Shadowmourne

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Comment by 191597

This axe is beastly, being able to have up to 256 (298 with JC Gems) Strength and 270 more from the proc.

It is also, our second, permanent, available to players, Legendary, 2h Weapon.

Comment by 481684

noooooo not usable by hunters ;(

Imagine the fun of going around dala with this as huntard and getting wisps from POed warroirs. ughhh

oh well i guess ill just hav to roll a dk.

Comment by Fripomanic

The extremely high item level of this weapon combined with it's three sockets (red even) will most likely mean that anyone acquiring this item won't get an upgrade before far into the raids of Cataclysm.

Comment by 359979

Now the question is what happens if Trial of the Champion is the daily and you get the proc from this?

Techically you would have This right?

Comment by 436809

My questions about this beautiful axe are:
#1 What is the proc rate for grabbing a bit of a soul

#2 does the 40 str stack per soul fragment taken? (1 fragment 40 str, 2 frags 80) If it does then I say before a battle ground hit a target dummy until you get 9 stacks, then first person you go after in the bg takes atleast a +620 attack power hit and (as long as not to many other people are around) an extra 2000ish dmg from the proc.

#3 And I think most importantly, would the proc break cc? The discription makes it sound like an outward wave, like arcane explosion. Also it says "Between all enemies", the simple solution is don't stand on the cc targets, but it still might be a danger to the group.

Comment by Xicon

They left off a line.

"Equip: Makes every person around you require an extra pair of pants."

Update: Tooltip has been updated to reflect a recent hotfix.

"Equip: Makes every person around you require an extra pair of pants. Has no effect on players above level 80."

Comment by rocketw

Before beginning his reign as the Lich King, Prince Arthas Menethil was first a servant, ruled by a sword he believed was the key to saving his people - the runeblade Frostmourne. Finding and claiming the blade among the frozen wastes of Northrend was an odyssey unto itself, and the search cost the prince his mentor, his relationship with his subjects, and his humanity. It cost the living of Azeroth far more.
With a tight grip on the blade that he traded his life for, Arthas ravaged the kingdom of Lordaeron and broke free from the control of the Burning Legion. By the time the former prince ascended as the leader of the Scourge, Frostmourne was already glutted with the souls of the numberless dead who dared to oppose him.

Now, Arthas has become so inseparable from his weapon that the sword's likeness has even found its way into the architecture of his fortress, Icecrown Citadel. Its hilt is never far from his hands; its ghostly whispers constantly ring in his ears. Frostmourne, as much as the Lich King, is the ruler of Northrend.

To challenge that rule, mighty heroes will need to follow more closely in Arthas's path than ever before.

In a relentless quest to arm the forces of the living against the Scourge, Darion Mograine has formed the Ashen Verdict, a union between the most skilled craftsmen of the Argent Crusade and the Ebon Blade. Though the peerless paladins of the Crusade wield the power of the Light, and their leader clutches Ashbringer, a few of Mograine's dark warriors have begun to question their hopes for victory.

These death knights insist that the Ashbringer and the skills of the Argent Crusaders, though potent, aren't enough to best Frostmourne alone. They swear that Darion Mograine has long been quietly aware of another legendary blade - one that could be the key to defeating the Lich King and cleansing Northrend... But it doesn't exist yet.

For the moment, the weapon is a formless idea, with no more killing power than an angry thought. When it is spoken of, it is spoken of quietly, and the Highlord has a habit of silencing those who discuss it in public.

But the hope of an artifact to rival Frostmourne is strong within the minds of the Ebon Blade. Just its name inspires the furnaces to burn late into the night, the bellows to pump air, and the darker half of the Verdict's smiths to swing their hammers until their fingers fail. While other craftsmen crafters lean over whetstones and gather pitted blades by the hundreds, these few dream of a single weapon to end the war for Northrend.

Shadowmourne... A great two-handed axe fit for a giant, born of sacred and corrupt powers, host of a thousand dead souls and able to be wielded only by the most stalwart armsmasters of Azeroth. Its creation seems nearly impossible; and yet, the rumors do not cease.

Some smiths claim that Shadowmourne must be nothing more than an ordinary axe, honed to unparalleled perfection, while others would shape it from a weapon of immense import in the world. Mograine, when he can be convinced to speak of it at all, is said to believe that only the hammer of Arthas himself will provide a worthy model - but such absurd ambition is just the beginning of Shadowmourne's creation.

To contain the energies that dance across its cold edges, Shadowmourne must be hewn from piles of impure Saronite: the hardened blood of the Old God, Yogg-Saron, treated only by master metal-shapers.
To fuel its power to kill, it is vital that Shadowmourne be drenched in the souls of the most potent servants of the Scourge as they are slain, one by one, with the unfinished blade.
To help break through the Lich King's armor, Shadowmourne is to be adorned with fragments of the Frozen Throne, originally crafted by Kil'Jaeden out of ice from the Twisting Nether.

Only with these mighty components, it's said, can Shadowmourne be finished. And, yet, even if the axe could be completed, questions and fears remain. Is forging the souls of the deceased into a weapon treated withblood and the essence of the Twisting Nether truly any different from the crafting of the Scourge's runeblades?

Who is to say that the Lich King wouldn't simply annihilate - or control - the maker for their impudence in mimicking his most treasured possession? If Arthas, one of the most dedicated knights of his age, lost his humanity to the whispers of Frostmourne, might Shadowmourne bring the same doom and misery tothe living as its sister blade?

Without knowing the answers to these questions, who would be bold enough to try and wield it?

/lore

Comment by 391253

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Comment by Erlinn

I find it funny that there's a vendor price at all. Imagine being the vendor who got sold this.

"Good day, traveler, how can I help you? Ah, you wish to sell me your weapon? That's fine, let's take a look here...oh my. What an...odd piece of weaponry. Um, well, I guess I can give you 50 gold for this. Alright, thank you. Have a nice day. Hmmm, what an endearing thing...look how it glows...maybe I'll keep this for myself instead of--FOOLISH MORTALS, ALL WILL BOW AT THE FEET OF THE REAGENT VENDOR! /cackle"

Or even

"Hey, I want to sell my weapon."
"Kay. I'll give you 30 gold for it."
"30 gold? This is Shadowmourne! Bane of the Lich King!"
"Kay."
"It was forged with the blood of an Old God and shards from the Frozen Throne itself, infused with the powers of blood, frost, and unholy! Within this blade is 1,000 souls of fallen heroes claimed by the Lich King, defeated over the course of many months by my own hand. This is the blade that tore into the Lich King's body and ended his reign of terror once and for all!"
"Aight. 40 gold then."
"50."
"Deal."

Comment by Ricohardt

Offhand?

Comment by crusader666

Umm the proc split 1900-2100 betwen all mobs within 8yds? so if there are 10 mobs around you, it will hit for around 200 damage on each of them? that sounds sucky :S

Comment by Anarchy

Has two hidden equip effects:

Equip: Your team and personal ratings automatically start at and have a minimum of 2000.
Equip: Your melee attacks make cloth users cry IRL.

Comment by 487043

Can you imagine the pure awesomeness from this wep with 3 Bold Dragon's Eye?

Wait for it... wait for it... /drool... There we go!

Comment by 64424

I would so vendor this to Granny Smith, only to see her bloody vengeance on Cro Threadstrong for every apple he has ever crushed!

Comment by 463441

So my Death Knight tank guildie just told me that ret pallies SHOULD NOT get this weapon because it has armor penetration. As a ret pally i laughed. For all u Ret Pallies who roll on this you are evil people! Ignore the 68 strength u could get from socketing 3 Cardinal Rubies, or the 223 strength it alredy has, this weapon is worthless because of the Armor Penetration. Plus the proc and the 114 extra crit strike rating are lame anyway. O and BTW if u roll on DPS plate as a ret pally go shoot urself, and anything with strength should go to a warrior. So in conclusion Ret Pallies should not roll on gear anymore. Ever.

Comment by Raithon

To be honest, I'm somewhat worried about the power of this weapon being, well, a little TOO powerful in retrospect.

Granted that few people will get their hands on this in the long run, this item will undoubtedly smash faces so hard to the point where it may take only a few (or couple) of hits to kill someone. Its DPS is 50 above any other known weapon from 3.3, and it has more than 100 strength and almost 100 more stamina, plus gemming, AND its proc. From a PvP standpoint, this thing just seems to be ungodly.

We will have to see -- grats in advance to whoever gets one of these.

I find it amusing that people would rate this down...Pretty safe to assume it's some Death Knight in blues, whoever it is.

Comment by Barrahir

I pity the little locks for not being able to use this. What a better way to get Soul shards than swinging a giant glowy axe that makes them on hit?

Comment by 459142

The Shadowmourne Quest Chain:

You must be friendly with the Ashen Verdict to obtain this quest.

You first must obtain Arthas' old hammer from when he was a paladin and a variety of mats (including 25 primordial saronite, basically the Icecrown equivalent of a crusader orb, and the blood of the two abomination bosses of the Plague Wing) in the quest The Sacred and the Corrupt, completing this will forge Shadow's Edge.

Then you get to harvest 1000 souls with the axe (just kill 1000 mobs in ICC on either 10 or 25 man) for A feast of Souls.

Next, you must take the axe and complete three quests involving the end bosses of the three wings of the citadel, starting with Professor Putricide in the Plagueworks, then Blood Queen Lana'thel in the Crimson Hall, and finally Sindragosa in the Frostwing Halls.

The first quest is Unholy Infusion, in which you must use the ability Shadow Infusion while controlling the abomination, then proceed to kill Professor Putricide within 6 minutes before the resulting buff wears off. This quest is only completable on 25 player mode.

The second quest is Blood Infusion. To complete the infusion for this quest you must first stand next to your tank for a moment so that you can be affected by Blood Mirror which will apply the debuff Gushing Wound, you don't need to stand there long, just a split second to apply the debuff. After getting the debuff you need use the Vampiric Bite ability twice to get the debuff to a 3 stack, then once more to apply the buff you need to have when you kill the boss to complete the quest (for a total of 3 bites). In order to get all three bites before your raid runs out of people to bite, you need to either be the first vampire, or be bitten by the first vampire. Seeing as the latter is more likely, make sure you're on the top priority to get bitten.

The third quest is, you guessed it, Frost Infusion. To complete the infusion you must get hit four times by Sindragosa's Frost Breath (Inflicts 37000 to 43000 Frost damage to enemies in a 60 yard cone in front of the caster. In addition, the targets' attack speed and chance to dodge are decreased by 50% for 6 sec. Melee range. 1.5 sec cast) four times, then proceed to kill her. Ouch.

You then get to farm bosses in the instance for a while for the quest The Splintered Throne to get 50 Shadowfrost Shards (25-50% drop chance on 25 player normal; 50-99% on 25 hard), they are looted items, however they can only be seen if someone in the raid is on this part of the quest chain.

After completing this quest, you will finally be given Shadowmourne in the quest: Shadowmourne... After obtaining the axe there is one additional quest: The Lich King's Last Stand which has you take your newly forged weapon and slay the Lich King.

This is probably the hardest legendary quest chain since Atiesh, good luck getting this beast of an axe.

EDIT: Think everything's accurate now, let me know if I have something wrong.

Comment by 340239

I heard Cleave wasn't strong enough. I want to see ANYBODY survive the Bladestorm + AMS combo of a DK and Warrior 3s comp with this ridiculous joke of a topend weapon.

Comment by 65340

False. Epics and legendaries are actually budgeted the same way. This is nicely illustrated byt Val'anyr and the Anub ToC mace.

Legendaries are usually better itemised (like in this case!), possibly of higher ilevel (like say warglaives) and they have a procc, which is free of budgeting, making them better than epics of the same ilevel (the shadow damage + str procc, val'anyrs shield, warglaives haste procc and setbonus etc)

Comment by Reunilana

To socket http://ptr.wowhead.com/?item=42142 or not to socket http://ptr.wowhead.com/?item=42142 : that is the question.
Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three.
Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceedest on to three. Five is right out.
But as warhammer peon said--Red goes fasta.

Comment by Wilmots

My Precious...

Comment by 438892

By the way Tanks dont have any Ledgendary yet.. I know you know, but I am letting you know that I know too.

And yes I know Paladins can use but they have too...

Thunderfury was primarily a tanking weapon as if it was given to a melee, it would general cause too much aggro.

Comment by Squeel

Not sure if this has been posted yet but a JC (socketing all the sockets with those of course) Ret pally with this and 9 stacks of souls would gain 1594 AP. Add berserking enchant and we get up to 1994 AP. So about 2k AP from 1 weapon......may god have mercy on the souls of those in the path of any JC ret pallys wielding this.
(or you kno, warriors and DKs......>_> why did i level a mage again?)

Comment by cloudp

Having read most Shadowmourne comments, i ask this of you Wowhead community. Stop. there are 141 comments; 100+ of those say "This weapon is OP. YAY."; "This weapon i too OP. QQ."; "I crit my pants twice". This is a desirable item, with indeed incredible stat allocation, and Paladins, Warriors and Death Knights will be lining up to get this as soon as possible. It may impact pvp, certainly, but do not state comparisons before s8 is even released. This is meant to be obtainable by few, and I doubt any endgame guild would allow this to go to a PvPer. Should a full endgame pve player enter arenas, at a higher level, he'll still be CCed to death. Where this trashes is mostly on lower brackets. Get ratings first, QQ later.

