In TBC, Blizzard has clearly moved almost completely away from the fully passive trinkets we healers loved so much. Virtually every available trinket choice has a use effect or proc.

I think the change is good for the game, making trinkets more than just one more stat slot, but traditionally the healing playstyle has been built around consistency and reliability, so it represent a big change from the Rejuvenating Gem.

It opens up a world of matching your trinkets to a fight, and of using trinkets in conjunction to make them stronger together than they are separately.

What are some of the fight-specific or synergistic combinations that people have found?


The Alchemist's Stone is a clear choice on any fight that calls for chain mana potion chugging. A ridiculous 40 MP5 using Supers, and even more using Fels or (presumably, I haven't tried this) GDS. The 15 stam means it's part of my high-stam set, too.

I love the Bangle of Endless Blessings for almost all fights. The controllable increased regen has bunches of great uses, which makes it a fun and interactive trinket.

Pop it if you can manage a prolonged period without casting, like a Curator evocation phase, for some truly ridiculous regen. For priests, using it with a Clearcasting proc, followed by an Inner Focus, can get you the full benefit and still let you get heals off. If you know you're getting an Innervate, save it for that. If nothing else, wait for the regen proc before you set it off. Brilliant trinket design, I think.

Besides boosting both throughput and flexibility, the Scarab of the Infinite Cycle's haste proc seems tailor-made for creating synergy with other trinkets. Pop your clicky +healing trinket to get more boosted casts, or the Lower City Prayerbook to save more than the usual amount of mana.

Personally, I've never been a fan of the clicky +healing trinkets, like Essence of the Martyr. There are certainly times where I could use the burst healing, but predicting them far enough ahead of time to click the trinket is difficult, and I find that I appreciate mana regen or flexibility a little more. Am I missing a brilliant use of these?

I just picked up a Ribbon of Sacrifice. It's possible that this could pay for itself in situations with lots of healers on few targets, like Gruul. But the short duration and the long cooldown make me hestitant. Is anyone in love with this trinket and have some tips for its use?

Well...

To be honest, I haven't found a trinket yet that is superior to Rejuv Gem.

As a druid, I weight healing at 1 Point, intellect at 1 point, MP5 at 5 points. That scores Rejuv Gem very high...

One of the most under-rated trinkets, and my personal favourite right now, is

Talasite Owl
14 mp5
900 mana (5 minute cooldown).

Assuming you only get to use this trinket once in the fight, and the fight lasts 5 minutes exactly:

900 mana / 60 mp5 ticks = 15 mp5 equivalent.

Now, in this worst case scenario, this trinket reads: "29 mana per 5". Which makes it one of the best in the game, hands down...

Great thread though, there are so many comparable trinkets, I would love to see a more detailed analysis of the "reduce mana cost by 25" "200 healing for 20 secs", etc, etc...

Rejuv Gem is 66 healing and 9 mp5, or 108 mana per minute.

http://thottbot.com/i30841 is 70 healing and, if you cast 5 spells in 15 seconds, 110 mana per minute. If you're using that time to put HoTs on and such, you can get well over 5 spells in that period. A lot of people miss the fact that the Prayerbook is on a 1min cooldown.

For me, Scarab of the Infinite Cycle ( http://www.thottbot.com/?i=59592 ) is, in practice, one of the best trinkets I've ever had. It's going to be very, very hard to replace.

My personal dilemma is searching for something that will replace my Warmth of Forgiveness. Using it averages out to 24.89 mp5 in the long run, but in fights of variable length it can be used to greater effect. In a 4-minute fight, if I use it once 30 seconds in, and again 3min 30sec in, the net return is 1480 mana from the trinket over 4 minutes, or 30.83 mp5. None of the alternatives I've looked into seem to be superior. As a shaman, I don't really need a burst healing trinket -- I don't have HoTs that I can use the trinket to power for max efficiency. That shaman-only trinket from Serpentshrine is, I suppose, the logical replacement down the road.

The click '+heal for X sec' trinkets seem to be designed for Shamans 'fire and forget' heals. Basically, Earth Shield and Healing Totems, then swap out to a passive trinket. Beyond that, sustained throughput and efficiency seems more important, and that's where passive +heal/mp5 would seem to be king.

