Bre, that gun-loving heal-slinging dwarf chick, asks: what’s your unicorn? Unicorn, in this case, doesn’t literally refer to your one-horned mythical horse with a particular fondness for virgins, but rather that one piece of elusive loot that always gets away. For Bre, it’d be the Sonic Spear, and I can sympathize by proxy – I know plenty of other hunters who never got Murmur to give up the goods. As for me? Hmm. For the most part, in TBC the answer was “any loot at all,” but my specific unicorn…
Well, I had two. Twin unicorns? I tried, tried, and tried again to get the Hex-Shrunken Head and Amani Divining Staff time and time again. The Hex-Shrunken Head only dropped once, and one of our shadow priests beat me by 1 on a roll for it… grr. As for the divining staff? Well, let me just sum up our loot mojo like this: we had six Tuskbreakers in a row. Six. SIX. SIX FREAKIN’ TUSKBREAKERS. We don’t even have six actively-raiding gun users! The last week we ran Zul’aman? Rage.
The last week we ran Zul’aman, though, I guess the game was feeling sorry for me: it finally let me replace my crappy main-hand non-heroic dungeon blue with Wub’s Cursed Hexblade. When I finally get around to leveling Queklain, that’s what he’ll be swinging into Wrath with.
So what’s your unicorn?
I’ve always wanted Thunderfury for my Warrior.. I know it’s pretty obsolete now but it still looks amazing.
And, like you, I wanted the Amani Diving Staff on my Boomkin but never saw it drop on any of the 4 toons I ran ZA with. I was begining to think it was a myth..
My unicorn was the Phoenix bow, from Prince Malchezar.
It finally dropped, on the last raid I was in, before being deployed…
Atleast I’ve been able to level with it, in Wrath…
Every time we drop Ingvar the Plunderer, I cry. Because every time we drop him, he drops the same pair of rings. Gimme my Drake Mounted Crossbow please. My partner is running with a Nesingwary 4000 … I needs me my epic xbow!
@Ace: I’ve still never seen that crossbow with my own two eyes. I’ve seen Annhylde’s Ring more times than I care to count, and the Staggering Legplates exactly once (when I got them).
[...] calls it the elusive drop. Bre called it the unicorn. I’ve even talked about my unicorns, which is now sadly outdated (though hey, some 70 loot from ZA would probably still be an upgrade [...]