Why Rare Mobs In World Of Warcraft Classic Are A Lie (mostly)

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An examinaton of World of Warcraft Classic's rare mob system, mainly of the precious few that actually drop rare blue BoEs - and an attempt at explaining the reason behind it. Join me, as I answer an MMO-related question you (probably) haven't asked!
Please let me know in the comments if you are aware of any that I've missed out on, or if you have any other suggestions/constructive criticism. Thank you so much!
Give some of my other videos a watch if you enjoyed this one:
• The Story Of Classic+
• Old Orgrimmar: Explori...

[@tylerbenjamin328]

I cannot explain how much happiness it gives me to stumble upon a rare mob. Even if the loot is crap I just love it. Great video 💖💖💖

[@DArch706]

Couldn't agree more! Glad you enjoy it :)

[@Tailstraw_xD]

Yeah. That's one thing that's missing from modern wow

[@GreenBee-qz6xn]

That's like everything about World of Warcraft, they had big plans and then had to get realistic. great, informative video btw

[@DArch706]

Thank you very much :)

[@nickrottine7133]

Nice video. I had a look into all the BoE drops across the zones myself before and I also noticed that particularly the human and dwarf/gnome starting zones are filled with both rare and non-rare mobs that drop gear items unique to those mobs whereas this is extremely rare in most of the Kalimdor zones. So yeah it's probably something they did a lot in the early days but later abandoned it for the most part which would also explain the rarity of this in the high level zones.

[@DArch706]

Great observation! Would also be consistent with the fact that they designed Eastern Kingdoms first for the most part.

[@jameshill2450]

Yeah those two zones were the first ones they finished, and they literally just ran out of time to fill in the other parts as much. That's why a lot of horde places especially feel like they're not finished, because they really aren't.

[@Merknilash]

@@jameshill2450sad but true - a lot of the horde (kalimdor) content wasn’t as fleshed out as the alliance stuff was

[@samwise1790]

@@DArch706 another interesting aspect of this EK first design is that sometimes quest text which refers to EK locations will rarely refer to the continent as 'azeroth' and not 'eastern kingdoms'. These quests were designed before the decision was made during wow development to rename the whole world 'azeroth', and the eastern content EK and the western Kalimdor. Interestingly the quest in thinking of actually sends you from kalimdor to EK, so the decision to change the names was made after kalimdor had already been created.

[@billbadson7598]

Way back in Vanilla I had an alt permanently parked in the Hinterlands, and his only job was to farm Mithrethis every single time I could catch a spawn. I ended up getting four Chan’s Imperial Robes. Kept one, gave one to a friend, and sold two more. At the time, it was probably the best looking dress in the game (better than any of the alt colors imo)

[@DArch706]

Yeah I agree, absolutely! Definitely the best looking one out of the alt colors. Nowadays there's obviously better ones, considering how few pixels it has, but it still holds up surprisingly well.

[@supaonyxian]

Rememer the 33 defense proc means when being attacked you are treated as being 6 levels higher for the time its up, that is pretty cool

[@DArch706]

That's pretty neat, true!

[@gandalf8216]

The pissing off the rogue ganker proc.

[@Murlockingqc]

I love how I've seen most of these named mobs :) And I also found few of the items you are listing. What a fun game back then !

[@DArch706]

Glad you enjoyed!

[@domacleod]

That is probably the case, but they could have at least recycled warcraft 3 items to put them as random blue drops with unique names from those bosses. A ring of protection +1-+5 (depending on mob's level), a crown of kings, mantle of intelligence, cloak of shadows, etc. Those were after all also items on the random drop table for "rare" enemies in warcraft 3, the high level head honchos guarding gold mines. Even consumables would have been nice as a drop from rares, a wand of illusion that temporarily creates a mirror image that taunts the target enemy, lightning wand that puts an aoe around you, etc.

[@DArch706]

Would have been cool to see more Wc3 item stuff implemented, especially the high level neutral drops, yeah!

[@k.bularga]

Oh, like Serathil and Killmaim, I wish they added those...

[@DIEGhostfish]

​@@k.bulargaThey did ad Serathil, it was a really mediocre blue.

[@k.bularga]

@@DIEGhostfish and killmaim. That's the joke. /Woosh, I guess.

[@DIEGhostfish]

@@k.bularga Fair enough. I am just cranky about how bad its stats are.

[@ChiragPatel-ym1dr]

You should also check out the rare mobs in Duskwood- I think every single Duskwood rare has at least one unique drop, and there are six or seven of them. One of them even drops an item that you can use from your bags to summon a felhunter that will fight for you.

[@DArch706]

Oh yeah, it's the ghoul in the crypt, right? I will definitely take a look at those mobs! Want to do a video on unique greens also :) But since there are so many, maybe it's a good idea to go zone by zone. Thanks for your comment!

