Every week, WoW Insider brings you Arcane Brilliance for arcane, fire and frost mages. This week we focus on those two most vital gear slots for making your keychain look cool: Trinkets. You put them right next to your tiny NES controller and that little rubber pig that poops when you squeeze him, and so what if the trinkets on your keyring outnumber the actual keys on your keyring? Now if only we still had keyrings in WoW …
Trinkets do three things:
1.They keep your keys from being lonely
2.They hurt like hell when you forget to take them out of your pocket before playing pick-up basketball
3.They have the potential to increase your DPS more drastically than any other single gear slot in the game.
No other gear choice we make in this game will either positively or negatively impact our raw output than the two trinkets we select, and no other loot drop can be more infuriating to wait for. With trinkets, it’s imperative that you identify what you want, know where to go to get it, and then focus your efforts until you reach your goal.
With that in mind, let’s go over the best trinkets available for mages in the game right now, and where to go get them.
I will list each trinket in the order in which I believe they belong, from least powerful to most powerful. You will undoubtedly have differing opinions about the order I go with, and I want to hear about them in the comments. In addition to being the most important gear choices in the game, trinkets are also perhaps the most subjective in terms of raw stats. When you’re deciding between most gear, your comparison mainly involves seeing which item has a higher amount of intellect and then equipping that item. But when you’re choosing between a stacking intellect proc on a hidden internal cooldown and an on use ability listed as “Embrace the fel energies contained within,” that choice can be a little less black and white.