Just wanted to make a compilation of the best trinket for early healer tier. Feel free to add.
Perks: Massive intellect boost before popping a raid healing cooldown. It’s +50% increased healing and then you received a -25% healing penalty after. It has a 2.5 minute cd.
This is probably the single most powerful pre-raid trinket if you combo it with things like Holy Word Salvation, Divine Hymn, and Disc raid healing rotations.
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Irid
Perks: It’s like the above trinket without the healing penalty, longer buff duration, and a longer cd. The Mastery is equivalent to 2-3% based on its iLvl which is about half of what you lose from not having the intellect bonus.
Just like the above trinket you’d pop it right before you used a raid wide healing cd.
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Perks: High up-time (50%+)
If you’re not an Alchemist you can get the PvP equivalent: https://www.wowhead.com/item=201451/crimson-aspirants-insignia-of-alacrity (can be upgraded to iLvl 366 before raid starts)
I know there’s a world drop equivalent of it as well. I just don’t know the name.
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Perks: It’s a free mana pot every 5 minutes. Unsure how often the passive proc triggers.
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Perks: High up-time (60%). The secondary stat buff can stack up 3 times.
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Perks: High up-time (40-50%). Overall better than the above trinket.
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Perks: The Earth Buff is fairly potent and procs about once a minute. The Water buff can trigger twice a minute. IMHO, the best buff is the Wind Buff (extra Mastery, but you have to be dealing damage).
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TLDR: IMHO, if you can.
Slot 1: Time-Breaching or Irideus Fragment. These trinkets are very powerful to combo with your big raid healing cds (I mean you get 50% increased healing from Time-Breaching!)
Slot 2: Alacritous Alchemist Stone (or equivalent) OR Azure Arcanic Amplifier (as I type this there’s a 363 version as a World Drop) OR Wind-Sealed Mana Capsule (great early prog trinket - free mana pot).