Top 10 Epic Weapons with Unconventional Special Effects in Classic WoW

[@eiknaurjensen7927]

Runeblade of Baron Rivendare is definitely a nod to unholy aura, a death knight ability in warcraft 3, which gives health regen and movement speed to all allies near the death knight.

[@Akiraspin]

I remember getting Baron Rivendares sword as a kid and just going around eastern plaguelands as my paladin and just pretending I was Baron Rivendare before he became undead. Good times.

[@kilan4978]

This is cute I like this

[@daveg1318]

Wholesome.

[@joshstraub6972]

That is sweet

[@cellistrae994]

I really like the fact that you added text so people can see your video in a place they are supposed to be quiet. Thanks a lot!

[@Kairos_Akuma]

@@Daniel20307 Also useful for deaf peeps

[@iibadsportii690]

Its not for that lmao

[@juggernauth8196]

I kind of expected to see the ZG fist weapons that turn you into a giant tiger... :'(

[@JoceBeggar]

I still got them from Vanilla in current Retail with my shaman and use those in Timewalking. You and everyone on your party can use Ai Li Skymirror and turn into a weretiger for 10 minutes! ;)

[@Sylusssss]

Or the halberd of smiting One of the few physical damage "Equip:" procs with high damage. Weapons with "Equip:" procs can proc off any melee attack such as hamstring or wingclip.

[@eduardkaseberg1378]

THEY DO WHAT?!!?!?! I fuckin' need 'em

[@josejuanandrade4439]

Same Morgan. I even made a lengthy post in the 1st video with uncoventional weapons he missed. In that comment i mentioned the baron's 2h sword, and now he added it, but the fact he ommited the 2nd most unique proc weapons from vanilla, or should i say 1st... because imo, the only other weapon that is more unique then the first weapons from ZG is the Corrupted Ashrbringer, with the unique special effect to make u friendly with the scarlet crussade... makes me sad. I wonder if he just dosent care or forgot or is planning another video with peculiar weapons.

[@tedstudt8550]

@@josejuanandrade4439 likely another video if this and the last one do well

[@Marvel32x2]

Great video as always. Another interesting interaction with Hand of Edward the Odd was that it could be used to instant-cap flags in Arathi Basin. As Blizzard was often slow to fix bugs in vanilla, this existed for quite a while and abused heavily.

[@SwatcarbonGaming]

How can you not have Ironfoe in the list... The proc makes you speak dwarvish for 10 secs. Can be cooler than that.

[@dansilberstein326]

1:27 “the staff got its buff rate dropped”

[@asaptracey7780]

Plenty of typos etc with this dude, just gotta get used to it lol

[@Crazdor]

@@asaptracey7780 Speakos*

[@Crazdor]

@OnePunchBrand Well, that would be better than having the rate drop buffed!

[@Destirian]

Hiruma doesn’t speak english. He has his own language

[@VapidSlug]

Nightfall was actually best as a hunter weap. Wing clip was cheap, spammable, and counted as a swing. So a single hunter with Nightfall could just spam wing clip and keep the debuff up near full time.

[@dkaarvand9913]

The same could be said about Hamstring for the warrior class. Shaman is the right fit for it. Whoever thinks having a hunter spam wing clip is a moron

[@Scudzzorz15]

And not shoot their weapon ever?

[@VapidSlug]

@Scudzzorz15 correct, if the debuff fell off even for a second the raid lost way more damage than the huntard could otherwise do

[@Jimmydeans]

I had Blackblade of Shahram on my tauren warrior in Vanilla. I didn't raid so it was so amazing to get an epic weapon. I loved it in pvp. I'll always remember when the AOE stun went off while fighting on the alliance bridge in AV stunning 20+ people. Good times.

[@Tap-a-roo]

I had Dark Edge of Insanity as the Main Tank on Thunderlord. I basically one shot a really famous Shadow Priest with it outside of Iron Forge because of the proc. It was ridiculous.

