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Comment by TigonIII

"Forged of elementium", so is this forged from Elementium Ingot or Elementium Bar. Nah, we all know that Blizz would never use some old materials to craft a new item, I don't even believe we will be able to craft it, probably get it from some rep grind or something.

Comment by Alastian

Obtained within the Zskera Vaults via quest "The Forgotten Ring", can hold up to 3 from the 25 possible gem. They are unique, only 3 different gem will fit into it. The ring and the gems are not upgradeable.

Comment by Urzu77

Please join me in giving a round of applause to the Netflix adaptation of the Sandman comics for teaching some Blizzard game dev (and most of us), the word "Annulet".

Comment by Wh0sthere

Design: Crystal Tuning Fork Can be purchased from Trader Hag'arth Near the docks of Morqut Village (new hub in 10.0.7). This will cost you 10x Artisan's Mettle and at least level 50 in Dragonflight Jewelcrafting.
Unfortunately, the rare quality item required Crystal Fork drops from any mob on the Forgotten Reach, and it is NOT limited to only jewelcrafters. You can get the cooking item, the tailoring item, etc. and each of them are rare drops. Once you find the fork, you can craft the tuning fork, and summon Amephyst which is a rare summonable that will drop the pattern : Design: Unstable Elementium. This pattern in turn, will allow you to upgrade the primordial stone gems for your Onyx Annulet using 10 Dormant Primordial Fragment and 25 Silken Gemdust (of any rank). This is how you will be able to obtain the maximum item level on your primordial gems.

At the time of writing, 3 hours of grinding elite and non-elite mobs on the island and I have acquired:
Torn Morqut Kite x2
Lackluster Spices x1

several items for rep turnin that are associated with rare drops as well (like Wondrous Fish). Take note, each of the rep turnin items started off as a treasure map to locate an item and the profession ones did not.

4.5 hours, and I found one. The location of the resonating crystal is on Morqut Islet, just above the quest hub.
https://imgur.com/a/I4ktfBF
Rare has 800k health (rather than the 7 mil that others have). killing him gave 2x 3* ysemeralds, 2x prisomatic ore, 1x 3* neltharite
vault key, few green gems, vault key, primalist BoA token, elemental overflow, and the design unstable elementium

Comment by Mohi134

Can you put a gem socket on it?

Comment by Amalio

Really hope they'll buff this. For Hunters for example, this ring is currently about as strong as a 385 ring. Kinda defeats the whole purpose.
Edit: Don't know why I am getting downvoted, but even after today's buff it's till pretty bad and worse than a 418 craftable ring.

Comment by Felness

honestly just give this ring secondary stats. And if it is too strong when 10.1 releases just nerf it again.

Comment by nyanmynecks

Jeah they forgot to add stats nyahahhaha
Whats the Deal to do it like in bfa just add everything on it. Some people will clear lil bit higher Keys. If you afiard of pvp then just disable it. Ezpz

Comment by davebg8r

The guides for each of my toons say this ring is not worth it, below even a 400 ilvl ring. Why introduce something that appears so worthless for so many specs?

Comment by Sarthorius

All I see here, again towards a 'somewhat strong item' is people complaining about 'swapping it out for a better version, asking for stats, higher ilvl item or something like that.
Folks, THIS COULD BE THE BiS RING FOR TIMEWALKING. Remember the Elemental Lariat (for a replacement of the Heart of Azeroth, for some stuff)?

Open your minds and think on the broader side of things. This item will be somehow 'easy' to get, easy to farm the slotted 'gems' (you will be able to 'recicle' those you won't want on a class, and 'buy and improve' those you'd want, and keep it for Timewalking stuff (or Mage Tower, who knows?).

And, brace yourselves, there are coming a 6-week sequence of Timewalking event from the bronzes, giving Heroic Vaul of the Incarnate Gear (for 70s, imagine your already, or near of, 70 level alts snatching this, plus a piece of heroic Vault gear?)'

PS: Did anyone (almost) read it 'AMULET' (or thought it first being an 'amulet'? Would be awkward to fight with the lariat)? Was that an intended pun by Blizzard, haha?

Comment by basalt51

380 ilvl Jeweled Signet of Melandrus performs better than this at 411 with ideal stones for Enhance. At equal ilvl 411 Jeweled Signet of Melandrus is 1K dps more.

https://www.raidbots.com/simbot/report/kvqwrUd9GB4P1Q9eCmhk6N

Comment by pjammers

Despite the lack of secondary stats, it seems to be a strong ring depending on your class and what three gems you set in it. For example, Icy Veins website states it is mandatory on its Best in Slot section for Ret pallies, but Destruction warlocks consider it a dps loss.

https://www.icy-veins.com/wow/retribution-paladin-pve-dps-gear-best-in-slot

Comment by huntwell

This ring (even at ilvl 424 with your class/spec's BiS Primordial Stones) is a DPS loss for nearly every endgame player. I predict that Blizzard will buff it by adding universal secondary stats (e.g., Crit/Haste, Versa/Mastery, etc.) within the next two weeks.

