World of Warcraft - Useful Items

Whenever I try to search for "Useful Items in WoW", normally I get a bunch of websites with guides for Best in Slot gear or something similar. While that is useful, I wanted to know what items I should gain that either cannot be equipped or are not BiS but still useful. Teleportation items and DPS/Tank consumables were the easiest to find, but I knew from my many years of WoW experience since Burning Cruade released that there are far more out there.

So I decided to compile a list of items myself. These are items that can currently be obtained in retail WoW (so no Band of Icy Depths, unfortunately) and have some sort of use that extends beyond the expansion they are released in (so no toys that work only in Draenor for example, but items that assist in gathering expansion materials are fair game). I doubt this is an all-inclusive list despite my best efforts, so please let me know if you see anything missing!

As a note, I will also include some class-specific items that teach abilites or are otherwise useful but may not stay in your bag.

Teleportation Item

• Guild Cloaks (get all 3 since they have separate cooldowns) - Teleports to your main faction city
• Boots of the Bay - Teleports to Booty Bay
• Violet Seal of the Grand Magus - Teleports to Karazhan
• Direbrew's Remote - Teleports to Blackrock Depths
• Hellscream's Reach Tabard/Baradin's Wardens Tabard - Teleports to Tol Barad
• Blessed Medallion of Karabor - Teleports to Black Temple
• Ring of the Kirin Tor - Teleports to WotLK Dalaran
• Jania's Locket - Teleports to WotLK Dalaran
• Argent Crusade Tabard - Teleports to Argent Tournament
• Time-Lost Artifact - Teleports to Timeless Isle
• Admiral's Compass - Teleports to Garrison Shipyard
• Bladespire Relic/Relic of Karabor - Teleports to Bladespire Fortress/Path of the Light
• Empowered Ring of the Kirin Tor - Teleports to Legion Dalaran
• Commander's Signet of Battle/Captain's Signet of Command - Teleports to Dazar'alor/Boralus
• The Last Relic of Argus - Teleports to a random location

Extra Equipment

• Mount Equipment - sometimes it's good to have options for which mount equipment you want active
• Underlight Angler - A Legion legendary item that is still useful for walking on water and very fast swimming/breathing underwater
• Ancient Fishing Line - I always farm one to apply to the Underlight Angler
• Pocket-Sized Computation Device with Slipstream Generator - I still carry this around in case I want to fight underwater and ran out of swim speed potions
• Heart of Azeroth - This is still useful for Timewalking and Speed sets
• Precious Bloodthorn Loop - short invisibility active for classes without this option

Passive Items

• Darkmoon Adventurer's Guide - There's always something to do during the Darkmoon Festival, so I carry this since I don't want to keep taking it out of the bank every month

Permanent Active Items

• Flight Master's Whistle - Takes you to the closest flight master location
• Krokul Flute - Used to let your whistle work in the Argus zone in Legion
• Ornate Spyglass - a cheap way to be able to see far things up close if your class doesn't have a farsight ability
• Brazier of Awakening - can be used to raise fallen allies out of combat if you're not playing a class with resurrection abilities
• Repurposed Fel Focuser - a cheap phial/flask; I prefer this over the Oralius' Whispering Crystal
• Kafa Press - a cheap haste buff if you don't want to waste potions on trash mobs
• Gateway Control Shard - just in case I party with a Warlock
• Darkmoon Cannon - combo this with any slowfall ability to move a long distance quickly
• Bounty of the Harvest - useful for free food to restore HP
• Carved Drinking Horn - useful free drink to restore MP
• Swapblaster - Swap places with an ally, useful both to save allies or to get them to run off cliffs
• Secret Fish Goggles - useful until you get the achievement, but can still be fun when you're bored