[@ishnuallahguy5740]

I felt so cool when I had the blade of eternal darkness back in the day.. I never had a decent OH so I used some awful +fire resistance orb.. why? Because the dagger was epic was my only excuse

[@edakra369]

So happy to see Dragon's Call on this list. I spent many long nights farming so I could dual-wield it on my rogue.

[@hillnor6812]

Blade of eternal darkness is a really good weapon for mage aoe farm in Classic.

[@Tingle457]

I remember Blade of Eternal Darkness dropping on my mage only for a rogue to successfully roll on it. I was upset.

[@_dtotheg]

This dropped and a rogue won it too

[@davidcardinal3654]

Silly how rogues don’t even care for it either :/

[@BetterKnownAsMalice]

I had the blackblade on my fury warrior, absolutely insane for farming mobs. The haste was ridiculous. Also, you could spawn the spirit and swap to another weapon whilst the spirit remained up.

[@jameshill2450]

I still have it on my fury warrior. It dropped while I was dual-wield spec, but I was still the only DPS in the group that could use it, and I had to convince them that I'm going to respec specifically to use this so that they wouldn't give it to a hunter or tank or something.

[@Razagul319]

One if the best feelings in life. Is logging back into your first character. Opening the bank and seen all this weapons still there tucked away safe and secure. I love my OG hunter

[@MellonVegan]

The Hand of Edward for heals? More likely to be used for an instant chain lightning.

[@pile-o-nonsense3688]

Or you go Troll, get low on health, berserk, proc and heal back up with the full berserk buff.

[@exmaarmaca]

I just imagine everytime the #1 weapon of the list procs the user puts as a macro saying "Awaken my masters" and the theme of the pillar men begins to sound...

[@andrascottier595]

AYAYAYAAAAA

[@Silly_Illidan]

Wamoooooo u awakened us too soon

[@rpgforfuneduardohethanhunt3742]

I have the Blackblade on my warrior and I've never seen such a powerfull weapon like that. The status buff can stack 5x and all the procs are dam often.

[@BuonoTorta]

6:27 I see those Highmountain horns on that classic tauren model

[@RazanaArcclaw]

_> you see nothing!

[@Nicolairoed]

Blade of eternal darkness was the first epic drop I saw in wow. So hyped to see a purple but got ourolled by a rogue, on my warlock.

[@EnvoyOfFabulousness]

I feel your pain. Staff of Jordan dropped on my mage in Scarlet Monastery back in actual vanilla and I lost the roll to our warrior tank.

[@greenchilistudioz4537]

That is fucked up, is not even rogue weapon!

[@darkzero226]

I think you got your words mixed up at 1:26. You said "the staff got it's buff rate dropped" when talking about the staff's drop rate getting buffed. :p

[@RazanaArcclaw]

Yes, both me and Hiru are dum dums. I spell stuff wrong, he says stuff wrong.

[@darkzero226]

@@RazanaArcclaw it happens 😔

[@rikibevens]

The drop got the buff rate staffed

[@dreaminginhell4047]

@@rikibevens rate buff*

[@TheToadmyster]

I have dragons call, and it is tragically underwhelming at end game. Still really awesome and fun though

[@lankyeric]

you forgot to add those ZG weapons that turn you into a tiger humanoid

[@kyleromus6845]

Loved my earthshaker on my Shaman. Nice when used on the panther boss in ZG.

[@kyleromus6845]

Loved the earthshaker on my orc enhance shaman. nice for pvp, and using it on the adds from the panther boss in ZG was also fun

[@vaels5682]

Had dark edge on a lvl 60 twink warrior in wotlk and it was insane

[@curtisfugitt3970]

Aw man you forgot the coolest part about Hand of Edward the odd! It’s proc could be used to instantly cap flag/objective points in BGs. At least until it was patched out around the release of ZH.

[@dreaminginhell4047]

ZH?

[@Extrasy]

@@dreaminginhell4047 Zul'Hurub

[@dreaminginhell4047]

@@Extrasy oh okay

[@alexandrumarin8981]

You re posting a lot of vids lately. Love the extra content!

