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WotLK Trinkets for Holy Paladins

Sunday, February 7th, 2010

Now that Arthas’ loot table has been released and we know the entirety of Wrath of the Lich King loot, I thought it’d be fun to look back at the trinkets that raiding Holy Paladins have at their disposal. I often find myself looking at subsets of trinkets for a given task or tier, but I’m not sure that I’ve ever sat down and taken a broad view of the trinkets that we used throughout Wrath. Let’s do that.

Trinkets, by design, are hard to categorize. Their variety is intended to add some flavor to our gear sets. Sometimes we might want a constant effect, other times we might want to trigger a proc at just the right time during an encounter. Depending on what you want, the best trinket for the job might be a weird drop from three or four tiers back.

To bring some order to this mess let’s group the trinkets by their primary passive effect. Then we’ll list the secondary proc effects of the trinkets in each list. We’ll use a bit of shorthand to describe the procs. Something like “15s/45s Chance:” means that every 45 seconds there’s a chance of triggering the proc which lasts for 15 seconds. “20s/2m Use:” means that every two minutes you can chose when to trigger the effect which lasts 20 seconds.

This isn’t an exhaustive list. There are a decent number of trinkets which have an effect that we’re interested in that is paired with an effect that we don’t really care about for healing raids. PvP trinkets, trinkets with hit, and trinkets with secondary effects that proc on “harmful” spells are examples of trinkets that fall into this category. Sure, using one of these would be better than using no trinket at all. We wouldn’t search them out as a valuable raiding trinket, though, so they’re not included in this list.

This list won’t tell you what to use. It’ll let you glance at what’s available and maybe, hopefully, help you come up with fun ideas for when to use which trinkets.

Intellect

Personally, I use the talisman and pandora’s plea in my day to day healing. Tears of the vanquished stands out for being a strong trinket that is very easy to farm.

MP5

Am I the only one who thinks that the direct heal procs are underwhelming? My resto tree BFF and I routinely sustain thousands of HPS in 10-man ICC. A single heal proc with a cooldown measured in minutes, even if there was no overheal, is a drop in the bucket. If I were to value a passive MP5 trinket, I think I’d aim for the spell power procs. I’m also having fun triggering the snowflake just after popping out of the emerald dream in the Valithria encounter.

Spell Power

This expansion is crammed full of spell power and regen trinkets. There’s a few decent throughput options, as well.

Critical Strike Rating

These were a lot more compelling before Illumination’s regen was cut in half. These days a Holy Paladin would be teased for wearing these.

There we have it! I think that covers most everything that we’re likely to see in the wild. Enjoy!

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Initial tanking trinkets in wrath

Saturday, December 20th, 2008

It’s pretty rare that we get snow up here in the Pacific Northwest.  Mother nature seems to have gone a little overboard reminding us of this by dumping a decent amount of show on us in the past few days.  So what do we do with ourselves after getting all bundled up under blankets and making a nice hot pot of tea?  Right, we learn about the tanking trinkets that arrived with wrath!  Clearly.

Yeah, I know, it’s another boring gear post.  I sympathize with folks who don’t also suffer from the specific kind of brain damagge which leads to enjoying this stuff.  I’m over here sympathizing while I happily play around on WoWHead.  Sympathy city, population me.

Why trinkets?  I noticed that they haven’t been seeing the same kind of upgrade love as the other slots in Northrend.  I’m questing in Zul’Drak and have run Drak’Tharon Keep and The Violet Hold and I’m still using the two defense trinkets that I had when I first arrived in Northrend.  There’s been a ginormous pile of melee DPS and caster trinkets but not so much with the tanking trinkets.

So I looked into it.  And, in the continuing tradition of using this blog to as a kind of research logbook, here’s what I found.

Raise your hand if you’re a miner and a smithy!  Yeah, me too.  We don’t get to play with these but we should mention ‘em for our tanking friends who got into more exotic professions.  The booster has a lame occasional threat buff, but at least it has a good deal of stamina.   The avoidance in the form of dodge, along with a decent shot of stamina, make the stone a step in the right direction.   The crab looks very nice indeed.  You could put whatever gems you needed in those slots to fine tune the stats that you’re after.

That’s it for quest rewards and non-heroic drops.  Wrath apparently doesn’t have a quest like Hellfire Peninsula’s Cruel’s Intentions which gave us an interesting trinket for our role right out of the gate.  I think this means that I’ll be trying to run HoL as often as I can while trying to reach uncrittable for heroics.  It would have to be Loken, though, wouldn’t it?

Here we have the drops from five-man heroics.  The gossamer’s proc won’t be winning any awards but that’s a heaping crap-ton of stamina.  In addition to helping juggle avoidance stats and diminishing returns, the block value from the talisman could provide a decent threat spike with shield of the righteous.  The offering would be a situational piece if you needed that little extra bit of mitigation and EH, it doesn’t feel like a core piece.

That’s it for trinkets we can buy from vendors.  I imagine it’ll be pretty common to use this and the seal when entering naxx.  Especially those of us who didn’t hit Northrend with nice toys from TBC content.

That’s a big chunk of defense.  That’ll make room to rotate in some other pieces from slots that were contributing to our uncrittable defense cap.

Is anyone else underwhelmed by these two drops?  I think I would have liked to have seen some on-equip avoidance from defender’s code.  I can see the rune being a decent DK tanking piece, with their parry fetish, but will the rest of us care?  My initial reaction is “meh”.

That seems to be it for the current content.  I’m assuming that we’ll be getting more treats as the rest of the wrath raids are rolled out.

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