Aside from weapons, trinkets are arguably the most exciting and impressive gear upgrades available in all of World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King. The combination of the on-use effects on some trinkets alongside huge procs (procedurally generated effects) on others makes trinkets especially memorable items due to the way they augment your character.

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In modern times, you may wait to fire off some of your most important abilities until all of your trinkets have already gone off. One such example of this is Unholy Death Knights unleashing their gargoyle pet after all of their trinkets and cooldowns have been triggered in order to provide the pet with an utterly ridiculous damage boost.

7 Mirror Of Truth

One of the most easily attainable trinkets on this list, Mirror of Truth is a badge reward for 40 marks of Heroism. This trinket passively increases your critical strike rating by a fair amount; however, the real benefit here is the chance to proc a 1000-point melee and ranged attack power increase every time you land a critical strike.

As your gear becomes better and better, your critical strike chance will go up and Mirror of Truth procs will become more and more common. In this way, the trinket sort of scales with your gear as you progress through the content. Any melee or ranged physical damage dealer should prioritize purchasing this item first with their marks of heroism.

6 Grim Toll

Grim Toll is a strange item during phase one in many regards. However, it is also one of the very few items that maintains its usefulness into phase two. Due to the way armor penetration works, Grim Toll becomes an incredible on-use trinket once more armor penetration gear becomes available with the release of Ulduar.

Until that time though, Grim Toll is a great trinket for any DPS that relies on armor penetration to increase damage in later tiers, but it's not necessarily the best trinket available at the moment. Consequently, securing this item early will pay dividends later, as it becomes a much more contested trinket.

5 Dying Curse

Just like Grim Toll, Dying Curse can be picked up off of a number of bosses in Naxx 25. Unlike Grim Toll, this trinket is undoubtedly best in slot for just about all ranged DPS casters. Despite lots of players needing this item, it's one of the easier ones to attain thanks to its ability to drop multiple times in a single night.

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Dying Curse comes with a 45-second internal cooldown, so it's important to get the most out of it whenever it happens to proc. Additionally, the large amount of hit rating provided by this trinket allows you to focus your other gear slots towards providing higher overall damage.

4 Soul Preserver

Despite coming in at only blue rarity, Soul Preserver is the best in slot trinket for most healers in Wrath including Holy Paladins, Holy Priests, Restoration Druids, and Restoration Shamans. It only comes with a two percent chance to reduce the mana value of your next healing spell cast, but when you're firing off spells like a magic machine gun, it triggers a lot more often than you might expect.

When looking at this item, it's important to consider that a larger mana pool effectively increases the amount of healing a single healer is capable of putting out. Thankfully, this item is easily obtained from the last boss in the normal Culling of Stratholme dungeon.

3 Figurine - Monarch Crab

Yet another trinket that's fairly easy to get your hands on if you've taken the right profession is the Monarch Crab. This is the best in slot trinket for all tanks in phase one. If you plan on primarily tanking, you should plan on picking up Jewelcrafting as well.

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Aside from providing a large amount of stamina and gem sockets, Monarch Crab's on-use effect makes for a great additional emergency cooldown. If we're being honest, tanks can never have enough of those.

2 Illustration Of The Dragon Soul

Picked up off of Sartharion 25, Illustration of the Dragon Soul is a highly contested item that almost every caster is interested in pocketing, whether they are healing or DPS. On the majority of boss fights, this trinket essentially acts as an additional 200 spell power for your character.

Looking at the difficulty of Wrath raids so far, it's easy to make the argument that this trinket is better off in the hands of DPS players, though, in order to shorten overall fight times. That being said, Ulduar is notorious for being one of the most difficult raids released in all of World of Warcraft history.

1 Darkmoon Card: Greatness

A reward for handing in the Nobles Deck at the Darkmoon Faire, Darkmoon Card: Greatness is the best in slot trinket for the majority of character classes and specs, all the way up until phase three of Wrath. This is due to the card's availability in multiple forms that are useful for strength, agility, and intellect-based classes. The good news is that you can purchase one of these bad boys right out of trade chat.

The bad news is that they're going for anywhere from six to 8000 gold depending on the server and time of the month. If you are interested in picking one up, they are likely to be the cheapest right after the Darkmoon Faire leaves town for the month, as players won't be able to cash in their decks until the following month when the Faire returns. If you're interested in pushing the bounds of what your character is capable of in raid environments, you should prioritize grabbing your Darkmoon Card as soon as possible. It's no overstatement to say that this is the single most important item for most, if not all, classes interested in wielding it. Better get to farming.

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