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Comment by 2530

I have heard that these actually work. Any confirmation on this?

Comment by 17486

I would think this would let you see chests on your mini-map, just like the Dwarf racial talent does. Can anyone confirm this?

Comment by 12051

My friend got 2 purples and a lot more greens iono if it's real or if it is his luck... I JUST DON'T know >< someone confirm it.

Comment by 20598

I doubt that this necklace works :D Of course, you can never be sure BUT I wouldn't recommend wasting that amount of money for this :D

Comment by Ch0p

All of these amulets are jokes, did you bother reading the descriptions before you bought them? They all are jokes. Don't buy this, if you do you are a sucker.

Comment by Ch0p

Lower City is full of "immigrants" as the lore says. His name is Griftah, the guy who sell the amulets. It's a play on words with Grifter.

Grifter - noun Slang.
1. a person who operates a side show at a circus, fair, etc., esp. a gambling attraction.
**2. a swindler, dishonest gambler, or the like.**

This is exactly what it is, it just adds depth to the game by having a shady merchant around in the lower class area of the city.

Comment by Icharius

If this would actually give a higher chance to drop greens, epics or whatever, wouldn't everyone be using this in a while? That's why it doesn't work. It would be one of the most powerful items in the game.

The item does nothing.

Comment by 38153

Hey, people will buy the Exotic Cookbook for a few gold as well, if you're lucky ( https://www.wowhead.com/wotlk/item=5428 )

Comment by NoSmoking

I dunno, a guildie friend bought one, and it seems that we have had super good luck with blues and purples when he wears it. LBRS once dropped 2 greens, 8 blues and 1 purple. then one run he couldnt make it and we got 6 greens and only 2 blues. =/

hoax or not it brings good luck! =)

Comment by zanos

LOL i was in the party with u guys remember? i was about to post that lucky incident he rolled a 100! on the robe that had .2%drop rate that was amazing so i bought it and on bosses i almost always win it now so all you who say it dosent, go on test realm buy it then test it =P

Comment by 95477

I have a warlock guildie who swears the thing works, I can't convince him otherwise. 30g is a little too expensive for me to pay for something that I am 99% sure doesn't work though.

And RE: Evilgm, it was not sold by him in 2.2, he was moved outside the city gates but this item (and only this item) was REMOVED from his inventory...suspicious...but anyway, it is back now that 2.3 is live.

Comment by Nuzatch

Requisite for fishing the Ashbringer, IMO.

Comment by 120506

Hey, it works great for me. Just the other day, I was killing this boar in the forest somewhere, and he dropped some plate healing pants. Quite a find, this amulet.

Comment by Vylea

You know, since it IS a level 60 item, it just might do something that you don't know about. Arguably, since there are no long term tests on the viability of such an item, it is impossible to say whether or not it works. Arguably, one could purchase the item, farm say, SFK 1000 times without the amulet, and then again 1000 times with it just to see if it alters the loot table. Since there are many many conflicting statements, where some say it is stupid nonsense, and others say that it works, why not look into it?

Comment by 130916

are you ppl trying to confuse me does it or does it not work???

Comment by Toldry

It really DOSE work, I killed a random wolf and it dopped a to replace this peace of crap!

Comment by 40815

According to Bliz, the loot dropped by every single mob and boss in the game isn't calculated when you kill it, it's calculated when the NPC is generated.

This item therefore can't possibly do anything of it's own accord. The anecdotes reported here are instances of dumb luck, the same as "I got my loot on the first kill," (as opposed to "I've been farming this quest item for 100 kills and it still hasn't dropped". both are dumb luck).

Comment by Weaville

THIS talisman does work i asked 2gm's both said it worked!!!! and then i brought it and it's been easier for me to farm the mats for frozen shadoweav set.

Comment by 156137

I dont think this talisman works, i brought it to shadowfang keep but i even got less greenies then i use to get there.

Comment by Euryticles

Of course this item works. I have found many sets of magical armor found in the most mundane places! I've killed a giraffe and it dropped a recipe! Given this though, even without the necklace on I have the same ability with the same chances.