Consumables

• Goblin Glider Kits - slowfall with the ability to control what direction you move
• Mecha-Blast Rockets - has a longer range than many abilities, so can be used to pull mobs from a safer distance in instances
• Auto-Hammer - repairs equipment
• Scrapbot Construction Kits - repairs equipment and vendors items
• Deployable Attire Rearranger - allows you to transmog your equipment
• Gunshoes - quickly moves you forward
• Cracked Radinax Control Gem - moves you foward faster, but only has 3 charges and must be farmed from one location in Legion
• Falling Flame - launches you far in the direction you're facing
• Elixir of Tongues - Lets you understand the other faction's common language
• Portable Alchemist's Lab Bench - Allows anyone to craft potions using Alchemy
• Portable Tinker's Workbench - Allows anyone to craft items using Engineering
• Thermal Anvil - allows the use of both an anvil and forge
• Fried Bonefish - gain speed after killing creatures that give exp/honor
• Shadow Crystal Focusing Lens - used to points out places to others
• Scrying Roguestone - changes the user's viewpoint to another location
• Felslate Anchor - fall quickly to the floor when used underwater
• Leystone Bouy - quickly shoots you ot the surface while underwater
• Feral Hide Drums - raid Haste buff that shares cooldown with class abilities
• Solid Stones - used to make Elune Stones with the Elune's Lantern toy
• current expansion consumables: augment runes, weapon runes/sharpening stones/weapon oils, phials, stat potions, stat foods, healing potions, invisibility potions, etc.

Optional Potions

• Potion of Deepholm - Teleports to Deepholm
• Avalanche Elixir - Use to turn into an avalanche when you fall
• Sea Mist Potion - Turn into a cloud for slow fall and float on water
• Draenic Water Breathing Potion - allows water breathing
• Draenic Water Walking Potion - allows water walking
• Swim Speed Potion - swim quickly for a short duration
• Elixir of Dream Vision - kinda like an astral projection of yourself so you can explore an area safely
• Potion of Concealment - use to avoid detection abilities while standing still
• Elixir of Camouflage - user cannot be tracked
• Elixir of the Searching Eye - increase your stealth detection
• Elixir of Detect Lesser Invisibility - use to detect lesser invisibility (one type of invisibility in WoW)
• Elixir of Detect Demon - track demons
• Elixir of Detect Undead - track undead

Optional Food/Drink

• Tracker Snacks - track beasts
• Blackened Worg Steak - track humanoids
• Feast of the Fishes - turn into a fish

Fishing Items

• Nat's Drinking Hat - bonus to fishing and a free lure
• Darkmoon Fishing Cap - summons a wreckage pool
• any low-level gloves with Formula: Enchant Gloves - Angler - bonus to fishing
• Sharpened Tuskarr Spear - bonus to fishing
• Captain Rumsey's Lager (Consumable) - bonus to fishing when drunk

Gathering Profession-Only Items

• Mist-Piercing Goggles - allows you to see more gathering nodes in Pandaria
• Forager's Gloves - gather resources faster in Pandaria
• Darkmoon Firewater (Consumable) - allows user to gather resources faster
• Peon's Mining Pick - gather minerals faster in Dreanor
• Gorepetal's Gentle Grasp - gather herbs faster in Dreanor
• Krokul Mining Pick - gather minerals faster in Legion

Engineer-Only Items

• Ultimate Gnomish Army Knife - all the tools you'll ever need plus possibly rezing your allies if you're an engineer
• Jeeves - every engineer needs one
• Rechargeable Reaves Battery - every engineer also needs one
• Zapthrottle Soul Inhaler - used to gather certain essences in Dragonfight
• Zapthrottle Mote Extractor - used to gather certain motes in Outland
• Electrostatic Condenser - used to gather Volatile Air while gathering other recourses
• Gravimetric Scrambler Cannon - used to CC enemies by throwing them in random directions if they are in range of where the projectile lands
• Momentum Redistributor Boots - used to distribute fall damage to other nearby creatures where you land if there are any
• 50ul Tr4p - sets a trap that banishes the first creature to walk over it for 1 minute
• Tinker Removal Kit - used to remove Dragonflight tinker modules from sockets
• Deepdive Helmet - equip to breath underwater
• Nitro Boosts - used to quickly run for a short duration
• Flexweave Underlay- slow fall
• Goblin Glider - works the same as the consumable kit, but takes the cloak tinker slot
• Masterwork Target Dummy (Consumable) - sometimes having a short-duration taunt to distract enemies can be useful (many people use these in hardcore modes)
• current expansion engineering items: expansion rezing items, etc.

