Was the influx of garbage trinkets a targetted delve loot nerf?

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last season i got lots of tier slot pieces from my delver maps, a few good trinkets and weapons. now the majority of what i’ve gotten across my characters has been:

1x heroic energy drink
1x heroic mechano-core
0x heroic funhouse mirror
3-4x heroic noggenfogger elixirs
4-5x heroic amorphous relics
2-3x heroic blastermaster 3000s
3x heroic ratfang toxin
3x turbo-drain 5000
4-5x garbage mancer’s last resort

2x heroic weapons
0x heroic helmet
1x heroic neck
1x heroic cape
0x heroic shoulder
1x heroic chest piece
0x heroic wrists
2x heroic gloves
2x heroic belt
0x heroic legs
2x heroic boots
2-3x heroic ring

that’s about 19 dud trinkets vs the 10-12 good pieces of gear i’ve acquired across maybe 6-7 characters this season. some of the gear pieces i got (ie boots and belt) were on character that already had heroic (or better) in that slot

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More like 15ish dud trinkets. At least some of them are okay. Looks like you loaded more on the worst ones.

Hopefully the trinket pool can be a bit smaller next season, and not have so many entries that could stand to get 100+% buffs.

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They should of retired some delve trinkets cuz it does have a crazy amount now

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i know the reason why they made them just crap compared to last season’s was because (most) of last season’s delve trinkets were actually kinda good. for some i recall the heroic shadow dagger or whatever being extremely good for some specs, so good in fact that the only worthwhile replacement for them would’ve been a fully maxxed myth spymaster’s

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Don’t understand why Blastmaster and Rotfang are a thing. Both on use trinkets and probably sim terrible on Bloodmallet.

Could throw the pirate trinket as well, no way I’d use that when it only provides Crit.

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good

good

decent depending on class

decent

do we just call every trinket trash if it isn’t S tier on wowhead these days?

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noggenfogger being decent was a bug and it promptly fell back down into obscurity. my problem is that these trinkets sim and have 10, 15, sometimes even 20 superior options. they may also be on-use which sucks if all you’ve got is on-use

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I’ve obtained some pretty good money for cheap trinkets at the local pawn store.

No, but seriously, the trinkets are annoying.

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Ratfang scales with Haste last I checked. As far as I can tell that’s the only reason it’s more valuable than a wad of gum on the bottom of one’s shoe.

3000 is legit bad though. If I’m right, then it could have its damage bug corrected and throw max grenades every time and still not be good.

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Turbo-Drain is incredibly good, I use it in Mythic raiding.

And remember, you can CRAFT armor, and it’s the same as looted armor except you get to CHOOSE the stats you get.

The craftable trinkets are bad (on purpose).

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90% of new trinkets in a season tend to be garbage.

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This has been happening with me too. The vast majority of delve drops are trinkets and it’s getting very old and frustrating. RNG wil be RNG, but this is an obvious flaw in the drop chances for gear across the board.

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To answer the thread title question, yes filling the loot table with vendor trash is a pretty obvious direct nerf to gear acquisition.