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Netherwind robes off of Nefarian. It was our very first kill after weeks and weeks of wiping on him, and due to the way our DKP worked and my work life causing me to miss raids, it was going to be the last chance I had to win it using my saved up DKP for a while, before the other mages would overtake me.
The Gavel of Naaru Blessings had to be my most Epic, with how little I got to play during that time and how many badges it cost, I finally got mine and was just as happy as I could be.
Not an epic loot as such, a blue, but an epic to me the Mask of Penance.I had leveled as a ret-adin and then gone tank-adin to help out my guild with progression through instances but I had always wanted to go Heal-adin from day 1. Eventually as the guild built up it got to the point I could drop prot-spec and become the healer I was meant to be, and so the farming of some half decent 70 blues began. To my absolute joy I found that the Paladin Judgement Armor set had been replicated (at least in looks) as healing items in TBC. The greatest prize in my eyes being the helm, the Mask of Penance. At every opportunity I was in The Streamvault Heroic and Normal beating down Steamrigger but with a relentless stream of bad luck getting every other drop but the Mask. Eventually I had all but given up with my Paladin and agreed to help a guild Shaman healer get his 70 blue gear, on my Mage, part of which is from the Warlord at the end of The Steamvaults. As usual I was designated D/E on the run and made the joke over Vent as we downed Steamrigger to open the way to the Warlord "now we watch as I disenchant the helm my pally needs". The loot window pops up and curse the wow-gods there was Mask of Penance! The Warrior tank had no need of it so it went to me and I had to D/E the thing.At that point I gave up on the Mask and went off doing other instances for the rest of the set (fortunately with more luck). My guildies, knowing the mask was the bit I really wanted jumped me with a Group invite and Summon one evening when I logged on. A comment was made to the effect that we were going to kill Steamrigger until either he dropped the Mask or we couldn't get into the instance anymore.We blitzed through to Steamrigger in no time at all and pasted him all over his room. Everyone stood back and waited for me to loot. I waited a couple of moments, mentally pushing all optimism from my mind. Loot... Click... OMG!... Mask of Penance!It's not an epic, strictly speaking, but to me, its the most epic loot I have ever received and not even the feeling of getting Mask of Introspection from ZA (a 'real' epic) a good while later gave me the same Epic feeling as getting Mask of Penance.
Oh, soooooo many many levels ago... in an instance I can barely remember, dropped a prudy purple epic shield, for me.. and me only...And then I proceeded to display my level of nub-ness to my party members...OMG! What is this! OMG! Do I equip- NO! No.. wait... omg... $$$$$$$$$$$!Yeah, I was broke. I sold that thing so fast I don't even remember how much for... but you know, I was the happiest little shaman around for miles!
Easily the Kael'thas Phoenix mount. Nothing comes to being anywhere close to as epic.
Was questing last week on my Pally in Storm Peaks, at the time he was lvl 77. I'm in the end of a cave when I read in General Chat./1 LFM to Help Kill Rare Spawn(Get an achievement!)I join up. Eventually make my way out of the cave and group up with the rest.(3 others)We down him, he's only got 18K health. Easily solo'able by the original group leader.3 Items drop.One of them being:Reigns of the Time-Lost Proto DrakeI win the roll for everything.I felt bad for the group leader who could have done it by himself not knowing the mob was just a rare, not rare elite.So I give him the 2 other items and of course keep the mount to use at lvl 80. Which I subsequently power leveled myself to 80 in a day just so I can use it.Now I get tons of whispers on where, how, when I got it. Even have people wanting me to help them get it. It's my all time favorite loot in game. I get cheers from Hordes(I'm Alliance on PvP Server) when waiting at summoning stones for instances.