Comment by 195242

the item works of . DUH! but only in the fact oh your hope it really doesnt do anything in other words but what ever if i was you i wouldnt buy it but im not you so go buy it and waste your money hehehaha

Comment by 145959

ok so NPC's loot is chosen when they spwn but what if this thing affects what loot is given to an NPC when the wearer enters an area this is the first time i found it in my AH so im gonna try it and if not i might as well see if i can sell it back in AH for a refund or more besides i would like to see if i can change my luck anyway :).

Comment by blodrikr

Text in this amulet ofc means daily quests. When you got lootable item as reward its loottable is made then. when you hold this amulet while recieving lootable reward, you have better change to get low rated items.

Comment by NightmareMJ

this DOES work, but not in the way you think, read up on how the human mind can affect random number generators :)

Comment by Crawl

I read these comments, and was just thinking like: "I got to try this neck out!".

Well I bought it, and it was just completely waste of money :( I killed around 50 mobs, both humanoids and beasts in Terokkar, but nothing else than gray items and a few silver dropped :(

Because of that, I really don't think it works s;

But atleast my bank char got a cooler neck now.

Comment by Heimdallen

Pretty much the end all of the debate over whether it works or not is that it does work, because it actually doesn't claim to do anything. "One might find the rarest of items in the most mundane of locales!" Does this not happen every day with or without wearing this talisman? The key is, you don't need to spend 35g to have the same opportunity to find the rarest of items in the most mundane of locales. It doesn't claim to increase your chance on obtaining rare loot. Therefore, in my opinion, it does exactly what it says.

Wearing this talisman, you may indeed find the rarest of items in the most mundane of locales. You also have the same chance for these rare items without it, though. That's the Griftah's trick, he technically isn't selling anything that claims to do something it doesn't, he just fools people to make his money! You may find rare loot wearing it. Your chance is just as good without wearing it, though. Two of the other items sold prove my theory, the Marvelous Madstone of Immortality, and the Infallible Tikbalang Ward. The Madstone claims that when worn, when you die your spirit is anchored to the world and you come back as a ghost and can re-enter your body - as we all know, this is what happens normally, so again the Madstone works as it claims, it just happens to also work without wearing it. The Tikbalang Ward also works, preventing Tikbalangs from stealing you to the treetops - this one works on a slightly different principle, it works because Tikbalangs don't exist, so again, wearing this ward or not you're safe from Tikbalangs, therefore it's claim isn't a lie.

All of these items are simply literary tricks, making claims about things that are true with or without the item to take advantage of people not quite quick enough to catch on. Griftah's a con artist! This concept of making generalized claims like a chance to find rare items in mundane places is still used today by con artists in methods like fortune telling or communicating with the spirit world, saying things that aren't untrue but could be figured out by the person paying for the service without having had to pay for it. It's a classic trick and this is just Blizzard's version of it to add an element of reality to the dirty and seedy lower city in Shattrath and I love it. If you fall for it, you fall for it. You got conned!

Comment by 295668

If they actually did work that'd be pretty tight. But they dont. Great post Ch0p. I didnt realize that about his name.

Though a complete ripoff, I went ahead and bought one for my level 1 twink. :)

Orehrat (Gnome DK) - Bronzebeard US

Comment by 167943

So a long time ago now i was grinding for Disgusting Oozling being a pet collector and all. I had grinded for weeks, my bank alt had this necklace as kind of a statement. To show of to people he is rich, and with this necklace "might" get richer. I sent the necklace to my mian, just to try it out after reading some comments about it. What do you know, the Disgusting Oozling dropped after a mearly 15 min grind. I don't say your chances are higher with this necklace, but after weeks of grinding with nothing and 15 min after i put this on i got what i wanted. It has never worked after that though. So i guess it's all up to you to believe or not.

Comment by vilty

from all these coments it seem to me you read the thing and you think "i wonder if this really works " you go buy it then you strat farming ... so maybe its just becuse you havent even been farming

Comment by 238249

Is this a con? I have discovered nought special since wearing it? :(

Comment by 253278

Wtf MF amulet, Mephisto here i come!

Comment by 324950

ha ha i am glad i researched this before buying. I knew it was too good to be true.

Thanks guys!

Comment by Megamoose

Anyone else just buy it for fun? I got it for my Bloodsail Set.
I dunno, it seems to kinda fit.

