Here's one that doesn't get mentioned much: Druid's T1 healing set. Back in WotLK, Tranq had a talent that reduced its cooldown by 60% and threat by 100%. The Cenarion 8 piece bonus reduced Tranq's cooldown 50%. These were additive. Combine with Orb of Clarity, which could proc on any tick of Tranquility, and you had threatless, cooldownless, free mass AoE healing, you just had less spellpower than normal and couldn't move much. But, of course, no one pays attention to the healer. I had people telling me I needed to manage my threat better when a freshly spawned mob noticed the 0 aggro spell and hit me first. Nobody really cared a Druid was pushing out massive AoE, to the entire group, instantly patching loose damage to the entire party at all times. Only once in hundreds of dungeons did a Rogue stop and ask "wait, how are you doing that?"

Lmao withered Jim killed me

Demonology warlocks was actually even as insane if not more than affliction, due to Doom spawning a Wild Imp on each tick that did a crit. Maining a warlock in Pandaria was something. Millions on health, green fire, insane trinkets. So much fun.

One thing you missed with the soul capacitor was that it snapshots damage without taking into account item level squish. You could drop a farmable critter and hit it when you went into storing damage. Then unleash squished damage on raid bosses. Used this on archimond once to do like 30% of his hp.

God dang diamond flask is the whole reason I quit the priest I leveled for classic as an alt. GM asked me specifically to level a priest to heal for split runs, then every ZG raid when I was trying to gear it to do higher tier split runs, all the warriors would take all the healing loot for the flask set even if they never tanked. Eventually just said screw it, that character is still level 60 somewhere on whatever server it ended up on.

The Earthshaker for DK tanks. The proc was still working in BFA. It made visions ridiculously easy because it has a chance to proc on every mob hit. But stuns all the mobs. 20 mobs=20 x chance to proc. So it just kept them all stunned.

the fact you knew about enti's quenched blade is incredible. i had one of those back in the day and trying to sell it was a nightmare, people thought i was trolling saying how broken it is lmfao

Added comment and audio is much cleaner here than the first video. Well done again.

I feel like you need the honorable mention of the Dagger off Rend UBRS and the Mace off Kaelthas in The Eye. The dagger gives 3 seconds 100% crit. The mace makes chance on hit to restore focus, each fan is a separate hit. Rogue that was fortunate enough to acquire both had more aoe damage with Fan of Knives then any class, and could infinitely spam it.

Oh hey, that's me in the Feral Druid clip fighting Ragnaros! :)

Soul Capacitor was hilarious on the trash before Kormrok in Hellfire Citadel in Warlords of Draenor. The trash would apply a debuff that would mind control a random player when it expires. If you timed your Soul Capacitor properly, you could charge it up and then jump to the mind controlled player, immediately killing them. I did this on my rogue with shadowstep.

Its really nice of you to add footage of a feral druid raiding in classic

That Asmon face killed me needed to rewatch if it's no video from him.

Thing about Convergence is that it was immdieitely nerfed for ret paladins before it got later nerfs for the other classes. It's what basically made Ret paladins viable during nighthold

Good stuff. There are some more items out there that deserves recognition too. During early BfA the twink community learned of some rare items that had no level requirement as well; a 2h weap, a plate boots, and some rings. Might have been more as well. Funny thing about these items is that the fix Blizz put out was to pretty much make a new set of the same items, on a different ID, meaning that the ones people had gotten in that early Window remained wearable for the entirety of the expansion. SL's leveling reboot of course fixed the problem, but for a while warriors in lowbie BGs (prior to the xpon xpoff split) could one-shot even twinked out people through the insane Stat bonuses of these items. So that was a unique circumstance where the problem was never actually fixed. These items aren't well-known though.

You forgot to add that the self healing from diamond flask also was converted into threat for the warrior, giving them an even quicker window to build threat so dps could go all out faster.

Great video! The Lei Shen trinket actually got nerfed for warlocks because of demo, not affliction. At the time, if the DoT "Doom" Crit, you'd spawn an imp. Since you could snapshot the DoT with 100% crit chance, you'd quickly have an imp army and be topping the meters.

I came here specifically for number 4, because I knew it had to be on this list. Those were some great days gaming!