[@marshalstrombald5040]

@@DArch706 not blue, but very useful trinket Tidal Charm from Prince Nazjak in Arathi Highlands

[@jimbobimbo7591]

First video I've seen from you. Great job! Subscribed!❤

[@DArch706]

Thank you so much! :) I appreciate it a lot

[@Wallcraft_Official]

My project just updated all rares to drop a unique world boe blue, and it's the only source of that specific item. Players have been frenzying to hunt rares all week, very ironic this video came out at the same time.

[@DArch706]

Found your project. Will take a look!

[@DArch706]

Also I just watched the video on your latest update to the server and it's genuinely baffling how we are almost making the same points about rares. Very funny coincidence!

[@soundslikeaudio]

Absolutely loved this video! Noticed you didn't include the level of the mobs which would be helpful info tho.

[@DArch706]

Good point, I will try to do that in future rare videos! Thank you, glad you enjoyed the video regardless! :))

[@patrickday5357]

You forgot Digmaster Shovelphlange roams the caves infront of Uldaman. Drops the expert goldmines helm. Probably one of the few level 33 Blues sought out and used by level 60s

[@DArch706]

Yea, my bad! I even farmed that guy on Classic. Dunno how I forgot about him. Will make a follow-up vid with all the ones I missed. Sorry!

[@JeremySteinWolfe98]

I returned to WoW a bit over a year ago (WOTLK classic) and accidentally stumbled upon the first two rare mobs of the list while farming deviate hides in the same cave. The initial bar was set really highly when both dropped blues and that sparked my initial interest in hunting rare mobs! Now, admittedly, I feel like Blizzard did a really fine job (at least for the first few expansions (I never played past MOP)) expanding on the rare mobs, both the loot tables and the model variety! WOTLK rares guarantee a satchel drop that can contain northrend mats and some extra gold, as well as a blue (or in one case, a mount (as well as the achievement “Frostbitten” which isn’t game-changing, but it’s nice to be recognized for my niche of rare hunting)). I loved this video and the structure which you used for describing each mob! It brought me back to seeing trigore on my first (new) character last year and it would definitely be cool to see some more videos branching out to cover rare mobs from different expansions

[@DArch706]

Thank you so so much for the feedback! I think branching out would actually be a great idea, and quite interesting. I'll see what I can do :) Have to probably set up servers for it, but shouldn't be too bad. Also, could you tell me which mount you are referring to? Regarding your experience: thats really what I love about WoW! The game can be what you make it, and the fact that it's even rewarded through achievements is quite nice actually. Thank you for watching!

[@JeremySteinWolfe98]

@@DArch706 Time-Lost Proto-Drake is a rare spawn that drops Reins of the time Lost Proto-Drake. It actually shares spawns with a different rare spawn dragon and flies on 4 different routes through Storm Peaks

[@mayna2083]

hey i just started the video but definitely going to finish, love the idea and your video editing, i would love to see something along the lines of this but with chests in classic wow; it will just be milk bread and potions basically everytime but people go for them like they have 20g

[@DArch706]

Thanks for the kind words! Regarding chests: yea, pretty much haha. Especially true in dungeons, where I feel like people don't really roll for them anymore because usually they're just empty but it's also accepted to have 2 people sprint towards them whenever they see one (only to get disappointed 😁). So it's rly a pretty weird middle ground atm for chests

[@Magoflipante85]

You are so wise and full of ancient knowledge. Thank you for this video.

[@DArch706]

Thank you for watching it! More to come shortly, just trying to get over the halloween hangover atm haha

[@jared4832]

While I knew about some of the unique appearance drops thanks to transmog hunting, I didn't know about the other unique named items, or that they were specific to such a limited number of mobs. If asked out of the blue, I would have guessed that there were way more; perhaps not one unique blue drop for every rare mob, but my guess would have been something close to that.

[@DArch706]

Yeah, same here actually! Until I looked into it a bit more - though I sadly seem to have missed three or four actually, so there are a couple more :)

[@melorate]

Nimar the Slayer (Arathi Highlands) is missing. Rare mobs give additional xp, that's satisfying enough😅

[@DArch706]

True, have to make a pt. 2 about the 3 I've missed!

[@remyllebeau77]

I was always disgusted by how many items had spirit or other weird stats on them. Or no stats and a useless proc.

[@DArch706]

Or strength on cloth :D So much weirdness in Classic WoW, especially on older items

[@jeanlink97]

You forgot the rare mob outside uldaman that has a chance to drop the mining helmet that gives +axe skill, that mob is probably the most well known rare with a unique blue drop

[@DArch706]

Check my recent video 😁

[@yvngpoet]

Thank you for your videos brother! Could you do a video on Old Karazhan in the WoW Alpha?

