Bilbo originally won the ring fair and square, his interaction with Gollum in The Hobbit was rewritten when the ring became a cursed object for LotR's plot
Haven’t seen ”Deadman’s hand” mentioned in the comments! Has about the same effect as Freezing band aswell as afaik being THE lowest level epic you could obtain, only requiring level 29 in Classic. I’ll never forget getting it on my first character and the one time it saved my life from being ganked in STV.
I was going to comment about it. It is a crazy item. It dropped for my friend's 39 frost mage twink; it made our duels so one sided sometimes. Specially since I was a Warrior. If only I got as lucky as him and had Pendulum of Doom drop haha.
Underworld Band had to be worth a mention. It was unique in that it was BiS for level 39 twink locks (and beyond), and you could equip two of them, as I did. It was the shadow equivalent of the Freezing Band, which did get mentioned.
The bloodthorn ring is a reference to the wheel of times ring, Bloodknife ring. " With a touch of the user's blood, the ter'angreal grants the wearer incredible strength and speed, as well as the ability to shroud themselves in shadows. The ring drastically shortens a person's lifespan, "
Wrath of Cenarius is my favorite ring, no stats but a 5% chance in spell hit to give 132 SP (in classic), with no internal CD. Every enemy hit by a Paladin's Consecration had a chance to proc.
I think you should have made an Honorable mention of the "Mark of the Dragon Lord" from Lower Blackrock Spires as its use Effect gives the player an absorption shield that lasts until depleted or for 30 min, wile the shield is active it gives the player a Shadow Orb effect which is pretty cool. I wish they had added the Orb effects as a passive to some items or as enchant visuals as homage to Warcraft 3's Orb items.
In vanilla I heard a rumor, that there's a bug that when a warrior equips a fishing pole as the weapon, certain abilities will check your fishing skill instead of weapon skill. And because you can stack fishing skill with buffs, the main tank will get the arcanite fishing pole, swap to it on certain crucial skills in raids for higher accuracy.
I remember people rolling on the gemstones for the ring of ascension and having no idea what they were used for. God I hated farming for it. Reminds me of one time during vanilla we had this guy loot the Defias gunpowder in Deadmines, not know what it was used for, and then deleted it. All in the span of like 20 seconds before others asked him to use the canon, and he had to admit to his terrible crime. God, one of my biggest pet peeves in MMOs is when people loot shit they have no idea what it does, and then squander it.
I love your videos. As an on again/off again player of the game, its a great way to learn about expansions I missed. On that topic: I'd love a top 10 list/history of M+ affixes (standard and/or seasonal). I've loved M+ this expac but missed Legion and BFA.
The Jeweled Signet of Melandrus was nerfed into the Ground and will never see high level play again because of that, it when from a flat 10% damage increase to adding 36 damage to your post attackpower calculated auto attack damage. so say your auto attack damage is 500 dps well now its 536 dps.
While it is interesting, there is a staff that does the exact same thing but better (as you can equip/unequip weapons in combat, while rings you cannot) and much easier (as it comes from a low level dungeon's first boss) so it didnt feel right being on the list.
@@hirumaredx Fair point, forgot about the staff actually. Just surprised that it didn't show considering the acquisition and rarity of it. Still a cool vid, appreciate what you do.
I like that you show the warlock rings an example for the Tier Set Rings: (5:17), because while the AQ20 set ring is incredibly good for the warlock compared to the same ring for other classes, the T3 ring (dropped by Kel'thuzad, the ultimate boss of Vanilla), is very poor compared to other rings available. Oddly enough, the AQ20 ring is probably just better than the T3 for warlocks due to the hit+crit on it. And since there is no 9 items set bonus, you are never really prompted to use that crappy T3 ring and complete the full set.
what rings are those? cause we are talking at the times not now where almost every ring can be obtained at level 10. classic.wowhead.com/items/armor/rings#0+3+2+19
A lot of them were from jwc, I stopped playing after MoP, so they were maybe removed. If you were comparing it to today wow, then I am sorry, must have missed it, thought the whole video is about all datadisks.