My point is, no point on having 30248712098471029834701928347 comments on how strong the weapon is. Anyone understanding the basics of WoW stats can see that. Keep it unflooded, K?

Comment by friedchicken17

Yes Taelroc, your guildie is right,

ret pallies SHOULD NOT get this weapon because it has armor penetration

Pallies have some holy damage spells that ignore armor anyway.
So lets see here...

Classes: Warrior, ~~Paladin~~, Death Knight

I guess that leaves us with Death Knights as the most likely....
Oh wait, DKs have these weird disease effects that also ignore armor.

Classes: Warrior, ~~Paladin~~, ~~Death Knight~~

Oh well, I guess it should go to the real men. The original warriors...
Sorry, they have bleeds which ignore armor.

Now we have a conundrum.

Cannot be disenchanted

And who, gentlemen, does that leave us with?
Yup, its a Hunter weapon.

Comment by 326471

Theorycrafting:

This stacking +str buff that explodes to a weak aoe, gives an interesting mechanic:
For maximizing dps, rotations will probably need to be modified, so that the most damaging attacks are done with a full stack of Soul Fragment. (+360str)

Looking forward to find out if this is true (which will happen only after the weapon is on live servers, and numbers are put to the test).

EDIT: Downrate if it is a stupid comment, but don't just spam the . Or at least provide some useful info.

Comment by 474779

Imagine what would happen if you gave this one to Saurfang...

EDIT: This is evil.

Comment by 485557

Hey dont downgrade this, but since there is Frostmourne, and Shadowmourne.... shouldn't there exist a Bloodmourne? I mean those are the 3 elements used by dk (unholy=shadow) Somewhere around there must be a hero with Bloodmourne :P

Comment by 441496

I saw this and i literally came in my pants

Comment by 489091

That is one hell of an arms weapon. Like an old-school deep breath made manifest into an axe. All I can say is wow.

Comment by 101003

Just...wow.

Comment by 234475

so without any soul fragments and with all of the sockets...thats +293 strength with you 10 soul fragments, at 40 strength per fragment...that makes it *!@#$s pants* +693 strength!

Comment by 462588

Can you believe a fury warrior with dual wield of that axe, that would be awesome. But its a quest so it never will be available to use two of them.

Comment by 158862

The threat generation on this.... DK tanks rejoice!

Comment by 195606

I plan to work days and nights to get this weapon...then sell it for the amazing 33g vendor price! I'll be a rich man i will! btw, wtf? aint been any mage legendary since atiesh. All there have been are melee hunter swords, maces, more swords, and a melee hunter axe! nothing for mages at all

Comment by 349245

Okay... At some point some guild will manage to defeat the Lich King and lets say that all melee's have the Q (even tanks) then there will be quit a bunch to have this legendary axe... too many imo!

Comment by waice

omg, i know the Dps on it are wery good, but when u get in like lvl 83/84 there might be green itemes/uncommon!
so i wont spent 8 hours on getting shadow mourne!
would eiter wait for frostmourne!

Comment by 480896

Sooo.. let's see.
That's warriors, paladins, and death knights.
Oh, look, and for healers.

Now one question.
Where the hell is a legendary weapon for spell caster DPS? The only spell DPS legendary so far was Atiesh, and you can't even get it anymore and it would be obsolete anyways even if you could.

Comment by 00hadam00

This Axe look badass....and good stats

Comment by 412775

In Vanilla, we had legendaries for Casters and Melee(Rogue, Warrior). Leaving out Retri, Feral, Shaman and hunter.
In The Burning Crusade, we had legendaries for Melee's(Rogue, Warrior) and Hunters. Leaving out Retri, Feral, Shaman and casters.
In Wrath of the Lich King, we have legendaries for Melee(Warrior, DK, Retri) and Healers. Leaving out Feral and Shaman.

Warrior anyone? :o

Comment by Anarchy

It's amusing to know that the people QQing about not getting legendaries (for their classes) wouldn't be able to attain them anyway.

Comment by Delix

I think the itemization for this weapon is crazy awesome. I love it!
Three red sockets! I'm putting three Dragon's eyes into this!
Oh, and I'm not going to forget the weapon enchant!
But wait! There's more!
Soul Fragment will stack up to 9 times, summing up to another 270 strength! (That is, before you make your next swing which causes Chaos bane).

So 223 Strength initially
plus 34 strength from each Dragon's eye (102 strength)
8 from the socket bonus
and then 270 strength from Soul Fragment

add it together you get 603 strength

now just take that, and double it to get your AP total: 1206 AP
now add Berserk: 1606 AP
(for those who do not have Jewelcrafting as their profession, the final AP would be 1522 with three 20 str gems)
That's a lot of AP for one weapon

Comment by HandofDeath

i believe there will be a new weapon in cataclysm that is gonna be as over powered as this called DeathWing's Fang =P just saying tho it'll be like a hunter and rogue only weapon and healers/spell caster will get something that drops from a nether dragon or black dragon boss in close to the last patch so it'll be more fair for all classes in the next expansion just saying and this will still be a good weapon in cataclysm cause it's only 5 levels so blizzard might have everything even by cataclysm if not then blizzard really doesn't care

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Comment by 496403

just amazing for an axe spec orc warrior, or really any melee dps class...wow id love this thing but lol dont think thats gonna happen

Comment by TB666X

Well, one thing I dont understand about this weapon is...Why a "Shadow" weapon to holy fighters (paladins)? Yes, there were/is formed the Ashen Verdict, by some kind of shadow knights, and holy fighters, but anyway...What's Shadow + Holy Light? xD

Comment by Shieldless

Shadowmourne is an excellent weapon for any melee class. This weapon would be amazing for a DeathKnight tank as well.

Axe - Increased expertise if you're an Orc.
High Damage - Increased threat.
High Strength - Increased threat as well as parry.
High Stamina - Increased HP.
Three Sockets - Perfect for Stamina gems.
High Critical Strike Rating - Increased threat.
High Armor Penetration - Increased threat.
Special Ability - Stacking threat as well as parry, and after the stack is complete you cause AE damage in turn giving more AE threat which is where DeathKnights are lacking.

As I've said before, this weapon is good for any melee class; I just wanted to explain why it would be amazing for a DeathKnight tank.

Comment by frostbolt

my arms warrior will be a super man whit this axe!

Comment by 487291

I think that this is a replacement of Frostmourne.. Because Frostmourne is/would be way too powerful for a player to carry.
If it is right what I have heard, Frostmourne drains the soul of anything it kills, and the wielder will get those powers.

It doesnt only drain the soul from anything it kills, because Arthas' soul was the first it claimed. And he didnt die when his soul was taken..

Edit: I know the weapons are two way different things, but still I think it is a replacement. Because you cannot get Froustmourne, they made a new weapon.. Shadowmourne!
~~And it doesnt fit 100% in because Shadowmourne was made to kill the Lich King, but you cannot get it before you have killed him!~~ Edit: You can get it before killing him...

If you dont understand me read this:

I think Blizzard tought about if they should allow players to use Froustmourne or not.. And they chose to not allow us. And I think they also tought that we would be a little mad about it, so they made a new weapon. A replacement.

Of course I am not sure! Edit: Not at all

Comment by xxkarankenzxx

I can't imagine how OP the frostmourne is gonna be as compared to this.

Comment by 497351

When i have obtained this mightiest of all weapons not only will i slay all scourge within my grasp i shall make it a little more personal and ironically kill some hunters!

Comment by 242980

While it might not be the best after Cata comes out fury warriors who build there trees just right will have the 5 new points to invest into Sword Spec, Poleaxe Spec or Mace Spec in the arms tree. So dual wield this beast of an axe and another 2h axe will be sweet. (i'm fury and gods willing i'll be doing this myself)

ps- IF frostmourn comes out as a 2h sword which is what i think it is, i'll be using both Bwahahahaha!

Comment by Deathknight93

Have you noticed?...Every installment of WoW has had a warrior legendary item. Thunderfury, Warglaives, and now this. Im calling BS!

Comment by 497598

Unfair that there never is anything for feral druids...? Not one of all the legendary.

Comment by 185084

I regret that this thing is NOT worth the cost of making it.

It may be cool looking, and lord knows I wanted it, but adding both Val'Anyr level boss grinding, combined with 25 Primordial Saronite, is more than a bit too inaccessible.

575 Frost Badges worth of Primordial Saronite, a full ICC clear, and 50 random drop shards? No way, no how.

The 575 Frost Badges alone is price enough for a weapon like this, which while excellent, isn't so much better than the rest of the drops in 25 ICC to be worth it. Maybe if those Shadowfrost shards were a quest type drop where multiple people could collect them simultaneously, but with their low drop rate, they just aren't worth trying for in most guilds.

I understand legendaries are supposed to be awe-inspiring weapons, but relative to the difficulty in getting it, I don't know if it's worth it. It's not as if it is Val'Anyr in that the items them selves are passive and that's all that's required, you have to frontload a rediculous amount of mats before you can even start the gathergrind.

Comment by 185084

Unfortunately, too many people are going to want said axe. Any and all DKs, Ret Paladins and DPS warriors would love to get their hands on it.

My problem with it is that they made it effectively twice as expensive to make in time and resources as any of the other legendaries. It's up there in the cost/time requirements of Thunderfury, and by and large, they are trying to make things more accessible for people not in the highest tier guilds. 25 Primordial Saronite, and an ICC clear (which may require hardmodes), followed by the 1000kill grind is probably about right for the power of the weapon. Maybe a few Shadowfrost shards like 10-20 even, but not 50 at the proposed drop rate, more than what it'd take to make the Ulduar hammer. Especially as this is a 'crafted' weapon, not one bound by history and lore.

25 Primordial Saronite, assuming the guild is doing some of the donating, means that there aren't going to be many of those BiS patterns bought, made or anything of the sort. Even if people are getting some/most of their own saronite, it's not exactly cheap, and would mean that they are skipping, or seriously delaying most of their Tier 10 stuff to do it.

Comment by 487291

Uhmm.. Its a little silly...

"Hello! Do you want to make this uber cool weapon? So we might be able to kill the Lich King?"

"Uhh.. Yeah!"

"Okay.. First we need 25 Primordial Saronite, Blood from Festergut, blood from Rotface and Light's Vengeance and put it in a Rune Forge inside Icecrown Citadel. Could you do that?"

"Nothing more?"

Months of cash/EoF farming farming later:

"Okay, I am back!"

"Great! Now take the weapon and kill 1000 scourge, and let the weapon devour it!"

"Seriously.. Is that all?"

Days of scourge slaughtering later:

"Okay, you have to complete almost half of Icecrown citadel in 25man mode, and kill Professor Putricide then return to me just to be sent back to kill Queen Lana'thel and return again just to be sent back to torture yourself while fighting Sindragosa, before killing her."

"Great! Ill be back before you can say *Ouch it hurts to stand inside Sindragosas frost breath*!"

When you are back:

"Okay I am done.. What now?"

"Now you got to find 60 super rare shards from the Lich Kings throne!"

"Piece of cake.."

You finally return:

"Good.. here is Shadowmourne! Good luck killing the Lich King! I bet 33gold and 20 silver that you fail!"

Isnt it a little much to do? I mean.. The weapon is good, but not that great? Use the emblems of frost at T10 is my tip.

Comment by 493702

I knew something wasn't right when I rolled a caster...

Comment by 99261

wouldn't be better to use it without TG? You would build up the proc 50-60% faster than dual wielding rather than build up shards on every other/third weapon swing.

Comment by 462805

Could it be that Blizzard may create a Bloodmourne?

Comment by 501186

I love how THIS is our plan to destroy the Lich King.
I man who was also enslaved by his weapon that was notorious for devouring souls.

That's like fighting a fire in the Amazon by lighting one in the Boreal forest.

Comment by OleMarYUlberg

Ow long quest chain... f*** this, I don't care if the DPS is a little lower. I'm going back to Arcanite Reaper!
HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Comment by tripod121

Or maybe even....

Orc: Uhh, hey i'd like to sell you this axe.
Vendor: Thats a very nice Axe! let me take a look please.
Orc: So uhh, how much are you going to give me..?
Vendor: Hold on a second....
Vendor: Alright, i'll give you 1 gold and 50 silver.
Orc: 1 GOLD AND 50 SILVER? THIS IS THE BLADE THAT I KILLED THE LICH KING WITH HE WAS THE KING OF THE SCOURGE AND RULED MANY MANY MANY ACRES OF LAND! THIS IS THE WEPON THAT IS INFUSED WITH 100 MILLION SOULS!
Vendor: Okay, fine, 5 gold.
Orc: 5 GOLD?
Vendor: Yes 5 gold.
Orc: DID YOU EVEN HEAR WHAT I SAID!
Vendor: Alright, calm down... 25 gold.
Orc: ARE YOU JOKING?
Vendor: Alright alright but please dont kill me! uhm, 25 gold and 1 copper?
Orc: DEAL!

Comment by HandofDeath

this is how it will be you will start a event tirion - jaina - slyvanas and darion come they help you kill the lich king in the end *bolvar or darion picks up frostmourne and wields it for good so the scourge do not go into a mindless rage and destroy everything so now the scourge would be part of the alliance/horde and will help us in our fight against a more epic battle a way more epic battle that has never happened before in azeroth... that's just what i believe will happen after arthas dies

Comment by 501949

Thank god this monstrosity is unique..