[@Alex-hy7nx]

Nu m-aș fi gândit vreodata că o să te gasesc aici.

[@alexandrumarin8981]

@@Alex-hy7nx I'm just gonna pretend like I don't know you

[@GMSolardeath]

The Blade of Eternal Darkness used to proc off of mind vision, so priests used to use it to pull stuff through walls (specifically in BWL)

[@kyleellis9177]

earthshaker should been a tauren leg on a club

[@gg05irgm]

on a club? as the club!

[@johnathenrosamond9997]

I just refer to it as a tauren on a stick.

[@georgegladding8257]

During wrath I used Earthshaker in ulduar on the assembly of iron. The knock down effect worked on Stormcaller Brundir and it seemed to proc often. Because Stormcaller is a caster. Give this to a DK and you can control him. Didnt need this for him. Its was mostly convenient during the learning process.

[@Negiku]

Although not from vanilla, I think Shadowmourne is the coolest weapon to ever exist in WoW. The special effect was just amazing.

[@josejuanandrade4439]

Shadowmourne is cool... but does Shadowmourne talks to you? no.. so point for my favorite weapon: Corrupted Ashbringer!

[@rdsasuke1]

@@josejuanandrade4439 Clearly you've never heard of Knaifu.

[@josejuanandrade4439]

Back View, nothing beats Ashbringer creepy whispers. Knaifu also mostly speaks in specific places, which means is most of an exposition tool, which makes me sad :( Also, there has been other weapons that whispers to you, like Tarecgosa, or the 2h axe from garrosh in SoO (tho i think that one got disabled or something) and Alunet, the arcane mage artifact weapon... But CA is the very first one, and the one with the coolest backstory imo. I mean, the others have cool backstory and lore too, just the way Ashbringer got corrupted in the first place is just so good!

[@WhySooSeriouslol]

jose juan andrade if I remember correctly, the dark edge of insanity also “whispered” to you

[@datsweetsansabooty]

I know I'm late to the party here and it's probably been mentioned already but hand of edward the odd was useful for capping flags in av.

[@rithyheng3556]

I didn't play WoW Vanilla so I didn't know about these great weapons and playstyles in classic WoW. They are so awesome ❤️😍👍👍👍 Thanks for sharing the info.

[@UntiltedName]

Back in the day my guild used 2-3 Nightfall Ret Pallies to beat that mushroom boss in Nax. Mages were doing rolling ignites and whatnot, the net damage with these axes was pretty big. By the time the majority of us maxed out tier 3 we didn't need it anymore.

[@onetwowipe]

Runeblade of Baron Rivendare saw some use during legion m+ in Speed sets

[@Nick-4K]

I remember back in the day. Leading up to Wrath. Everyone speculated whether or not Frostmourne was going to be added. It never did ofcourse. But I remember that being a pretty big thing.

[@TheTheschuhschuh]

Now we have the fallen prince's blades forged from frostmourne's splinters. Kinda cool too.

[@floreaciprian9742]

Dude great video, but you forgot about probably the best weapon proc in the game. The ZG fist weapons

[@rydahl8370]

You should have meantioned the two fist weapons from ZG easily the most awesome proc effekt in classic

[@RazanaArcclaw]

We do have more weapon videos planned on weapons with special effects, we already had 1 before this, and think we might make a trilogy.

[@norricommander]

In all my years of playing WoW, I’ve seen Rivendare’s mount drop once, I didn’t know it was a mount and had never heard of it so I instinctively hit pass...

[@thedootlord]

I actually remember getting rivindales sword Too bad in the wrong version

[@joyl7842]

9:00 Stratholme and Scholomance were raids in vanilla, upto a certain patch.