Comment by Legalrain

I wish I had come here and read before spending the time and gold to upgrade this with the proper gems. It is a major DPS loss for my 416 BM Hunter. The crafted rings out do it. Pretty disappointing. Before doing the same as me, put the time into seeing if it is worth it and I do hope they buff it to make it worth while.

Comment by Necromanic

Disenchanting result:

1x Resonant Crystal
1x Vibrant shard

... and lost all three socketed Stones :)

Comment by Jaredius

I'm seeing several people with it at ilvl 443, but I can't upgrade any stone past 424. How?

Comment by TheIceBear

Does anybody know how this ring and additional effects from the stones hold up in PvP? I'm wondering about battlegrounds / arenas and if the effects still work in there?

Comment by Phaelien

Complete list of Primordial Stones available to be socketed into the Onyx Annulet, as well as the Condensed Magic that can contain them:

Condensed Magic	Possible Stones
Condensed Arcane Magic	Harmonic Music Stone Humming Arcane Stone Obscure Pastel Stone
Condensed Earth Magic	Gleaming Iron Stone Indomitable Earth Stone Shining Obsidian Stone
Condensed Fire Magic	Entropic Fel Stone Flame Licked Stone Raging Magma Stone Searing Smokey Stone
Condensed Frost Magic	Cold Frost Stone Deluging Water Stone Exuding Steam Stone Freezing Ice Stone Sparkling Mana Stone
Condensed Nature Magic	Echoing Thunder Stone Pestilent Plague Stone Storm-Infused Stone Wild Spirit Stone Wind Sculpted Stone
Condensed Necromantic Magic	Desirous Blood Stone Necromantic Death Stone
Condensed Shadow Magic	Prophetic Twilight Stone Swirling Mojo Stone

Comment by CrysisDz

what is the max ilvl on that ring ? how many upgrade require ?
i saw some people 443 and i stack on 424

Comment by Pakheth

Does anyone know if the effects of the slotted stones work in the Mage Tower challenges?

Comment by Aisenfaire

You can buy more Onyx Annulet from Researcher Imareth for 10 Dormant Primordial Fragment. They are unique-equipped, but having multiple setups means you can just quickly swap to your raid set or your m+ set or your tanking set, etc. without having to race over to the island to pop the gems out every time.

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An interesting thing to note is that when its ilevel goes up as you socket higher gems in it, so too does its stamina increase. It starts at 609 Stamina at 405, and goes to 778 stamina at 424.

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Quick guide for those wondering how this whole ring thing works:

Get your Onyx Annulet from the vault (it's a quest starter item on the ground in the vault--The Forgotten Ring) in The Forbidden Reach (just do the campaign for that place until you go to vault)
Complete the vault and loot all the gems you can from it. (You need 32 Zskera Vault Keys to open all the doors in it--go farm rares. I wrote more about getting keys here.)
You will get a follow up quest during/ after vault quest: Primordial Embellishment from Researcher Imareth at the base. This will unlock the special anvil and jewelcrafting kit for the ring, near questgiver, upon quest completion.
You can use the jewelcrafting kit to pop gems out of your Onyx Annulet without destroying them.
You can use the anvil to break down unwanted gems into 6 Dormant Primordial Fragments each.
You can buy other gems with the Dormant Primordial Fragments (10 each), from the Researcher Imareth near the anvil.
To upgrade your gems, you need 2 x Unstable Elementium for each gem to hit 424. So for 3 gems, you need 6 Unstable Elementium. If you don't know anyone to make it, just place a public work order (there is no quality involved for this) and provide 10 Dormant Primordial Fragments (that you got from crushing unwanted gems) and 25 Silken Gemdust (buy this off the AH--quality doesn't matter) for each.

Vault resets each week, in case you want to go back. If you're happy with your 3 gems that you upgraded, there's no need to.

You might also want to go back to get pets, a mount (see link for both) , and a cooking recipe (Ratcipe: Deviously Deviled Eggs).

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*Edit: Ion recently stated in an interview that there are no plans to nerf Onyx Annulet in season 2 until at least 10.1.5.

Source: https://www.wowhead.com/news/maximum-interview-with-morgan-day-no-plans-to-nerf-primordial-stones-332605

New edit: Nerfed in 10.1.5.

Developers' notes:
We are lowering the effectiveness of all Primordial Stones that deal damage by 40% to increase gearing options for players. We are compensating specific specializations that are commonly using the Onyx Annulet ring for this damage loss. Alongside this, we are reducing the effectiveness of damage to healing spells to maintain similar healing outputs. This will result in an overall increase in Healer damage in content where the Onyx Annulet is not utilized, but we feel there is room for healer damage to increase in this space without overly incentivizing offensive play. See each class section for specifics.

