My lucky day.Follow

I won an Arathi Basin fight.

"What? Was that it, Mazra? You damn post-farmer!"

No, no that was not the reason why I decided to make this thread.

I have been playing this game for almost three years, since the final beta. I have played both factions, Horde and Alliance, and I have about three dozens of alternate characters spread over four or five servers. I have had two level 60 characters, eight level 30+ characters and I have done just about every 5-man instance in the game, from Ragefire Chasm to Upper Blackrock Spire.

But I have never, NEVER seen an epic item drop.

Until now.

I was out in Winterspring farming some Frostsabers for the blood samples used in the very first part of the Tier 0.5 quest for the Soulforge Bracers. There was another player out there as well, farming some leather.

He was an Undead Rogue, I am a Human Paladin.

I charge a Frostsaber thinking the Rogue will ambush and kill me anytime. He does stealth, but he attacks the Frostsaber, helping me kill it. Turns out he is just interested in skinning and since I can help him kill the stuff he can skin, he does not want to try me out.

(I killed him later in a /ready fight)

At some point he helps me kill an add I tagged and when I loot it I noticed it had an item drop, a ring. I used shift-click to loot all so it was not until I checked my inventory that I noticed what kind of a ring it actually was.

[Myrmidon's Signet]

So not only was my first epic drop ever a nice epic, but also a world drop and one I got with some help from an Undead Rogue.

What are the odds?

Now for the big question: Should I sell it, or should I keep it?

Edited, Oct 10th 2006 at 5:33pm PDT by Mazra

Grats Maz! That's a fine ring!


Just sell that bad boy, much better out there for little effort.

You abandoned us all on Chromaggus, *******!

Grats!*

A common typo.

Oh no, not at all. I haven't had time to play for the past few days. I logged on to do a Scarlet run, but no one was on so I joined the BG queues. One Arathi Basin fight and then I went to Winterspring to farm some blood while the Alterac Valley queue was ticking (one-hour queues and above really sucks).

I'll see if I can find some time to come play with you guys and gals. Now we're at it, my Warrior would like that RFD run soon, Shmii...

No, I'm not demanding, what makes you think that?

Winterspring is where I got my first Epic Drop of the Glowing Brightwood Staff. As your drop would be great for a hunter and I Auctioned the staff and bought the Dwarven Hand Cannon, I'm more convinced there is a Blizzard Algorithm that keeps drops from being usable by the recipient.

Edited, Oct 10th 2006 at 6:29pm PDT by Barrelhunter

Mine was an eye of flame. Funny enough it was the same day as my first MC run.

It will happen when you least expect it and totally change the game for you. But it will happen.

Iono about that much. I have enough purples. but yea, a quick 300G+ would be nice.

Grats Maz!

Now, not that I wanna gloat or anything, but I started playing in December 05. Since then I've seen:

In my mid 50s, I was farming SFK for money. One run, I got both this and this. I know they're not epics, but at the time both were selling for a minimum of 300g on my server. Ended up being a nice 730g run.

One time, I was cleansing cauldrons and saw one of the cauldron lords standing there. No one was around so I killed him. Lo and behold, the bastid was carrying one of these. Ended up selling it for about 70g.

Another time, I saw a group doing some quests in Silithus(Into the Maw of Madness and Glyph Chasing). Those quests had been a blight on my questlog, bgs weren't popping, and no instance runs were forming so I figure what the hey.

It ended up being 3 people from a guild and me. We got the quests done and one of the group members asks if we'd help with a couple other quests. I figure that the groups been great and I'll help out. We finish off two others and go after the Elite scorpion. We kill him and one of his adds drops a pair of these. No one needed them so we rolled greed and I won. Tidy 180g profit right there.

Finally, as far as my favorite BoE Epic drop. I was the only mage in a guild AQ20. We wipe on Rajaxx, but one of the adds drops one of these. As the only mage with the only warlock not wanting it at all, I got defaulted it. As my staff at the time was crappy, I took it, equipped it, got it enchanted and used it until a couple weeks ago when I got my Azuresong Mageblade. I still have it as part of my FR set.

I've seen two other BoE epics drop, but as I didn't win them, they're not as interesting(Hand of Edward the Odd - went to a Paladin on a guild run; and some leather +healing belt that went to a druid on a non-guild run).


Edited, Oct 11th 2006 at 1:58am PDT by Poldaran

graz maz! it's nice when you loot a boe epic on your own or win a greed roll. =)

3 years? did you start out on the us servers? the eu final beta was not even 2 years ago (jan 05). i don't even think us beta was 3 years ago.

Grats Mazra! Definately sell it.
Soulbound gear only goes so far, a good BoE epic drop only comes along once in a blue moon. ^^


On a side note (not to rub it in to those of you who haven't got a drop yet) but I've gotten 3 epic world drops so far... Eye of flame, hand of edward the odd, and the eye of shadow.
Those cauldren ghosts in WPL seem to drop epics pretty frequently...

But, worry not guys, there is still balance in the universe: my /random dice are seriously damaged when it comes to gear I need.

While it's nice to loot a purple, it's even better to be able to /random over 40 when it counts.

us final and then open beta were in october/november 04.

closed beta obviously much earlier on both continents, with increasing numbers. i have no exact dates, but it was months before october 04, even though eu was a bit behind us. but then a lot of the testing was already done in the us.

we played in final beta in the us in october/november and then had to wait until jan to get into final beta eu.

You should keep it, so you can remember it for the next 3 years, until your next epic drop.

I got my first at lvl 59, about 2 month into the game