Greetings,

Season 4 mythic plus dungeons were announced. (This is not about the announced 9.2.5 patch! Season 4 will start at a later date.) Therefore we can have a look at what wonky items will be available.

Special effect items

The following is a list of all special effect items from:

  • (Warlords of Draenor) Grimrail Depot
  • (Warlords of Draenor) Iron Docks
  • (Legion) Return to Karazhan
  • (Battle for Azeroth) Operation: Mechagon
  • (Shadowlands) Tazavesh, the Veiled Market
  • (Shadowlands) Castle Nathria
  • (Shadowlands) Sanctum of Domination
  • (Shadowlands) Sepulcher of the First Ones
Slot Item Effect Source
Neck Choker of Barbed Reins chance for Thorns effect Return to Karazhan
Neck (Set) Amulet of the Last Guardian Set: +% damage after killing a Legion dungeon boss Return to Karazhan
Back (Set) Wine-Stained Mantle Set: +% damage after killing a Legion dungeon boss Return to Karazhan
Back Cloak of Sweltering Flame receiving Fire damage grants Speed Return to Karazhan
Finger Ring of Collapsing Futures deal damage Return to Karazhan
One-Handed Weapon Antumbra, Shadow of the Cosmos stacking Versatility Sepulcher of the First Ones
Two-Handed Weapon Neural Synapse Enhancer on use self-harm (nature) & Int Operation: Mechagon
Off-Hand Salvaged Mekacycle Shielding chance to shield yourself with reflect Operation: Mechagon
Off-Hand (trap) Sepulcher’s Savior increases block Sepulcher of the First Ones
Wrist Gold-Coated Superconductors on nature damage proc all secondaries Operation: Mechagon

Ring-Combinations

Source: Operation: Mechagon

Trigger Effect
Logic Loop of Recursion (3 different spells) Overclocking Bit Band (haste)
Logic Loop of Division (damage from behind) Rebooting Bit Band (heal injured allies)
Logic Loop of Maintenance (cast while at <50% health) Shorting Bit Band (deal damage)
Logic Loop of Synergy (heal target <50% health) Protecting Bit Band (shield yourself)

Trinkets

The following is a list of all trinkets from the same sources as above.

Trinket Effect Source
Fleshrender’s Meathook static Int & on use Haste Iron Docks
Tovra’s Lightning Repository static Int & static Mastery Grimrail Depot
(Set) Aran’s Relaxing Ruby static Mastery & damage proc Return to Karazhan
(Set) Mrrgria’s Favor static Crit & on use damage & empowered if Set Return to Karazhan
Deteriorated Construct Core static Int & damage proc Return to Karazhan
Miniscule Mailemental in an Envelope static Haste & damage proc Tazavesh, the Veiled Market
So’leah’s Secret Technique static Int & targets highest stat Tazavesh, the Veiled Market
Cabalist’s Hymnal static Int & stacking Crit Castle Nathria
Dreadfire Vessel static Int & on use damage Castle Nathria
Glyph of Assimilation static Int & on use damage, can become Mastery Castle Nathria
Macabre Sheet Music static Int & on use collectable Haste and Speed Castle Nathria
Soul Igniter static Int & on use damage Castle Nathria
Ebonsoul Vise static Int & on use damage, can become Crit Sanctum of Domination
Forbidden Necromantic Tome static Int & stacking Crit & on use Raise Dead Sanctum of Domination
Shadowed Orb of Torment static Int & on use self-harm that grants Mastery Sanctum of Domination
Titanic Ocular Gland static Int & if >50% health adds highest secondary stat else substracts Sanctum of Domination
Tome of Monstrous Constructions static Int & damage Sanctum of Domination
Architect’s Ingenuity Core static Int & on Automa-death CD recovery speed & on use summon Automa to deal damage Sepulcher of the First Ones
Elegy of the Eternals static Int & highest secondary stat & grant 10% of that stat to others in same Covenant Sepulcher of the First Ones
Grim Eclipse static Int & on use damage, afterwards Haste area Sepulcher of the First Ones
Resonant Reservoir static Int & on use AoE damage Sepulcher of the First Ones
Scars of Fraternal Strife stacking buffs and debuffs Sepulcher of the First Ones
The First Sigil static Int & on use Versatility Sepulcher of the First Ones

Special combinations

Ever heard about weapon swapping? It was disabled during Nyalotha’s corruption time in Battle for Azeroth. But now weapons can be swapped once more. Considering that this is an option we can weapon swap between

The goal of this swapping is to get the benefit of the active ability followed by swapping to a different weapon during its cooldown. While Antumbra, Shadow of the Cosmos is not really an active ability it can be handled as one. Equip it and you start stacking Versatility slowly. After you reach max stacks and gain double the buff effect a 40 seconds downphase starts. During this time using a different weapon is quite beneficial. I imagine a typical weapon rotation to be something like this:

  1. Neural Synapse Enhancer
  2. Antumbra, Shadow of the Cosmos
  3. Neural Synapse Enhancer (again)
  4. normal weapon

Starting with the Mechagon weapon to trigger Gold-Coated Superconductors as well.

Conclusion

Therefore depending on tuning the following slots might become “locked in”.

Slot Item
Neck (Set) Amulet of the Last Guardian
Back (Set) Wine-Stained Mantle
One-Handed Weapon Antumbra, Shadow of the Cosmos
Two-Handed Weapon Neural Synapse Enhancer
Wrist Gold-Coated Superconductors
Finger Logic Loop of Recursion (3 different spells)
Finger Overclocking Bit Band (haste)

Or was it a different Ring-combination?

Don’t forget, Tier sets and double Legendaries will stay as well. Which means that actually “free” slots will be rare…

Yours sincerely,
Bloodmallet(EU)