Classic World of Warcraft offers an endless number of grinds for players of all kinds. But if you are looking for an extra edge when staring down players from the opposing faction in battlegrounds or the open world, you’re going to want to grind out more than a handful of trinkets. Some of them have considerably long cooldowns, but this only further encourages you to acquire as many of them as you can. When one is on cooldown, you can simply slot in another that’s ready to be used.
Every little advantage you can get matters when it comes to player versus player combat and some of these trinkets provide much more than a small advantage. Many of the more powerful trinkets available are all derived from the Engineering profession, so if you’re a PvP fanatic you will be hard-pressed not to take it. As you will shortly discover from the following items, fighting other players without the Engineering gadgets and gizmos is like rolling a retribution paladin. It just doesn’t make sense.
10 Six Demon Bag
This random effect trinket is a reference to the well-known movie Big Trouble in Little China. As per its namesake, when used it conjures up one of six effects. The first three are a fireball, frostbolt, or chain lightning spell that deals a few hundred damage and scales with spell power. So especially good for caster classes.
The other three are a little more unique. One polymorphs either your target or yourself into a sheep, the second envelops your target in winds stunning them for a few seconds or until they take damage, and the third summons a felhunter demon whose attacks mana burn. It does make you wonder though, who managed to fit all these demons into one bag?
9 Barov Peasant Caller
While not the most effective trinket on this list, it may very well be the funniest. The peasant caller summons three servants of house barov to fight by your side. The servants last for around a minute and deal about 30 white damage per attack.
The servants summoned are random race and gender combinations from your faction. This trinket doesn’t deal a lot of damage, but it does come in handy when fighting casters. Each attack from the servants causes pushback on spellcasting, buying you a couple of seconds you wouldn’t have had otherwise.
8 Nifty Stopwatch
This handy little item will prevent your enemies from escaping your reach or allow you to escape theirs. Though that might be seen as a little cowardly. When used, it increases your speed by 40% for the next ten seconds. It really makes a difference when you’re kept in combat and unable to mount.
Beyond that, it’s also extremely good for flag carriers in Warsong Gulch. Using this trinket in tandem with the speed boots found in the hallway and a swiftness potion will see you shooting to the other side of the map like a bolt of lightning ushered from the clouds.
7 Gnomish Net-o-Matic Projector
High risk, high reward is the name of the game with the first engineering trinket on this list. The net projector can single-handedly win fights against melee opponents, but it can also single-handedly lose them.
Disabling another player’s movement for 10 seconds is incredibly strong, but there’s a chance this effect will apply to you instead when using the Net-o-Matic. Someone’s going to end up a sitting duck, so just pray to Elune that it isn’t you.
6 Gyrofreeze Ice Reflector (Hyper-Radiant Flame Reflector)
Wouldn’t you know it, more Engineering items. The ice reflector is incredibly strong against mage opponents as it negates a spell they cast and turns it against them. While most players are quick to use their reflectors on the first frostbolt thrown their way, this item is usually most effective when used to reflect a frost nova.
The nova then roots that pesky mage in place, making him or her an easy target for your melee combatants. Most mages are talented into frost right now due to mobs in Molten Core resisting fire spells, but in future phases, the flame reflector will become just as relevant as its frost counterpart.
5 Shadow Reflector
Reflector gang. As I’m sure you’ve already surmised, this is the reflector you use against warlocks. It has a higher power ceiling due to the ability to reflect a death coil which is why it’s ranked higher on this list. However, seeing as death coil is an instant cast, actually making this dream scenario into a reality can be quite difficult.
It requires foresight and PvP knowledge that is only attainable through experience. That, or a stroke of really good luck. Whichever it is, the first death coil you reflect will leave you wanting for more.
4 Arena Grand Master
An on use that absorbs somewhere around one thousand damage. There’s really not much else to be said. This trinket is always good in any PvP situation as it simply increases your health pool by a generous amount. Obtaining it, however, is not such a simple process. Unlike the previous trinkets, it’s not just a world drop, quest reward, or profession-related item.
In order to acquire it, you must loot the chest in the middle of the Gurubashi Arena twelve times. For those unaware, the Gurubashi Arena is a free-for-all zone. So it may require the help of a few friends before you end up with this trinket in your repertoire.
3 Insignia of the Horde (Insignia of the Alliance)
These are the PvP class trinkets available from your faction’s PvP vendors upon reaching Rank 2. Depending on your class, the trinket dispels different effects. As a result, these trinkets are more useful for some classes than others. But regardless of your class, the trinket is great to have.
Even if you play a class whose trinket doesn’t dispel the most common effects, occasions will arise when the trinket is applicable. And when they do, you’ll be very glad you have it.
2 Gnomish Death Ray
Of all the engineering trinkets contraptions available in vanilla, this is perhaps the most iconic. The gnomish death ray channels a spell that deals damage to you as it casts. The more damage you take during the casting, the more damage it will inflict on your target. It can drain up to 1200 of your hit points during the cast, which seems like a lot to ask, but it can also crit for many thousands of damage.
Potentially one-shotting a level 60. One thing to note is the damage from this ray scales with damage increasing cooldowns such as the warrior’s death wish. If you’re fishing for the biggest crits possible, don’t forget to pop your cooldowns first.
1 Tidal Charm
Undeniably the best PvP trinket in the game, the tidal charm is also the hardest to procure. It stuns your target for three whole seconds and drops off of a rare spawn named Prince Nazjak, who appears in the shipwrecked waters of the Arathi Highlands west of Faldir’s Cove. The much sought after Prince spawns in multiple locations within the area and has a variable spawn window of anywhere between 24-36 hours.
And the cherry on top? The trinket isn’t even a guaranteed drop, though it does have a good rate of 54%. If you’re committed to farming this trinket be prepared for a few days of swimming around spamming target macros and expect there to be competition. To the winner go the spoils (hopefully), and happy hunting!
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