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Comment by 29050

random world drop in Northrend

although rumors advise this to be a random world drop, the only confirmed reports thus far show it to drop from the Nascent Val'kyr in Storm Peaks.

Comment by heine123

410 Haste rating is ~12.5% faster Attack/Cast speed.
(73=2.23 2.23/73*410=12.52%)

and the procc chance is 10% of a critical strike.(click the "on Equip spell" for details)

Comment by 254943

appears to be bugged atm. I acquired it (Iam a mage) and it does not proc of spellcrits but it does proc from melee crits. A GM told me it was a known issue and they are working to resolve the issue.

Comment by 237053

My report to a gm:

I have equiped the boe trinket called "Tears of Bitter Anguish". It increases haste rating with 73 (which works) and it has a chance to increase haste rating by 410 after a critical hit.

Ive been casting 225 lightning bolts at a target dummy, of which 54 were crits. The trinket didn't proc once. Is this trinket bugged?

Haste was changed a few patches ago to apply to both melee and spells so i assume this trinket should proc on both melee and spell crits as well

Answer:

Thank you for reporting this to us. Our development team are aware of this issue and it will be corrected as soon as possible.

So theres hope for us spellcasters.

Comment by colar

Looking at the drop rate, 2 out of over 18,000 kills it is indeed a rare drop. It would amount to about 0.01% Unless you get lucky, it will be a very long grind. I wonder how much these will sell on AH....

Comment by 185039

Your tears, they give me strength.

Comment by 229155

Any internal CD on this item?

Comment by 209283

that thing is worse than https://www.wowhead.com/wotlk/item=37390 if they have the same internal cd

Comment by 237053

That statement is only showing up on mmo-champion, without mentioning the source. It is NOT (yet) in any official patchnotes.

That said, today there is some news in the form of a blue poster in this thread: http://forums.wow-europe.com/thread.html?topicId=6986893396&sid=1

Hello Trappist,

This is something that our QA department is currently investigating into and as such we have no information on whether or not it will work with spell critical hits at this time. Please be patient while this is being looked into.

Kindest Regards
Tailyda

Comment by 288601

Killed about 800, still no drop

Comment by 08Jacob

My friend got this on Turalyon and sold it for 3k gold.. :) So it is Excisting

Comment by 270327

So I see a lot about this not proccing off spell crits, has any hunter equiped this and seen if ranged physical crits causes this to Proc?

Comment by 244366

Dropped for me yesterday while doing dailies in Storm Peaks from a Nascent Val'kyr on Terenas. Sold it that morning for 3,600G. Which allowed me to buy a Signet of the Accord for 3,300G for my Prot Warrior. (Good trade-out for me imho).

Comment by Metalgeek420

Currenty on PTR:

Tears of Bitter Anguish now only works on melee critical strike.

Comment by 291413

Dropped off of Nascent Valkyr in Storm Peaks as of 1-11-09... As a rogue this thing is essentially equivalent to the badge items in terms of haste. Seems to be the same timer as well, 10% proc with 1 min internal cooldown. Judging by its stats id venture to guess this would field 3k-5k gold depending on the server but thats just me.

Comment by 94327

whoop just got one off the same mob whilst trying to get a polar bear mount from the dailies-bonus being its not the mob i needed to kill but it attacked me :D

now to use or to sell to get epic mount?

Comment by Fenrari

I've been attempting to sell this trinket for the past 2 weeks... I've come to the conclusion... No one wants such a trinket. Some of the raiders I've been with contemplated it, and then decided to go with the meteorite whetstone which though grants a lesser effect, is a lot cheaper.

Comment by 34089

Appears blue made up their mind. The proc text is now much clearer. Now I have to go kill myself because the mage that outbid me on this equipped it immediately. At least the knowledge that he screwed himself out of 1500g is some consolation as I cry myself to sleep.

Comment by 109530

Posted by Zushiba:

3.0.8 patchnotes.
* Tears of Bitter Anguish now only works on melee critical strike.

From Dudeshesdead:

ZUSHIBA - I'm not finding this in the patch notes released by blizzard, whats the link you use because as far as I can tell, your statement is FALSE

Dude, you are correct, this is not in the patch notes. Also, the notes Zushiba referenced also neglected to mention the item itself was not changed, only the tooltip.

In a chat with a GM last night, my suspicions were confirmed: the tooltip change was to clarify its trigger mechanic; the trinket and its effects have not changed. Casters should contact a GM to have this trinket unbound via item restoration (take it out of your trinket slot and clear your mailbox beforehand).

The change was undocumented by Blizzard due to the shear number of changes implemented, but MMO-Champion's testers on the PTR found the change before the patch went live.

