You’re not wrong. I mean, that’s the same as observing that “not all trinkets are created equal.”
So you have a i298 junk-o, and a i298 S-class… and your iLEVEL is the same, but your dps in the latter case goes up 20%.
But this is something I observed through every tier of SL. In my iLevel bracket, I was quite low in CN (first return to raiding since LK!), prob 60s in SoD, and ended in mid80s.
So it’s not all about being in a weird situation because of gearing. Arms is just… a weird spec.
That being said, I greatly dislike how disproportionate Trinkets factor into our DPS. We might as well just rename them to “iWin buttons.” If you get the right one, your DPS is godly. If the RNG gods don’t favor you … you’re a Leeroy Greyparse.
Trinkets carry too much weight.