Hey, I’m somewhat infamous for employing as many toys as possible into my roleplay - I feel like a lot of people are easy to dismiss them based on the fact the vast (vast) majority are nigh useless with their unjust cooldowns, but there still remains a good few that have cooldowns short enough to justify using in roleplay.
For bard roleplay, my favourite item is Panflute of Pandaria (https://www.wowhead.com/item=86586/panflute-of-pandaria). Its use is simple; using it plays a short flute melody, as well as giving your character a few music notes over their head for a bit. It always causes all nearby critters to follow you, but that’s secondary to me; I just like having a spammable flute to accompany emotes.
Outside of toys, I picked up inscription and found the joy of origami. There are a few origami consumables you can make (crane, frog, beetle, rock), and each puts a still model of that creature on the ground for a minute. I find them to just be cute set pieces, for screenshots and whatnot.
Outside of the obvious (prisms, tongue potions, inky pots), what are your favourite toys and consumables you’d recommend to people? Trinkets with neat on-use visuals, quest items that are spammable, etc. Excited to read!
The Beam toys/items, which lets you channel a colored magic beam.
Reflecting prism, to keep up certain appearances.
Spectral Visage, Hearthsbane Grimore and Death Door charm, which are really good for dark and ghosty effects.
Most transformation toys, great for RPing/NPCing certain races/appearances, with prism to keep them as mentioned above. Namely Warden toy, Broken Draenei one and so on.
The biscuit thing which allows you to enlarge battle pets, it’s really good and useful to have a proper pet companion beside you.
Some of the items which allows you to summon certain things can be good as well though I can’t think of a specific one right now.
Fun fact: the spyglass doesn’t simply make things larger, but also increases your maximum rendering distance for units (such as players), actually enabling you to see someone before they can see you.
Basic Campfire. Fel-version for my Warlock/DH… Blue-fire version for my DK. Bonfire for my Highborne/Blood Knight… Rest use the basic one!
Other then that; I usually use the Kaldorei windchime for wind-directions, Highborne Soul Mirror for my Blood Elf, Highborne and Nightborne etc… The usual!
Fun fact, if you cancel the Hearthsbane toy before it completes as a caster, you’ll get melee attack idle effects! I use it a lot for my Warmage/TankySpellblades.
I was always a big fan of Mylune’s Call and Mushroom Chair, on my Druid.
Back when I was RPing as a Demon Hunter on my Rogue (pre-Legion), I made use of whatever I could find to add to the effect. Felflame Campfire was one, and Soul Inhaler (gave you a neat effect of draining a soul from a body, whilst also have a ‘classic’ metamorphosis (shadowed form + wings) look) was another. But what I got the most fun use out of was a combination of Survivor’s Bag of Coins and the Legendary Daggers - using the legendary dagger ability to grow wings, then rocketing off with a well-placed coin.
In fact I think Bag of Coins might be my favourite item of all of them. I’m surprised I don’t see it used more often.
Blingtron’s Circuit Design Tutorial toy is really neat, because it makes you perform the action with your arms that you do when making stuff or mounting up. It works while moving and kneeling as well. And the best part is that no one but you can see the circuits! It’s very good for immersion, but not so much for personal screenshots.
A very good toy to create a looping ‘working’ animation, it works together with many other other animations not only moving and kneeling. Some of them result in rather disturbing sights, such as running wild:
