The medallion and insignia are always essential in PVP.
its the basics. the starter kit for PVP. Everybody slots them in cause it’s needed to function properly in PVP environments. The pvp vendor should just have a quest that says ‘’ hey, you want to PVP ? Great ! here, you’re gonna need these :‘’ and we just get the trinkets at maximum PVP power of the season. if you want a more specific or more ‘‘niche’’ pvp trinket you can atleast grind those with the basic trinket set equipped. and then we can grind all other slots as per usual.
Why ask players to do a few games without them first ?
it just seems arbitrary.
maybe even add new pvp slots in the character panel that just auto swap to the equipped trinket slots when entering Battlegrounds or arenas.
heck, just add a fishing pole slot in there while you’re at it.