[@DArch706]

You're welcome! I'll make a video about that pretty soon hopefully, depending on what the results of the poll are gonna be :)

[@roli_cannoli]

Where did you get that alpha video of the hydra that drops the heart? Im a huge wow nerd and ive never seen that video or anything like it

[@DArch706]

I recorded it :) Done on the AlphaProject, a WoW Alpha recreation with mobs in it that is somewhat playable (it's still an alpha haha, expect performance issues). Check out my other videos (Old Scarlet Monastery for example). I have a link to the discord in the description. Am on my phone now so can't share the link here.

[@roli_cannoli]

@DArch706 thanks! This video was cool. Someone else did a similar one back in the classic days. I suggestion I have is do a video on rare mobs with unique loot in general, even if it's not a rare. A lot of the low level rares drop unique common gear even and that tells a cool story. Now days the gear is useless because we min maxed everything but back in the day getting something like that would really stand out.

[@leaveacomment]

I encountered Ironeye an hour before this video was recommended to me

[@DArch706]

Coincidence? I think not! :D

[@General12th]

I love these answer videos!

[@DArch706]

That's great! Really happy to see you're enjoying the content :) Thank you so much

[@theyetidude]

Slark, a murloc in Westfall, drops Slarkskin...

[@DArch706]

That's a green.

[@Lucy-dk5cz]

I like that they drop uncommon. Uncommon should still feel rewarding. In retail if it isn’t purple it feels crap.

[@DArch706]

Totally agree! Even if it's purple it feels kind of crap haha, compared to purples in Classic ;)

[@MrAsmil]

only feels rewarding to people that dont know better, tbh all but one of the weapons on this list are literally worse then just green weapons. terrible terrible items

[@DArch706]

@@MrAsmil The fact they're kinda bad would also be consistent with the fact most of those blue drops were probably designed early on, and items were quite a lot weaker at that stage in the game - a lot of stuff was buffed later on, might've just been left out/poorly adjusted

[@MrAsmil]

@@DArch706 thats very probable yeah, didnt think of that

[@Shiirow]

@@MrAsmil true, people only feel that way because in vanilla you were new and didnt know any better so anything above a basic white felt like a birthday present, then you realize after a few years it really wasnt that special. classic wow is testiment, if we knew what we know today back in vanilla, those greens would have felt like shit.

[@MakeshiftMartyr]

I miss the old days where coming across a rare was exciting and well… Rare. Now it just feels like another half world boss. Another grind. They’re everywhere as well.

[@mariaveenema4337]

Back when I was playing vanilla in 05. I liked exploring. I came across a rare spider. Not sure which zone. But it dropped a unique dagger (uncommon quality) but unique. It was very memorable nonetheless :)

[@DArch706]

maybe this one? :) www.wowhead.com/classic/item=4449/naraxis-fang he also drops a chest! And he's been in the game ever since version 0.5.3, I've found him on there.

[@EllAntares]

Naraxis! That was in Darkshire. Until WotLK I played undead rogue.

[@lorenzowaeles5182]

Tbh rares did have a purpose, certainly in the early levels in vanilla. Green items were fucking hard to find before lvl 20 and these rares that had a 100% chance to drop a green item was a god sent

[@DArch706]

True !:)

[@hoffa57]

That basilisk and the blade can also sometimes be found in the basilisk cave in STV.

[@DArch706]

Wow that's really interesting, I had no idea about that! Thx for the info :)

[@Adam202]

Early into WoW's release these rare mobs were fairly easy to farm if you knew where to find them. I would make my rounds and kill General Fangferror, and Lord Darkscythe practically daily at one time. While they weren't guaranteed to drop their rare items, the drop rate was high enough that you would get their rare unique item roughly every 3 kills. Fangferror was practically always up whenever I would check due to his isolated location. I amassed quite a few Joonhoo's Mercy's and Songblades. My knowledge of these rare spawns as well as farming mobs that dropped certain rare patterns is one of the reasons that I was one of the first on my server to obtain an epic mount. Ahh the good ole days.

[@DArch706]

:D that's awesome! I never found Lord Darkscythe, he was farmed fairly recently. But Fangferror is always worth a visit - especially if you play horde, I imagine. He's basically right outside Orgrimmar

[@pate7816]

nice i like how you added all the alpha 0.53 versions aswell

[@DArch706]

Thanks! Got another Alpha video releasing tomorrow or the day after, so keep an eye out for that :)

[@bloodshot8916]

What about Digmaster Shovelphlange who drops the Expert Goldminer’s helm outside of Uldaman? Are you sure you haven’t missed any?

