Blizzard Bluepost Clarifying Trinket Functionality in The War Within

In a new bluepost, Blizzard has clarified the functionality of some specific new trinkets coming in The War Within! The developers previously clarified their philosophy behind role-based trinket changes in The War Within, intending for tanks and healers to favor DPS trinkets less.

Thanks for the feedback so far! We’re not going to be able to respond to every point, but there are a few things I’d like to address now on the raid trinket side.

Regarding tuning generally, many trinket effects were impacted by subsequent scaling changes, and their current beta values are likely misleading. Most will be fixed in the next beta build and should be relatively close to the final numbers.

Field Operative's Transmitter is an incredibly frustrating trinket to use in its current state, to the point where it’s genuinely hard to provide good feedback about this trinket. Among this trinket’s many frustrating factors is that its proc rate doesn’t reflect what its tooltip states it should be: the equip effect states that one’s spells and abilities should have a very high chance to grant a stack, but I spent quite literally four minutes nonstop hitting a training dummy waiting for it to give me a stack or two. The biggest fundamental problem with this trinket, however, is that the game’s UI just cannot provide the information required to activate this trinket’s proc…

This trinket is intended to stack up roughly once per minute while avoiding some of the variance inherent in very low RPPM effects (think Neltharion’s Call to Suffering)., so your experience here sounds like a potential bug with its proc triggers. We’re okay with a bit of occasional mystery as long as its reasonably learnable (with something like Inscrutable Quantum Device’s ??? tooltip at the extreme end), but we can look into ways of making the trigger effect requirements clearer in the moment.

Mad Queen's Mandate — Conceptually this is a fine trinket and aligns very well with the stated goals for tank trinkets, Read more on wowhead.com