Comment by 494458

I wonder how exactly long this'll take anyone to get?

I mean, there's a 25-50% drop rate of the Shadowfrost shards from 25 man normal, and then 50%-99% drop rate in 25 man heroic. One has to collect 60 of these shards.
Before that, you have to kill 1000 Scourge in the Citadel.

Wow... I can never even dream of getting this amazing weapon.

Comment by 502654

and the frostmure will be looted or will be distroyed in the raid?

Comment by 202176

The name of this Blade in Demonic is:Zennshinagas
or atleast it was when i pronunced Shadowmourne name while under the effect of Hex of tounges

Comment by 505425

I don't know about anyone else, but I am excited that you can sell this thing for 50g+. So, just in case it starts corrupting one's soul, he/she can make a tidy sum and let the poor fruit vendor in Dalaran deal with the undead curse.

Comment by Behelich

Mind you, none of us has seen a player w\ Shadowmourne actually trying to face the Lich King. The description from Blizz implies that Shadowmourne is Frostmourne's "sister blade", i.e. roughly equal to it in power and.. EVIL.

Now, would you be so kind as to recall the WotLK trailer?
"Only then will you realise, that you have been following MY footsteps all along"

Just imagine this scene - a ret pally (or a death knight, or warrior) enters the throne chamber, and then the following dialogue happens.

The Lich King - So, you have indeed decided to sacrifice your friends to get this blade. You are stronger, than I thought.
Player - Don't waste words, Arthas. All I can hear now is my blade speaking to me.
The Lich King - You hate me. It is good. Now, let your anger, your grief, your lust for vengeance consume you, turn them into your weapon - only then will you be able to defeat me. Only then will you be able to have your revenge!
Player - Enough! Let's finish this!

Player charges onward, only to be consumed by his/her dark side, and to be transformed into Arthas's new weapon.
The Lich King - Your fate was sealed from the moment you vowed revenge.
The Lich King - Now, my new champion, let's show them the power of the Dark Blades, shall we? NOW FROSTMOURNE!
Player (succumbed to the dark) - NOW SHADOWMOURNE!

EDIT: thx to Kurhan

Comment by 426468

Paladin, Warrior and Death Knights can only use Shadowmourne, and they are the only ones who can use plate armor as well.

A heavy burden indeed...

Comment by 504912

Beware when the soul fragmets are released

Comment by 474531

Might sound stupid but Id love to have that...to TANK!My dk is 2h focused tank spec and this will be a fine addition to his set.

Comment by 445670

Just a friendly reminder for those in the middle of the frost shard collection: if you're considering a race change (i.e. to orc to take advantage of the racial), do not do it while in the middle of the quest. Your quest log will be wiped and all associated quest items will disappear.

Comment by 104412

The 40 Strength will stack up very slow , as the weapon has a 3,7s speed and only 20% chance to trigger the effect .
The effect will stack up in 3,7x50=185 seconds on average - affected by haste ! . The effect will give a buff for 60 seconds ( as of now, 30/11/09 ) that stacks and refreshes duration each time you gain a new Soul Fragment.

( b4 downrating the 185 seconds average time to get the stack to 10 remember that a 20% chance to proc a thing on a long run will proc the thing each 5th swing - on AVERAGE .. just like a shaman's Windfury )

Even if a weapon is 3.7s speed, special attacks mean you are attacking almost every second. The weapon states "your weapon swings" which would include heroic strike, slam, whirlwind etc for warriors. I would expect the shards to get used up quite quickly in a raid environment.

Just a pity for fury warriors that it is unique :p

Comment by 488118

This may be legendary, but Might of Menethil was the supreme Pre-BC weapon.

Comment by 366611

I think they were refering to 'lifeless players' who had lost their souls/lives by being addicted to games, with that sword.
Shadowmourne with those souls is referring to all the killed souls.

Comment by Monkeybutt22

Instant top dps + glad in good hands
in bad hands it means a guilds wasted months of work.

Comment by rehaili

this wep reminds me of this http://www.wowhead.com/?item=34247
i don't know why.

Comment by 236163

Probably because these are the only two weapons that:

Can only be obtained after killing the last boss of an entire expansion.
Have three red gem sockets.
Make plate-wearing DPSers truly drool their brains out.

Comment by 304077

Just what Death Knights need, a 284ilvl, 3 red socket axe that AoE's.

Comment by dekonstrukto

man ive seen vids on how this thing works, but it took a while till he got 10 soul fragments. i mean, its not 10 hits and you get 10 soul frags. this thing would probably work only on some bosses, or at least things with a load of HP. no chance on a non elite 80.

Comment by 515938

for once, i can actually say

NOT a hunter weapon

Comment by 465544

The Best 2 HAND wep in the whole WOW at the time....right?

Comment by 507429

MUST HAVE AXE

Comment by 518014

I would love to have an axe with +333 strength (With JC only gems)...make's me moist.

Comment by 519171

shadowmourn i think its a awsom wep but the 25 primedriol sarionet things arnt worth it i mean for one on my serv is 2000g :(

Comment by 474791

Actually you could get 333 strength if you have 350 in JC by socketing x3

Here's the math's

223 + 34x3 = 325

and ofc the socket bonus at +8 strength which makes it 333.

Comment by hightdan

After you have attained all 50 shards, you get to harvest 1000 souls with the axe (just kill 1000 mobs in ICC on either 10 or 25 man) for A feast of Souls.

The order you list for this step is different from what wowhead shows in the quest chain. The put this step after
Shadow's Edge step. Is this another PTR bug, or can you confirm the order listed in your walk through is correct?

Comment by Prfctdrk

I've been out of the game for about 2 months now. Where in ICC does this come from, Lich King? All the statements I've read on the first page are just stating that it's not a hunter weapon /giggle

Comment by 523084

Is it really worth 40 000- 50 000gold, or spend that on gear and you could do just as much with "bad" weapon :)

Comment by 523548

20% proc rate believe it or not is a very HIGH PROC RATE. What your not thinking about or including is instant attacks made by the wielder can proc this as well.

Fun way to look at it, Bladestorm + Sweeping strikes. In essence the way your are stating it is to say if i auto attack, with no attack speed buffs, then it will take me approximately 185 seconds to reach a 10 stack. Fun times...

Windfury Totem (improved2/2) and Improved Icy Talons = 20% melee haste
Swift Retribution and some other class buff = 3% Melee and Spell haste.
Flurry (fury talent) = 25% melee haste
Blood Frenzy (arms talent) = 10% melee haste

So lets just says that 3.7 base attack speed, will not be their attack speed in a raid, no matter the comp.

Comment by 41828

It's great that it's unique, cause I'd hate to have more than one filling up my bag

Comment by 380715

@ Naddar - It's great it's unique, cause I'd hate to have warriors dual-wielding it.

Comment by 457242

Ok now i really want to see what Gorribal`s stats will look like

Comment by 526715

i think this would work great with a DK unholy dps

Comment by cmikhow

Contrary to what most people have said, Chaos Bane does not activate on 10 stacks, but in fact on your next swing AFTER you have acquired ten stacks of the buff. Therefore when you proc a shard at 9 stacks, you will hit 10 stacks, and +400str.

Your next strike will que Chaos Bane, and unleash the shards, and your str bonus. This is a great time for Death Knights to tie up with Blood Lust, activate speed pots, trinkets, blood fury (for the orcs), and pop your Gargoyle/Dancing Rune Weapon.

If you can manage to get a hang on succesfully tying these all together you can summon a pet that will do TONS of damage.

Comment by 495935

If Arthas was a fury warrior, this would be his off hand...

Frostmourne his main hand of course
.

Comment by 518496

So my Death Knight tank guildie just told me that ret pallies SHOULD NOT get this weapon because it has armor penetration. As a ret pally i laughed. For all u Ret Pallies who roll on this you are evil people! Ignore the 68 strength u could get from socketing 3 Cardinal Rubies, or the 223 strength it alredy has, this weapon is worthless because of the Armor Penetration. Plus the proc and the 114 extra crit strike rating are lame anyway. O and BTW if u roll on DPS plate as a ret pally go shoot urself, and anything with strength should go to a warrior. So in conclusion Ret Pallies should not roll on gear anymore. Ever.

Psst, Crusader Strike, Divine Storm, and auto-attacks are all physical. 35%-40% of my damage in Ret is physical and I don't even have the 2-piece T10 set bonus yet: Lightsworn Shoulderplates that would increase physical damage yet more. Armor Pen. is going to be very valuable to a ret pally in ICC raids.

(Before you downrate me, I do 6k-6.5k dps on Saurfang)

Tell Tank DK's to stick their fingers up their asses and rotate. :D

Comment by 531904

Just imagine a full Fury Spec. Warrior with Wrathfull and two of these..who would dare to duel someone like that?

Comment by 531904

Note:I know u can't actually get two of those,don't rush with bad comments!

Comment by 495935

Dude its not possible to Dual wield these, its unique.

Comment by Crisi

Are heart strike and death strike add a soul fragment?

Comment by 533525

223 str base stat + 34 str x3 (JC gems) + 8 str socket bonus = 333 Str

That gives us 666 attack power (at least for DK's) ...coincidence?

Comment by 475776

@viror: What are you talking about? The gear change in Wrath was nowhere near as huge. Kara gear lasted until 74 blues and 78 greens, and BT/Sunwell gear was good enough to raid in. It was not at all like replacing your Blackwing Lair epics before you even got into Zangarmarsh. (by Supercool)

I thought I'd test this claim. To make things simple, I picked caster cloaks to compare:

Best BWL caster cloak: Cloak of the Necropolis - requires lvl 60
First TBC caster cloak rough equivalent: Spoar-soaked Vaneer - requires lvl 62

Best Kara caster cloak: Stainless Cloak of the Pure Hearted - requires lvl 70
First WotLK caster cloak rough equivalent: Mantle of Keristrasza - requires lvl 69

In this example, the BWL cloak lasts at least 2 lvls into TBC while the Kara cloak is already outdated the moment you can wear it. In summary, the real question should be "@Supercool: What are you talking about?"

Comment by Shoningun

HAHAH fury warrior with this and another 2 hander omg dead

Comment by 533029

dk tanks will be happy with this a nice 2h with ALOT of stamina plus with the 3 sockets u can get some extra stam or defense.......gratz death knights you dont suck as bad at tanking!

Comment by Crevox

Current:

Your weapon swings have a chance to drain a Soul Fragment granting you 30 strength. When you have acquired 10 Soul Fragments you will unleash Chaos Bane, dealing 1900 to 2100 shadow damage split between all enemies within 15 yards and granting you 270 strength for 10 sec.

Old:

Your weapon swings have a chance to drain a Soul Fragment granting you 40 strength. When you have acquired 10 Soul Fragments you will unleash Chaos Bane, dealing 1900 to 2100 shadow damage split between all enemies within 8 yards.

Older:

Your weapon swings have a chance to drain a Soul Fragment from their undead, demon, and elemental victims. When you have acquired 10 Soul Fragments you will unleash Chaos Bane, dealing 6840 to 7560 shadow damage split between all undead, demons, and elementals within 8 yards.

Comment by foxbuster

Interesting. Now the mortals have the power to craft a weapon similar to the one made by the Nathrezim.

Next in line... Well, we don't have craftable Warglaives yet... just an idea.

Comment by 338077

Hey! Don't get to excited! The caster staff and weapons are of equal quality. They are level 284 also.

Comment by FalkuZ

I find it amazing, that it doesn't have an flavor text ?
I mean, should be something like, one-hitting-clothies for free!

Comment by 497164

When Cataclysm comes, will Shadowmourne be able to be reforged? If it does.. Well.. OUTTA WORDS!

Comment by TwilightVanquis

But if w count that any1 is not so rich to make 25 primordials and cannot raid every week it mean he cannot get Shadows edge. So maybe after prices will go down.
Now i have 23 primordials + Bloods and Lights Vengeance. But if i will change weapon on cataclysm i think i dont wanna get 50K gold for these primo.
It will be good to change stats on lvl 85 like pre-q. Do that weapon for lvl 85 :)

Comment by 359921

Why, oh why do I have to be a Prot. Warrior!

/cry

Comment by Salaterez

Lets just say you is a Jewelcrafter.
34x3=102 (3x34 str gems)
102+8=110 (Gems and Socket Bonus)
223+110=333 (BAse Strength and Sockets and Bonus)<----------------------
333+270=663 (Base Strength, Sockets, Proc Effect And Bonus.)
663+200=863 (Beserking)
Creepily Enough, 666 AP just for wearing this.
1726 AP when procs are active

Fury Warriors with the right spec get 30% extra strength, if you do not know how this is done, you are a dumbass.

333x 30%
This is another 110 strength for a fury warrior
333+110=443 strength just for wearing this. ( As a Fury Warrior with the right spex)
Assuming that you have absolutly nothing but Bold Cardinal Rubies, Two Sovereign Dreadstones and a 21 crit 3% crit bonus, and the right enchants along with http://www.wowhead.com/?item=50730 with three Bold Cardinal Rubies socketed, you would be one badass mother %^&*er.

Comment by Moskri

The only thing i dont like in this weapon is that it looks like a one-hander... i mean look at it :(

Comment by utopus

sadly, it IS for most fury warriors T.T

Comment by 370896

It's available next reset.

Comment by 141498

I can see that the text says "Your weapon swings have a chance to drain a Soul Fragment granting you 30 strength. ..."

