Battered Hilt and Epic Drop Rate Changes

Based on feedback we’ve been provided by players, we’d like to make you aware of a couple of changes we are applying to Icecrown Citadel: The Frozen Halls via in-game fixes. Firstly, we are increasing the drop rate of the Battered Hilt in all three wings of this Heroic five-player dungeon. We have seen a great deal of discussion about this item’s chance of dropping since the release of patch 3.3.0 and agree that it is currently too low. As a result, players should find greater accessibility to this item while running these dungeons, or while trading with other players who have it.

In light of this change, we are also removing the chance for the Battered Hilt or any other epic item to drop from the Skeletal Slaves in the Pit of Saron. The need to “farm” these creatures for the Battered Hilt should be reduced by our first in-game fix and will no longer result in a chance for epic loot or Battered Hilts.

You’re welcome to discuss these changes in this thread and provide us with any additional feedback you may have. Please refrain from creating additional threads about these in-game fixes at this time.

You can find a full list of recent in-game fixes here: http://forums.wow-europe.com/thread.html?topicId=11824414712&sid=1

The quest was never a repeatable quest as far as I know.

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Haha Blizzard, my topic of revelation wouldn't happen to be the reason you're spilling the beans now would it? :)

Sadly not, no. :)

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Ancilron , can you tell us what is drop % now?

As above, sadly not, no. ;)

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ONLY thing i right now want to know IS:

is this fix live NOW?

It should be, yep!

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Ancilorn, if you would be so kind, can you ofter clarification on one of the following, in order of preference:

a) New drop rate
b) Proposed drop rates being considered
c) ETA on one of the two above

Thanks :)

a) Higher than it was before today.
b) The change has been made already (of course is subject to further change should we see fit)
c) (a) Already arrived (b) May never be reconsidered

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Which means I'm just that good and beat you to it. :)

Touché Ancilorn, Touché.

My humble apologies for sleeping. ;)

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Why should i care that the "blues" can see me ?
This is what my thoughts of the game are

I believe the posters point was that to claim an instance very puggable one would hope the person claiming this had pugged it, or perhaps even set foot in it... *wink*

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So Blizzard can you fix other hard to get drops, now that most will be running around with QD. I still havetn seen the Barons mount drop in Stratholme..need to boost the drop rate even more there, same with the Tiger and Raptor mount in Zul'Gurub, oh dont forget the new Onyxia mount i mean come on they are hard to get but dont see you increasing the droprate there.

The item still has a very, very low drop chance. It's just that before this fix (and after the first fix) the chance was even lower. You will not be seeing "most running around with QD" any time soon.