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Comment by Cerylai

I got this item from a world quest in Zuldazar on Beta. Just adding this since there isn't anything here just yet.

Comment by matornot

It should be noted that this has no ICD. After some cursory testing, it appears to have a very low proc rate. The uptime felt low for single-target and 4-target AoE fights, and seemed to be around 30-40%, making this trinket below average.

Comment by monkiy

The proc for this trinket is .

Comment by dantheman777

Currently one of the best trinkets in game for Holy Paladin.

Comment by Ahjen

I wrote a small addon to time the procs of this trinket:

At ilevel 410 the stats are +193 crit and 1237 primary stat for 7 seconds. The proc rate seems to converge on about once per 20 seconds. The trinket will proc on top of itself (i.e. it can proc again before the 7 second buff expires), and somewhat frequently.

To put this in perspective, at ilevel 410 this is contributing an average of about ( 1237 * 7 ) / 20 = 432.95 to your primary stat. That's equivalent to the raw +433 you would get on a 420 trinket.

Should you use the 410 trinket over a 420 that gives +433 to your primary stat all the time? No, probably not (depending on secondary effect), but it is probably better than other 410 and 415's, and a lot of 420's that don't give +433 to a primary stat.

And of course it still has the additional effect of a constant +crit.

At ilevel 415 the proc rate is the same, at 20 or less (see screenshot of the addon) and the proc effect is 1295 for 7 seconds, making the average contribution ( 1295 * 7 ) / 20 = 453.25 primary state, with +197 crit. That's, on average, better than any rare 420 trinket I've seen.

All of this empirically confirms the 3 RPPM proc rate reported by wowhead for Primal Instinct: 3 PPM * 7 = 21 seconds of proc each minute, or ( 1295 * 21 ) / 60 = 453.25 average +primary stat per minute.

Note: Even though this trinket seems have a cooldown, on average, less that 20 seconds (sometimes as low as 17 seconds on average), I'm using the 20 second value because the trinket sometimes procs on top of itself. This means you don't always get the full 7 seconds of stat contribution for every proc. Testing shows this is also exactly equivalent to the expectation for 3 RPPM.

For some more perspective, Whirlwing's Plumage @ ilevel 410 is the same +crit (193) but gives 1653 primary stat for 20 seconds with a 2 minute cooldown, which gives ( 1653 * 20 ) / 120 = 275.5 average +primary stat. Far less.

Sims I've tried confirm this for Retribution paladins, at least, choosing it over every other 420 rare trinket I've found, every time.