Comment by killerdinoblood

This item actually increases your luck in persentage,like i equipt it while https://www.wowhead.com/wotlk/item=19290 was equiptet to me,then i was accepted in Warsong Gulch,and https://www.wowhead.com/wotlk/item=19290 activated 5 times in a row!

Comment by 457821

I wish tht they worked............so much power!

Comment by 461934

I bought it because it's pretty. (LOL) it is though, and what else can a level 9 or below wear? Makes a lowbie feel dressed. :) It's a fun necklace. I personally like crap like this in the game. I dunno.... just my opinion.

Comment by 448721

lol yeah i they got me for Shark's Tooth of Bona Fide Fluidic Mobility...

Comment by 534518

Well.. I wasn't so sure about buying this when I saw it, since there was no text "+20% chance of finding.." etc, but I met this player who had bought it. I asked around about it, and she told me it worked, so I bought it.
Well.. it worked for her, she says, but I honestly think it's a lie, cuz NOTHING happened for me. No trackingdots on the map, no shimmering on anything more than usuall, and no extravagant loot on anything.

So my tip is, dont buy it, unless you really want something flashy, and have a lot of cash. 35g isn't that much to some, but it's more than enough for quite a bunch of players. You can use it on something else. Buy 35g worth of bread, I think you have more use for that, tbh.

Comment by 461109

I got this as a gift from my guild master.
I guess it was because I was under the impression that it may do something to the drop rate. I have gotten a lot of "green" stuff, and then I got this: https://www.wowhead.com/wotlk/item=1982 from a regular mob
but after reading this I realize that it may just have been "good luck", but check the odds of getting it
I kind of need to raise my stats, so I'll wear something else. But I'll still keep this cool trinket as a reminder of the 250 gold I got after selling that sword

Comment by Dyler

I got when i had THIS.

Comment by Allakhazam

in responce to "TCCDUDE" 1. L2read and second if blizzard can implement a "magic find" system into diablo, Why not this game? ALSO created by blizzard.

Comment by Allakhazam

Definition of a "Grifter"
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/grifter

Comment by Allakhazam

I tried this for this first time tonight, we had a purple dagger drop on a normal Steamvaults within 15 pulls! after that everyone hearthed and got their own necklace, not even a green drop until the boss after that! lol

Comment by Allakhazam

Okay,okay, i bought this "crap" necklace this evening.

As a 66 Warlock (dinged 67 this evening) and as a jewelcrafter/miner
(prospecting 4 stacks of adamantite after i bought it),
I prospected 7 blue gems, with 2 Nightseye

After that i went to Nagrand to kill Warmaul's and this recipe dropped:
Design: Glowing Nightseye

Smile :)

Comment by Allakhazam

Ok...

Lots of crap about this and about that... Don't believe the screenshot about the GM as it looks and sounds fake.

Items with some use have white text. Useless items have grey text. (the item itself)

I have this on EVERY alt of mine. I did a simple test in that I bought one of these and began to use it in and out of instances. I ran the same instance 3 times with it on and 3 times with it off and compared the results. I got more loot with it on.

Typically in a normal instance on my loots I get 10-14 greens to come up and the WHOLE rest of the party maybe one.

You can hem and haw and bs but the proof is in buying it and using it.

My name is Glove and I am on the Alleria server and am the guild leader of The Significant Figures. Run any instance with me and we will count the items that come up on our loots (normal group loot). I guarantee when wearing this talisman I will win every time.

Glove

Comment by Allakhazam

Ok, the guy has been banished outside Lower City now, and he doesn't sell it anymore? Why?

Comment by Allakhazam

Maybe the joke from blizzard is the other way round, it does work in certain conditions or something like that. I don't know if it works or not but I've just bought one with a 29 undead mague with which I had plenty of money for buying and selling Briarthorn xD. I'll try it with him and I will create an alter to try it with him. Let's see what happens.

Comment by Allakhazam

Unlike the others, this one addresses a part that isn't easily proven. The only way to prove it is to find it in the coding. Short of that, a large population and data would be needed to find if there is a significant difference. The problem for here if it does affect drop rates is the drop data for items.

... that it "might" do what it claims... it would be a very long time.

Good. Luck.