[@DArch706]

Missed him, Nimar, and the DM rares :) gonna need to make a pt2 apparently hehe

[@Lucy-dk5cz]

What about the rares from dire maul arena outside the instance? That’s where I farmed orb of deception

[@DArch706]

Oh true, Orb of Deception! Should have included those in that list, absolutely. My bad for missing it! Went through the list manually, must have missed some here or there. Thanks for pointing it out :)

[@leifdarkwood]

while some rares only drop greens some do have unique greens or vanity pets on their drop table. about as cool as a rare and in some cases just as valuable

[@DArch706]

True, might take a look at those in the future! Will be a longer video though :D

[@melorate]

Are you kidding me, Blade of the Basilisk is amazing for tanking 10 levels ahead. Also one of a kind item😅

[@DArch706]

I guess 😅😅

[@MrXaoras]

missing digmaster shovelphlange who drops a very useful helm even for lvl 60

[@DArch706]

Check my recent upload! Sorry for the oversight :*

[@Sandown]

uldaman rares like digmaster? or elemental invasion mobs like tempestra? just a few of the top of my head that are missing that came to me while watching the video. like for real, how do you not know about digmaster shovelphlange as a gnome warrior?

[@DArch706]

Must have something to do with owning Edgemaster's Handguards since week 2 after Classic release ;) Makes one forgetful of those lesser iterations. Seriously though, I totally blanked on him. Even farmed the helmet out of boredom for a while in P3 or P4. My bad! Edit: Regarding the Elemental Invasion mobs. They're not actually classified as rare (neither in game through their portrait, nor on wowhead). So while they do drop blue BoEs, they don't quite fit the bill.

[@eyevou]

This is a very interesting video! If all the rare mobs that drop blue items were in 0.5.3 and none of the other ones are I would assume that the rest of the rare mobs were added by designers to flesh out the world. Rogue rares.

[@DArch706]

I'm not quite sure that's the case - I did check in the database for the Alpha Client - there are commands to spawn all of the rares in that client, so that might be an indicator. But it could just be a remnant from when they turned a 1.12 client into the 0.5.3. client, if that is indeed what they did. I'm not actually very familiar with the technical side of the Alpha Client I'm using, so it's not a definitive answer either. I can probably get around to asking them at some point tho :)

[@eyevou]

@@DArch706The drop tables are the least of the problems. it's mostly a matter of if the monster itself is in the early client, their reference ID.

[@jarski2000]

​@@DArch706 The client itself is original. Spawns, creatures and items are derived from vanilla since they're stored on the server, but it's been estimated how high their ID values go in 0.5.3. Since these rares and their drops are enabled in alpha, their IDs are low enough to have likely been present in 0.5.3.

[@DArch706]

@@jarski2000 Thank you so much for the information! That just about clears it up then - I suppose it is fair to say most of the mobs that drop unique blues were designed very early on in that case.

[@samwise1790]

@@DArch706 its purely speculation but I think the decision to do the rest of the rares with greens instead of blues was less a product of 'too much work' and instead was a product of game design philosophy around items in vanilla development. It is apparent in game abd stated by various people that they really intended rare and epic items to be, well, actually pretty rare, and therefore more special. Designers also speak about how they did not think players would really run dungeons more than once on a play through, so they didnt really envision players doing multiple runs for gear drops or xp farming. They likely thought that through leveling most players would only have a couple blues at any given time. So filling the world with hundred(s) of mobs which dropped boe blues would run counter to this possible intention. Personally I like this design philosphy more than later iterations of the game which virtually shower you with blues through quests, dungeon drops, and dungeon quests, and later RDF daily bag blues. I think its really taken a bite out of the 'carrot on a stick' design of the game -- 'rare' quality loot is no longer special in any way either stats, models, or actual/perceived rarity.

[@shyphirenflowerchild4631]

I have Chan's Imperial Robe. Plus the other two colour variations. Took forever to farm them. I don't know many other people that have all three colours of the robe/dress. Would be interesting to find out if others have all three looks.

[@DArch706]

Wow, that's awesome! I tried so hard to get them, but I only ever got one of them: the Hibernal Robe I think, if that's what it's called. Grats on your collection! :)

[@shyphirenflowerchild4631]

@@DArch706 Thanks. I am going to watch your video again to see what others I have. Several of the names rung a bell. Specially the weapon from the Behemoth. It is a 100% drop rate. lol PS: If I remember right, the greens that drop from quite a few of the rares across Azeroth are also hard to get t-mog items because of their low drop rates.

[@yoggz]

The craziest part of this video is that you don't use a bag mod

[@DArch706]

Bag mod?:) i think most if not all the footage is from my own 1.12 mangos client so I dont rly play the game on this version, hence no addons

[@marccarter1350]

I play on a very low population server. I have an add on that Informs me when one pops up. I have kill over 3. Never had anything blue drop. Only green gear

[@DArch706]

Yeah, most of them have only green gear on their loot tables.

