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Comment by Aracelia

If you take a flying taxi or walk out of range of the voidwalker summoned with this (possible especially by telling your voidwalker to "Stay"), you do get a free soul shard back. This gives the additional use of being able to give a free soul shard every half hour if you should find that helpful.

Comment by Thottbot

I thought of one good use for it ...

The Demonic Sacrifice talent, when you use it on a Voidwalker, gives you an undispellable buff that restores 3% of your total health every 4 seconds. It only works as long as you don't summon another pet, but often in instances you don't want a pet around. You can Life Tap to convert health into mana if you need to, so this is basically a constant influx of health and mana, taking a burden off the healers. The duration of this buff? 30 minutes. Same as the cooldown on this trinket.

So, if you've got DS and are in a situation where a pet isn't required, this Abyss Shard trinket means constant health and mana, forever, for free.

Comment by Thottbot

Well, the scythe will stop being useful once you get some epic gear, so this should be the obvious choice. If it wasn't for one tiny detail...

The scythe looks so insanely cool that you just have to have it, even if you only use it in town or for PvP.

Comment by Thottbot

This is probably the first quest I needed to think before choosing the reward. After reading these posts and especially the Demonic Sacrifice part, I just had to try it out. Lets say you have about 3000hp the demonic sacrifice then gives you 90hp every 4 seconds. A normal mob at my level(54) hits you with about 90dmg each hit. They hit you maybe twice in 4 seconds. That means you get back full hp for each second hit. Not bad. And considering this as a thing you would use in instances for the most part, where you have a tank and fellow fighters, this would mean you could use lifetap quite often without losing any hp and die. continues-->

Comment by Thottbot

If you read above...
Consider you also spent 21 points in affliction. That gives you siphon life in addition... I don't have it yet, but picture yourself throwing SL on mobs in addition to Fel Stam. Then you have 15hp(rank1) from each mob to plus on the 90hp from Fel Stam. If a lock could be a healer.... you would never hear: OOOM or Need mana from your healer again. :) I'll go for the trinket. I cry each night for not having the Scythe, but I have a better one....

-The End-

Comment by Thottbot

You're in trouble, already sacraficed one VW for shield.
Used pots and/or healthstone already.

No more mana...

Only one more enemy left and you're down to less than 1/3 health...

CAST: Fel Domination -> Use Trinket.

VW takes either takes the heat for a few precious moments, or you can sacrafice again for shield.

YES, trinket timer IS affected by Fel Domination... I just tested it.

Comment by Thottbot

best trinket ever ! in late game you are going to use it to farm shards between the battleground queues. Don't get that staff, you will find a better one, but you won't find that trinket a second time !

Comment by Thottbot

I think you are all forgetting the true and obvious purpose for this trinket. When you go to solo a low lvl instance for drops (I still need a damn Shadowfang for my twink) none of the enemies will give you a shard since they are so low. This allows you your best grinding pet once every 30 mins for free (your pet shouldnt die that often in those places). I can continually grind SFK or VC WC, or anything I can solo effectively with this.

Comment by Thottbot

And I love it. Listen to the advice everyone here
has... The robe you will replace soon, if you haven't
by the time you get it (I now wear the Winter Night
robe, and I would never look back from it).

i already had zum'rah's vexing cane https://www.wowhead.com/classic/item=38853 before I ever started this quest, and there are even better staves on the horizon...

truly, I have already used this trinket maybe 12 times... the ability to summon a free void is absolutely remarkable, and will NEVER go out of style. think about how often you summon your void... now think that once every half hour, that summon would be totally free... it's great, I am telling you!

JUST GREAT!

MAN I LOVE MY ABYSSAL SHARD!

Comment by Thottbot

"I run around looking like death..."... wtf
Pick the scythe if you wanna look cool.
Pick the robes.
Pick the trinket if you want something you'll always have, or never be able to get again.

This is the only thing you'll ever miss at lvl 60.

Comment by Thottbot

For the most part of my warlock career, I was a demonologist. I am surprised people post that with talents this gives a 0.5 second cast free VW.

The 0.5 second cast VW is next to mana free already. It is under 100. Using the trinket wastes the point of it.

The beauty is that it is a manaless (and with talents) 6 second cast VW. There were several boss fights that I lived through because I can sack 3 VWs for 7800 hp total in absorption shields for next to no mana cost.

How many trinkets give a 2600 hp shield every 30 minutes? Use it and throw in a different trinket for the down time.

How many trinkets give a 2k mana pool that you can tap if you have dark pact before getting the shield?

Now that I have dropped Demonology, this trinket is even more precious. Spending almost 1400 mana in the middle of a fight on a replacement VW hurts. Bad enough I have to spend 10 seconds.

I'll give another example of how it is useful. It is a trinket, not a spell. It is not stoppable by silence. I am not 100%, but I don't think it can be stopped by other game mechanics like kicks and shocks either. Stun and polymorph would be the only ways guaranteed to stop a warlock from summoning a VW with this.