I fucking LOVED the Gavel of the First Arbiter. I swapped back to my main Unholy DK in Shadowlands after trying out Warlock for an expansion and I had to sit my guild down and explain to them why it was that I absolutely needed the first Gavel that dropped from Heroic - there was a neat interaction between the Gavel and Unholy's tier set where you'd have a 10% minion damage increase passively that would jump up to 40% if Soul Reaper was triggered. It was meant to help with execute phases, but the reality is that you could Soul Reaper the add that the Gavel spawns, immediately killing it and giving you an additional 30% damage during your opening burst window. The increase was high enough that it would take several minutes for others to catch up once your damage fell off.

Spear of Rethu i think used to have no level requirement and was a high ilvl weapon that was bind on account, before they changed it into an heirloom.

Great video, all of the info you included was very well organized. I can imagine it took a lot of effort to make this, but a part two with other items would be awesome. Good job man.

with all the legion trinkets being mentioned surprised Draught of Souls wasn't it got nerfed like 40% for warriors after a tier because it was so busted on single target

Nifflevar axe from archaeology was 72 to use but did more damage than 70 two handers and more damage than any lvl 80 one hand until ulduar. Basically broke the 70 pvp bracket.

Another one that might not have been as game breaking, but definitely relevant at the time was 'Bygone Bee' Almanac, a trinket in BFA. When used on a ret paladin in phase one, you could use the trinket and bubble, and instead of it being a like 20s buff extended by spending resources, the bubble would bug it out and cause it to become a 1 hour buff for a HUGE mastery steroid which was ret paladins best stat at the time. If only ret had mobility then you could play it on Ghuun q:^]

Gavel is one of the most hillariously broken items they've added. Farming it was kind of ass, until S4 where you could just buy it after 3 weeks.

i remember back in my WOTLK days as a feral druid, This was my 2nd weapon which i needed for some bosses like thaddius back in Naxx because with the multiplier the tanks could not handle the Threat when i was wearing my normal Weapon

I am missing the Guldan trinket from Legion for warriors. You did millions of damage in 2-3 seconds because all your trinket shots crit + it scaled with your mastery (enrage for fury or CS for arms warriors).

How about the Light of Elune? I think I've saved it for close to 15 years on one of my alts!

Some OP items from TBC Classic and WotLK Classic. I am not sure if they were used back in the day, but most likely they were. 1. Dragonspine Trophy (TBC). Trinket from Gruul and it was BiS for melee classes for a very long time, maybe even in Sunwell. I remember we were farming it even in P3 (Hyjal and Black Temple) and it cost a lot of gold in GDKPs. 2. Figurine of the Colossus (TBC). This item was not even used in raids, but it was OP because you could solo Stratholme on your paladin and make gold. Hundreds of players have been doing it and all of them had this trinket, myself included. It was invaluable on P1 and P2 when you didn't have bling-bling gear but wanted to earn your gold in a honest way. 3. Soul Preserver (Wrath). This item was dropped in normal Culling of Stratholme 5-man dungeon, and it was broken on Holy Paladin and other healers. It saved you so much mana it was insane, it was probably the only 187 ilvl item that was used on first Heroic Lich King kills in the ICC race. 4. Gnomish Battle Chicken (TBC). If you do a 1-2 minute ritual before pulling a boss, it would give melee classes 20% haste for 5 minutes. It was like mini-heroism. It was so busted, Warcraftlogs banned the use of this item and invalidated any parse where it was used. It probably worked in Vanilla as well.

Incidentally, the unobtainable Frostmourne Sword added in back in Wrath had no level requirement either.

For the Unstable Arcanocrystal, I got probably the luck of my entire WoW existence with that during the Argus patch for rolling the random trinkets. Rolled a 935 socketed arcanocrystal. Since I was mythic raiding at the time I went into my spec discord as a healer to ask how to evaluate this vs. other trinkets. QELive and such didn't exist yet. One of the thoerycrafters just said "Fuck you for having that and even asking the question."

another trinket that seems to be forgotten is the class trinket for paladins in hellfire citadel. as a prot paladin it triggered when your health dropped below a certain treshold (different for each ilvl trinket) when it procced it would heal you back upp to full, and the same amount it healed as damage full on aoe. it had an internal hidden cd that was easy to track and when it recet a 100% triggerchance. so as a tank you intentionally dropped all your defensive abilitys and intentionally baited a 1shot, trinket proccs heals u upp mirrors your entire health pool to all the mobs around you. with this trinket you where competing with your top dpsers in raids, and dungeons you just ran from boss to boss 1 shotting everything. firemage one also was stupid, fireblast also cast flamestrike, flamepatch from flamestrike stacks at the time.

not to mention that Gavel was so broken in power value, it was basically BIS for BEARS. thats a Strength Weapon being the Best option for an Agility Tank. it was so strong, it could have been competitive with S1 Dragonflight weapons before Bliz killed the fun and slapped a maximum level you could be before the effects were deactivated. was really nice to level up with before the nerfs.