[@Notpoop906]

There is two types of "Rare mob" in Classic. There's Rares, then Elite Rares. The Elite Rares are the ones that drop blues. Most people aren't able to tell the difference because they don't use the default blizzard UI and frames but a Rare mob will have a silver dragon frame, and an Elite Rare will also have a silver dragon frame BUT wings on the dragon.

[@KommisarFuklaw]

I’m pretty sure the damage of weapons with magic damage baked in like Songblade is not reflected accurately in their dps stat. They are really quite good/kinda sleeper items

[@DArch706]

Yeah absolutely, they're great! It's just super weird it's not showing up on the wowhead tooltips.

[@bobbobber4152]

I don't quite understand why you consider the blade of the basilisk useless - for me it was quite the best tank sword I could get my hands on at this level (def warri) albeit by accident.

[@dedmanfosho]

You forgot Digmaster Shovelphlange. The rare goblin in the caves outside of Uldaman

[@DArch706]

Oh yeah, with the helmet! Right! Thanks for pointing that out, might have to do a pt 2 in the future

[@user-wr3jh7ov3h]

The issue with rares is that if they drop anything of value they become camped. Ideally, they should have given zone-specific buffs and/or extra experience. Something for people who encounter rares in the wild to get a little dopamine.

[@lakselv3768]

What about [Tidan Charm] from Prince Nazjak? That one is damn nice!

[@DArch706]

Will take a look at the more notable green BoE drops in a future video! :) Even though it obviously ought to be rare with how amazing the item is, it's a green, so it didn't fit in this particular list.

[@Limitless_Doom]

TBF in HC MODE wow ( not these rmtcore servers ), finding a rare and getting a green, that you can use, is actually huge. it's guaranteed at least a green so it's worth risking the character over. in normal wow, on non 1st week fresh servers, it doesn't really matter unless it's one of those named green items that is probably good for alt leveling

[@DArch706]

Agree :)

[@BarakGage]

Amazing video

[@DArch706]

Thank you so much! Glad you enjoyed

[@Sleepy.Time.]

Everquest had fantastic rare spawns, some of the most useful loot like the fishbone earring that gave water breathing and journeyman's boots that increased run speed came from rare spawns. Think Time Lost Protodrake but its not just a reskinned common mount drop.

[@DArch706]

That sounds cool! I have to give classic Everquest a try at some point, would love to be able to see the similarities and differences to WoW

[@shadowviruz]

One thing I absolutely do not miss is camping a spot for 20+ hours waitng for it to spawn.

[@DArch706]

@@shadowviruzThat still happens in classic too, with Tidal Charm. I got R14 before I ever got that damn trinket haha, I just gave up on it eventually. Was constantly camped by multiple people. I heard in Classic Everquest these days, people are kinda doing the same with the "raid bosses", which are just open world spawns. They basically have characters logged out there, camp them, and content gate the whole server. Someone made a video on it on KZbin, IonBlaze I think?

[@Sleepy.Time.]

@@DArch706 for sure go with P99, its a much slower pace game than WoW but imo its much more rewarding feeling as you advance

[@Sleepy.Time.]

@@shadowviruz yeah i must of spent 40 hours in South Ro trying to get the ancient cyclops to spawn

[@Senpaik]

Half way in the video around 6:10 the audio goes to only one ear/ one sided hearing which is kinda odd maybe a artifact of rendering

[@DArch706]

Ye it must have happened shortly before exporting, I played the vid back 3 times and didn't notice anything. Sorry!

[@Senpaik]

@@DArch706 All good! I just wanted to make sure you knew haha, good video otherwise keep it up!!!

[@bonefetcherbrimley7740]

2:49 Yo that fire affect is bad ass! Why did they change it??

[@DArch706]

That's Teebu's Blazing Longsword :) The effect when stepping on campfire/braziers in the Alpha is actually insanely cool, I showed it off in my Ironforge video at some point - but I think they changed it due to performance reasons. Same with a lot of the relatively "high" res graphics from the Alpha such as on chests etc

[@Zanzibar_Dallax]

I have watched various WoW content creators for at least a decade at this point... And I have never seen someone else make this kind of video! I am the player that cares about lore/farming, more than mechanics. This video hits so close to home, it hurts 😅😅 Im gonna throw you a sub & I hope more content like this comes along soon!!

[@DArch706]

Thank you so much for your kind words and the sub! It really means a lot to see people are enjoying it :) I'll try my best to deliver!