Does this mean that only this weapon's actual swings (not skills) and "Next Melee" attacks (ex: Heroic Strike) will have a chance of proc'ing it? So almost all classes that can use it will have pretty much the same chances of getting the buffs to stack if they're fighting a monster... outside of getting more haste or talents that provide a speed increase?

Comment by 331679

is there any1 that has this yet? how long is the quest chain after u have the 25 bars?

Comment by 42532

Now I'm not going to get too much into this whole "arms is the best class for this axe-discussion" paladins, death knights and warriors can obtain this axe and put it to good use as well.

Now I have yet to see what the damage proc is like, but Death Knights have Blood Presence which will up the damage by 15% and a talent "Black Ice" further increasing its damage, and the "Ebon Plaguebringer" which is probably one of the most useful death knight abilities, being able to afflict multiple targets with the equivalent of "Curse of Elements" boosting the damage even further by 13%.

Haste could also factor in on this whole thing, as how many swings you do affects how many Shadow Banes you make during a fight, both paladins and death knights put haste to better use than warriors wielding this as a 2H dps frost Death Knight you are able to increase your own haste by 5% at all times and 20% when applying Icy Touch (basically at all times as well). Paladins also get more strength from "Divine Strength" gaining 15% more strength also being able to apply BoK to themselves further increasing that by 10% they also have "Vengeance" which increases their physical and magical damage by 9% when stacked, and they keep this to a maxed stack pretty much the entire time they are in combat. Due to the nature of paladins they are epic keyboard smashers, limited only by the cooldown on their abilities, for example Crusader Strike and Divine Storm are two abilities directly affected by their weapon damage, also their seals are affected by their weapons in some cases, for example "Seal of Command" is affected by the weapon damage, and "Seal of Righteousness" is affected by weapon speed.

Clearly this axe is great for arms warriors for many reasons including the ones mentioned by the original poster.
The reasons would be the way that arms warriors utilize their weapon, they're bleed effects are affected by their weapon, they get 6% more damage with two-handers from two-handed weapon specialization, 5% more crit with axe specialization, 10% more speed with blood frenzy their bleed effects are affected by weapon damage and this is axe is the most damaging weapon thus far in the world of warcraft.

Now I'm aware you're not saying thats the "ONLY" class/race combo but you are saying it is the best class/race combo thats where you've got me confused, now I'm not saying it is the best class/race combo, I don't know what the best class/race combo is but you haven't really proven why Arms-Warrior/Orc is the class that gets the most from this axe.

If anything is clear, it is that this axe is awesome for any class capable of wielding it not just Orc warriors that have chosen to spec Arms.

Comment by 42532

So basically..

Death Knights can gain:
Blood presence: 15% more damage.
Black Ice: 10% shadow damage.
Ebon Plaguebringer: 13% more magic damage and 3% crit at all times.
Improved Icy Talons: 20% haste when applying Icy Touch, 5% haste at all times.
Merciless Combat: 12% more damage when target is below 35% health.
Blood Gorged: 10% more damage when you are above 75% health.
Two-Handed Weapon Specialization: 4% more damage with twohanders.
Bone Shield: 2% more damage.
Annihilation: 3% crit with all abilities.
Dark conviction: 5% crit.

Also several talents that increase critical strike chance and critical strike damage on certain abilities.

Death Knight abilties affected by weapon.
Blood Strike.
Heart Strike.
Plague Strike.
Scourge Strike.
Frost Strike
Death Strike.
Obliterate.
Blood Caked Blade.
Necrosis.

So from reading this, the argument seems a lot bigger than what it seemed at first doesn't it?
And I'm not saying that Death Knights would put this weapon to its best use in their hands, I'm simply saying that we all will put this weapon to a good use, and in the end I think it relies more on the player that wields it rather than what class/spec/race he is. Giving an arms warrior priority on shards for this weapon would be a waste if the warrior was less skilled than the other guy, a person that does not maximize their performance will never perform as well as a good, skilled and concentrated player.

Comment by 352459

Hunter's weapon...It's time for Raptor Strikes!

(B4 downrating...it's a joke)

Comment by 149382

To answer all the people asking about it, no, as of 3/15/2010, no one has managed to create a Shadowmourne.

Sindragosa, the last boss of the infusion quests, was implemented on 2/2/2010. Since then, there have been 6 total dungeon resets.

We CAN estimate the max # of shards anyone could have by now, but this requires mathematically impossible conditions. Let's look anyway.

Situation 1: Max Shards

A) The individual had already completed both the Putricide and Blood Queen attempts.
B) The guild in question killed the Lich King the first week he was available, and continued to clear the instance after each reset.

The first week Sindragosa was available, you had to clear to her. At that point, you could potentially get the Sindragosa infusion, then kill the plague wing (3 bosses), Blood wing (2 bosses), and the Lich King.

Max Shards after week 1: 6

ICC Has 12 bosses in it, so you could potentially attain 12 shards per week (Mathematically impossible, since even on heroic the drop rate is not 100%... but let's go with it.)

Max Shards after week 2: 18
Max Shards after week 3: 30
Max Shards after week 4: 42

Assuming this drop rate (again, mathematically impossible) it would have been possible for someone to attain Shadowmourne after killing 9 bosses in week 5 (March 2nd - March 8th).

Situation 2: Realistic shards

Now, if we throw in drop rates... it severely affects our numbers. Drop rate on normal-difficulty kills is 37.5% (25-50% = 37.5% average probability). Now, actual probability will obviously deviate from this, but let's just go with it.

Drop rate on Heroic difficulty is reportedly 74% (50-99% = 74% average). Again, deviation possible, etc.

To assemble a realistic idea, we can apply these probabilities to the to the future kills.

Week 1, 6 potential shards X .375 (probability for ez mode, since they couldn't be heroic kills) = 2.25, we'll round down to 2.

Shards after week 1: 2

In week 2, the best guilds cleared 11/12 Hard modes. LK Has yet to be killed on heroic, so we'll use the 74% probability for 11, and assume a shard from LK every 3 weeks.

Week 2: 8 shards (10 total)
Week 3: 8 shards (18 Total)
Week 4: 9 shards (1 from LK, 27 total)
Week 5: 8 shards (35 total)
Week 6: 8 shards (43 total)

Since we are currently still in week 6, it's statistically VERY unlikely anyone will have a Shadowmourne by now. That said, it's possible we will see one either tomorrow or Wednesday (3/16 or 3/17, beginning of Week 7), and we should definitely see the first Shadowmourne by week 8 (3/23).

As for me... 15 shards and counting. (I'm in a casual guild).

We can probably expect to see Shadowmourne numbers explode pretty rapidly in a month or two, as more casual players obtain the shards needed.... and since ICC as a whole will be ridiculously easy to complete once the 30% buff is implemented. Also, this may even open up the possibility (if not the probability) of even the truly casual players picking up Shadowfrost Shards from PUGs.

Comment by 531712

The only thing I dislike about this weapon and most of WoW's weapons, is that it totally puts the other ones out of business. I mean if you're level 80 and could have any weapon, there is no choice. It's this one. It really makes you feel epic I guess having this, but I think they should have more balanced weapons to a certain level. Like maybe other weapons that are just as powerful as this, but in different ways.

I also gotta wonder what casters are going to do once this thing becomes used a lot. I mean it seems like it will really buff up any melee class that has their hand on this, and casters can only make their spells so much more powerful. (The new level 85 cap should help... but it will help melee's too).

Comment by jakepauly

World First

http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Mal'Ganis&cn=Modk

Comment by Kannas

It's...*sniff*...beautiful...

Comment by frmorrison

For a Ret Paladin, it takes about 5 seconds to get the 30 strength up to 10, and then Chaos Bane goes off.
The stacking strength adds up to be about 155 strength average for 5 seconds, and then the 270 strength for 10 seconds (you can't stack it while Chaos Bane is up).

For Ret, you can assume the value of the proc is 155 *1/3 + 270*2/3 =~215 strength plus 2100 shadow every 15 seconds = 140 dps. For Ret strength is ~2.2 dps, so 613 dps just from the special ability.

Comment by 566695

as people have said, weilding this as a fury warrior, u wouldnt have BA as ur offhand. u would go mainly for stats with ur offhand. BA doesnt proc enough, so imho i believe that Cryptmaker or something similar would suffice.

Comment by Nerxedion

Blizzard already told ages ago, that they will not release Frostmourne because
- It corrupts your soul
- And it was already broken by Tirion in the Lich King encounter

Comment by drAllCOM3

I do have one particular problem with this axe.
How do I keep the buff running while standing in Dalaran?
The critters spawn to slowly and the engineering dummies have no hp.

Comment by 532081

http://eu.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Stormreaver&cn=Leviculus

europe first?

Comment by 111622

I wanna see some noob actually consider Crusader enchant for this.

Comment by 194539

well i think it will be quite fun with this axe on a fury war. lets think:

warrior fury based with this one and Bryntroll, the Bone Arbiter (Bryntroll,the Bone Arbiter) using death wish and recklesness : (some armor penetration ) -whirlwind 17-22 k lol ?
http://dragcave.net/user/koriastaz

Comment by 574727

Do death knight get increased shadow damage from chaos bane via their talents?

Comment by 515938

56 gold?

56 GOLD?

I don't think blizzard knows how hard it is to get this quest done...

this should at MINIMUM reward 50 emblems of frost or something good like that, this is a dam impressive quest chain to complete

this also sucks because once the next blizzard instance is released and emblems of frost drop in random heroics, everyone and their mother will have shadowmourne, dont get me wrong you still need to down all these bosses and get the SF shards which still wont be to easy but still, this games gettin way to easy

enjoy your free purplez&orangez

Comment by 530106

first character on u.s realm Korialstrasz to get shadowmourne
armorylink: http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Korialstrasz&cn=Halomyr

gratz halomyr

Comment by RAWRburgers

ICC is the last major instance to be included in WOTLK. I mean, who else could you be versing?

Comment by elsiemae

Shadowmourne Hungers...

Comment by 301506

By xBlazex on 11/18/2009 (Patch 3.2.2)
This axe is beastly, being able to have up to 291 Strength + 360 more from the proc.

And Orc Arms Warriors will be extra happy as this is an Axe.

Also, our second permanent available to players Legendary 2h Weapon.

And to be even clearer on why Arms Warriors and Orcs would love this it is because Arms Warriors get Poleaxe Specialization and Orcs get Axe Specialization therefore, an Orc Arms Warrior gets 5% more crit and 5 more Expertise (about 41 Rating) than other race/class combinations.

But, also don't think I'm saying this is for ONLY that race/class combination, just that that combination gets a lot more than others for just having it equipped.

Just wait till cata when we can have something like THIS on a orc warrior. by the way i was not being realistic just going for the end result of titans + poleaxe specialization + orc racial = total pwnage =O but of course rather stupidly, i forgot about the (supposedly MAJOR) changes to racials. the link above may no longer exist :(

Comment by 580707

Hunter weapon

Comment by fernandobacate

why Was I downrated?....

Comment by 581789

Is this still attainable, seeing as there is a feat of strength to get it?

Comment by PheonixE

For those of you that replace this in Cataclysm but want to have a really, really shiny weapon....

This thing has an insane glow with an Executioner enchant on it.

To see it in-game, copy/paste: /script DEFAULT_CHAT_FRAME:AddMessage("\124cffff8000\124Hitem:49623:3225:0:0:0:0:0:0:0\124h\124h\124r");

Comment by 355194

could a Fury Warrior with Titan's Grip dual-wield this weapon as a main and another two hand weapon, or because it is unique, it cannot be dual-wielded by fury warriors, if someone can confirm this, it would be much appreciated, thank you.

Comment by 582948

By "split" does the green text mean each creature will receive a fraction? That sounds a little weak for a legendary 2h but I still feel unsure

Comment by Koper

This is the item with the highest repair cost currently in the game: 33g 60s if it has 0 durability!

Comment by 583224

omg i sure want that weapon, wonder how much GS it has!

Comment by elsiemae

This is officially the best DK weapon in the game currently, even for tanks. It will probably last into deep cata.

Comment by 584354

What about casters and rouge's?
Will the hunter be able to actually use it? doesn't say anything about it on the information.
That would be kinda unfair thought. Even cuz of the armor penetration.

Comment by yxes

Just a thought, since there have been 3 legendary items in Vanilla and BC and there are 2 legendary items in WotLK, do you guys think there might come one more?

Comment by 562564

Obviously tanks will never have to worry about aggro again with this, especially DK tanks.

However, this axe does have a downside. It costs an arm and a leg to repair.

Comment by 580163

Does anyone knows how the AoE abilitie really works ?

Trying to get some info or videos but can't actually see anything clearly.
Tooltip says that when you get 10 stacks you get Chaos Bane = AoE, then what, back to no stacks, i presume, rinse and repeat ?

Comment by Sneetch

Vendor price is beaten by this unfortunately.

Comment by leivadaros91

"Cannot be disenchanted"

....damn :(

Edit: downrated...kinda expected that.....if someone thought i was serious he's sad >.>

Comment by shawarmakriger

I'm glad there's no Heroic version of this :3

Comment by Delvara

Needs more strength

Comment by 603535

You right xblazex there orc arms warrior are great with their racials and spec, but tried to have titan grip and poleaxe so i are fury spec but have the extra critical strike rating and in cataclysm you hare going to have all this specs and weapons (Shadowmourne and Glorenzelg, High-Blade of the Silver Hand and dragon eye).