One of the best unique trinkets to ever exist imo came in legion called Draught of Souls. Before getting nerfed to the ground obviously. Although it provided a decent overall dps, it was the on use effect that really did some stupid stuff. Search up the video called A Tribute to Draught of Souls.

Maybe since Cata is launching a Cata OP item vid? I know Souldrinker was super strong for Prot War and it then meant your HP converted too damage/healing. So stacking stam just meant more damage. As a tank this got silly and meant Last stand/rallying cry were now offensive CDs. Definitely made you a raid boss with some consistent damage/healing from constant procs of Souldrinker.

I remember farming for that fishing pole.

Wow. I'm surprised you didn't add the pre-nerf Invulnerable Mail. It was nerfed in patch 1.7 I think? So it wasn't in game very long before it was nerfed, but boy was it fun. The 5% chance to deflect attacks was actually a 5 second timer of physical invulnerability with NO cooldown. KZfaq a vanilla PvP Elemental Shaman video named Sham, its pixelated as hell, but you can see it proc'ing like crazy, back to back to back. Such a crazy item.

I knew a guy that during Legion that made so many boomkins to get that upgraded arcanocrystal. good times haha

In early MoP there was a wand I think that dropped off of the monkeys that had 3 extra zeroes at the end of either it’s damage number or stat number I don’t remember and it made you do like legion level damage it was crazy

You forgot the Vial of Felshadow Emulsion that allowed for bosses to be solo healed

Was sure you'd have Nifflevar Bearded Axe in here

the most overpower : in cataclysm , white items from the expansion alowed in low levels . you can be a pvp monster .

Wow, haven't seen the arena map in a long time...

Not even close. Real OGs will remember Enteis Quenched Sword, or even the later added Sun Lute of the Phoenix King.

When I started playing wow, my very first character was a druid in wrath, 2010. I wasn't really rushing and really liked Kaluak's so I did the dailies and turned exalted at level 72 or so. As a Feral I was proud I have a purple weapon and felt superior with the amount of attack power it gave me in cat form. (then my friend told me it's shit once I hit level 80 :( )

the reason why the arcano crystal was so strong is because secondary stats scaled much better than main stat back in legion. nowadays the arcano crystal wont be a strong competitor since main stat scales much higher again. no matter that the overall amount of stats was higher. in fact secondaries scaled so strong, that the base line arcano crystal was still BiS or atleast a strong alternative in the last tier in legion. being more than 100 ilvl lower than other trinkets

i'm surprised the trinket gul dan drops wasn't on here rogues in open world pvp would open burst everything down within a few seconds i saw max ilvl tanks get blown up before they could even get out of the first stun

great video! could you also do 10 overpowered items on classic only?

Unerring Vision of Lei Shen got nerfed because of Demonology spec, not Affliction. It was still BiS until the expansion ended for Demonology since you could apply Bane of Doom, which spawned Imps every 15s if the spell crit with a 60 second duration. Each imp generated more of your main resource which allowed you to stay in demon form longer and more often.

I always thought it was The Sword of a Thousand Truths

Should have added a special 2 item mention when you could pop 2 trinkets at once in classic and use both talisman of empherial power and zandalarian hero charm. Casters raped with it

What about galakrond trinket from siege of org. The heroic version gave almost 50% permanent CD reduction on all your cooldowns

Forgot the 2h sword off of Deathwing. Unholy Blight from dks could proc it per application of their dots. This lead to DKs spawning over 100 tentacles and wiping entire raids in AV.

you forget about Torch of retribution

I do like how most of these uber weapons are for melee classes.

No mention of the TBC twink rep trinket?

8:30 Danecook is such a 2009 character name.

