Trinket Feedback in Season 3
In this post I plan on covering feedback in regards to new trinkets for Season 3 and 10.2. I will specifically cover trinkets for Intellect Ranged DPS but feel free to add your thoughts below on any that I missed!
Before I dive into specific trinket feedback I wanted to mention the prevalence of on use and proc damage trinkets. For ranged DPS these trinkets are often under budget compared to ones that increase our secondary stats as most ranged specs have nothing to increase the damage like stacking Versatility. On top of that many modifiers have been changed in the past few years to not affect trinkets. Take Ancient Madness for example which used to give character sheet critical strike but now only buffs Shadow Priest spells. Losing these interactions has meant damage trinkets feel severely underpowered and undesirable as a ranged DPS with their current tuning.
Raid Trinkets
- Ashes of the Embersoul
- On-Use: Intellect → Lose Haste. Can also proc when “circumstances are dire”.
- The passive proc seems to be buggy and proc when it should not be.
- The gameplay seems a bit degenerate with the passive proc where players are encouraged to find ways to passively proc this on the opener of the pull with special damage-taken consumables or something similar.
- Assuming the passive proc starts working correctly and/or is changed the value from the trinket seems relatively offset by the negative value for any spec that likes Haste.
- Augury of the Primal Flame
- Proc: AoE Damage
- Seems like an okay trinket design wise but generally does not perform very well. In dungeons it was typically less than 2% of my overall damage.
- Belor’relos, the Sunstone
- On-Use: AoE Damage
- Being a melee-range trinket makes it fairly disappointing as a ranged trinket. In addition the actual damage seems undertuned, even when using the trinket on a pack of 5+ mobs.
- Nymue’s Vengeful Spindle
- On-Use: Single Target Damage and Mastery
- Currently not on the vendor for testing on PTR.
- Reading the description only this looks like it could be a powerful option, however the channel time being 4 seconds seems quite long to use practically in the middle of an encounter, especially since it only lasts 15 seconds.
- Would rather the channel time be shorter and/or the effect just be the secondary stat gain and not the damage on use.
- Pip’s Emerald Friendship Badge
- Proc: Mastery, Versatility, or Critical Strike
- Decently powerful passive trinket of the tier, sad that Haste is not one of the offered stats but still performs well.
- Wish there was some mechanic on how to select a Best Friend rather than it being random.
Dungeon Trinkets
When it comes to dungeon trinkets these are a bit tricky since the wide variety of dungeons from different expansions also comes with a wide variety of trinkets. The more modern expansion trinkets carry a bit more design with them, but since the pool is mostly old dungeons things start to feel stale quickly. Of the options in the pool below we have 3 AoE proc damage trinkets and 2 Single Target proc damage trinkets. For similar reasons mentioned above these kinds of trinkets are generally not desirable as a ranged DPS. They typically do not do enough damage to warrant using in most content since most specs do not have anything that scales these directly and usually we do not stack Versatility. Would prefer it if the pool of trinkets was a bit more diverse or tuned differently to make some of these trinkets more desirable.
The main point of this section is to give feedback on the power level of the trinkets, since it is unlikely to see design changes for older trinkets. I have added “Significantly undertuned” to any trinket that is currently performing roughly equal or worse at item level 489 than a Spoils of Neltharus at item level 447.
- Mirror of Fractured Tomorrows
- On-Use: Extra damage and increased highest secondary stat (3m cooldown)
- Time-Thief’s Gambit
- On-Use: “Borrow” Haste (1m cooldown)
- Vessel of Skittering Shadows
- Proc: AoE Damage
- Significantly undertuned
- Balefire Branch
- On-Use: Decaying Intellect (1m 30s cooldown)
- Lady Waycrest’s Music Box
- Proc: ST Damage
- Caged Horror
- Proc: AoE Damage
- Significantly undertuned
- Corrupted Starlight
- Proc: AoE DoT
- Significantly undertuned
- Oakheart’s Gnarled Root
- Proc ST DoT
- Significantly undertuned
- Coagulated Genesaur Blood
- Proc: Critical Strike
- Significantly undertuned
- Leaf of the Ancient Protectors
- Proc: Versatility
- Significantly undertuned
- Sea Star
- On-Use: Intellect (1m 30s cooldown)
- Significantly undertuned
Breakdown of Types
While full diversity is challenging with dungeons from different expansions I wanted to highlight that there are a few types in particular that feel crowded in the field of trinkets.
Type | Count |
---|---|
Proc: Mastery, Versatility, or Critical Strike | 1 |
Proc: AoE Damage | 4 |
Proc: Single Target Damage | 2 |
Proc: Critical Strike | 1 |
Proc: Versatility | 1 |
On-Use: Haste | 1 |
On-Use: Highest Secondary Stat | 1 |
On-Use: AoE Damage | 1 |
On-Use: Intellect | 3 |
On-Use: Single Target Damage and Mastery | 1 |
Early Sims
While looking at sims early can be tricky, I wanted to include as much preliminary information as possible in case it is helpful. Not all trinkets are working inside of SimC yet but hopefully this gives an idea of the power level of season three trinkets. I’ve only included trinkets at the highest level they can drop at from this season if they are implemented and working to match in-game. I have also included profession, timewalking, and previous season trinkets to show the lack of power level of season three options.