Comment by 296147

According to the Find Upgrades page, the only item that has any dps boost is this for Unholy DK DPS.

Comment by 544891

Its pretty @#%$ing amazing but it doesnt look as epic as i think it has the potential to look.

Comment by zeneder

this is such bull*!@# a pala can use shadowmourn.. -.-? a holy guy with a unholy wepon.. yeah.. right

Comment by 610257

if you have the shadowmourne, can you please put your name in a comment.

Comment by 586781

this weapon = UBER PWNT and is at the moment one of the best weapons in the game

Comment by steinmetz342

lore wise i don't mind if warriors use it but i find it offensive when paladins wield it,

Comment by 423630

Whats up with the Icon for Shadowmourne, it looks nothing like it! Yet the icon for the feat of strength looks exactly like the weapon. Go figure.

Comment by 442407

No because you use Shadow's Edge to create Shadowmourne, so you will no longer have SE after you've created Shadowmourne.

Comment by 608610

I've got it on my Dk Doing 50k - 60k each hit, but ful 25man HC geard :P

Comment by 249915

A tank on my server has it

I cry every day-

Comment by 91318

Hi all
this is a dps weapon, is there any quest in ICC for something like this but for tank? or healer?

Comment by 435011

My hand up for next tank/DPS caster legendary wep. At the moment we have one tanking sword, one caster dps, one ranged DPS, one healer mace, and thr ee melee dps weapons.
And Shadowmourne is pretty similar to Sulfuras in terms of stat distribution, so it seems that circle is full and goes on.
Blizz, make next SPDPS legendary not a staff, but a dagger or sword, and if latter, sheathe it at the back.

Comment by TAT0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IijlbG7yrlc
!@#$(##RESPBREAK##)140##DELIM##MasterOfDisguise##DELIM##

Comment by j0eL

This weapon should not be allowed into arena IMHO. This weapon can carry entire teams to arena master. Almost every DK or Warrior team above 2300 in 3s and 5s has this weapon on my BG. It's ridiculous how much of an advantage they have, and how hard that thing hits with an MS.

Comment by Barrahir

If there is one thing this weapon lacks... it's duct tape.

Comment by 373850

I love how this is the best weapon in the game, but there's still a button that says find upgrades.

Comment by NightmareMJ

It is a sad pity shaman's cannot use this weapon :(

Comment by Odin47

Could someone answer me this: according to the second quest in the chain for this weapon it says the races that can do it are Human and Blood Elf. Does this mean that you have to be a human or blood elf to get this weapon?

Comment by 620180

I dont get why yall are fighting it is a awesome axe that gives better stats than any other 2H axe plus the gems which makes it good for a DK blood tank since they use 2H weapons

Comment by OleMarYUlberg

No songs shall be sung tonight, couse tonight... all gamers cry...
Kliklak's Fearsome Greatsword

Comment by 438892

It appears the arpen on this is changing into haste come cataclysm.

Comment by 217053

This is a very lackluster weapon, and is disappointing beyond belief. :(

Comment by 614348

Hmm.lets put this into a strength test.223 strength at the start,plus 60 if you add 3 bold cardinal rubies,plus 290 strength from soul fragment at 9 stacks equals 573 strength if everything is right.but I also didnt include any weapon enchants

Comment by XxMethodZxX

Does the passive buff stack with new fragments?

Comment by 539276

ok in wotlk we got the healer mace the dps axe when are us tanks gonna get our legendary?

Comment by Mazaten

The minimum and maximum damage, along with the DPS, have been raised very slightly on the Cataclysm database. It also has less strength and a lot more stamina.

Comment by Technosis

Anyone think it would be worth trying to make now? Or sell all the Primal Saronite you have?

Comment by 572795

What happens when you obtain this weapon: Achievment: " Congratulations! You have ABSOLUTELY NO LIFE! " ? :)

Comment by 402725

if you bought all the primordial saronite's from the AH you would gain money and have shadowmourne if you sell the loot from sealed chest

Comment by 178827

I'd love to have this on my Shaman for some fun WF procs.

/sad

Comment by 621739

I need to be a vendor - buying this with only 50g would be the best thing ever.

Comment by 630835

It's pretty Epic of a weapon from me using it first hand. Deals really high dam on my Ret Pally

Comment by Pseudocool

Can't wait to get this so I can vendor it for a cool 50g.

Comment by 631656

This weapon is great but with all you have to do to get it, it could be a bit better.

Comment by 621739

Can't wait to get this so I can vendor it for a cool 50g.

But I heard it procs naked ladies!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceSEgOeCuXU

Comment by 633823

Can someone get the Shadowmourne Shrads without getting to that particular quest line (Splinter Throne)?

Under the circumstance where there is a DK have the splinter throne quest, will the RL with master loot be able to give it to someone else without the splinter throne quest (for example: only at the blood infusion quest)?

Comment by 613041

guys, really, it's not shadowmourne shards, it's Shadowfrost shards, more specifically it's splinters from the frozen throne, once broken by Kel'thuzad i think, don't shot me for getting the lore wrong. anyway, my point is that they aren't called shadowmourne shards and what not, but they are shadowfrost shards.
I don't quite give a &*!@ if it gets downrated so, knock yourselves out!

Comment by Pheonixfire

"Greetings traveler. Welcome to booty bay how cani help u?" "I'm here for my bloodsail achivement." *At war with booty bay* "Wait traveler? WHAT ARE YOU..." om nom nom nom nom nom nom nom nom (4 hours of farming rep) Shadowmourn~"Man, i hate goblin souls too greedy" "Pipe down you got fed today right?" Shadowmourne weilders plz kill and feed your axe responsibly.

Comment by 636044

if you ask me Shadowmourne looks really good without any runes or enchantments like that and surely they should allow a weapon like frostmourne to drop from the lichking but not as powerful as shadowmourne

Comment by 636072

What do u think is better for arms warr?..Heroic Glorenzelg or Shadowmourne?..

Comment by 633197

but im 65...

Comment by 642968

To many people's confusion, the reason as to WHY you cannot get Frostmourne is because after you kill the Lich King, Frostmourne is broken in half and unusable. The lore explains it all.

Comment by agentex50

Screencaps and the 3D model viewer do it no justice. In game it IS superior to the 'Frostmourne' that blizz is teasing us with. I think that most of the arguments that people are (stupidly?) making about it is due to the teaser having a measly 2 more stamina than Shadowmourne. My point being that anyone who would rather have the trinket that blizz is teasing us with doesn't know squat about WoW. Anyways, yes this IS the best weapon in the game (for the classes that can use it at least) and WILL last well into Cataclysm. Just in case no one has figured it out yet, the stat changes that are coming with Cataclysm will also affect EXISTING items. Yes, that will mean that most likely this very weapon will boast a ridiculous amount of both stam and strength. Say what you will, but come that time, you can expect Shadowmourne to holds it's own just fine! :)

Comment by smasher

Do you still get the LK talking/whispering to you in text and audio once you have the legendary or does it stops ?
I just got mine but since I changed my interface right when I got my Shadowmourne I'm wondering if I don't get any LK whisps because of a bug.

It would be kind of a "vanity downgrade" to lose the whispers, which are kind of fun and unique IMHO !
I'm posting here since I could'nt really find any infos about that, and I'm sure other people are wondering the same thing.

Comment by rebellion991

This axe along with This "set" of items will make a TG warrior hit like a truck. Frost DK tanks ? They will be squishy. Retadins ? No problem.
edit for the ? time : i assumed the wearer has blacksmithing and enchanting and i accidentally added 3xdragon's eye instead of the usual Cardinal ruby. You can stop downrating now.

Comment by 255188

It's kinda sad that this Porcelain Bell
sells for more :P

Comment by Barrahir

I have, however, noticed a serious design flaw on Shadowmourne.

It has no duct-tape.

Comment by 637507

Why this has to be so dull looking compared to cool swords like Glaives and Thunderfury, why Blizzard? WHYYY? :<

Comment by 622529

It would be ridiculous for fury warriors if you could get two of these. Ridiculous.

Comment by 249373

At first I thought the legendary weapon would be a sword, as an enhancment shammy that made me a litle sad. Then it turned out it was a 2h axe and I became happy. Then I saw the item and noticed that only DKs, warriors and pallys could use it and I was devastated.

It´s a shame realy, but I guess Blizzard learnt their lesson from the Sulfurass shamans whacking everything back in vanilla.

Comment by 656943

Argh I realy don't get why they had to make an axe of it, Hammer or Sword would have been much more awsome. Paladins we need to face it, Blizzard will never make "our" weapon :P

Comment by Momentum

By goshadstep2lose on 12/04/2009 (Patch 3.2.2)

This is the eighth permanent legendary weapon to be added to the game, and the second level 80 legendary

Vanilla
Thunderfury, Blessed Blade of the Windseeker
Sulfuras, Hand of Ragnaros
Atiesh, Grand Staff of the Guardian

Burning Crusade
Warglaive of Azzinoth (MH)
Warglaive of Azzinoth (OH)
Thori'dal, The Stars' Fury

Wrath of the Lich King
Val'anyr, Hammer of Ancient Kings

It surprises me that nobody mentioned that from the above legendary`s the Atiesh is the only one who can not be obtained anymore as the instance naxx from vanilla is reused for Wotlk and with that the atiesh was removed from game at least to obtain it

Unlike with the others who are as of now still obtainable dunno if this will change in cataclism

Comment by Aera

Lol @ the "Find Upgrades" option for Shadowmourne, up at the top.

There are just SO many upgrades from Shadowmourne for 2h wielders XD

Comment by 677787

I have a question for those who already have it. I am on the Infusion quests now, and it seems I still get whispers. Will the whispers continue AFTER you have obtained the shadowmourne (kinda like the Corrupted Ashbringer did) ? Or is it only during the questline in ICC while you have Shadows Edge?

Comment by 45315

Behold, Spiritmourne!

Comment by tales

This is the eighth permanent legendary weapon to be added to the game, and the second level 80 legendary

You should improve your reading comprehension

Comment by 135506

Chaos bane damage now scales with Attack power. It was at 4.3k dmg during my raid.

Comment by 344605

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with three 34 strength sockets and berserker enchant

Comment by Lazurianis

This is a Unique Weapon due to the fact IT TALKS TO YOU!
The Lich King's soul IS trapped inside Shadowmourne, occasionly you will here a random quote from The Lich King its usually a demand to free his soul from Shadowmourne and back into his body.

Comment by 351151

I'm of the opinion that Legendary weapons should scale with the level of the player, much like BOA heirlooms do. The mechanic already exists in the game now.

Obtaining them still required a herculean effort to obtain, may even be regarded as feats of strength, and when seen in game evoke pangs of nostalgia for old skool accomplishments.

Legendary weapons won't be any less legendary if they were permitted to scale like heirlooms.

But meh, im a player, not a dev.

Comment by Jessicat

Getting replaced by level 81 blue weaponz... this weapon is doin' it right.

Edit: Noting from my downrating, I guess the truth hurts. However, at least you had fun and a decent challenge making the axe. Not a ton of people can say that, even with the 30% raid-wide buff.

Comment by Oogzy

You'll replace this thing with a level 80-81 blue. How sad is that? There's level 78 blue trinkets that are better than current BiS trinkets.

Comment by Corbon

DPS progression for top two-handers since Vanilla.

Lv 60: 95.3 DPS (Lv 89)
Lv 70: 148.8 DPS (Lv 164)
Lv 80: 347.8 DPS (Lv 284)
Lv 85: 703.6 DPS (Lv 372) with less than 2 weeks in.

I remember late original Naxx weapons still being on a par with Lv 70 blues but easily getting replaced with Heroic and Kara epics. This has become less and less true for subsequent expansions, with a sword like Apolyon likely being replaced in your mid 70's and Lv 80 stuff becoming obsolete even earlier.

I predict a two hander exceeding 1000 DPS from Deathwing on Heroic.

Comment by Chaoslux

Very Manly Staff
Despite the numbers shown on wowhead. In game, the Very Manly Staff has 1291-1937 Damage...which makes it a caster weapon with more melee damage than Shadowmourne. It's That Manly.

Comment by hordeforever

the only problem with this weapon is that the first weapon you get in deepholm (which is 82) is better than it.....but you cant beat the lich king whispering you :)

Comment by 602256

the only problem with this weapon is that the first weapon you get in deepholm (which is 82) is better than it.....but you cant beat the lich king whispering you :)

...He whispers you?

Comment by 759281

Hi this may sound a bit nooby but i was just wondering if it was possible to wield shadowmourne and another 2h weapon by using the fury warrior spec Titan's Grip. (On the WOTLK expansion)

Comment by noobstar2112

JAYSUS! what else is there to say? /wink

Comment by Boroka

Does anyone if it is possible to 10 man lich king on 25 man mode to acquire shadowmourne as noone is raiding ICC 25 man anymore but occasionly as a guild we run 10 man Heroic for fun and achievements now

Comment by Tripfel

I think a really good reason to go for this weapon (even tho it looks like trash compared to other Legendarys and besides the feat of strength acheve) is to go for the chest that LK drops on 25, it can only drop if someone in raid has shadowmourne equiped.
Inside the chest worth mentioning is a very nice, red "dk", mount and a very very nice tabard.
and if you are not interested in these, they are not Bind on pickup but insead Bind on Use
so u can sell these for A LOT of $money$, definatly something to go after.

