Priests get the SHAFT on this one.
Like others said, your shawl will replace this in a heartbeat.
ON THE OTHER HAND, caster classes get a NECK item with FT2... so they can use it in addition to shawl... easy FT5 right there (if you consider shawl easy)... LAME.
EDIT: Oh, and no one should wear this, unless temporarily, because there are only two scenarios here:
A) Your guild will not be seeing VT/Elemental/Time gear any time soon, so you do the shawl, one of the better pre-VT/Ele/Time shoulder pieces, and the ONLY pre-time item with 20% buff extension (FT3 doesn't hurt either folks)
B) Your guild sees VT/Elemental/Time regularly and you can get something MUCH better than this, even if you just aug it with FT2.
If you fall under scenario A, like me, DO YOUR SHAWL, you're doing yourself a favor.
Edited, Wed Aug 18 02:34:33 2004