[@Zanzibar_Dallax]

@@DArch706 I played the game from late-Vanilla thru until the end of Cata, & recently came back for Classic WotLK. I don't think I've ever actually asked myself the question this video posed at the beginning. And I have probably spent a collective 300+ hours hunting random drops & "rare" (😜) spawns. As I said, any videos along the lines of this one will be watched & rewatched by me, multiple times! Little details of the largest videogame I've ever played 😅

[@melorate]

​@@Zanzibar_Dallax kzbin.info/www/bejne/g5u8gol4YtWDgbssi=BVlGUuBTfLUjpsCE This guy covers all the rare mobs in separate Zone videos. Top content 👌

[@DrewPicklesTheDark]

There are plenty that have unique items that are just not rare items, like the tidal charm, or that bag of that gnoll rare in Elwynn (Fedfennel?).

[@DArch706]

Yeah, absolutely! Might make a video on those in the future :)

[@Schniiiiiiiiiiiiif]

please do@@DArch706

[@jamesg9468]

In Vanilla, I camped Ironeye and killed him 3 times for 3 Basilisk Blades and sold them for my level 40 mount. Not exactly the most efficient way of farming your mount, but nobody knew what they was doing then. xD

[@DArch706]

I mean hey, it's a decent weapon! The damage is ok, and it's blue, so not surprised people went for it back in the day. The proc's just a little silly. I too was always buying bad weapons for way too much money on the AH back in 2005, hoping it would lead to my ret paladin (kekw) finally doing damage. Spoiler alert: it didn't.

[@theannoyedfiremage8721]

I've been trying to get one of my hunters Trigore for YEARS and he's never up! I've camped probably over a thousand hours. I want my unique colour classic hydra model! 😢

[@DArch706]

Woa, you can tame that guy in retail? That's sick! Hope you find him soon :)

[@MastererClark]

Rend and skul are quite important rates for unique gear but I guess you excluded them since they are instanced mobs

[@deang8017]

Season of Discovery you know what you have to do

[@DArch706]

Ready and waiting!

[@davidfence6939]

On HC those Of the Whale items aren't horrible. Actually wearing one on my druid as I'm not going to pay over priced AH fees for a Of the Monkey.

[@DArch706]

While leveling I'm also enjoying spirit quite a lot. Fairly certain on warrior youd even want wolf over lets say bear at some point :) I'm not a spirit hater personally haha, it was more to get the point across!

[@HitPointPersonal]

There is a rare tiger in the badlands that has a 1.0 attack speed... so for hunter's that is better than blue loot

[@DArch706]

Hehe yea Broken Tooth is pretty good :)

[@matt_r.2510]

Good video and editing. I really dig your channel. However, just being honest, you need a better mic, the audio is very bad. :(

[@DArch706]

Thanks! I'm already saving up for one :) Might take me a little while longer though so bear with me please!

[@Spumoon]

I stumbled across a Vultros in HC classic, cresting a hill in Westfall. Got the Talon of Vultros and sold it for 10g... come to find out it goes for 80g because that bird only spawns every 23-31 hours in one of many places all over Westfall, and the dagger has a 23% drop rate.

[@DArch706]

That's a nice find! He can be quite a fickle bird, especially in HC :D The BoE prices are insane actually on low levels, I think it has to do with higher level deaths kitting out their alts. Even normal level 10-20 greens fetch a pretty penny these days

[@croszdrop1]

I bet an AH script bought that instantly

[@Spumoon]

Pretty much :/ @@croszdrop1

[@JustinTarahomi]

You excluded a lot of dungeon rare mobs I think. It's probably worth mentioning how people would zone in and see if they could target a rare mob and then zone out and get a new instance ID to try and fish for rares.

[@DArch706]

Yea but they drop BoPs, so it's not really the same thing. Needs a separate list ;)

[@RunicTitan]

@@DArch706 I thought there was a rare in the mine leading to Uldaman that drops an insane +7 axe helmet or something

[@Andrew03289]

So, after or before Cata.. I feel like I remember every chest in Wrath and Classic dropped a blue for me and some rares did aswell. I could be fuzzy on which expacs.. could have been between Cata and MoP. I just remember finding a blue off the rare in Shimmering Flats then went to the pirate cove in Tanaris. Swear, 2 chests in the cove dropped blues too. Coulda just been weird RNG? Now in classic again though.. I leave no chest no rare unlooted. Sometimes this gets me killed though. So, good thing not on HC yet. Lol

[@DArch706]

Classic is barely giving me greens for chests these days though, but yea I'm pretty sure it was different at least in TBC. And I vividly remember looting a chest in Duskwood in 2005 and getting Redbeard's Crest. Out of the last 10 classic chests, to say I got a green 50% of the time would probably even be a stretch

[@brandoncarr1469]

cool vid ! the sound was werid though like u hgad it only coming out of left ear then only right etc

[@DArch706]

Yeah must have messed something up shortly before exporting, my bad. Was fine when I played it back in Premiere. Sorry, won't happen again.