Comment by 775944

This axe is a best :X

Comment by 677787

I am 12 shards away from this Axe. Cannot wait.

Question for those who already have it... will LK still whisper you inside ICC after you obtain the axe?

Comment by andape

Warriors Are LUCKY! fury u can hold this and umm the MC legendairy!

Comment by 780040

It's funny now how you can either buy or make a sword at level 81 that is better than this lol.

Comment by 775163

is this like frostmournes equal in axe form

Comment by 822077

Salvaged Chain GlovesWell If you want to get this Axe you'll have to do Some things

First:Buy the 25 saronites 5500 justice points,then kill Rotface and festergut.
Second:You have to bring 5-10 persons and kill 50 trash hiting all of them with the ShadowEdge
Third:The infusion are difficult.
Unholy infusion:You have to use the abomination and when you have 100 energy and the boss is in 50% or something like that you use the infusion(Buttons 4)
Blood infusion:You have to aproach the tank to be target of blood mirror then your team doesnt have to dps because if they dont do it you'll get the first bite then bite 3 times and kill the queen
Frost infusion:You'll have to get hit by 4 Breaths and kill the boss

Fourth:Shards:You'll have to hunt the shards at 25 heroic for 5-10 weeks and you will get it

Pd:In drakkari full of noobs i only managed to get Two Shadow frost shards and im sad D=

Comment by 842299

You'd get 568 strength ((Gems counted)) with all the procs. Making that a 1136AP bonus for a warrior or a Ret Pally. Also our second wrath legendary

Comment by Therlen

Since Cataclysm has come out this axe is easy to get, run ICC 25 man to get the bloods, run cataclysm normal to get enough justice points to buy the primordial saronites or buy them off auction house if they are up. Getting light's vengence is easy as hell...Hardest part for getting shadowmourne is going to be getting the bloods and then killing all the bosses after that.

Comment by Therlen

Oh, and shadowmourne doesn't look dull...if you actually look at it and then look at frostmourne they look alike...just don't put an enchant...Runeforge is okay because it should match...rune of the fallen crusader is best choice.

Comment by Sparqt

SPAR'S GUIDE TO Shadowmourne

INFUSION QUESTS - HOW TO (explained simply)

*ALL INFUSIONS MUST BE DONE WITH Shadow's Edge EQUIPPED AND YOU MUST NOT DIE AT ANY POINT DURING THE ENCOUNTERS*

UNHOLY INFUSION - PROFESSOR PUTRICIDE Unholy Infusion

During the encounter control the ABOMINATION by clicking on the table where Putricide is standing. Your goal is to gain 100 ENERGY BY SOAKING THE OOZE FROM THE FLOOR then upon getting 100 energy you click the button marked SHADOW INFUSION and is a 4 SECOND CAST. The easiest way to drink the ooze is stand right in the centre of the puddle and spam 1 until the puddle is gone. Once you have completed the cast and gained the buff you now have 6 MINUTES TO KILL PP. The cast of Shadow Infusion is best saved for final few %% near the final phase shift (roughly 50% you want to cast this) Once it hits phase 3 avoid taking damage by standing away from PP.

BLOOD INFUSION - BLOOD QUEEN LAN'ATHEL Blood Infusion

During the encounter you have TWO TASKS

TASK 1 Gain the buff BLOOD MIRROR this is gained by standing with the tank as they engage BQL. Once you have gained this buff, move away so the OT then gains it. Once the blood mirror buff is cleared you gain a de-buff called GUSHING WOUND Gushing Wound

TASK 2 You must now become a VAMPIRE to do this you must be the FIRST PERSON TO GET BITTEN (first bite is 15 seconds after you engage her) or BE THE SECOND PERSON BITTEN (otherwise if your group is filled with 85's your dps and timing for bites will be lost and she will be dead) then you must BITE 3 PEOPLE

Once the buff THIRST QUENCHED Thirst Quenched is gained you have 6 MINUTES TO KILL HER *Note, the buff sometimes does not appear, so once you know you have bitten 3 people it is fine to burn her down*

To make getting the bites easier, split the raid into two groups. left side of the room PEOPLE WHO WANT THE BITE. and right side of the room PEOPLE WHO DON'T WANT THE BITE. Assign one person to DPS from the start that way they can concentrate on biting you. Also at certain points you may need to call out for DPS to stop. Vent is extremely handy for this.

FROST INFUSION - SINDRAGOSA Frost Infusion

During this encounter you need to get hit by Sindragosa's FROST BREATH Frost Breath 4 TIMES you will gain a stacking buff called Frost Infusion which will stack 4 TIMES upon reaching your 4th stack of this you will gain a buff called Frost-Imbued Blade you now have 6 MINUTES TO KILL SINDRAGOSA

In order to complete this with the most ease wait until her Second Landing happens. Sindragosa is permanently grounded at 35% Each Frost Breath is cast every 20 seconds, (you need roughly 80 seconds of total time to gain the 4 buffs) You need to start gaining buffs after her FIRST AIR PHASE. That way you can gain at least 3 breath stacks before she reaches p3, in the final phase gain 1 more stack of breath and infuse the weapon then stay away from the raid, make sure you pop all your CD's to keep alive and always have 1 healer looking after you.

I was mounted the entire fight on my warrior during this stage with full frost resistance gear equipped and I stayed that way until she was dead.

THE SPLINTERED THRONE - The Splintered Throne

YAY! You're on the last quest now but this is the pain in the ass part. Due to most people these days generally not having any skill whatsoever, this part becomes hard if you cannot find reliable players to farm heroic modes for your Shadowfrost Shard

Shadowfrost Shard Have a very good drop chance regardless of being on Normal or Heroic

NORMAL - 25% - 49% PER BOSS
HEROIC - 50% - 99% PER BOSS

From these percentages you can then roughly workout how many clears/weeks it will take.

Normal Mode Clears - 11 weeks
HM 10/12 Clears - 5 weeks
BEST POSSIBLE LUCK 12/12 RUN - 4 weeks

So you average time will be 5-11 weeks to gather all 50 shards.

Well I hope you guys enjoyed my little walkthrough, I hope it helps those who are wondering how the hell to do the infusions and farm the shards.

My best advice is take people who know what they are doing. Even if it takes weeks to set it up it will save you headaches in the long run. Good Luck and enjoy!

Spar <3

Comment by Crazyrussian

Just got this baby after months and months of farming on my terrible realm which still can't down a few hard-modes in Cataclysm 359+ gear. Anyways, all I do now is run around Org all day and hit critters for the stacks. :D

Comment by CyclonSword

Soul Fragment generation works off the Procs per minute system, and has a very high number of occurrences per minute. Current testing has shown that auto attacks on average generate one fragment every two seconds, and special abilities generate fragments at the same rate for a combined total of approximately one Soul Fragment every second on a single target. In AoE situations the Fragments gained per second will increase, but because not all of the players GCD's will be used to do AoE it is still unclear exactly how much faster fragments will be generated (in terms of Fragments gained per second) per target added for each class.

Comment by linkhyrule

I hope you guys didnt sell this to a vendor =P Going to love seeing this again in 4.3

Comment by Symphonius

Didn't see this mentioned anywhere, but it seems that this weapon no longer displays weapon enchant graphics.

Comment by StealthyAssassin

so.. shiny..

Comment by 895483

i just wanted to ask when i get the chest does the four rewards appear at the same time?

if yes then can i take theme all or only i can choose 1 reward?

Comment by fullmetal17

Shadowmourne is epic weapon xD

Comment by Chekan

Here is the way to do all prequests in 1 run:

First of all get 25xPrimordial Saronite (very easy to get in Dalaran for justice points) and Light's Vengeance. Also try to gather the raid yourself, so you will be the one, who rules and warn ppl that items from Rotface and Festergut are reserved.
1. To do The Sacred and the Corrupt just kill first 4 bosses and then Festergut and Rotface.
2. Then you need to go Frost wing for A Feast of Souls. Remember that you need to equip Shadow's Edge and hit every enemy mob to get credit for kill. Its very easy to get all 50 souls during Valithria Dreamwalker encounter on heroic mode, just run around hitting everything you see (i did it in holy spec as paladin).
3. As soon as Valithria is down and quest is complete switch to Plague wing again for Unholy Infusion.
4. Continue to Blood wing for Blood Infusion. Just make sure you are either bitten first or second. Make ppl stop dps untill you get 3 bites, other way shout WIPE! like crazy.
5. Last step is Frost wing for Frost Infusion. Here is also tricky part. Its easy to fail even on HM. Make ppl stop dps before P3 and wait for 4 stacks.

Aaaaand... enjoy your first Shadowfrost Shard from LK! And all in your first run there!

Comment by 939501

When it says cannot transmogrify at the top right, does it mean that Shadowmourne can't be transmogrified or that other weapons can't transmogrify into Shadowmourne?

Edit: Turns out it means both. There goes my dreams of swinging around Shadowmourne against Deathwing :(

Comment by deangelis3

What happens if yo transmog this? I know some things you get the graphics, I was wondering if this one has the same graphics as well.

Comment by Westorz

Shadowmourne hungers...

Comment by 984538

That comment about Shadowmourne being a Hunter weapon was a funny joke. It was a joke, right? Because if it wasn't, we have someone in the room that really epitomizes the term "Huntard", folks. Classes would take priority on this item as follows, Warriors, Death Knights, Paladins. Hunters are the last viable class that might want this and even then, there's a lot better choices for Hunters. First of all, melee weapons are to Hunters as range weapons are to Warriors. A hunter would get this solely for it's armor penetration. Does anyone see warriors going around killing people with bows? No, you don't because a Warrior can't kill someone with a bow.

I'm sure you had a lot of newbies fooled, thinking Hunters actually had any priority over this weapon. Warriors have priority over this weapon not only because every single stat, slot, proc of this item compliments a Warrior's needs. This weapon is also a K.O hitter. Those bleed effects Mr. Huntard was talking about is most affected by weapon damage, not attack power, not strength. Weapon damage is the source of bleed effects. I hope to God those likes are for a laughable comment and not a "Oh yeah, I agree with this." comment.

Comment by yourmehstake

If i may interject id like to point out that this(as well as all other legendaries) cannot be xmogged. This is strange because of all the weapons that you would like to obtain the look of you would think that legendaries, in my opinion, would be the most sought after. They are still used by twinks but those who have them gathering dust in their bank should have a use for them again. If anyone shares my opinion of xmogged legends please reply.

Comment by 876358

I am secretly hoping that, in MoP, we will be able to raise the ilvl of this, and other legendaries to make them viable weapons again.

Comment by 1022539

umm do you realize shadowmourne cant be used by hunters?

Comment by 1045646

Most beautiful wep in wow ever! God I want that axe... :D

Comment by Kevinsl

How many people would i need for this in MoP?

Comment by 1049338

This is really easy these days. The "hardest" part of this quest is imo the blood infusion due to pugs having a problem lissening, but when you are looking for people tell them that quests are being done and that they need to listen to your orders so you can get your quests done. For the shard farming part its a faceroll, it's extremely easy and can be done with few people on 25 HC i would recommend atleast 15 ppl or more just cause of the fact that it will be slow if your group is too small! Good luck with your shadowmourne!

Comment by 1031618

For me the guides for the infusions were bit lacky and too "explainative" and made the targets easy missable.
My thoughts for MoP and farmers.
- You can enter nowadays in party, though if you are bringing friends set the raid before you go in or it will bug and others cant enter and trash will reset when you then try to change it.

1. Farm the rep honoured (trash from start 25man is easy if you are a tank class), so you get the quest.
2. Get quest for 25xPrimordial Saronite and Light's Vengeance (LV is from the cave so get it be fore you start do other stuff inside).
3. Kill Rotface and Festergut for the bloods in The Sacred and the Corrupt
4. Kill trash untill you get 50 kills for A Feast of Souls, remember to equip your cool Shadow's Edge
5. Get Unholy Infusion from start. Putricide: Equip Shadow's Edge, drink stuff from table -> you a construct, drink pools untill u get 90 (or was it 100 power for construct), press the extra button to infuse SE -> Kill the boss untill your buff runs out.
6. Back to start and get Blood Infusion. You need to get bitten by the boss and bite 3 other players. You can bite every 60sec. Once you have the infusion buff, kill boss before it runs out.
+ If you doing with minimal group you can use 3 resses -> 4-5 is enough.
+ 2 first in threat are concidered tanks, 3rd person is bitten when the fights first bite comes from boss.
+ Bite someone and let him die untill he has to bite (fires easy way to commit suicide there)
7. Pickup Frost Infusion. Engage boss, be a tank and/or stand in front of him eating breath -> stack to four and kill boss before your buff runs out.

Done!

Notes:
+ Shadowfrost Shard doesn't always drop from LK even in HC.
+ Shards since started: 1 + 7 + 8 + 7 + 6 + 7 + 8 + 6
+ For the grinding parts, you can kill all bosses in 25HC with 3ppl now in MoP except: Putricide because of the buff at HC and Lich King cause valkyrs will kill your buddies and dps at the start of MoP isn't enough to finish him (1tank&healer+3dps is enough for us to push him to 40% to change phase and valkyrs drop victims to the spawned edge and nobody dies). If you got 3 ranged DPS and bloodlust on first transition you get to skip valkyrs and boss will be 15%-20% easily, atleast for us.
+ Marrowgar need 2 in HC if you are not a goblin/worgen/panda(?) because you get impaled and die. Even when 2-manning one must be one of the new races to open other. If you bring 3, you wont get impaled during bonestorm though..