You couldnt have added a picture of the item when you put the name and number?

if i was blizzard, i would have had those "special weapons" equip able by low level characters be restricted to the open world proper only. Once you enter PVP, the weapon requires you to leave to re-equip it.

I'm surprised there was no footage of Ogrekill the Paladin wielding the fishing pole. Guy was the most obnoxious, most decked out whale 39 twink in the entire US and he was absolutely shameless with that fishing pole + every consumable under the sun (including the frowned upon FAP/slammers/flash grenades etc). He played all day every day 1-shotting people left and right. I literally refused to queue if I knew he was online. He singlehandedly ruined the bracket for horde players while he was allowed to do it.

video should be called top 10 trinkets in wow history and some obscure weird item that definently weren't overpowered

obvious ai video

whats broken about the fishing and i dont mind cause i have it. you equip it it in the fishing window in the item slots and there you mgo... perma water breathing with out having to erquip it in a hand

gavel was so stronk it made bear druids grab it and not care about losing agility lmao

I have withered Jim as my battle pet.

3:18 called it

classic wow, as a duel wield warrior, I ran duel hazno blades, Got them in UBRS, lv 55 required if i remember correctly, they had a built in proc. with frost oil on one, shadow oil on the other, along with fire enchant. 6 possible procs. . the damage output would have me doing more dps than raid geared rogues. So many people only look at the cookie cutter gear types that everyone else uses without ever looking at the gear that best fits their play style. Played a frost mage running SSC, where half the boss fight of hydros the boss was immune to frost damage and would still out damage fire mages because my character was geared towards my play style . . Gear is only good if you know how to use it.

What about the Deathbringer’s will?

we farmed Entis sword =) made a lot of gold.. they fixed it fast when a lot of low lvl did a lot of dmg at duels xD

Scarab Brooch should be #1

peopel forget spear of re'thu was a thing it was a BOA that was level 80 that could be used at level 10

I loved soul cap.

During legion when ilvl based pvp stat templates were a thing I grabbed the fishing pole on my 60 twink Results-thaurissan

Figurine of the colossas. As a paladin tank I could pull hundreds of mobs and not die.

Well, I'm still farming the Arcanocrystal just to have it

What about Martin Fury?

Strange there is no Dragonspine Trophy.

Tidal charm! Those who know, know.

literally never got an arcano crystal.

Fangs of the Father was the most broken item ever created

suprised mind quickening gem isnt on the list

Thibk you forgot drest trink... literally activated one shot

Moral of the story. Blizzard hates fun

The legendary ring in Hellfire citadell which lead to groups of arcane mages nuking mythic bosses in less than 15 seconds

Shadowmourne

Where draught of souls?

Carrot on a Stick

martin thunder

Good work. Pre-nerf classic cata :D

15:00 another instance of casuals ruining video games The fishing pole isn't even close to being OP. It's like saying Thunderfury is OP because it's so much better than everything else. Yeah, well you also gotta raid MC several times, be the one to get both bindings, gather the crafting mats, and then defeat a raid boss. Those noobs should try and farm the fishing pole on their lvl19s if they think it's so OP lol

I"ve seen South Park I don't need this video

hail red shirt

Well you just butchered the word "stat stick" a trinket cannot be a stat stick, only weapons can be that.. Hence the word "stick". Its reffered to a weapon that cant deal dmg alone because it only has stat rolls and there are no stat sticks in wow, its taken from other games such as poe/diablo where you can roll off your dmg on weapons and just use the stats from it.

yeah imagine farming for over 17 weeks. finally obtaining, then people crying and it gets nerfed. imagine farming for 17 weeks almost getting exalted and notice it now has a level req. ooooof

Look people taking a two handed weapon that one shots others in a low level bg deserves thier time being wasted lol.

Soul cap legit broke the game in late HFC farm. The top speed kills are like 15 seconds or less on some of the end wing bosses from people just resetting trash and proccing it on the majority of the raid to stack it with the Legendary ring and instantly one tap Mythic bosses. I would've put the SoO CDR trinkets on this over CoF personally though, those trinkets proccing a character sheet worth of stats and just flat out giving you 33% cdr on almost all of your cds, defensive & offensive was way stronger than what Convergence was doing.

Yea, Rogues need nerfing. Either the stealth, or stuns.

Blizzard was never good at balancing.

Greys aren't "bind on equip"... they don't bind at all.

Blizzard nerfed fun again