Wow, that Owl is really good. Especially when you consider that you'd get to use it twice if the fight lasted, say, 5 minutes and 10 seconds.

Some things to think about on the Lower City Prayerbook:

(I'm assuming here that "Reduces mana cost by up to 22" means that top-rank spells get a full deduction and lower ranks get less.)

Let's take the maximal case: You want to use as many spells as possible in the 15-second duration. With no lag, that's 10 spells (1.5 second casts or instants). If you get the full reduction on each, that's 220 mana back. On a 1-minute cooldown, that's 220 mana/minute, or 18.3 MP5.

Of course, our normal healing style isn't composed entirely of spammed instants and flash heals, and if it were, it would waste more mana than it saved.

Let's take a naive case: you continue to cast your normal heals as if you didn't know your trinket was active. Say, 5 of your slow heals, probably downranked, in the 15 seconds. How much of a hit that is depends on how the mana discount scales with downranking, which I haven't seen data on, but if there were no scaling, you'd be getting 9.15 MP5.

Realistically, you're probably looking at something in between the two extremes-- toss a couple more HoTs off than you usually would, or use a Scarab proc to squeeze in an extra big heal.

One fight where it could approach its max value would be the Red Riding Hood Opera event, which usually involves some spammed sheilds and flashes on RRH. Pop it right before a squishie has to kite and spam away.

Personally I like to use my alchemists stone and a rejuv gem in almost all boss situations. On trash I definatly like the scarab of infinite cycles.

I wouldn't mind grabbing http://www.thotbott.com/i27828 , though I have never been a fan of clickable +healing trinkets and personally enjoy passive effects much more.

I had the bangle for a very long time and just didn't like it Perhaps I didn't keep it long enough to do any serious testing, but I just couldn't find the place to replace my alchem stone and rejuv gem.

Does anyone have http://www.thottbot.com/?i=60468 or done any appropriate testing with it. I'm curious to see how well it pans out.

As well same with http://www.thottbot.com/i28727 has anyone done any testing with it? Just doesn't seem to be very good.

Does it reduce the GC aswell? (like bloodlust)

edit: to sindir: there is an entire topic about Pendant of the Violet Eye somewhere on this forum.
edit2: here it is: Pendant of the Violet Eye - How to put it to good use?

Ribbon of Sacrifice is garbage -- you are not missing anything. I looted one, played with it for a bit to make sure I wasn't misreading something, and then vendored it.

I'm thinking/hoping they'll buff the Ribbon of Sacrifice and Pendant of the Violet Eye. We're holding onto them in case they do.

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Weren't you the same person who teased shamans for vendoring that helm from the opera event, then it got readjusted stats?

As for my healing trinkets, on the few times I actually do heal, I definitely use the Bangle. It's "Trans in a Can" as I heard someone say once. It's better for Druids and Priests though, who tend to have high spirit -- Shamans generally don't have spirit on their gear nor do they look for it. I use the Lower City Prayerbook for the other one, passive effects are always good, and the short cool down is what makes it good.

Lower City Prayerbook + Bloodlust + FoL spam=lots of "hidden" mp5. If you crit a spell with the prayerbook active, you actually gain 22mana back, with FoL spam you're pretty sure to land 9spells(10would be hard due to lag) and even more with bloodlust, and the passive is good too. Really awesome trinket imo, but as praetorian said, many people miss the fact it's 1min cooldown, not 2, which is why it's pretty good. I don't feel like bothering to find the math but when I checked, on FoL spam, with my crit rate, it was about 25mp/5, not counting Haste effects(I use scarab as my other trinket, so I often get self hastes).

As for the Scarab of Infinite Cycles, yes it reduce your GCD like every other haste effect afaik. I'm not 100%positive tho because when it proc on FoL spam(again), I sometimes get You can't do that yet, but I figured it only happened when the proc wear off while casting, and then the GCD goes back to 1.5 while you're done casting. I do see the heals going faster when it procs tho, just like when I'm under bloodlust.