Updated shard count, all weeks we killed all but 2 bosses on heroic (Putricide normal due dot and Lady Deathwhisper from which my friend still needs transmog from normal mode)

Comment by 1058131

Is it possible to transmog this? when its legendary?

Comment by Lazurianis

After almost three long years of farming Shadowmourne, I finally got it last night, April 10th 2013. I will give you some tips and tricks, plus statistics on how I got Shadowmourne personally.

First of all, this is NOT easy to get, even in Mists of Pandaria, it is still one of the HARDEST legendaries to obtain, and once you start, you need to finish.

I killed a total of 116 ICC Bosses from Start to Finish, this means this took me close to 17 weeks (real time) of hard-grinding to get this weapon, not counting the wipes and failures, and breaks on top of that.

The first quest you will receive to start the quest chain will require, 25 Primordial Saronites (this can be purchased with Justice Points in Dalaran if you cannot buy them off the AH), Light's Vengeance (after an Elite Scenario that has to be solo'd), and Rotfaces + Festerguts bloods (only drops on 25 Man).

The next part will require you to kill 50 NPCs (Trash or Boss). This is significantly easier than it was for me, which I had to kill 1,000 Souls, so be grateful lol.

The next part is the three infusions, in order: Unholy, Blood, and Frost.
Unholy is straight forward, collect the pools, once you have enough energy, use the infusion, and then you are finished with Unholy Infusion.
Blood Infusion is straight-up hell. You need to be the first (preferably) or second one bit then you need to bite three people, AND kill the boss for the infusion to finish. This comes extremely close to the Berserk timer, so you need to have coordination.
Frost Infusion defies all past raiding instructions. For this one, the fire = candy. Eat the Candy, and it's game.

Finally, you get to go into ICC25/25H and get to go fetch 50 Shards for 4+ Weeks, and last but not least, kill The Lich King, and get pretty loots.

Comment by Infamoose

Does anyone know if you can get a lookalike of this weapon that would make it's glow RED? Or If I was to put a "Glorious Tyranny" enchantment on it, would it glow red rather than it's traditional blue?

Comment by 1114403

can a Hunter obtain Shadowmourne? Or the quest chain is class specific? I'm asking because i want it for Unsealed Chest.

Comment by 1126844

Did I see a cannot transmogrify somewhere! WHY?

Comment by Miraak

The guy who said ret pallies shouldnt have this was right. Its a *!@#ing dk weapon.... Not because of stats but becasue of lore.

Comment by MABGamer6407

This Video is about a Man and his Shadowmourne.

Comment by Kinpo

I kind of really wanna see a warrior Dual Wield the Shadowmourne, Is it even possible?.. I mean It's rare enough to see someone with ONE, let alone a dual wield.

Comment by Heavywater

well, since its a weapon from Wotlk:

Frost DK: gems are strength
Unholy DK: gems are strength
Blood DK: gems are indeed: Arp, so for Wotlk players = Shadowmourne a perfect weapon.

and as you said some spells/attack already ignore armor....
But Hunters need 1400 Arp in Wotlk 3.3.5a but they also have spells/attacks which stock ignore armor.

conclusion: Perfect weapon for Death Knights in Wotlk
(since warriors do physical damage also perfect for warriors)
(for paladins, i can tell for sure, but i'd say it's a very nice weapon,
else it wouldnt be restricted to these 3 classes ^^)

Comment by WTBaggrodump

So close, yet so far...

Comment by 1192504

I would love to see this weapon back.

Why they create so wonderful weapon for only a few months of use and then leave it in the inventory? With Item Squish that await us in the next expansion, they should breath a life into these weapons.

Upgrade them with valor points, other weapon, quests, scale them like heirloom or whatever, but make them come back. Those weapons, which requires months of quest grinds and have quest stories deserves it.

That feeling, when purple flash comes out from your weapon to steal opponents soul, can't be compensated, not even with transmogrification.

Comment by 1131778

MoP greens pwn this =]

Comment by Krika1119

I. Want. That. Badass. Weapon.

Comment by Chrii

Imo all legendarys should work like a heirloom 1-90, since its so hard to obtain, with exception of cloak. Maybe that one unlocks after WOD launches so it can be sent to other toons.

Legendary cloak
Dragonwrath, Tarecgosa's Rest
Sulfuras, Hand of Ragnaros
Thunderfury, Blessed Blade of the Windseeker
Warglaive of Azzinoth & Warglaive of Azzinoth
Shadowmourne
Thori'dal, the Stars' Fury
Val'anyr, Hammer of Ancient Kings

Discuss, what do you think?

I think it would be awsome to be able to use my Thunderfury 1-90(100)

Comment by Tyerr

If you are like me and want to fully gem/enchant it just because you CAN! I recomment getting River's Song on it. It matches the blue glow on the weapon and doesnt ruin it!

Comment by salonis1984

Still beautiful weapon :)

Comment by 1328846

Beautiful

Comment by moodynerd

I'm so happy to be working on this legendary right now then on to thinderfury

Comment by PrairieChicken

Currently in 6.0.2 they didn't squish the proc strength, so this is BiS weapon for 2H str users

Comment by duduliotto

Got my on 3 months, easy mode, no problems with chain

Comment by 1389495

my friend had this but he was still a #$%^ :D

Comment by 1352750

Is this available for transmog?

Comment by Viggomayn

Can you still get this weapon, and the quest and all, even though you can't equip it? or is there no hope for those of us who have not rolled actual fun classes?

Comment by levi200

awesome weapon

Comment by warioras

Guys who wants to wield this weapon again I can say that it scales in the arena 90 lvl to 590 item lvl. So now just get it and collect the souls of your enemies in the battlegrounds and arenas :D GL everyone.

Comment by Skullhawk13

I know it's late, but this weapon really shouldn't have been given to paladins. I know the gameplay reason they did it, but I'm pretty sure you'd lose connection to the light for the sins you must commit to make this axe. Again, I understand the gameplay reasons, but I think paladins should've just gotten something different. Perhaps a Mace version of Ashbringer?

Comment by 1350958

A tip. If you like being godlike in bg's, arenas and like playing a fury warrior I STRONGLY advise you to:

Step 1: Level up a warrior to 80.

Step 2: Start gearing your character up by doing Ruby Sanctum 25hc and ICC25hc runs, starting the Shadowmourne questline is essential and so is getting Deathbringer's Will trinket from Deathbringer Saurfang 25hc and Sharpened Twilight Scale 25hc.

Step 3: Start farming Eye of Sulfuras and get the mats for Sulfuron Hammer in order to craft Sulfuras, Hand of Ragnaros

Useful info:
Old t10 set bonuses are gone and now only gives you a 5% physical damage increase + an all damage done increase by 5% which isn't worth going for as those extra gem sockets you get from ICC25hc gear is a lot more effective (DO NOT GO FOR PANDARIA BOE's, they are extremely bad after 6.0!). PvP gear is useless now as with the resilience today would only give you about 20% anyway even if you're fully geared. You wan't to gem pure critt with an activated meta gem and enchant full mastery. Remember to buy the new WoD enchants, they work.

Farm long enough and eventually you will have a character dual-wielding 2h legendaries where both are actually BiS.
- "How is the Sulfuras handy? It's for lvl 60's?"

Here's what's wonderfull. For all characters level 80-89 the gear and weapons scales to 429, meaning it's not enough with a FREAKIN SHADOWMOURNE but you also have a FREAKIN SULFURAS with best ilvl in that level-range + all you're gems, enchants, ICC reputation ring, and trinkets.

I have done this with a lvl 80 DK but since DK's can't dual-wield 2 2h's I only got him Shadowmourne as it's more powerfull than Sulfuras and the farm for the eye is just a pain. For my warrior, I have managed to farm a Sulfuras and am currently missing 14 shadowfrost for Shadowmourne so it's soon time for not only #rekt which I would define my playing as at the moment but #UGOTREKTSON.

Hope this encourages people to atleast try. It's an extremely lot of work, and leveling is to be honest nothing compared to the rest.

Comment by wolfkill

Is it possible to get the quest by using this and killing the LK by only equipping it at the last sec of killing LK?

Comment by DG2020

Apparently the scaling mechanics will make it viable to use Shadowmourne in Timewalking dungeons. I'm looking forward to being able to use this thing in relevant content again.

Comment by mrgummage

With the introduction of Timewalking dungeons, this weapon is quite useful again.

Comment by Glitzero

This is how it looked in 3.3.5a...

Shadowmourne
Binds when picked up
Unique
Two-Hand Axe
954 - 1592 Speed 3.70
(344.1 damage per second)
+223 Strenght
+198 Stamina
Enchantment*
Bold Dragon's Eye (+34 Strenght) / Bold Cardinal Ruby (+20 Strenght)
Bold Dragon's Eye (+34 Strenght) / Bold Cardinal Ruby (+20 Strenght)
Bold Dragon's Eye (+34 Strenght) / Bold Cardinal Ruby (+20 Strenght)
Socket bonus: +8 Strenght
Classes: Warrior, Paladin, Death Knight
Reqiures Level 80
Item level 284
Equip: Improves critical strike rating by 114. (+2.48%)
Equip: Increases your armor penetration rating by 114. (+8.15%)
Equip: Your weapon swing have chance to drain a Soul
Fragment granting you 40 strenght. When you have
acquired 10 Soul Fragments you will unleash Chaos Bane,
dealing 1900 - 2100 shadow damage split between all
enemies within 8 yards.

* Most common were Berserking or Rune of the Fallen Crusader, but I have also seen someone having Executioner enchanted.

Comment by Moodknight

blizz...Xmog...Blizz XMOG....BLIIIIZZZZZ XMOG! THE LEGENDARIES! I CANT WATCH THEM COLLECT DUST IN MY BANK

Comment by LeoZan

Greetings fellow farmer of Shadowmourne!

Note: Quest turns gray at 94.

Who can Obtain this Quest?
Warrior
Paladin
Death Knight
Note: Specilization does not matter at all!

IMPORTANT: Only **one Quest part require a Group of least 4 players to success complete.

Exeption: If you got a Shaman (Reincarnate), or Druid for (Rebirth) that can res himself/others for a second bite.
Warning: Attempting this tactic require that you already are low HP (fast death) and have not been mind controlled.
(Then you will only need in total 3 players) = 1x Quest holder + 2x victims.

Introduction (Tips)

25x Primordial Saronite (Sold in Dalaran) Total Gold-Price: 3000 G.
Dragonblight (Cave Quest) - Light's Vengeance

Note: These items must be in Inventory to complete the quest.

Dragonblight Quest:

Fight your way through alot of Ghouls.
Click the Light's Hammer.
Lich King Shows up and taunts you (RP).
Stand so you will not be hit while clicking on the Hammer, takes 8 seconds.
Once completed cast, a Ball of light shows and kill all weak ghouls and finally the Vrakyl.
Click the Light's Hammer, the Vrakyl revives as Elite skeleton, kill it.
Click Again on Light's Hammer, loot your Light's Vengeance.
Your done.

Note: As soon you obtained the quest - Leave ICC get the "Light's Vengeance",
Visit Dalaran Alliance/Horde Quarter and buy the saronite to save time.

How do i obtain the Quest?

Set to 25 man Raid. Icecrown Citadel
Clear Trash in Second and Third room until reach Friendly with The Ashen Verdict, (Before boss).
You may need to do Three Resets to obtain this reputation (2x runs with Guild Banner or Darkmoon Rep Buff).
Once you are Friendly, Speak to Highlord Darion Mograine inside ICC Raid to Obtain the quest.

- Do not kill any BOSS before you obtained the Quest.

Quest Setup:

The Sacred and the Corrupt - (Current Page).
Shadow's Edge
A Feast of Souls = Souls fed to Shadow's Edge (50)
Unholy Infusion
Blood Infusion
Frost Infusion
The Splintered Throne = Shadowfrost Shard (50)
Shadowmourne...
The Lich King's Last Stand = Rewards:

- Contains:

Alexandros' Soul Shard Turn in at Highlord Darion Mograine rewards Reins of the Crimson Deathcharger
Jaina's Locket Turn in at Lady Jaina Proudmoore rewards Jaina's Locket
Arthas' Training Sword Turn in at Muradin Bronzebeard rewards Muradin's Favor
Badge of the Silver Hand Turn in at Uther the Lightbringer rewards Tabard of the Lightbringer
Blood of Sylvanas Turn in at Lady Sylvanas Windrunner rewards Sylvanas' Music Box

Quest Part ONE: A Feast of Souls

Equip Shadows Edge.
Kill all Enemies up toward the First and Second Boss and up toward Putricide.
This should given your Shadows Edge 50 souls by now, If not clear trash before Blood Queen (pre-boss).

Quest Part TWO: Unholy Infusion
Recommended two players.

Wait until the room got 3 to 4 pools of slime in the room before interact with the TABLE to transform.
Use the buttom to "Eat" the Green pools on the floor.
Use the last buttom on your Action Bar to Infuse Shadows Edge.
make sure you complete the cast (in the transformation form) before killing boss.

Quest Part THREE: **Blood Infusion
(Require 3-4 man minimum) "Quest holder as first Vampire"

Alt #1: You bring 4 people, First vampire bite the quest holder and dies, (hopefully before the debuff reach 0 sec).
Alt #2: You bring 3 people, one class with Reincarnate (shaman) or Combat Res (death knight, druid, warlock).

