This post was from a user who has deleted their account.
In BC I had the greatest loot ever. First time in kara, 2 peices of t4, a belt, and gloves. 2nd time, 3 other peices of tank gear, pants, helm, and a sheild. First time in ZA, i got my Pauldrons of Stone Resolve and Jungle Stompers, second time i got and Amani Punisher, and Bulwark of the Amani Empire along with Enchant Weapon- Executioner off the SAME BOSS. After that my luck slid. All I recieved after countless TK and SSC runs was a Frayed Tether of the Drowned, and BT had no love for me. This has continued in WOTLK with my 18 runs of Halls of Lightning to get a Seal of the Pantheon, and no drops in heroics yet. Oh, and the two times ive downed 25man Archavon hes dropped 4 peices of PVP gear. I really need some phat lewts.
i got a 2 handed fish weapon somewhere, maybe not as epic some would say, but sure was the most fun. splat
So about a month before WotLK hit the stores some guildies and I went to Heroic Magister's Terrace (you know, for the 8 millionth time). I had recently geared my warrior up and was looking to replace my awful green tanking trinket of lameness. Many, many H-MgT runs had gone by without seeing a single Commendation of Kael'thas.At this point I was a T4/ZA geared tank and my guildmates were looking to gear up some of their alts, so we started the always painful task that is clearing Magister's Terrace on heroic mode. WELL, as I'm sure many of you can guess, we ran into a bit of trouble at the arena-esque fight.I don't recall the exact combination of mobs, but I do remember the MS warrior was there, along with the hunter. We engage the lot and one by one the mobs drop.....as do my guildmates! At the end I was the last man standing...with the Hunter mob nearly dead and the MS warrior still at full HP. Enter epicness:I drop a fear bomb on the warrior and charge the hunter. Shield slam, Devastate, Revenge, Heroic strike, everything I can throw at him and he drops. I have just enough time to bandage when he MS warrior charges me. His mortal strike is dodge, but he fears me. Luckily my Every Man for Himself is up and I pop it, turn around and charge him back. I stack a full 5/5 Devastate and start pounding on him. Shield Block, Shield Slam, revenge, heroic strike, thunderclap, demo shout, shockwave, conc. blow. My HP slowly begins to drop and it's dropping faster than his. I pop almost everything I have...healthstone, healing potion, trinkets, Shield WALL! And I begin hammering away at him once more. Yet once more my health is dropping faster than his, but wait!, my fear is back! Pop fear and bandage. By now we are both down to the last few drops of HP we have left. I pop Last Stand and throw everything I have, even the Brewmaiden came to help! Finally, just as Last Stand wears off, I crit him with a 2.2k revenge to the face and we both drop.My guildmates go nuts! "Wooooooo! That was freakin' awesome! You rock man!"We all run back and look what dropped: Commendation of Kael'thas! Talk about earning it!
