in BWL you can replace it with Drake Fang Talisman, but you're gonna have so many people vying for that. once you're in naxx you have a few options to replace it.
til you get DFT, you'll wanna run Diamond Flask (available p3) and either HoJ or Blackhand's Breadth. HoJ will perform similarly to BhB until you're crit capped via world buffs, after which BhB gets nullified. So if you think you're going to routinely find yourself in full WBs with raid gear, I'd think about doing some angerforge farming.
That being said, I think HoJ farming in pugs is just peer pressure BS. People will run it a hundred times just to sim 10 dps higher in a game where you can clear the raids in questing gear. I'd only tell a midcore player to farm it if they're bored.
I had a guild rogue in TBC that was pulling some build like that. Still rocking HOJ even though it was psuedo nerfed. I can't remember if there was a sword he was using that had an extra proc as well.
This was back in the day where they had no soft cap on the proc. Each proc could proc itself, WF, HOJ, or sword spec.
We were on the last boss of Kara just plugging away when the boss just 180s and slams him, hopping right back to the tank after he vanishes.
He proceeds to yell in vent that the just had the most absurd string of procs he had ever seen.
Apparently his screen filled with numbers and he went from like 80ish percent threat to 120 percent in one second. This was a few minutes into the fight, so the tank had a pretty considerable threat lead.
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u/Teknomeka 1d ago
What is hoj?