I’m sure there’s casters out there who have felt the sting of trinkets in the same manner I have. There’s so very few actual good ones and they never drop for us. So when I was scanning the various database culls of loot on MMO Champion, imagine my complete and utter lack of surprise that Blizzard has decided to put an even more ridiculous version of Dying Curse or any of the three other stupid hit trinkets in the game right now for casters. Who itemizes things like this?
As people get better gear, gearing for hit becomes less and less of a problem and given that FireTTW is the only raiding build that doesn’t have hit talents in it, I’m not sure we’re seeing a trinket with even more spell hit on it. Does Blizzard not realize that a) having a trinket be the source of most of our hit causes gear problems and b) spell hit has a very hard cap, say unlike spellpower. Meaning there’s a very definite point where hit is useless and it’s very easy to reach that with talents, gear and raid debuffs. So why are they putting in another hit trinket?
Trinkets have, historically, gone from fun things that make your life a lot more fun in-game (vanilla) to being legitimately huge DPS upgrades, somewhere in the neighborhood of 200-500 DPS depending on your gear. So having to hang onto a +hit trinket to balance your gear around is frankly stupid. What’s even more ridiculous is how trinkets do not have enough variety or frequency in drops so that your gear starts becoming based around it. I carried Dying Curse around for a year because we have abysmal luck on caster trinkets, so I couldn’t really pick up a ton of gear with +hit on it because I’d go over my cap. Ulduar was pretty much the height of spell hit pieces with very few trinkets to satisfy casters. I see that this is roughly the same with all roles, to be fair, but I’ve only experienced it with my mage.
Trinkets are too important now and gear is too exacting to have these little choices and put in such disparate places. Don’t get me started that some of the better trinkets will only drop in 10-mans. Maybe half of my crying is because I still haven’t seen an Abyssal Rune drop, but I mean, really Blizzard? Really? One of the better trinkets for arcane is a stupid healer trinket?
In the future, please give us more choices on trinkets or give us easier-to-obtain drops, because obviously badge trinkets (and probably raid drops) are going from “something I will have to equip for a year” to “ridiculously unusable.”
And while I’m asking for things, I’d like a Reign of the Unliving. And a pony.
Tags: abyssal-rune, arcane-mages, caster-trinkets, dying-curse, Maghias-Misguided-Quill, trinkets, trinkets-3.3