From the breakdowns below you can see that Timewalking trinkets and even trinkets from last tier are performing better than most of this season’s trinkets. I do not have hard confirmation the item level of these will be increasing, but assuming they are along with the rest of the seasonal gearing upgrades this is the item level that would match that change.
Single Target
Actor | DPS | Increase |
---|---|---|
Energy_Siphon_476 | 205042 | 10.29% |
Pips_Emerald_Friendship_Badge_489 | 204973 | 10.25% |
Living_Flame_476 | 204063 | 9.76% |
Balefire_Branch_489 | 203817 | 9.63% |
Idol_of_the_Life_Binder_483 | 203735 | 9.59% |
Eye_of_the_Broodmother_476 | 203718 | 9.58% |
Idol_of_the_Spell_Weaver_483 | 203654 | 9.54% |
Mirror_of_Fractured_Tomorrows_489 | 203480 | 9.45% |
Idol_of_the_Earth_Warder_483 | 203110 | 9.25% |
Flare_of_the_Heavens_476 | 202656 | 9.01% |
Sustaining_Alchemist_Stone_483 | 202565 | 8.96% |
Necromantic_Focus_476 | 202421 | 8.88% |
Scale_of_Fates_476 | 202044 | 8.68% |
Idol_of_the_Dreamer_483 | 202023 | 8.67% |
Ominous_Chromatic_Essence_Emerald_ALL_ALLIES_447 | 201705 | 8.49% |
Elemental_Focus_Stone_476 | 201564 | 8.42% |
Pandoras_Plea_476 | 201522 | 8.40% |
Neltharions_Call_to_Suffering_457 | 201406 | 8.33% |
Darkmoon_Deck_Box_Dance_Emberscale_483 | 201369 | 8.31% |
Vessel_of_Skittering_Shadows_489 | 201167 | 8.20% |
Sea_Star_489 | 201111 | 8.17% |
Ashes_of_the_Embersoul_489 | 201066 | 8.15% |
Spoils_of_Neltharus_447 | 200982 | 8.11% |
Coagulated_Genesaur_Blood_489 | 200362 | 7.77% |
Spoils_of_Neltharus_441 | 200327 | 7.75% |
Darkmoon_Deck_Box_Inferno_Emberscale_483 | 200161 | 7.66% |
Spoils_of_Neltharus_437 | 199871 | 7.51% |
Ominous_Chromatic_Essence_Emerald_447 | 199327 | 7.21% |
Darkmoon_Deck_Box_Rime_483 | 198576 | 6.81% |
Leaf_of_the_Ancient_Protectors_489 | 197821 | 6.40% |
Oakhearts_Gnarled_Root_489 | 197189 | 6.06% |
Corrupted_Starlight_488 | 196214 | 5.54% |
Caged_Horror_489 | 195967 | 5.41% |
3 Target
Actor | DPS | Increase |
---|---|---|
Pips_Emerald_Friendship_Badge_489 | 311192 | 10.10% |
Energy_Siphon_476 | 310774 | 9.96% |
Idol_of_the_Spell_Weaver_483 | 309799 | 9.61% |
Living_Flame_476 | 309664 | 9.56% |
Mirror_of_Fractured_Tomorrows_489 | 309525 | 9.51% |
Idol_of_the_Life_Binder_483 | 308983 | 9.32% |
Eye_of_the_Broodmother_476 | 308737 | 9.23% |
Idol_of_the_Earth_Warder_483 | 308463 | 9.14% |
Scale_of_Fates_476 | 308457 | 9.14% |
Balefire_Branch_489 | 308389 | 9.11% |
Sustaining_Alchemist_Stone_483 | 307777 | 8.90% |
Flare_of_the_Heavens_476 | 307458 | 8.78% |
Idol_of_the_Dreamer_483 | 307253 | 8.71% |
Necromantic_Focus_476 | 307033 | 8.63% |
Elemental_Focus_Stone_476 | 307026 | 8.63% |
The_Skull_of_Guldan_476 | 306600 | 8.48% |
Pandoras_Plea_476 | 306226 | 8.35% |
Neltharions_Call_to_Suffering_457 | 306113 | 8.31% |
Ominous_Chromatic_Essence_Emerald_ALL_ALLIES_447 | 306028 | 8.28% |
Sea_Star_489 | 305855 | 8.21% |
Spoils_of_Neltharus_447 | 305592 | 8.12% |
Ashes_of_the_Embersoul_489 | 305274 | 8.01% |
Vessel_of_Skittering_Shadows_489 | 305056 | 7.93% |
Spoils_of_Neltharus_441 | 304647 | 7.79% |
Coagulated_Genesaur_Blood_489 | 304064 | 7.58% |
Spoils_of_Neltharus_437 | 303971 | 7.55% |
Darkmoon_Deck_Box_Dance_Emberscale_483 | 303069 | 7.23% |
Darkmoon_Deck_Box_Inferno_Sagescale_483 | 302769 | 7.12% |
Ominous_Chromatic_Essence_Emerald_447 | 302439 | 7.01% |
Darkmoon_Deck_Box_Rime_483 | 301208 | 6.57% |
Leaf_of_the_Ancient_Protectors_489 | 300573 | 6.35% |
Rotcrusted_Voodoo_Doll_447 | 298423 | 5.59% |
Oakhearts_Gnarled_Root_489 | 297544 | 5.27% |
Corrupted_Starlight_488 | 296970 | 5.07% |
Caged_Horror_489 | 296485 | 4.90% |