With Vault of the Incarnates returning to being a relevant raid in Season 4 of Dragonflight, the Whispering Incarnate Icon, a very popular trinket during Season 1 is likely to return to many best in slot gear lists for certain specs and classes. Vault of the Incarnates will be the first Awakened Raid in Season 4, going live on the 23rd of April. Every week one of the Dragonflight Raids will be Awakened, scaling up its difficulty and the item level of its rewards.
Not only was it quite powerful in terms of the stat benefits it provided, it also dropped from one of the earlier (and considered easier) bosses in the raid, The Primal Council, making it a more accessible trinket to get your hands on.
The Whispering Incarnate Icon was one of the few in Dragonflight to have a group based component to it, improving the Trinket’s beneficial buffs when more people had it equip. The trinket specifically becomes more beneficial when at least one person of each of the 3 different roles has it equipped.
What stats does each role give to someone using the Whispering Incarnate Icon
Each role grants a different stat buff to other people using the trinket, and when all 3 roles combine, the buffs they give are also enhanced. This made it almost mandatory for all 3 roles to be present for it to be a better trinket than other alternatives, which is likely to be the case again in Season 4; check sims for your own character or read a guide for your spec to be sure though.
| Role | Stat Buff |
| Tank | Versatility |
| Healer | Haste |
| DPS | Critical Strike |
It’s worth noting that the stat buff for each role doesn’t stack, only the first person of that specific role activates the extra stats for everyone with the trinket equipped.
The Trinket provides you with your role’s secondary stat buff as a permanent passive benefit, however the group stats are on a proc, meaning that you won’t have a permanent uptime on them.
The Trinket also has a range for how far it determines others to be wearing the same Trinket, some boss fights across Dragonflight Raids exceed this maximum range (Raszageth, Broodkeeper, Fyrakk), so you may need to take that into account for if you can use that trinket for those particular instances. If this trinket is as popular as it was in Season 1, you may get to a point that you have multiple people in each Role, and the range becomes less of an issue.