Luck o' the DruidFollow

Well, it seems the horde druid alt I've been playing was born under a lucky star.

Two days ago, I got Savory Deviate Delight recipe. It dropped off of a Bael'dun Officer (0.01% drop rate) in southern Barrens. It was the happiest moment I have had in WoW in ages. Don't get me wrong, I love the game and enjoy playing, but I have wanted this recipe forever. I've been too cheap to pay for it and I haven't seen it on the AH for a while. I always kick myself for not buying it on my main when I thought it was overpriced at 30g. So, I was stoked...better than a boss kill, as silly as that sounds.

Then yesterday, I went out to Desolace to pick up the cookbook. While there, I thought I'd try out the lobster traps. I really wasn't planning on staying long, since most of the comments on the Alla page for the Big Iron Fishing Pole mention hours of opening the traps. Well, on the fourth one I opened, out popped the pole. Yay!

Anyone else have some lucky streaks to share?

Ah, I know the feeling.

There's been a few occasions where I have gotten some epic drops on just some random beast or humanoid while questing. About a week ago, I was in Stranglethorn Vale doing the aged gorilla sinew quest (which btw takes ages) when suddenly after killing one of the elder mistvale gorillas the Combatant's Longsword drops. It was hilarious because not even twenty minutes earlier, the Speedsteel Rapier dropped for me in the same zone, while on the same quest.

I wish I had that kind of luck more often...

I've been known to get lucky from time to time, yes.

My priest was extremely lucky on his level 60 dungeon set. If I recall correctly I had 5/8 of the Devout set at 59 and got piece 6/8 in the same run where I dinged 60.

Also, not too long ago I decided I'd finally get that repair bot pattern to get that last 8 levels of engineering. Dropped on the second kill.


Edit: Oh, and something funny has plagued my rogue for a long time. Whenever a lockbox dropped I'd say "I can open that if needed" and win it. Whenever I didn't mention that, I lost the roll. Think I had that phenomenom 'till 60 where I actually started losing a couple of rolls regardless of stating that I could open the boxes.

Edited, Oct 9th 2008 12:38am by Mozared

Luck o' the druid indeed! MY Druid has the Deathcharger's Reins drop. Rarest drop in the game, baby! He also has gotten a few world epics and blues. Skullflame Shield was the coolest, and sold for an awesome 1200 gold!



THIS Destiny? There's... just so much wrong with that.

1. Destiny is fast. A Paladin should never use a fast two-hander because of the lower SoC procs per swing chance.
2. Destiny adds yet another proc chance to a class reliant on them (crits and SoC procs). You want to minimize the chances.
3. Destiny is fast (take two!). This is bad because SoC goes off weapon damage, and a fast weapon has lower damage than a slow one.
4. There are no extra stats on Destiny besides the proc. Extra stats add another degree of consistency to your attacks. Consistency is good.
5. Consider the fact that within the first 5 quests in Outland you can get a Rage Reaver. Not only does this have a big (~5) DPS upgrade, it has consistent stats, is free, and is slow. Edit: And you can get this quest at 57 or 58.


If you're having fun with the sword, that's fine and dandy. But Destiny is as terrible of an epic as you can find in vanilla WoW. Wait, no. Taran Icebreaker is worse; it's even faster than Destiny.

Edited, Oct 8th 2008 11:05pm by LockeColeMA

Lies!!! That doesn't really exist. If it did, then it would have dropped for me by now...lol.

Congratz on that man. I'm totally jealous.

/sulks in a corner and cries

Was running heroic mech last week when Design: Delicate Living Ruby dropped. I won the role!

But I let the second place roller take the pattern (my JC already new it). It was a guild run and he is a good friend so I figured he needed (rogue/JC) the recipe more than I needed the gold if I sold the pattern.

Two nights ago, while perusing the AH, I see the same recipe listed for a 5g buyout. My ah toon is a druid. Luck o' the druid indeed.

I never have this kind of good luck.

I've had to make my own luck in the game. : (

The only luck I've had is getting a PoD for my 39 warrior.(I know, I spoke of it in just my last post)

Scanned the AH for 3 months to find one. Finally did and bought it for 50G. Couldn't believe my luck.

Sold that one for 600G to fund the 29 rogue I was playing a lot more. Could have made a lot more at the time, but I decided to stop holding onto it and let someone who will actually use it hold onto it.

Then about 4 months ago my guild shifted from 29s to 39s. I wasn't gonna move the rogue I had worked so hard on, so I told my guild leader I would work on my warrior a lot...... but only if he got me a PoD.

2 weeks later, he traded a one handed mace from Uldaman that is the second lowest drop rate from there + 50G for a PoD. He had bought the mace for 100G, so I only had to pay 150G for the PoD I am now holding onto(was about 2k by this time).

All in all, I haven't seen one BoE purple and only a handful of BoE blues, all topping out at about 50G each. I'm not lucky, but I have just started leveling a druid..... : )

Double post sorry

Edited, Oct 9th 2008 3:58pm by cronnie

I am fairly unlucky when it comes to drops.

Only lucky drop I can think of that I have had is Pre-BC.

I used to farm the Satyr's in Azshara for Felcloth cause it netted me quite a bit of gold.

And 1 day (after about 2 weeks of farming) this baby drops.

Sold it to a mate for 350g (since it was going for about 600g at the time).

Haven't had a good BoE drop since.