[@gummyhero6]

I thought vendorstrike would be on here I love making it switch between the different colors

[@miviaflower]

The value of blade of eternal darkness lies in its insane Mana Regen when aoe farming. It's the ultimate weapon for mages aoe farming. You will know after ZG comes out as this is the go-to weapon for alligator farming

[@_faultee_]

Nice list of Hunter weapons

[@wisniamw]

Blade of eternal Darkness THIS THIS ITEM IS SOOO FUN so what you want to do, is you make priest, farm this item and pick up lvl 2 mind vision after that you can snipe people down across continent this is possible and its incredible :D

[@lusimmons4982]

Never knew some of these existed. Ty!

[@BiancaRoughFin]

The EarthShaker hammer i used 2 with my Fury Warrior during Tol-Barad during the Cataclysm expansion and it was often when enemies would cluster that i would jump in the middle and start spamming Whirlwind , doing multiple procs in succession which often caused enemies to be incapacitated for a few seconds as they would become imune to the effect after a few procs so i would jump to another group.

[@Lius525]

Dragon's call was my first epic :)

[@SCF0]

You should have mentioned (but probably didn't know), that the proc from Nightfall was so useful due to its percent-based damage increase for casters, that people used it against Brutallus in the Sunwell raid one expansion later which led to Blizzard nerfing the proc to have a chance to fail for targets above level 60.

[@jameshill2450]

The same sort of thing happened with the mage trinket Mind Quickening Gem. Granting a huge amount of haste for a short amount of time seemed like it would naturally balance itself out over the course of a whole boss fight. But then they made Curator in Karazhan, and mages who kept this "obsolete" vanilla trinket could just absolutely *DESTROY* his vulnerable phase.

[@kyleellis9177]

I got rivendare's charger in BC on my druid. the other 4 friends i was running the dungeon had a power outage on their side of town. i got all of rivendares loot since they all DCed at 2% the dots and i were able to finish and i was only one able to loot.

[@Silly_Illidan]

Boy they must have been livid

[@kyleellis9177]

@@Silly_Illidan mostly they were cool with it, i offered to run each of them as many times as they wanted for sethekk mount and forfeited any need rolls until they all had a "cool" mount.

[@Polskagola123]

14:21 Dear lord Hiru - It's flameWAKER

[@sphong0610]

Feral/Guardian druids(or just feral back then) getting the short end of the stick because only equip effects are useful and on hit weapons are useless. SAD!

[@selalewow]

At least off hand procs work for us.

[@Ellthom]

Hand of Edward the Odd was news to me... Gonna try and get that now just for some silliness :P

[@bustercellillidari5325]

The hint for the last 3 is a summining weapon means a chancd for a npc to fight with you for a short time

[@shivur5073]

I had a hunter in my guild that was way too excited to get nightfall and spam rank 1 wing clip. We loved him

[@Killebaek]

I was also thinking of the ZG fist weapons, Thekal's Grasp and Arlokk's Grasp that turn you into a bengal tiger for 12 secounds. But I don't remeber if there were any other items that could transform you like they do. Nice video btw.

[@FFgamesftw]

One important detail you forgot about BoED is that it can proc off each target hit. Meaning if you are fighting a large enough pack of enemies you’ll get multiple procs per cast. As far as I know it didn’t work on channeled or ground affects so it was only for Arcane Explosion & Holy Nova but it makes it quite nice.

[@BanksySCII]

Earthshaker is pretty meme for trash that charges in aq40 along with the slept on ravenger

[@Mogura85]

nightfall was one of the most requestet weapons i forged back in vanilla, i am surprised that you didnt add one of the most insane weapons from back in vanilla. the rogue dagger "felstriker" wich had zero stats but had an on hit chance to guarantee every attack to hit and crit for 3 seconds. the proc chance was about 5-7%. while farming ubrs together with my pals for gold and gear i saw my pal get it TWICE. his rogue was one of a small handfull on european servers to dual weild these beasts. in the meantime for me dropped the dragons carapace 3 times to craft my epic chestplate

[@quinnmattes8622]

It's kinda neat that all the weapons are hunter weapons

[@bcezar2704]

no

[@RazanaArcclaw]

Hunters cant use mace! so two of them are not.