Leatherworker-Only Items

• Drumps of Panic (Consumable) - cause nearby enemies to run away from you for a couple seconds

Blacksmith-Only Items

• Khaz'gorian Smithing Hammer - chance to give crafted item the "Indestructable" property and can repair one equipment piece per hour

Jewelcrafter-Only Items

• Jewelhammer's Focus - can be used to remove gems

Tailor-Only Items

• Frostweave Net (Consumable) - use to snare a creature for a few seconds

Alchemist-Only Items

• current expansion's Alchemist Stone

Enchanter-Only Items

• Iwen's Enchanting Rod - gain extra resources when disenchanting

Rogue-Only Items

• Uncrowned Insignia - Not actually needed as it somehow still works from the bank, but I still carry it
• Survivor's Bag of Coins - Used to throw yourself backwards, but you need to charge it through pickpocketing every time you log in (need both Glyph of Disguise and Dirty Tricks, Vol 1: Detection to obtain)
• Scroll of Teleport: Ravenholdt - Teleports to Ravenholdt
• Secretive Whistle - Only useful if you haven't bought everything from the vendor yet
• Gleaming Lamp of Al'Abas - Only useful if you haven't bought everything from the vendor yet
• Thistle Tea (Consumable) - consume to instantly gain energy
• Pocket Friend (Consumable) - consumed when someone pickpockets you, but since that's not a mechanic right now I'm not sure it's worth carrying (seems to be meant to counter Spymaster Jenri's Scope and Spymaster Jenri's Thieves' Tools)

Mage-Only Items

• Bipsi's Bobbing Berg - allows floating on water, but redundant with the Anglers Fishing Raft that can be bought with the same faction and reputation requirement (some Mages may like the uniqueness though)
• Ancient Tome of Teleport: Dalaran (Consumable) - Teaches the Teleport spell for the Old Dalaran location
• Ancient Tome of Portal: Dalaran (Consumable) - Teaches the Portal spell for the Old Dalaran location
• Mystical Tome: Illusion (Consumable) - Mostly used as a meme, but can mess up enemies when PVP starts if they aren't paying close attention to who they're actually attacking
• Polymorph Tomes (Consumable) - No mechanical benefit from changing the polymorph animal as far as I can tell, but options are fun to have

Druid-Only Items

• Tome of the Wilds: Track Beasts (Consumable) - Teaches the user how to track beasts on their minimap
• Tome of the Wilds: Flap (Consumable) - Teaches a slowfall ability usable while in Moonkin form
• Druid Shapeshift Marks (Consumable) - No mechanical benefits but I have yet to meet a druid that doesn't like shapeshift appearance options
• Burning Seed (Consumable) - Another shapeshift appearance change (can also use Fandral's Flamescythe or Fandral's Seed Pouch instead)

Hunter-Only Items

• Hunter Tomes (Consumable) - Each allows the Hunter to tame a new type of pet each which may have certain mechanical benefits due to their skills (check out Petopia to find the exact pet you want)
• Pet Training Manual: Fetch (Consumable) - Allows your pet to pick up drops for you
• Pet Training Manual: Play Dead (Consumable) - Allows your pet to also be able to Feign Death
• The Art of Concealment (Consumable) - Gives the Hunter an Aspect that prevents them from being trackable

Monk-Only Items

• Meditation Manual: Zen Flight (Consumable) - unique Monk flight method
• Handwraps of Serenity - No mechanical benefits but is a popular Monk transmog to look like they're fighting unarmed

Shaman-Only Items

• Shaman Hex Tomes (Consumable) - No mechanical benefits but fun to have options

Warlock-Only Items

• Sealed Tome of the Lost Legion (Quest Item) - No mechanical benefits but a fun appearance change most Warlocks try to get (needed for the Warlock Green Fire questline)
• Warlock Demon Pet Customization Options (Consumable) - No mechanical benefits but fun to have options

Rage Class-Only Items

• Mighty Rage Potions (Consumable) - used to instantly gain a variable amount of rage
• Pure Rage Potions (Consumable) - used to gain 75 rage (static amount but lower ceiling than Mighty Rage Potions)

Fun Items

• Squeaky Bat - use to make a squeaking noise on a short CD
• Tabard of the Lightbringer - makes the user shine brightly and can be used to light dark areas
• Sonic Environment Enhancer - can be used to play music from consumable song scrolls
• Smoke Flares (Consumables) - lots of options for these, all used to create smoke flares where you need them
• Inky Black Potion (Consumable) - makes the world nighttime around you for cool scenes
• Reflecting Prism (Consumable) - swaps the appearance with a party memeber
• Potion of Illusion (Consumable) - changes your appearane to someone else's

Permanent Buffs (not items)

• Speedbarge Diving Helm - allows swimming and breathing underwater in Thousand Needles
• Sea Legs - allows swimming and breathing underwater in Vashj'ir