Source: https://www.wowhead.com/news/dragonflight-patch-10-1-5-fractures-in-time-patch-notes-333860

Comment by bomberbomber

In case you were wondering, you can not add a gem socket to the Onyx Annulet with a Storm-Charged Manipulator

Comment by Qoko

The Onyx Annulet can be permanently (well, at least for DF scaling) used for a speed set. Currently, rings are a bit of an odd one out as there aren't any movement boosting rings around. You can buy a second Annulet and get and upgrade:

The first two are probably obvious, the third may be a bit more obscure: one of the three stones you can get from killing 20 enemies is Breathing Mojo Crystal, increasing Speed temporarily by an absurd (pretty much maximum) amount. No stones help otherwise, so these three are quite an easy pick.

The benefit of this combination is that it's not just passive Speed gain: the Wind Sculpted is, the Harmonic stone will slightly boost Speed on packs and assuming you're soloing and one-shotting stuff burst from pack to pack, and lastly the Mojo stone will help for huge bursts of speed, ie larger gaps. As this is all the Speed tertiary stat, the Annulet alone probably suffices to get Speed maxed, meaning you can use the other gear slots to get set movement gains: Azerite, trinkets, gems and other specific drops.

WARNING for stealth users: the Mojo Stone does indeed break stealth randomly. Decided to unsocket it and use Obscure Pastel Stone instead: if anything this has a 1/14 chance to proc Harmonic Music Stone (adding to the original stone), otherwise any of the 13 random damage, heal or absorb effects. Not amazing but at least I can stealth.

Comment by jjanchan

A few things I thought I should point out:

This item is "Unique-Equipped" but NOT "Unique". That this means is that you can have multiple rings in your bags socketed with different Primordial Stones for different situations (e.g. a PVP ring, Raid ring, Mythic+ ring, etc.) although you can only equip one at a time.

Extra rings can be purchased from Researcher Imareth for 10 Dormant Primordial Fragment.
This is a much less tedious alternative than unsocketing and resocketing for different situations!
If you are short on bag space, you can use these rings to "store" Primordial Stones that you don't want to use right now but also don't want to get rid of (technically 3 stones per slot)

You CAN apply an enchant (e.g. Enchant Ring - Devotion of Critical Strike) to this item although you cannot socket it with Storm-Charged Manipulator.
The item level of the ring is an average of the item levels of the Primordial Stones socketed into it (starting at a base of ilvl 411). If you upgrade all 3 stones to maximum (using 2 Unstable Elementium each for a total of 6) the item level reaches 424; if nothing else, it boosts your average item level substantially.

Comment by radtradt

It seems you can no longer disenchant these due to a stealth fix today. I was disenchanting these 12 hours ago, happy to find a use for the stones/ring that will be useless next week for my spec. Now you should use excess fragments to buy stones and vendor them, you get about 18g each at the moment. To be fair, you cannot disenchant current epic gear from renown vendors, so I can't be too annoyed with a change to make things more consistent.

Comment by xLunacyx

Loves to pull targets that you aren't fighting if you happen to be targetting them

Comment by VooK8

wait.. did you say (or write) i lvl 400 something-ish ring within minutes? with extraordinary sockets!
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-not current content? (anymo' ...that is)
(now that we're a content patch ahead, and this does not just appear in the linear quest line when it was current content:)
*keep in mind that you don't want to leave the isle right away after just having been sent there. * (details below)
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-what? where's that ring you promised? I mean my first toon was sent there automatically so to speak! whoa, dude.. don't make me seek it!

This here green Dracythr NPC starts the Quest chain to get to the vaults.

This here first quest: grab along has to be done and the next one obviously sends you to the vaults.
(do (/kill) the big crab on the beach only if you think it's fun and quite lucrative (or) is it?)

the rest of them are follow-ups which send you into those vaults

After that the ring will be laying on the ground as an object
leading to the next quest (sorry for not even shouting out y'allz Q'zez namez up in that beep ; -x-cuz'ez right there)

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-ring attained, can I leave now?

You wouldn't even have to do much more, but since you will remain without any stones to be socketed in, you might as well do some of those other quests around, since only opening vault doors will lead to chests which contain those stones .. for now, except for doing even "less direct content" having stones drop (and not really solo stuff for new 70-ish toons), it's either way not the most relevant part doing those quests, but using up 4-6 of those vault keys might suffice if you are lucky to get stones you wanted. (but let's not make this much more than a thread, this is not supposed to be a guide, rather a short cut for those coming to the isles and thinking YIKES WHERE'S THE RING AT, WHY DO I EVEN HAVE TO DO THIS OLD STUFF NOW? - for the hoard!)