[@quinnmattes8622]

@@RazanaArcclaw not with that attitude

[@boxxertrgaming1327]

Ill never forget when I got Rivendares deathcharger. Nit only did I get the mount but the sword dropped to. I remember rinning Strat so many times for days that I got exalted with the rep and got the Title for having both reps.

[@cespie]

Fun fact: The runeblade had a Classic-only bug (not vanilla) which caused the hp regen to scale with +healing power. This made warriors literally able to heal themselves for an absolutely insane amount constantly. It was hotfixed quite quickly though.

[@RazanaArcclaw]

Yeah I saw some blue posts about that. Fixed already ain't it?

[@Elaborance]

Man am I glad you've gotten a new mic lol

[@MrJesus1776]

I still have all but 1 of those on my 60 twinks thank god i never lvled them.

[@Dabuddah]

Oh hey I remember Felplagued lmao Nadeen says hi! :D

[@getsomebud]

Nice editing, brother

[@eddiegreencheez]

Sword of a thousand truths. Lol best ever

[@Jiiimmie]

Dragons call got ninjad from me 4 times during my lvling time in bc.. But i got it in cata and im super happy about it :D

[@lukasnorie]

blackblade of shahram was the first epic item I ever got back in Vanilla, back when it was 0.01% drop chance still, used it up until I got untamed blade on my first razorgore kill :)

[@razien9941]

I thought felstriker would be on the list. That dagger was really good with making your next 5 attacks 100% crits

[@Lordturisas1]

100% hit too.

[@lfgubrs]

Scrolling forward to wotlk classic and felstriker is still ridiculousy op atleast for aoe cleaving. Saw one rogue doing like over 60k dmg.

[@jameshill2450]

Scholomance was also an extremely heavily farmed dungeon (kind of specifically because it was long so it dropped a bunch of stuff), so Headmaster's Charge was probably more common than almost any other item with the same drop rate.

[@FunkyAgnostic98]

yeah! during the 1.5-2 years of classic i think i saw atleast 8 of them drop. And i won about 3 of them, 1 on my warrior , greed roll. 1 on my lvl 59 mage twink , and one on my warlock during the beginning of classic when gear was scarce.

[@anannoyedpanda]

I remember when I started playing January of this year. Killed cthun for fun. Got edge of insanity to drop first kill.

[@james1787]

I had the headmasters charge during vanilla.. the +20 Intellect was a nice buff. I still have it in my bank somewhere..

[@arcanemage3947]

Blade of eternal darkness, one of the best weapons for Arcane missiles spam as far as anyone knows it's not spell cast but spell damage but that does exclude Dot's

[@Silly_Illidan]

I remember dragons call....almost Everytime I summoned those welps it was wen I was about to kill the last mob.....then they would dissapear before I could catch up to the next mob

[@Lighthammer18]

I've seen the blade a few times through the years but I've never actually seen the proc until yesterday where an orc warrior used it on me and summoned a dragon. Pretty cool effect and a nice weapon!

[@Silly_Illidan]

@@Lighthammer18 someone already got the epic weapon in new classic? -_- I'm still at lvl 10

[@Lighthammer18]

@@Silly_Illidan oh yeah of course. We already have 5 bindings in our guild, just waiting for BWL to hit so we can finish our thunderfuries.

[@Sauyamura]

Great Vid! And the Blackblade of Shahram on Retail is call "Bleakblade of Shahram", a shit change if u ask me!

[@Wargodx1337]

You give Nightfall to Melee Hunters btw, highest uptime of the debuff with rank1 wingclip spam iirc

[@brianthompson8793]

I mean nightfall isn’t “well worth it” was theorycrafted to be good but the proc rate sucked so it was never really worth it to bring an enh sham

[@DoktahDoktah]

I have the Blackblade on my Paladin. I only recall him ever casting the AoE damage spell.