This trinket gives an ability you won't find elsewhere and may be replaceable by end game content. The other items are easily replacable even before end game raids.

Take the trinket, never look back,
Varool
Eldre'Thalas

Comment by Thottbot

Ok, everyone knows already that this is a Pro' trinket, but in the new patch you can leave your pet on "stay" and walk away, it de-sommons - then you get a free Soul Shard every 30 mins. For those people who need the odd shard quickly for a sommon when you forgot one etc, this is for you. Or it could be used to sommon the far supirior Felguard. (which may I add is a better tank then the Voidwalker due to the fact is does damage and does cleave - I think this doubles the use of the VW's AoE taunt).

Comment by Thottbot

whoever said this trinket is useless is a complete moron.

Comment by Thottbot

You can always get better or comparable gear. This is a one-of-a-kind trinket. Get the trinket.

Comment by Thottbot

Let's think about the savings this way:
How about solely using this trinket instead of ever using a shard for a Voidwalker (necessity pending). By simply looking at your bag, you would then have an accurate idea of how many non-Voidwalker pets or shard abilities that you have available at any given time. Definately worth it in my opinion.

Comment by Thottbot

and i still have this in my inventory at all time.. if you use it and run away from the wv if u have it on stay you will get a shard :)

Comment by Thottbot

I am a lvl. 51 lock. And I will tell you this. No matter what your spec. The voidwalker trinket, in my opinion, is the smart decision. I can't even begin to imagine how much that will come in handy questing. And never again will you have the change to find anything like it.

Here is what I wear, and I think it matches very very closley to the other two rewards in this quest.

Robe of the Magi (+100 health enchant)

Spire of Hakkar

I even think the Spire of Hakkar beats the Soul Harvester out of the water. As Soul Harvester only applies +damage to Shadow. Spire applies +damage to both Fire and Shadow. And an extra +16 spirit in addition to the same amount of stamina.

With the health enchant on the Robe of the Magi, your not loosing much at all.

GET THE TRINKET! IT WILL BE WORTH IT!

Comment by Allakhazam

30 minutes is waay too long.

that makes it a "omfg i am out of shards and need a VW NOW" tool at best. But honestly, if you run out of shards then you are not playing the lock right.

If it had a 2-3, even 5 minute cooldown it would be awesome, and i don't think it would be overpowered either -- especially with the same cast time as usual.

Comment by Allakhazam

Nice thing...

Comment by Allakhazam

FYI, it works with Fel Domination to fast-cast a voidwalker. Don't forget that even if it's cooled down, equipping it causes a 15-second cooldown that you have to wait for before it can be used.

If you plan to use it, a useful trick is to swap it out during cooldown with another trinket you use a lot.

Comment by Allakhazam

This trinket may become more viable after the 1.9 patch, as the Infernal and Voidwalker are getting a significant buff.

Comment by Allakhazam

When you use this trinket, does it instantly cast your Void? If so, it would be awsome for PvP, to have a 2 secound cast shield. (Global cooldowns and all that, ya know.) but, if it still takes 10 secounds, then it would be pretty much worthless, cause the VW is a silly nub pet anyway. If your dest or SM/ruin spec, it wont hold agro for more than 2 hits anyway.

Comment by Allakhazam

voidwalker rocks, you just need to know how to use it. Still wouldn't get this though, that cooldown is too long

Comment by Allakhazam

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Comment by Kittyx

Class	Starting Quest	Rewards To Choose From at the End of the Questline
Druid	A Better Ingredient	Grizzled Pelt, Forest's Embrace or Moonshadow Stave.
Hunter	The Green Drake	Hunting Spear, Devilsaur Eye or Devilsaur Tooth.
Mage	Destroy Morphaz	Glacial Spike, Arcane Crystal Pendant or Fire Ruby.
Paladin	Forging the Mightstone	Lightforged Blade, Sanctified Orb or Chivalrous Signet.
Priest	Blood of Morphaz	Blessed Prayer Beads, Woestave or Circle of Hope.
Rogue	The Azure Key	Ebon Mask, Whisperwalk Boots or Duskbat Drape.
Shaman	Da Voodoo	Azurite Fists, Wildstaff or Enamored Water Spirit.
Warlock	Trolls of a Feather	Soul Harvester, Abyss Shard or Robes of Servitude
Warrior	Voodoo Feathers	Diamond Flask, Fury Visor or Razorsteel Shoulders.

Comment by PilsnerDk

Sadly, this trinket is 100% worthless in Classic. The voidwalker you summon with it has a hidden flag that makes it not return a Soul Shard when you run away from it, so you can't use the trinket to get a free shard like you could back in vanilla.

Your inventory slot is better used for just another regular shard instead.

Comment by Olyssis

As of Phase 6 in Classic this cannot be used to generate a Soul Shard.

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