I use Blood Ember Boots quite a bit. It is actually quite beneficial that the fear is short. This allows you to fear kite in tight spaces, because you can measure out how far the mob goes before fear wears off. You can basically rubber band them back and forth along a fairly short runway consistently once you know the pathing in the area you are fighting.
Yes you will get hit when the fear runs off, but you are still saving a lot more HP that way than just face tanking. Blood Ember Boots will lengthen your kill time since you need to cast the boots more often, and the cast time is slow. But it is free, which means you can do it indefinitely on a mob, regardless of your current mana situation. In my opinion the extra time spent killing the mob would have probably been spent meditating instead if you used a mana fear. I would need to test that to confirm, but either way you have a time cost. It is either in additional casts, or additional med time.
Obviously the biggest drawback to the boots is the cast time, so you can't really use them to fear away multiple monsters consistently. But usually fear kiting is one mob at a time, so that is a more specialized case.
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