Darkmoon Card: Blue Dragon
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- Darkmoon Card: Blue Dragon
- Binds when equipped
- Unique
- Trinket
- Requires Level 60
- Item Level 66
- Equip: 2% chance on successful spellcast to allow 100% of your Mana regeneration to continue while casting for 15 sec.
- Sell 10
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The Darkmoon Card: Blue Dragon, one of the eight Darkmoon Cards, is a trinket received by turning in the "Beasts Deck" at the Darkmoon Faire.
It is difficult to properly gauge the potential usefulness of this trinket without calculations. It has a 2% chance per successful spellcast to ignore the usual 5-second delay in mana regeneration. Usually, a successful spellcast resets a timer that will trigger mana regeneration after 5 seconds. Any caster or healer, especially those that use quick spells like Flash Heal or Flash of Light, may find themselves almost always under the 5-second barrier, and thus rarely regenerating any mana from their Spirit.
This trinket may give the caster a little "breathing time" in which he can regenerate mana. For a player with 250 spirit, therefore (and many priests, paladins, and druids have over 250 spirit), a proc of this trinket will give him - over the 15 seconds - ~566 mana.
This trinket fits most naturally with casters who require constant, prolonged mana use and who have a high amount of spirit (as a small boost in mana does not really matter in short fights). Most healers in a raid will find this trinket useful, though its usefulness will vary depending on factors such as how much spirit the player has and whether they tend to use smaller, more frequent Flash Heals or larger, less frequent Greater Heals.
If this does not fit their playing style, players may find other trinkets — such as [Mindtap Talisman] — to be more useful.
Effective MP/5
The following Java Program can be used to simulate (roughly) the effect of this Trinket over 1,000,000 casts.
public static void main(String[] args)
{
double spirit;
double time = 2.5;
double intellect;
double Mana;
double tLeft;
int i;
Random gen = new Random();
for(intellect = 400; intellect < 1000; intellect += 100)
{
for(spirit = 400; spirit < 1000; spirit += 100)
{
tLeft = 0;
Mana = 0;
for(i = 0; i < 100000; i++)
{
if(tLeft > 0)
{
tLeft -= time;
if(tLeft >= 0)
Mana += time * (0.001 + Math.sqrt(intellect) * spirit * 0.009327);
}
if((gen.nextInt(100) + 1) <= 2)
tLeft = 15;
}
System.out.print("<tr><th>" + intellect + "</th><th>" + spirit + "</th><td align=\"center\">");
System.out.println(5 * (Mana / (1000000 * time)) + "</td>");
}
}
}
Below is a simulation of the behaviour of 1,000,000 chain-casts using a 2.5s G-Heal.
| Intellect | Spirit | Effective +MP5 |
|---|---|---|
| 400.0 | 400.0 | 4.2994315399996355 |
| 400.0 | 500.0 | 5.387332960000989 |
| 400.0 | 600.0 | 6.393155999999999 |
| 400.0 | 700.0 | 7.278473459997999 |
| 400.0 | 800.0 | 8.613728760000116 |
| 400.0 | 900.0 | 9.209441384998705 |
| 500.0 | 400.0 | 4.614193835222676 |
| 500.0 | 500.0 | 5.975767126640859 |
| 500.0 | 600.0 | 6.9694403947548045 |
| 500.0 | 700.0 | 8.417148130062003 |
| 500.0 | 800.0 | 9.33761743902418 |
| 500.0 | 900.0 | 10.629635287343568 |
| 600.0 | 400.0 | 5.485478463508469 |
| 600.0 | 500.0 | 6.578104664999033 |
| 600.0 | 600.0 | 7.875893766149604 |
| 600.0 | 700.0 | 9.019011871375294 |
| 600.0 | 800.0 | 10.93251475541928 |
| 600.0 | 900.0 | 11.689412718650086 |
| 700.0 | 400.0 | 5.736949057753477 |
| 700.0 | 500.0 | 7.065677093598925 |
| 700.0 | 600.0 | 8.763821438944895 |
| 700.0 | 700.0 | 9.104233099532657 |
| 700.0 | 800.0 | 10.957596162264453 |
| 700.0 | 900.0 | 12.54160878114506 |
| 800.0 | 400.0 | 5.989539922491635 |
| 800.0 | 500.0 | 7.511972605916232 |
| 800.0 | 600.0 | 9.110118427545396 |
| 800.0 | 700.0 | 10.344075991342812 |
| 800.0 | 800.0 | 12.088767482517142 |
| 800.0 | 900.0 | 13.54168648159008 |
| 900.0 | 400.0 | 6.253249749999999 |
| 900.0 | 500.0 | 8.175407110000943 |
| 900.0 | 600.0 | 9.647626454998978 |
| 900.0 | 700.0 | 11.137054479998705 |
| 900.0 | 800.0 | 12.59374473999765 |
| 900.0 | 900.0 | 14.150327700002727 |
Darkmoon Cards
Darkmoon Cards are obtained by completing a set of eight cards (The relevant Ace plus 7 general cards, numbered 2 of X deck and up to 8 of X deck - like, for example, Four of Beasts). After obtaining the eight cards the player can create a Deck item by clicking and activating the Ace card. All the individual cards and the deck itself are BoE items and can be bought in the Auction House, making an exciting collecting, trading and selling mini-game.
Each Ace drops from a specific elite boss somewhere in the game, which usually have an estimated (unverified) 10% drop chance (since 1.10 patch). The general cards are world drops from ANY general humanoid level 51 and above, including elites. There are no specific place or mob they can drop from. The drop rate is slightly better for elite dungeon bosses.
Once you have the deck item, you can turn it in at the Darkmoon Faire for the final Epic trinket: the Blue Dragon.
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