(Bite the guy you can ressurect/reincarnate first so they can quickly die > revive).

# This will take around 5 min to do.

Stand next to tank (for a second) to share Blood Mirror, This will apply Gushing Wound.
This debuff will be consumed after 3 Stacks (when you bitten 3 players).
Bring boss to 30% or 50% HP.
Make sure NONE else except Quest Holder is using his "bite" on players.
When 3x Gushing Wound Been consumed = Kill the boss.

Note: Kill Mind-controlled players (they still count toward quest) - if they been bitten!
Note: Gushing Wound Is applied when the "Vampire" Bite a new Player.

Quest Part FOUR: Frost Infusion

Stand infront of Sindragosa.
Subject yourself to FOUR breath Attacks (debuffs), as you are holding Shadows Edge.
Kill Sindragosa.

Quest Part FIVE: The Splintered Throne

Raid Icecrown Citadel as 25 man, Each boss have a chance to give Shadowfrost Shards.
This may take between ONE up to FIVE weeks to complete (based on luck).

Note: you do not need Shadows Edge equiped while killing bosses (only your inventory).

Quest Part FINAL: The Lich Kings Last Stand

Nuke down boss to 10% when he starts the 2 min Roleplay (chatter).
Swap to Shadows Edge.
Deliver the final killing Blow with Shadowmourne.
Congratulations you Completed the Quest chain, And obtained your .

Happy Hunting and may lady luck be with you!

Edit: Corrected written text, added new smoother explainations.
Edit: Corrected written text, Changed Shadows Edge to Shadowmourne in Q.part-FINAL.
Edit: Corrected written text, Changed incorrect text on Part 5, Now Corrected.

Comment by Keshicus

Why does the weapon get slightly nerfed when doing WotLK timewalking? That seems kinda going against getting a legendary weapon to have fun in timewalking dungeons, isn't it?

Comment by Faradize

Yesterday I started on my new DK the quest chain. Here's an easy to-do step by step to receive (hopefully) a Shadowfrost Shard in your first reset. Be sure to have always on 25 normal, and you have the axe in your hands when doing Infusion quests.
-Buy 25 Primordial Saronite (you can buy at Dalaran vendor, but propably cheaper from AH)
-Set 25 normal, go into ICC, pick up the quest from Mograine
-Go to the cave in Crystalsong and loot the hammer
-Kill first 4 bosses, then go for Rotface and Festergut. Kill them, loot their bloods.
-Hand in this quest, pick up next.
-Now go and clear either Valithria's trash+the trash before Blood Council.(you can as well kill them now)
-Hand in the 50 soul quest, pick up Unholy Infusion.
-Go to Prof. Putricide, equip your Shadow's Edge, pull, do some damage to him. Let him cast 3-4 slime puddle, then pop Army of the Dead, then click on the table asap, spam 1-1-1-1-1-1-1, until you can cast 6. Leave the mutation and kill the boss, you have a 6 min buff on you if you did everything right.
-Hand in quest, got Blood infusion.
-Now you need a shaman, to be honest, any level can do who can join ICC, but the easiest is something around 90. (We did both with a 85 and a 90 shaman, both in heirlooms). Use Raise Ally glyph on the dk, go blood, if you see the damage is high, set Conversion talent. This is the trickiest part, we did with the following tactic: Shaman gone resto, Earth shield on himself, you pull the boss, damage her to ~80%, then wait for first bite. Shaman just heal himself. You bite shaman, shaman then dies. Wait until there's about 5-10 sec left from next bite, then cast Raise Ally on shaman. He shouldn't accept now, because boss is in the air, doing heavy damage. When she fly down, accept res, you bite him again. He now should die (85-90s die faster :) ). Then wait until next bite, be sure not to use Reincarnation when shes in the air. Then shaman res, you bite 3rd time, then you get a buff again for 6 min, then you can kill the boss.
-Hand in quest, pick up Frost infusion.
-This is now easy, and you can solo from here again, just stand before Sindragosa, let her cast the breath on you, you'll see 2 debuff, 1 is the normal breath with timer and 1 is your what has only stacks, but no timer. After 4th breath this debuff go, you'll get again the 6 min buff to kill the boss. Do it now.
-Hand in quest, pick up the collecting part.
-Set to heroic, kill the Lich King, loot your first Shadowfrost Shard (if you're lucky), cross finger's for Invincible's Reins , and receive instead Music Roll: Invincible

Comment by 0Aloreth

The true question is: will this literally become a hunter weapon with the reintroduction of melee hunters in Legion?

Comment by don1010220

Arthas: Shadowmourne Hungers
Terenas: My son a king needs a Snikers when they are hungry. Better?
Arthas: Frostmourne Better!

Comment by gladblade

omw collecting the shadow frost shards

Comment by Exxibob

You need to sell your soul and time, even in 2016 to obtain this.

Comment by Badpunsguy

Is this possible to use as a transmog now?

Comment by Erithmael

It is possible to do every quest except The Splintered Throne collection quest in one lockout. I attempted to do this quest chain with a boosted character, so I had to start everything from scratch.

Start with lots of room in your bags. You'll need to get naked a few times for these quests. Grab 25xPrimordial Saronite from either the random dusty corner of your bank or buy from the auction house. You can also buy them from a vendor for 120g each in Dalaran or ICC if you're exalted with Sunreavers or the Silver Covenant, but the AH is usually cheaper.

Set your raid instance to 25-man Heroic. First, you need to reach friendly with the Ashen Verdict. Clear trash up to Morrowgar, then run out and reset. Takes ~45 minutes to an hour in 7.3.2 with a human character. Reset the instance one more time.

Start the quest line: The Sacred and the Corrupt

When you get back from collecting Light's Vengeance, start making your way through the instance avoiding traps and as much trash as possible. Save them for the next step! You can safely complete the following encounters on your way to getting Festergut's Acidic Blood and Rotface's Acidic Blood:

Lord Marrowgar

Lady Deathwhisper

Gunship Armory

Deathbringer Saurfang

DO NOT KILL Professor Putricide! You will need him later.

Now, you can make Shadow's Edge because you already have 25xPrimordial Saronite.

It's nekked time. A Feast of Souls

Unequip everything except Shadow's Edge and remove any talents that do passive damage. You cannot one shot the trash or you will not get credit. You may need resurrection sickness for this. Start at the beginning and kill all the trash you skipped.

Good news, everyone! Time to kill the Professor!

For soloing Unholy Infusion I found Saeljfkklhen's comment the most helpful: Link. Worked like a charm, but the timing is tight so you may need to reset the encounter time or two.

The issue is that the game treats you like a vehicle when you are transformed into something with abilities, so the boss thinks no one is there and treats it like a wipe and resets. This was a problem for both Professor Putricide and a time or two for Blood-Queen Lana'thel so you will have to be careful with timing.

Time for the pièce de résistance: Blood Infusion

YOU MUST BRING 2-3 FRIENDS for this part! Best explanation was by zadck post-7.3: Link My experience:

Have your next victim be closest to you so they lose some health from Blood Mirror

Some of them may need resurrection sickness, but I didn't find it necessary.

Be ready with self-heals and a taunt.

The encounter resets if everyone is dead and you turn.

The only way to tell you're done is after Gushing Wound disappears from your debuffs.

Now you can put clothes on again! Hooray!

Frost Infusion is a cakewalk after what you've just been through. Head to the Frostwing Halls and do the Valithria Dreamwalker encounter, then head toward Sindragosa. Simply aggro her and get in her face for 4xFrost Breath. If your friends are still around, keep spread apart to avoid a wipe if everyone ends up in an Ice Tomb.

You will see Frost-Imbued Blade when it's time to take her down.

Turn in your quest and you're ready to kill the Lich King and start collecting Shadowfrost Shard. You must run the raid in Heroic to get the best drop rate.

Good luck!

Comment by Charak

Good news, weapons scale in pvp, so you can equip this now and it'll scale up in BG/arena

Comment by Ellinorake

Updated for Dragonflight

Thought I'd share a guide with what I've learned while farming for Shadowmourne at level 70.

The Sacred and the Corrupt

To get friendly rank with The Ashen Verdict, you need to kill all the trash and bosses up to and including Deathbringer Saurfang (you don't have to kill all the trash around the outer spire to get to the gunship).
25 Primordial Saronite are today quite cheap and can be bought off the AH without much gold spent.
Next, if you kill only Festergut and Rotface for the bloods while leaving the other bosses and trash up, you can do the next quest which requires you to kill 50 enemies and every Infusion quest plus get one Shadowfrost Shard from The Lich King in one lockout. This minimizes the time you have to spend to finish Shadowmourne slightly.

A Feast of Souls

There are more than enough trash and bosses to get this quest done in your current lockout you used to collect the reputation and bloods. If you killed the trash to get to Festergut and Rotface, don't worry, there are about 70-80 more enemies in the frost and blood quarters. Kill only the Blood Council among bosses.
The debuff on enemies which marks them to be consumed and counted for the quest will not be applied if you one shot trash. You must therefore remove all your gear except Shadow's Edge, and use your lowest damaging abilities such as Death and Decay, or Consecration, so that the actual debuff on the trash is applied and so that you can gain progress towards completing the quest.

Unholy Infusion

Assemble a group with 2-3 more people (if you have 2 party members instead of 3, at least one of them need to have a combat ress).
Tell your group to not damage the boss, they should only keep the aggro on the boss while you click the table to become an abomination.
Use the ability on your new actionbar to consume the slime pools when they spawn.
When your energy bar to the right has reached 100, click the Shadow's Edge icon. When the cast is completed you are given a new buff and you can now kill the boss. To make the giant die, you may need to stand in the slime pools.

Blood Infusion

This quest is why you need to have at least 2 or 3 more players in order to complete it. To prevent one-shotting the boss, remove all your gear except Shadow's Edge and a few armor pieces, only so that you can kill the mind controlled people later, do not use any trinkets that has AoE procs or they can one-shot the boss. Tell the other players to remove all their gear as well so that you and another player can kill them when they get mind controlled. Make sure that you do not use any AoE abilities while killing mind controlled people, or you can kill the boss. Tell your group to once again not to damage the boss and not to bite anyone, just let their timer expire and that they should become mind controlled after 1 minute.
You start with for example one Death and Decay or Consecration so that you get the aggro, kite her out of it so that you don't kill her. After a short time you get the debuff which increases your damage and makes you able to bite other players. After 1 minute click the only ability on your new action bar while targeting a player to bite them.
When a player dies after you kill them, combat ress them if possible.
Bite non-bitten players 3 times and then kill the boss.

Frost Infusion

As easy as the quest description says, simply stand in front of Sindragosa after four breaths have been soaked. Once the stacking debuff goes away you can kill the boss.

The Splintered Throne

This is the part of the Shadowmourne quest line which is the most drawn out. You simply kill all the Icecrown Citadel bosses every week in 25 normal or 25 heroic until you have collected 50 Shadowfrost Shard. If you saved The Lich King in your first lockout, you can get one additional shard.

The Lich King's Last Stand

Kill The Lich King to get a Sealed Chest. Turn it in at Darion and you are given 5 items you can turn in to various NPCs at starting area to the raid.
You will be rewarded with: Reins of the Crimson Deathcharger, Tabard of the Lightbringer, Muradin's Favor, Sylvanas' Music Box and Jaina's Locket.

Comment by heartlessnobody

really sucks that Frost DKs cant use this anymore

and the only weapon frost DKs can use thats legendary is the warp slicer from the eye and thats only temp

Comment by Slythra

>When they finally announce all the old legendaries will be moggable but frost is stuck with 1h

smh

Comment by Rudy199

Can unholy dk just solo the queen quest by having multiple pets active?

Comment by Kavenoff777

Is this still any good in Timewalking after the Shadowlands squish?

Comment by MystAmaris

Can this be done in CT to roll at a higher ilvl?

Comment by AntWin

So how can you pass Feast of Souls part now having only 1 minute of Ressurection Sickness since September, 2022? :( Being naked is not enough, still oneshot trash.

Upd. Found the way for DK: Death & Decay as a ticking dot doesn't kill instantly, souls are getting collected.

Comment by Goregroth

So, for any of you interested in grinding the shards for Shadowmourne, I just completed the grind for it (today) and made a simple table... A visual, so you can see what you're getting yourself into.

It took a total of 10 weeks. Each vertical column represents each week and the number of shards dropped. I hope you can understand the chart as I'm still learning how to put data into code.

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------W1-----------W2---------W3-----------W4-----------W5----------W6-----------W7-----------W8----------W9--------W10

Boss
Week 1
Week 2
Week 3
Week 4
Week 5
Week 6
Week 7
Week 8
Week 9
Week 10

Total	2	8	0	8	5	6	6	8	5	2
Lord Marrowgar	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	1
Lady Deathwhisper	0	1	0	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Icecrown Gunship Battle	0	0	0	1	1	1	1	0	0	0
Deeathbringer Saurfang	0	0	0	1	1	1	0	0	1	0
Festergut	0	1	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	0
Rotface	0	1	0	1	0	1	1	1	1	0
Prof Putricide	0	1	0	1	0	1	1	1	1	0
Blood Council	0	1	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0
Blood Queen Lana'thel	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
Valithria Dreamwalker	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
Sindragosa	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	0
The Lich King	1	1	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	0
Invincible	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No