Casters should contact a GM to have this trinket unbound via item restoration (take it out of your trinket slot and clear your mailbox beforehand).

Also please do remember to read the Live Patch Notes Disclaimer, which is in red text at the top of all patch notes pages now.

For documented official confirmation, please refer to the links below.

Direct from the Armory:
- - - - - -Item: Tears of Bitter Anguish
Source URL: http://www.wowarmory.com/item-info.xml?i=43573

Latest official Live patch notes can always be found at http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/patchnotes/

Comment by DanTheBigMan

Patch 3.0.8, tooltip correctly confirms ONLY MELEE CRITS!

For any and all undocumented changes, both in PTR and Live, I go with wowwiki.com.
Yes, it's a Wiki, but since the moratorium on Blizzard's information is as slow as frozen molasses, I'd love to see someone else do any better.

Comment by msco

Since this is unique, does it mean that if one drops for me and let's say I wear it or put it in the bank or put it for sale on the AH, if a second one drops (I know the chances are low, but still....) I cannot loot it? That would be a terrible waste, since they made it BoE, they should at least have made it Unique-equipped....

Comment by Foxglove

After the patch 3.0.8 this does still work off hunter's ranged attacks. I just equiped and tested out. Hope this helps.

Comment by Foxglove

Msco I can unfortunately tell you that you cannot have more then one, I have one equiped and bought one for a friend of mine and it is now stuck in the mail box. Waiting to hear back from a GM about it.

Comment by 308108

anyone know the drop rate on Tears of Bitter Anguish ?

Comment by Fanai

Just got it from a Blighted Proto-Drake i hope it helps

Comment by 168962

Apparently there is not internal CD as seen by the spell casted from the trinket. Maybe it just hasn't been tested enough to know yet since it only procs off of critical strikes.

I wonder if its possible that this buff can stack in this case...

Comment by 338487

Dropped for me off of a Nascent Val'kyr in The Storm Peaks as I was doing a quest. I got lucky, but that's who it dropped from.

Comment by Raithon

Highly overpriced on most servers : \.

I would just go after the whetstone.

Comment by 304130

I did a little bit of testing on this and Meteorite Whetstone here is what I found.

The tear's internal cool-down is 50 seconds, and its up time seems to be about 15% of the time. Meaning you are getting on average 61.5 Haste ratings from the proc.

Then the Meteorite Whetstone has a 45 second internal cool-down and what seems to be about a 16% uptime. Meaning you are getting on average 71.004 haste rating from the proc.

So comparing the two

The Tears give you 134.5 Haste rating on average.

While

The Whetstone gives you on average 71.004 Haste Rating and 74 Critical Strike.

Hope that helps!

Comment by Interest

This is the one trinket you do NOT wanna wear whilst fighting Algalon.

Comment by 404109

it dropped for me today on Quelthalas

Comment by cherudim

Just got this to drop after 126 val'kyr slain (easy to keep track of thanks to the Dissolved Soul Essence they always drop).

Comment by 428867

I've killed about 100 so far. Hopefully just a few more. Wanna sell it for the rest of the gold I need for my Hog. :D

Comment by Gibbard

Was doing the "Off With Their Black Wings" and this dropped on my 10th/12 Val'kyr. My friends are telling me its worthless.

Comment by Erethzium

What I'm wondering is why this trinket goes for insane prices on AH. Is it REALLY that good? I mean, it sells for more than Greatness, even! (Greatness goes for 4500-5000 on my server, while this thing goes for well over 6k.)

Comment by 321380

This is probably going to cause you all to flame me until my house burns, but I found this thing while questing in storm peaks, no farming, and Im still using it to this day on my paladin. it is awesome. it almost makes up for the time some ninja stole the fiery war axe with a need roll and then logged off. when I look back on that run, I dont recall him ever saying anything.

Comment by Stubzor

Does anyone Know if this procs WITH Meteorite whetstone ? At the same time would be awesome :P

(Cant see any "Shared Cooldowns" That's why im wondering)

Comment by Allakhazam

OMG! It random dropped from a Valkyrion Apprentice in VAlkyrion, Storm Peaks! Epic flying mount! lol!

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Tears of Bitter Anguish

	Phase 1

Item Level 200
Binds when equipped
Unique

Trinket

Requires Level 80
Equip: Improves haste rating by 73.
Equip: Chance on melee and ranged critical strike to increase your haste rating by 410 for 10 secs. (Proc chance: 10%, 50s cooldown)
"They shimmer with sadness and woe."

Sell Price: 25

Dropped by: Nascent Val'kyr

Drop Chance: 0.02%

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