power of its stacking-buff model.
Quest
Darkmoon Storms Deck
Quest facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
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I personally think this is a must have for Survival Hunters. The benefits of heading towards non-stop crit is just too much. 1) More procs of Expose Weakness, thereby more often increasing the physical damage of the raid 2) More 40% mana refunds on shots that crit. Coupling this trinket with 5/5 Master Tactician (6% chance for all ranged attacks to increase crit by 10% for 8 sec), and you can easily skyrocket your sustained dps (mana refund) and utility to the raid (expose weakness)
The effect will stack and renew the 10 secs untill you get a critical hit. a very nice trinket for dual wielding classes.
Quest facts
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Description
Now that you have gathered all of the Storms cards together into a deck, a ninth card mysteriously appears with the same backing as the first eight. On this card is inscribed, "Return these cards to the Darkmoon Faire and be rewarded." You have heard that the entrance to this faire appears near Mulgore and Goldshire every month.
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Reward details
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Reputation: Darkmoon Faire +350
A carnival that showcases the weird and the extraordinary, located on a mysterious island only accessible for the first week of every month.
Reputation group: Classic.
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