Ahh, the Mirror of Truth. It's gotta' be one of the most desirable trinkets for rogues. The only way to get it is buying it with 40 Emblem of Heroism marks. This was the first thing I bought with my Emblem of Heroism marks, and for good reason.
This should be the very first thing you buy with your marks because armor and weapons are all things that can drop in instances / raids or can be created for you. For instance, I had my main epic dagger created for me with my mats. Same DPS and specs at the dagger sold with Heroism marks and my crafted dagger looks much better, and the same for the epic cloak, shoulders and belt I had made. And there are weapons and armor of the same power and specs (and better) that can be found in instances and raids.
But trinket drops are much rarer, and the ones that would happen to drop most-likely aren't going to be for a rogue at all... or other DPS classes will roll for it. And on top of that, the Mirror of Truth trinket is one of the best trinkets for rogues.
I recommend you buying this trinket as soon as you get 40 marks. (And, in fact, anything you buy should be something rare, like your thrown weapons or a cloak, rather than something more common, like a dagger or chest piece.) It looks like any other end-game trinkets won't be any more powerful than this thing really, so buyin' this bitch will be somethin' you won't replace anytime soon. (I'm sure there will be better trinkets in time, but whatever.)
So, what makes it so great? First thing to note is that it's not a trinket you "activate", it's one of those passive ones. It's not somethin' you control, it does it's shit automatically. Some of you out there might prefer a trinket that you control, so you can become the most powerful when usin' somethin' like Shadow Dance. Don't worry, I think this is totally worth it because most of use probably waited to activate our trinkets only at special times and not using it as much as we could have been.
The first stat of Mirror of Truth is that it increases your critical strike by 1.83%. That's fuckin' nice right there. I mean, that's almost 2% critical strike. Wow. The next thing... "Chance on critical hit to increase your attack power by 1000 for 10 secs." Holy shit... 1,000 attack power? Seconds?? Yeah baby, sign me up!
So ok, here's how it works... not theory, not math... but the actual real world truth of it. This thing has a chance to go off when you get a critical strike, either with your special attacks or with your auto damage (and even if your poisons get a critical). That means once you start fighting, it should go off about 1 to 30 seconds. Once it goes off, you'll get a bad ass buff called the Reflection of Torment. This bitch shares the same icon as Sinister Calling, the sub talent, so that right there makes this fuckin' awesome. But, Reflection of Torment gives you 1,000 'freakin' attack power for 10 seconds. How great is that. No matter what your attack power is on your character, havin' 'freakin' 1,000 attack power will always be a huge boost.
But here's the deal, the trinket, the Reflection of Torment buff, it has an internal cooldown of about 50 seconds. That means, no matter what kinda' crazy critical shit you're doin', the shortest time the Mirror of Truth can activate is 50 seconds. But that'll only if you happened to get a critical that triggered it at the perfect moment. Realistically, it'll go off about once every minute or longer if your unlucky.
Now some of you might be thinkin' this sucks, but it doesn't. That's 'freakin' awesome. I mean think about this... most "activate" trinkets have a cooldown of about 2 minutes and I guarantee you're not usin' it every two minutes. In fact, I'd only use my trinket in sync with Shadow Dance... which I won't do Shadow Dance every two minutes, I try to always save it for a boss fight, tough PvP kill or when shit's goin' bad (but that's just me, you should be doin' it as much as possible). So havin' this baby go off every minute or so is so great.
But ok, what about the people out there who were using a trinket in sync with Shadow Dance on boss fights? Well it's simple... Just go in and attack the boss like you normally would and just wait until you get Reflection of Torment. Once you get it, start the Shadow Dance. I know it'll throw your timing of keeping full energy up and / or five combo points and a finisher right before you do Shadow Dance, but it's cool... either do Shadow Dance without Reflection of Torment, or do it with it. If you start Shadow Dance before Reflection of Torment has gone off yet, it'll probably go off with one of your ambushes or finishers.
Mirror of Truth... fuckin' awesome. Go get it, and enjoy it.
Jeaxx
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