[@WhiteDandy]

I trully think Prince Nazjak deserves to be in this list. Located in the south of arathi, he does not drop a rare item but the incredibly useful tidal charm (lvl 35 trinket with a 3 sec long range stun on 15 minutes cooldown). With something around 2 days of respawn and many players farming it I can confirm it is insanely hard to get. (Finished classic with a full bis tier 3 Gressil / thunderfury rogue and still couldn't get the damn trinket T_T)

[@DArch706]

Yea, I hit R14 before I ever got my tidal! It's a toughie. Don't worry, I will probably make a video covering the unique green drops from rares :) or at least some of them, depending how many there are

[@TheCeekon]

'Aight. I'll be that guy. The Chromatic sword. Yes it is a green and yes its not AMAZING but its unique in that its a weapon that gives resistances in pretty much every damage type AND it only drops from only one rare, that being Scale Belly. I just felt I should Mention it since it is a decently sought after little piece of gear, if for no other reason than its appearance

[@DArch706]

True, that's an amazing sword! love the model also :) I'll try to cover items like that in a future video, not sure if I will be able to fit all unique greens, but hopefully most

[@Creepzza]

I got the blue ring from the Naga and thought that was pretty cool since blues from rares are so rare. Eventually I started trash-talking rares to people cause they never have any good loot. It's only fun to kill them but I never expect anything. Judging from this video, I was completely right.

[@DArch706]

Yep, same! My rule of thumb is generally, the higher you go in levels, the more likely you will get a green boe drop with random stats. But I will take a look at unique green drops from rares also, probably sometime this week. So we can once and for all determine how few/many actually interesting drops are on rares loot tables :D

[@Valamyr88]

you forgot Nimar the Slayer in arathi :) drops the Dark Hooded Cape

[@DArch706]

It was bound to happen .. :D My bad! Thanks for pointing it out

[@Valamyr88]

@@DArch706 have a look at that cloak, milestone for agility toons :)

[@EllAntares]

Most of rare mobs in original were for hunters for pet was retaining look and modded stats. Then principles were reworked...

[@DArch706]

Really? That's cool to know! Can you tell me where I can read more on that? :) Thx for the comment!

[@EllAntares]

@@DArch706Maybe to dig aroung old wowhead guides.. Sadly I didn't play hunter until Lich King and that expansion was the first hunter rework so I can'ttell precisely.The original creature was modyfying both stats and retained appearance. Originally they had both melee and ranged weapons slots and number of skills with Burning crusade was making toolbars look like Drenei starship console. . In Cataclism all pets were made same , divided into several archetypes, but many appearances were retained. After cataclism only newst rare mobs - WotLK and later -were giving special appearance, afaik.

[@heathmcrigsby]

I've probably looted vilerend slicer more than any other unique rare item in game ha ha

[@DArch706]

Yah me too haha, farming SGC and HoJ will do that to you

[@1un4cy]

Still hate that they removed the silver dragon on retail and replaced it with some shitty star icon

[@DArch706]

True, now that you mention it! Totally forgot about that, havent touched retail since the beginning of Shadowlands.

[@LakeVermilionDreams]

Morgraine the Sly has been good to me in Hardcore! She's out of the way and drops Jeweled Daggers, which are excellent for lowbie rogues!

[@DArch706]

I've seen that name before, and I think also the dagger. Is she a defias mob in Elwynn?

[@LakeVermilionDreams]

@@DArch706 yup! She's in a house so doesn't often pop up on rare scanners.

[@Magechad]

Bro why is not pince nazzjak ok that list ? 0.o

[@DArch706]

Cause he doesn't actually drop a rare (blue) item, Tidal Charm and his other stuff is unique, but it's uncommon (green). I will probably do a video on the unique uncommon rare spawns at some point though, in which case he will of course be included! :)

[@blborges]

My headset is kinda malfuntioning, and when the audio started coming only on the left side I got scared for a sec Great vid bud, just the kind of useless things i love to know

[@DArch706]

Glad you enjoyed it! Sorry about the audio, must have messed smth up in post. Will be more careful next time

[@blborges]

Dont be mate, it was only a funny situation and I decided to share. @@DArch706

[@LyhFlare]

I remember Naraxis Fang/Husk :)

[@DArch706]

Off the spider in duskwood? They're also present in the alpha already, interestingly enough. But they're greens, right? I'll make a video on unique greens at some point also :)

[@LyhFlare]

afaik they are greens yeah :) Nice video btw.