the one from upper blackrock spire that drops from last boss and (at least used to) have like 0.1% drop chance is super cool too it gives u this cool dark circle spinning around you :v I think the drop chance has been increased a lot since shadowlands, though, for some reason it's my favourite ring the animation around you is so cool
I love your videos Hiru, thanks for everything and please keep them coming. I've actually played wow since vanilla beta. Me and a few friends played SW Galaxies and 1 of them said we should try this new mmo out. The rest is history:)
i think you missed one ring, it was a ring that dropped from the final boss of LBRD called "mark of the dragon lord", it was a purple ring that gave you mana regen, this was the toolip "A protective mana shield surrounds the caster absorbing 500 damage. While the shield holds, increases mana regeneration by 22 every 5 sec for 30 min. (30 Min Cooldown)" it also gave you a cool BLACK power word shield effect, honestly as long you did not took any damage, this ring was BIS
I won the Stranglethorn Fishing Extravaganza twice. The Fishing Rod was fun, they buffed it a little and it was good all the way up to Cataclysm for pure +fishing but the legendary fishing pole outranked it in all other stats and bonuses.
One of the rings from the white ring vendor used to sell a ring that removed the character's walking animation for some reason. I remember finding this in Legion/BfA. Sad it got patched it was pretty funny. Only thing I could find about it at the time was a reddit post with only a few comments.
Back in TBC or WOTLK ( cant remember which one) my mage had an epic ring that dropped from The Scarlet Monastery , i think it was called "Deadman's hand" , but it had that same freeze proc effect as the Freezing Band , difference was that the ring "icon" looked really really cool. Was removed when cata came out , i dont think alot of people remember that item, cool item considering it was an epic that dropped from a boss in a lvl 35-40 ish dungeon.
i used seal of accension and most mages on arugal coppied the build for when we were selling scarlet monestery boosts. was one of the best frost resist items i think i had near 150 frost resist, good for cath where frost bolts can cook a run, i also tried for monthns to get the chest of the optional boss in ubrs pyroclasmic something its got +20 to near all resist stats, from what i could tell it was hands down the best chest for farming most dungeons
Hiru, maybe in the future you could make a video about the TWD mounts? like, why the TWD from WoTLK is a horse, and I remember watching one of your vids saying that the green jade serpent maybe will never made it to the game because it's basically one of the august celestials. I don't know, things like that. I wish we had more mounts/pets/transmog for TWD and more content, not only Ulduar and BT, more expansion features, and also from TWD from Vanilla (maybe I want this last because I don't play Classic). Sorry for this, thanks for the videos.
The Legion ring is not the only item that increases autoattack damage, the Fiery Plate Gauntlets from vanilla also used to add some fire damage to your weapon swings, which could be increased with %fire damage increases from buffs or vulnerabilities, and also decreased by resistances! craftable by any blacksmith that did the quest!
Top 10 out of place npcs!!! Not out of the way (as in hidden or hard to find) but more like npcs that are in a questing area, sub zone, zone, or hub that makes no sense (or the hard to come up with some bonkers reason for them to be present) I have no suggestions for this list tho
Band of Icy Depths, and yeah, it was from the Scepter quest, and I was surprised to see it excluded from this list, given it's the only ring I've been using through every expansion since vanilla.
I would bet I found my Black Ice way before cata, which I wasn't playing. I'm nearly sure it was in classic, maybe BC. I found it in stranglethorn and it was just an item I carried around in my inventory. When I was logging back in 7,5 years later, it had become a toy.
@@hirumaredx If you are going by that standard, a chunk of the rings in this list don't count because there is another item slot that does the same thing. The benefit for the Band of Icy Depths is that for multiple expansions it served as a way to get permanent water breathing in a slot that could afford to lose the BiS stats. It also worked for all classes unlike Staves which cannot be used by 4 classes, though Demon Hunter can be ignored as it wasn't available while the ring was obtainable.
Request here. I would like to see the Top 10 unique Trinkets. I don't know if it was already posted. I will check to see if it was and delete this comment. My favorite trinket is Darkmoon Card: Madness. The other trinket I thought was funny was for a melee class (I can't remember, warrior or pally) where it would proc and the character would throw a full tree at the target.
I really liked the mechagon agility trinket, the visual is just great, seeing a bike ramming into a target and exploding, ive also seen a new trinket in upcoming raid, youll basically be able to cast similar spell like anduin did in bfa trailer, the holy word salvation, i think thats pretty cool