[@jasoncox8685]

I used Hand of Edward on my shaman for a very long time. The instant cast worked on basically anything - spells, hearthstone, resource collection, capturing a flag in battlegrounds, etc.

[@Drojah]

I received Blade Of Eternal Darkness once. It was my first epic I ever received, actually. I was on my rogue...

[@iRestoreCA]

nightfall is best on warriors because of the instant swing attacks like hamstring to apply the proc.

[@hdckighfkvhvgmk]

Technically that makes hunters viable to use it too by spamming wing clip

[@iRestoreCA]

@@hdckighfkvhvgmk Yea but good luck finding a hunter to sit there and spam wingclip only every fight

[@hdckighfkvhvgmk]

@@iRestoreCA I dont have to :D

[@memesupreme5502]

Hunters have highest uptime spamming r1 wingclip but warriors still bring a lot more considering an offtank can just use it when they don't need to tank both are still 1000times better than enh 😂

[@Lighthammer18]

@@memesupreme5502 I'd rather just have the offtank equip normal weapons instead and do more dps since he's fury specced anyways. Bosses hit like wet noodles in Classic so you don't really need to be tanky.

[@cormacbevins9679]

Surprised Felstriker never made the list. Chance on hit to guarantee crits for 3 seconds.

[@Justin666i]

I had just about every 2-H dungeon epic drop even that sword off the UBRS boss, which a Hunter in my group called, but the T2.5 tank we had wouldn't give it to him and I got it...but never used it except to mess around

[@greenchilistudioz4537]

Blade of Darkness is basically wow classic version of Xal'atath for shadow priest

[@jacobkeller1000]

You mean legion snagged the idea and made a legiondary out of it

[@greenchilistudioz4537]

@@jacobkeller1000 Sort of, least we got sexy knife voice from Xal'atath

[@white4423]

In all the years I've played wow, I've seen the Dragons Call drop once in tbc, and the group was me (prot pally), fury warrior, rogue, and a hunter. Guess who needed it and hearthed out?

[@akaroth7542]

Classic hunters back then were a mood. I swear the most selfish peeps rolled hunter.

[@daethsta]

To bad the Dragon Call whelps AI is broken. They either do nothing, sometimes cast, or melee attack randomly.

[@chriscole2550]

There are things you dont know that we are now learning. Like if you put the rune blade on, it takes a snapshot of your spell power and adds it to the healing over time. So you equip as much spell gear as you can, then equip the sword, then switch back to regular gear and have a shit ton of regeneration. Also the dagger from princess thersdras procs its effect from shadow word pain dots not just the initial cast. Also procs on blizzard. Also you can equip 2 dragon swords as the item is not unique and can proc 6 dragons.

[@hdckighfkvhvgmk]

I believe he mentioned the ability to equip 2 dragon's call in a different video.

[@ahmedhayki6646]

Hell yeah more top tens!!

[@Luccen69]

this was a very nice video, pogchamp

[@jorenthar9186]

Oh good ol' Unholy Aura from Warcraft 3 for Rivendare's sword.

[@greenchilistudioz4537]

Deathknight used to have that enchant through runic feature, sadly gone

[@FunkyAgnostic98]

If you have the minor speed enchant on your boots (8% movement speed) while also having the runeblade equiped do you run 16% faster? (in classic) not retail..

[@guitfg4280]

Hey could you share the profile of your Elvui at 10:34?

[@keungzhe]

HOTW could also be used to instantly cap AV graveyard flags for a while too before it got patched out

[@stunsisacul]

Gear was much more fun back then. I just want to see more variety in gearing come back. Drop gear that has just one massive stat. Or gear with 5 smaller stats.

[@loknaz97]

Did the buff from headmasters charge stay if you swapped it after applying it?

[@4erographer]

16:02 FALSE! I am subscribed!!! Felplague how could u do me like this 😢

[@RanaRandom]

*Horseman's Sinister Slicer* - a one handed sword, *use/chance on hit/equip* ?!?, calls forth a group of pumpkin army minions to fight by your side for 10-15 seconds.