In the days long before the Warglaives of Azzinoth existed, before Thori'dal could be given to rogues, there was one legendary weapon that all rogues coveted. Known to some as, "teh best tnaking sword evar," the rest of us called it, "Thunderfury, Blessed Blade of the Windseeker."My guild was slow. By then, most of the progressed guilds on our server had cleared Blackwing Lair, and were poking their heads into Ahn'Qiraj. But not us. We were still chugging through Molten Core at a snail's pace of one or two bosses a night, and if it was new content, (see: Golemagg), sometimes it was almost a whole week before we'd get to the next encounter. I had resigned myself to this fact, and came to terms with it only because I knew every week was another chance at seeing those bindings drop. I tried to not let the stories of people getting one binding and never seeing the other get to me, but somewhere between pulling lava packs for the umpteenth time and watching the Arcanist Crown drop yet again, I grew disheartened.The night started out as usual. Someone didn't loot a corehound, someone else yelled at them for not being able to skin it, healers forgot where their Decursive buttons were, and the hunters afk'd during every encounter. By then I was playing on auto pilot, and so when we reached Garr I barely noticed that he was bigger than the rest of the earth elementals I'd been attacking. The fight went off without a hitch, but when the master looter went to retrieve the items off of him, a stunned silence fell over vent and permeated into the game. Most of us had never even seen a legendary in person, let alone had the chance to see one drop. Yet there it was. The loot council hastily retreated into their private channel to discuss exactly what to do with it. Leaving the rest of us, myself included, to agonise over its ultimate fate. It was nearly ten minutes later before they came back into the public channel with their decision. And within a minute, I saw a binding fall into my inventory.I could barely hear the chorus of, "congrats" and, "omfg you almost got TF now!" above the sounds of the extols in my own head. I was drifting; walking on air. It was the closest I had ever been, and might ever be to TF. But it felt so good to even be given the chance at one day forging it. We fought Shazzrah shortly after, but the details of the fight seemed to blur, and it's a wonder I didn't die in a glorious blaze to his Arcane Explosion. Next up was Baron Geddon. No one had the heart to remind me what he dropped. Maybe no one wanted to jinx it. Whatever the case might have been, everyone in the raid was well aware of the infinitesimally small chances of seeing not one, but two of the extremely rare bindings in one night. I was hoping without really meaning to. I knew what the odds were, and I knew I should have been satisfied with the one binding I'd won. But I couldn't help myself.He died with minimal friendly fire thanks to people paying attention to who had "the bomb". I could have instantly died on that encounter, and I don't think I would have minded. Once again, the master looter went to pick up the items from his smouldering corpse. "...you guys aren't going to believe this."The silence that had accompanied the first binding was replaced with an explosion of voices on vent. People were whispering me, yelling things at me and congratulating me in Molten Core general chat. But I didn't notice any of it. All I could do was stare at the two legendary bindings sitting in my bags. I was afraid to even move them closer together in my inventory. For all I knew, that would be the moment I'd get a bag error and lose them.It would be a long, difficult grind to complete Thunderfury for my rogue, but that night remains the most exciting I've ever had while raiding.
I've had more epics than I can count but honestly the best I've ever felt after getting one was Ashkandi, Greatsword of the Brotherhood. Back in the day when BWL was the hardest instance around it felt pretty badass to get that sword.
I think, the most epic loot I had ever had wasn't actually an item... The day I got my best friend playing on the game was the coolest day in my WoW history. Now he is actually running around with a lot better gear then I have =P Anyway it still owns to have your irl best friend playing too.
Just recently I was running an heroic culling of stratholme, and our group realised halfway through we were actually making good time. At one point the healer died and while no one else could rez we would've had to wait, I decided to test my gnomish army knife and it actually worked! We were able to finish and with 1 minute remaining we made it to the boss and killed him, if my jumper cables had failed we wouldn't have made it. The drake drops and two of my friends already had ones from runs earlier that week, so me and two others roll need. To my amazement I recieved the bronze drake with Just recently I was running an heroic culling of stratholme, and our group realised halfway through we were actually making good time. At one point the healer died and while no one else could rez we would've had to wait, I decided to test my gnomish army knife and it actually worked! We were able to finish and with 1 minute remaining we made it to the boss and killed him, if my jumper cables had failed we wouldn't have made it. The drake drops and two of my friends already had ones from runs earlier that week, so me and two others roll need. To my amazement I recieved the bronze drake with a 100 roll, sadly it did not count as the needy achievement but heck, I'll gladly take my drake consolation prize!
My most epic loot? When i was trying to get my Bearings on what to do in BC. Go ret or holy. I decided that in kara depending on what dropped would be my Baron spec. ( Honored spec). Going through kara NOTHING for healing or dps was dropping. It was all cloth. I was getting so mad i was even turning red. But then, off of prince the last boss. He dropped his healing mace and i won it...I ended up being holy the entire expansion.