Trinkets are among the most important items in World of Warcraft. They often contribute significantly to your character’s performance. One that you can get pretty early on, experts thought was pretty weak at first. Now it turns out that there is more to it than that.
What is that piece of jewelry? The Ruby Whelp Shell is a reward that you can already get from questing in the Awakening Coast or as a loot in the Ruby Lifepool.
Wearing the shell grants you a bit of your primary attribute (intelligence, strength, or agility) permanently, as well as a chance to summon a pup. This supports you with various abilities in battle:
Compared to other gems, the tank performs rather poorly. On websites like Bloodmallet, which are popular with hardcore players, the Ruby Whelp tank was a low ranking for many classes. That is slowly changing.
Because the gem has an active effect: if you use it, you can summon the puppy once a day so that it learns from you. Many thought this effect was just an optical gimmick. But it actually has a use.
The Ruby Life Pool is one of the 8 dungeons from Season 1 in Dragonflight, so you can get the jewel at high levels. In the video you can see the most popular dungeons from Season 1:
Trinket gets stronger as you teach the pup tricks
How do I train the jewel? When you use the Ruby Pup Armor, you are “training” your pup. Depending on what you’re aiming for, you’ll boost one of the pup’s uses, as wowhead found:
The experts from wowhead are currently still collecting data on exactly how the training can be continued and what the effects are, but are dependent on help for this. After 7 days, the puppy should have specialized in one of the relevant areas.
The probability that he will then use the corresponding effect is significantly increased and even stronger. The other effect in the same area (damage, buff, healing) is still possible, albeit less likely.
You can probably relearn the puppy at any time, but then you have to use the days for training again. You can check how far your pup has been trained in which field with the following command:
/run for i=2148,2153,1 do V=C_CurrencyInfo.GetCurrencyInfo(i); print(V.name..” – discovered:”,tostring(V.discovered)..”, quantity:”,tostring(V.quantity)) end
How strong will the piece of jewelry then be? According to wowhead, when fully upgraded, the Ruby Whelp Shell can rival some of the most powerful trinkets, such as the Manic Mourning Torch, one of the most powerful items for certain classes.
The buff for critical hit rating is one of the strongest that there is at all with all pieces of jewelry. However, the data for exact values are still missing.
Will you give the Ruby Whelp Shell another chance? More information about the currently strongest classes can be found here:
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