50th shard supFollow

fraps?

Or pics, at least?

Edited, Jul 22nd 2010 4:32pm by Norellicus

Then everything in the OP didn't happen.
Tits/Pics or GTFO..thats how it works.










grats!

Out of curiosity, how does one go about getting Shadowmourne?

I assume it's a rather lengthy process that includes making LK25 your *****?

Edit: Grats, of course. I'd hate you forever if I wasn't DW Frost.

Also, seems like the first part of the quest is relatively easy, if you have the gold to get the saronite. Then you have to kill 1000 mobs, kill Putri, BQL and Sindy (25-man, right?) while under some kind of special effect, then gather 50 of those shards that I assume drop off of bosses? Damn.

Edited, Jul 23rd 2010 4:17am by Mazra

1.) Get 25 primordial saronite (which I got when they were 1500-2000g per), get quest items off 25 man festergut and rotface, and get a mace from the frostmourne cave in dragonblight (which was a cool event).

2.) Kill 1000 mobs in Icecrown while wielding the Shadow's Edge (can be done in 10 or 25)

3.) While inside the abomb on the putricide part, empower your shadow's edge using 60 energy. This means you need to miss slowing an add, which can be difficult if your dps isn't good. I actually did this while being one of the 3 off-tanks, I just used shadow's edge during the abomb and switched to my tanking weapon once we hit phase 3. Once empowering your axe, you have to kill the boss within 6 minutes, which means you need to use it fairly late in the fight.

4.) During the blood queen fight, get the blood mirror (you take the damage the main tank takes) for a brief second, then bite 3 people during the fight. You basically get a dot on you that means you need extra heals, which is increased every time you bite someone. In addition, you do 10% less damage per bite, meaning you're doing 30% less damage at the end of the fight. Since you have to bite 3 people, you have to either get the first bite, or the first bite has to bite you right off the bat.

5.) During the Sindragosa fight, get hit with her dragon's breath 4 times then kill the boss within 6 minutes of getting the 4th breath. This isn't too difficult, other than the fact you want to use a few pieces of frost resist gear and your dps needs to pick up the slack.

6.) Once you've completed these quests, you need to get 50 shards that drop randomly off the bosses. I don't know the exact numbers but it's something like 25% drop off a normal mode and something higher off hardmodes. I got really lucky with this and got as many as 9 in one week.

Wow. I didn't really realize that Dilbrt, but then our guild's main ret paladin is also seriously close to obtaining it. All she needs is the shards, which means we just have to farm IcC with her in the raid.

I do have to agree with Mazra. Even in my guild, which is 'semi-hardcore' in the raiding department (don't look at me, wowprogress.com came up with that one), we do tend to find ourselves able to do the quests and content needed, but being stuck in the farm department. Our guild's main paladin healer was going for Val'anyr. He's got everything collected and done, and we've downed the neccessary bosses for it, but he's on like 12 out of 50 shards. Our current guild's ret paladin is now on 17 shards, meaning we might not see the last 33 before the beta ends either.

Edit: Basically this all boils down to the vanilla-old discussion of where end-game PvE should be. Back then, the discussion was more relevant as the only real end-game PvE that existed were huge 40-man raids. If your PC wasn't good enough for those or something, you were simply ******* With the release of TBC and WOTLK, you can do 10-mans instead of 5-mans, which isn't as large a jump while you're still 'progressing'. Regardless, I wouldn't mind some cool end-game PvE content that was 5-man or even solo-based. Stuff like the Benediction questline used to be pretty awesome in vanilla, and back then I was really glad when they came out with T0.5.

Edited, Jul 23rd 2010 9:34pm by Mozared

Mwa, not really. The amount of rare mounts and stuff (and especially the amount of players you saw wearing full T0.5 in Vanilla) you actually see is a testimony to this. It wouldn't be IMPOSSIBLE to make a 1 or 5-player legendary while still making it hard to get. 45-minute baron runs weren't exactly easy, to be fair.

Yeah, I don't see why something that doesn't require a set raid schedule, but will take even a dedicated player 2 months to get (and I mean working on it in different quest stages, not like grinding a rep to exalted), would make it a "casual" legendary.

Make it require all manner of craftable items, quests, reps, etc, etc, etc, and you have a legendary that no one could lol at.

I try to forget H MgT and H SH as much as possible.

After I got mine I put three spirit stones in it, enchanted it with spellpower and tanked some heros with it.

so much fun listening to the few , who didn't get it^^

Shattered Halls heroic is not meant for fresh 80s. Even the normal version can be rather unforgiving given the way aggro works in there.

All 3 roles need to be very competent at their jobs. Which can be rather painful when your tank is in a fresh set of tanking gear...

I see that my reply was somewhat ambiguous, but what I was replying to was Norellicus' mention of Pit of Saron being a PITA back in the days.

Shattered Halls heroic is quite easy with a group of 80's.

Luckily it will not let you do heroic HoR until you have a certain level of gear, unless people with high gear que up to carry them. If they're carrying the fresh 80, there's no complaining about carrying him.