What is Bloodlust Brooch?
Bloodlust Brooch is an epic melee trinket at item level 110, sold by vendor G'eras in Shattrath City for 41 Badge of Justice in the game WoW: TBC Anniversary. The passive bonus gives you +72 Attack Power at all times, while the on-use effect Lust for Battle adds another 278 AP for 20 seconds on a 2-minute cooldown. On paper that averages to about 118 AP as a flat bonus, but the real value of the Brooch shows up in burst windows - Rogues stack it with Blade Flurry and Adrenaline Rush, Warriors pop it alongside Death Wish, and Hunters fire it right before Bestial Wrath.
| Stat | Value |
| Item Level | 110 |
| Type | Trinket (Epic) |
| Passive AP | +72 |
| On-Use AP | +278 (20 sec) |
| Cooldown | 2 min |
| Cost | 41 Badge of Justice |
| Vendor | G'eras, Shattrath |
| BiS Until | Phase 3 (BT) |
Ordering Bloodlust Brooch through a carry service means you get the trinket without burning a week of real time on heroic rotations with pugs where half the group doesn't know Pandemonius has Dark Shell and keeps casting into it.
Why 41 Badges Hurts More Than You Think
Players look at 41 and think "alright, 10-12 heroics, a couple evenings." Reality hits different. First you need Revered with Cenarion Expedition, Honor Hold or Thrallmar, Lower City, and a few other factions - no rep, no Heroic key. That's a separate grind of 15-25 hours, and that's before you see your first badge.
Then the actual farm starts. In a perfect world you run Mechanar in 20 minutes and walk out with 3 badges. In the real world the tank overpulls, the healer doesn't dispel Mind Flay, and a wipe on Pathaleon the Calculator turns a 20-minute run into 45. Logs from Anniversary servers show the average pug heroic takes 35-40 minutes - nearly double what a coordinated group needs. Multiply that by 12-14 runs, add LFG queue time on top, and you're looking at a full week of evenings for one trinket slot.
That's why gamers with limited time buy this item through a boosting service: not because it's hard, but because it's slow and repetitive, and you needed the Brooch yesterday because without it your DPS in Karazhan looks rough next to everyone who already has theirs equipped. And while you're sitting in LFG chat for twenty minutes looking for a decent tank, the season keeps moving.




