The Untamed Blade [WoW]

I was going to make this a Throwback Thursday WoW post, as a part of my campaign to update this site more, but I forgot. I finally got around to cleaning up my paladin’s bank and adding the remaining legacy gear into void storage. Items that I regret disenchanting/selling: My tier-2 armor set and The Untamed Blade. I would love to have that sword in my transmog list, but it was either sold or disenechanted along with all of my tier-2 at the beginning of The Burning Crusade for the sake of making bank space (not too keen on wasting time farming it).

So when my guild first started doing Blackwing Lair, we had a fairly long string of bad loot drops off of Razorgore. He would drop warlock loot nearly every single kill and then for literally 2 or 3 weeks straight, he dropped nothing but the Nemesis Bracers. Great for all 3 or 4 warlocks in the raid, but that sucked for everyone else. The excess warlock gear drops started happening when we were doing Vaelastrasz as well as Chromaggus if I recall correctly. All of the warlocks got their shoulder pieces at least 2 times over whereas very few other classes did by virtue of our crap-ass RNG luck. That string of bad drops gave birth to about a year or so of odd loot conspiracies and instance loot seeding rituals.

It was confirmed by Drysc about 6 years ago that loot was generated as soon as the mobs spawn. We had a theory that it was seeded by whoever created the raid ID. So every raid, we would rotate who would “seed” the loot table. Apparently if I recall correctly, a time stamp is or at least was used to seed the loot generator and not the raid leader, the first person who sets foot into the instance, or anything like that. So we were pretty off in that respect.

Anyway, I really really wanted The Untamed Blade so when that actually dropped, I bid a fairly significant portion of my DKP to grab it. I don’t even remember why I wanted it so badly given that I didn’t PvP all that often and Retribution wasn’t a viable raid spec back in vanilla. The funny thing though is that after finally getting the sword and blowing most of my DKP, it continued to drop off of Razorgore every single week for at least a month straight. You know, I distinctly remember thinking that I would most likely regret my actions at some point in the future but alas, I had literally no space left in my bank at the time.

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