New trinkets from Ulduar!

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MMO-Champion has reported on three new trinkets from Ulduar for us to drool over:

Energy Siphon (10 man)
Equip: Restores 43 mana per 5 sec.
Use: Increases spell power by 408 for 20 sec. (2 Min cooldown)

Pandora's Plea (25 man)
+108 Intellect
Equip: Your spells have a chance to increase your spell power by 850 for 10 sec.

Spark of Hope (25 man)
+100 Spirit
Equip: Reduces the mana cost of your spells by 42.

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The Energy Siphon trinket is nice, but dps casters and other healers will be vying for it more seriously than we will. The trinket's use is great - of course it depends on what you're casting during the 20 seconds it's up and how long the fight is, but if you use it *every* 2 minutes, it essentially increases your spell power, on average, by 68. A +68 spell power/+46 mp5 trinket? Formidable.

Pandora's Plea has a disgusting amount of intellect. It'll increase your mana pool by 1620, and your crit chance by about 0.7 %. I also wonder how often that equip mechanic procs. Every minute? Every two minutes? If you put one lifebloom on someone while under the +spell power effect, it will essentially increase each tick of that one lifebloom by 97, give or take a little bit. /om nom nom

And last but not least, the Spark of Hope. If it turns out that druids are having mana issues come 3.1 (I'm still hoping that our mana regen won't be terribad, but that's wishful thinking), Spark of Hope will be fantastic.

MATH: A rejuvenation costs 629 mana (18% of base mana). Subtract 42 from this - now it only costs 587.

Let's put it in different terms. If you have this trinket, you can cast 15 rejuvenations, and the 16th will be "free". 16 rejuvs will cost the same about of mana (give or take some decimals) as 15 would without the trinket. So it's not something that will be immediately noticable as you cast, but it definitely will help.

Besides, +100 spirit?? /swoon

My only hesitation with all of these trinkets is in their lack of straight up spell power. I realize that spell power isn't *everything*, but I really, really love my Egg of Mortal Essence and Forethought Talisman. I'd take the Spark trinket over my Egg trinket in a heartbeat, though. A bit begrudgingly, but in a heartbeat nonetheless.

I'm sure there will be some +spell power trinkets that pop up eventually, simply because they cater to so many different classes and specs. Any of you guys seen any yet?

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