Originally Posted by
Choice
SoO trinkets are a complete wash for prot paladins. The tier is not difficult or tight enough to demand such specialised trinkets. And because there isn't a second 'pure-BiS' alternative, chances are people with either use that intellect trinket or stick with t15 BiS.
Big problem with giving situational trinkets is they aren't mandatory, else your progress would be determined by RNG on loot. The worst are fights like Malkorok HM where the one fight that would have truly have benefitted from the CD reduction trinket...drops from that encounter. Completely counter intuitive to the design intent.
Think of it like this, after the first 9 bosses in HM SoO, I can say with absolute conviction that these utility trinkets (healing conversion, CD reduction, cleave, AoE reduction etc) attempt to solve a problem that doesn't exist.
It is possible the last 5 bosses will change my opinion, but simply put once the average player gets to HMs with 565 ilevel you won't be worried even consider utility that comes at the cost of so much haste/DPS output.
As for the int one, I feel the useless proc isn't enough to put it ahead of the Spark in terms of usefulness. I haven't bothered to delve much into end tier BiS loot.
Min-maxing such as what they attempted with trinkets must be left to talents/glyphs, ones where everything is actually avaliable for a given situation. Or else people will simply make do without them.