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-the ring can be changed, so do at least one more thing (along with getting sockets for it)
(you can even have multiple rings for multiple setups as another thread tells you)

Still you might want to return to the vault regardless, in case you want to be able to modify your ring - turning in the ring follows up the ques which sends you to get the items for modifications
So do this quest all along
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-where are those two objects? c'mon.. (I don't have more than 2 minutes for this! - hey I don't want to read 2 sentences, are you out of your mind? shame on you.. blame yourself for your existence. shut up! I'll press ignore and report you for molesting me, regardless of what I did:)

(just click on the quest (in your log or the marker on your map) to set it to current ungergoing and the markers will show you which rooms have the tools required)
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-for the anvil you will have to fly or jump:

All that might be left to mention is that it might come in handy (hence doing those "open the chambers" quests) .. if you went up the cobweb (or are they "active ones"?) spider thread web thingy and open the "air element" chamber there. It's the eastern string on the mini map, that's approx. 9 o' clock, which is the left side if you entered the vault - and if you don't even know where left hand side is, then I can't help you, sis** It will enable you to have a buff ready which helps you skip those gaps (since the .. anvil? is in the upper chambers and unless you have leaping mechanics or such at hand, it's easier to get there using the wind element stuff there - and if you are lucky and love movement speed to speed through content you might get the "moving = stacking speed buff claimed" stone - if you even are into such stones apart from the raw damage or protection they provide.

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-c'moooan, I wanna go (home?/to mommy? just ask for her in /g or /o (you 'lil! - there was no choking intended) or whatever...
*Another recommendation for those who click-skip to get there: (meaning the forgotten reach)

unless you want to get sent back to Valdraken immediately:
Don't just skip the second optional NPC dialog (where you'd otherwise do the campaign for the forbidden reach), not yet.

Instead just get your ring, then skip ahead so you will be returned to Valdrakken.
Otherwise you will have to use your teleportation pad to get there and most likely if you skipped already, you also didn't obviously get the flight route either.

(or even get one of those 10% Rep buffs on top, at least that, eh - or the crafring recipes for this conten.. no, forget it more or less.. should you?)
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-comments, or such? huh?

(**nothing personal alluded here :> before I even start with things such as "ease up!" - "breathe!" "temper, temper" "it will be alright!" - yes, I'll stop before the transformation to the Venthyr hypocrite (on my side?) has been completed :> (while I haven't even turned any red yet - why so?) and will go smurf roman-greek light blue.. only cos I saw some indigo, or was it green? gleam there..)

So.. as you can see this here is getting less relevant with or without further ado?, so I might as well drift off, ramble and (allude) rant(ing), right? even more? - and so, on we go to:
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-non-philosophical something:

( again: why are all those yellow things here not too "dedicated"? - you might want to know the quests' names but on the other hand they just follow each other, and the tooltip will also reveal the actual name and objectives, ta-2-da-dah, y'all - how many players go somewhat ignorant over content once it's not the most current one anymore? how many of you knew e.g. energy costs of abilities until patches made all that information (or keeping it in mind, knowing it by heart) rather vaporous? - and so on.. just some free way of expression here, symbolism and social criticism - etc. yaddah yaddah - I hope this post was helpful for all those lazy players who want to play on an assembly line or an escalator and just go from .. here, grab that. to: kill that strong guy there, reward incoming, go! get these things before they become content which is outdated or even has expired! - don't blame me for that ,I do sentimental nonsense on so many characters as if they had those markings named "what are you doing with your time there!" - speaking of tool tips and things you always wanted to read off them! I hope this now had it's circular movement and I can just abruptly.. <done> )

Comment by ercarp

I vendored this as soon as I got it because I thought it was low ilvl garbage. Luckily I was able to get it back with Item Restoration almost a month later. Apparently it's somehow still BiS for Holy Paladins...

Comment by dudu2k

Somehow on warcraftlogs and on wow''s official website the ring is showing as 443 ilevel. From what I've read on some forums it's just a bug. Or is there a way to further upgrade gems and/or ring?

Comment by schnizol

It's still strong for healing - on my holy pala in season 3 it does several % of my total healing with 3 basic healing stones - the heals do a 1 to a couple k per tick but it adds up - not sure if high ilvl rings are better but I like the numbers so far

Comment by drpimento

couple of questions: I have an L411; is it possible to get a higher level one? and at what point is a higher level ring definitely going to be better? eg, just looted a 441 ring so I get all the stats, L boost, but lose stones... I'm guessing that the level is because at a higher level it'd just be too overpowered. So maybe I'm answering my own question by saying except for Best In Slot, this ring can't be topped?

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Onyx Annulet

Item Level 405
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+800 Stamina

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Requires Level 60
"Forged of elementium, this enigmatic ring has three vacant slots."

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