[@dsrichmond]

Nice video! From 6:14 to 6:43 (roughly) there is only audio in the left channel. Mildly annoying.

[@DArch706]

Oh damn, I somehow missed that. Wonder what went wrong. Sorry about that and thanks for pointing it out. Try my best that it won't happen again. Glad to hear you still enjoyed it though :)

[@Krelian89]

There is a rare mob in tirisfal glades , its a ghost that dropa white items

[@DArch706]

Oh yeah I came across her in my Alpha playthrough actually, she's been around for a while haha.

[@widehero]

counterpoint: chromatic sword. one of the priciest green items i farm. highest i sold it for was 560k when they removed it

[@DArch706]

That's a pretty decent price :D I'll probably look into the green unique drops as well at some point. Still have to decide if I'll try to cover every single one (would be quite long) or just pick out the most "special" ones such as chromatic sword.

[@mrdrquesos2795]

Its a way to reuse enemys

[@yallatschikowski5599]

Cool seeing this list, but the theory seems pretty out of the blue. If your theory was the only reason, it doesnt explain why a lot if not most rares have unique greens. I think it stems more from the fact that they didn't want to hand out blue items so often especially in open world. And that theyre named the same as the blue item quality is just a coincidence imo. Still i wish that some of the green unique items could be rares, especially for the rare mobs that are harder to kill.

[@DArch706]

I'm not sure I agree with most rares having unique greens, I don't think that's the case at all just from a pretty superficial survey I've done, but I could be wrong. Maybe its confirmation bias. Is probably worth a more in-depth look, which I might do at some point in the future! But yeah, I agree with the rest of your statement - it definitely is just a coincidence they're named the same after all. Especially about harder mobs rewarding blue items - that's kind of the point I was trying to make, there should be some correlation. I've went through the hassle of killing a rare elite only to get a random green BoE that could also drop off any other mob in the open world far too many times haha

[@jameshill2450]

I think they still had the intention/impression that greens were supposed to be pretty good and that people would be happy with one. No matter how bad the itemization was.

[@DArch706]

@@jameshill2450 Absolutely! You can see it in the Alpha - green items were very very few and far between, and they barely gave any stats whatsoever. I'll probably look into how the stats changed point on certain items over the patches at some point :)

[@bigbadbyrnes]

Nice

[@DArch706]

Thanks :)

[@dreamermagister8561]

Are u really an archaeologist? Or are u just saying u are digging the past of the internet?

[@DArch706]

Definitely the latter, though I did participate in an archaeological dig over the course of a summer as a student and have since been fascinated by it :)

[@22mpb]

In almost 2 decades of play, I don’t think I’ve ever seen Boahn.

[@DArch706]

Honestly, me neither. He's kind of out of the way also, usually you take the other path down to the dungeon portal. I guess it's worth starting to target macro him when getting close to the entrance

[@MatthewTheUntitled]

vol-chan UwU

[@DArch706]

Hahahaha

[@TheYoungonex]

13*

[@DArch706]

Nooooo finally someone noticed hahaha. I messed it up once or twice during the video I think, I was already recording and then kept stumbling on more rares so I messed up the numbers. My bad!

[@ErinMcIntyre-cw2qc]

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

[@DArch706]

:)

[@Shiirow]

the simplest explanation is usually the correct one, laziness.

[@OPEK.]

started the video as a gnome war in r14 gear but doesnt know why a 1.9 one hand sword with a +33 defense proc would be good for wars.. pathetic

[@DArch706]

I mean 🤣 defense rating is ok, but the main reason you want it is vs crushing blows (which is why most 5 man 60 dungeons can be tanked perfectly fine in dps gear/arms stance with SS). I'd love to see you argue how a barely ever occuring +33 def proc beats stats, especially considering nobody (!) In their right mind would ever consider def stacking during leveling, and if you have half a brain you can even 2h tank every single one of those low level dungeons. Nice try bucko!

[@julienclement3704]

its quite hard to understand you.

[@DArch706]

Audio quality-wise or speech-wise? Thanks for the comment!

[@lolkuuj6859]

Lol, what? Are you hard of hearing or do you just struggle with English?

[@yvngpoet]

probably the 2nd option @@lolkuuj6859

[@julienclement3704]

@@DArch706 speech wise and aswell your accent i guess, maybe the audio can be tune up a bit.

[@DArch706]

@@julienclement3704 Alright, I'll try to speak more clearly next time. Thanks!

[@Preputz]

what about the guy with the orb of deception. there's at least 14.

[@therabbits69]

Sorry I just couldn't take this video seriously. Nothing about it made sense or in anyways was true.

[@DArch706]

Awww that's a shame!

[@rasmusa9415]

Dragonflight is dead

[@DArch706]

Not surprised to hear that!