Comment by Allakhazam

I have bought it today and after an hour of grinding, an imba helmet called The Night Watchman dropped for me. Coincidence? :) I am already rich! :D

Comment by Allakhazam

hahahahahahah hahahaha

lololololol

hahahahahahaha

<3 blizzard

Comment by Allakhazam

Hehe,, sure fake! the word "might". You might find a treasure whit this. And u might not or u might find the treasure whit out the talisman,, or u might not:D
And most likely u wont :D

Comment by Allakhazam

I have some friends that used to carry one of the rabbit feet that dropped off the newbie wolves claiming it improved drop rates. I figured that would just be one less bag slot in which to carry my loot. :)

Comment by Allakhazam

So I thought i would buy this just to see if it worked... i went to farm in nagrand like all 70's do :) and guess what dropped off the first mob i killed......1000g ZOMG ZOMG ZOMG! i went to go kill another mob and as i looted it it gave me 2000g! ZOMG ZOMG ZOMG! so i went to go kill and kill and then 50 epix dropped off of one mob ZOMG ZOMG ZOM! i went to sell the epix on ah and i got 666g :( ZOMG ZOMG ZOMG!

its useless you stupid newbs!

Comment by Allakhazam

Although the seller's name means "Scammer", and some of his amulets really are for-fun junk items, this one seems to work.
The thing is that loot-table is created for a single mob when it spawns. This amulet, of course, cant change the loot table of the mob you hit, BUT when monsters respawn near you, or you enter an instance, it seems that the amulet increases the percent chance of the blue items to "spawn inside" the mobs.
Thats why it will not make u get more epics without grinding, and thats why people report more blues in instances.
I dont want you to believe that this thing will make you rich... And of course - in most cases - everything depends on luck, and this amulet will never override "natural" drop chance. But it DOES improve it slightly.

Edited, Mar 13th 2007 3:48pm by Athariel

Comment by Allakhazam

Bought this cus increased drop rate is nice and the First node of Fel Iron i mined after buying this I got a blue Nightseye gem. Convinced me enough to keep wearing it.

Comment by Allakhazam

inceased rare item drop rate possibly?

Comment by Allakhazam

My friend got me this for my birthday, and I had played D2 for a while before this game so I figured it was a 'magic find' item. My other friend had been grinding for 2 days to get a Night Watch Shortsword to drop was online and I decided to help him get it. I come, kill 1 target, Night Watch Shortsword drops. Maybe this is just a coincidence, but I sent it to my level 33 hunter the next day and killed a Burning Blade Auger in Desolace and Combatant Claymore dropped. I am pretty sure this item works.

Comment by Allakhazam

Ok I've had this item on all my alts for a few months now.

It works like this: In an instance more items show on my loots than for the whole rest of the group. This includes grey (trash) items, blues, and greens. A typical run showed that in Scholo with a group of 5 people 3 blues, 14 greens, and a bunch of trash showed when I looted my corpses. For the WHOLE rest of the party only 1 green turned over for 1 person.

I dont win every item but it definitely helps our groups to get loot when I do a lot of the looting.

Casters have said that they dont get as many items to drop when they use it. It seems to be more effective with melee players.

My surmising is that it affects the loot table. It doesnt make a mob have loot but each mob is spawned with a specific loot table and it is my theory that this necklace moves the marker up and down for loot that can drop. Before you bash it look at the tables between heroic and normal... mostly they are the same mobs just harder with more/different/better stats loot on their table lists.

G

Comment by Allakhazam

So does this item really DO anything?

Comment by Allakhazam

As far as I understand it, it could be that while wearing this, the timed items at vendors become faster available, maybe?

Comment by Allakhazam

lol you guys don't have to explain that this thing doesn't work. You're killing the joke!

Comment by Allakhazam

I thought for sure that I'd be blessed with something. However, it seemed that the talisman helped me aquire quest items faster. But I could just be dillusional. Oh well. It is just 35 gold.

Comment by Allakhazam

Whats this do? if it does what it looks like. A dwarf would love it.

Comment by Allakhazam

the correct vendor price is 35g (at least as of 01/20/07), I tend to agree they probably don't do much if anything, might be a required quest item.

Comment by Allakhazam

Best 35G I've ever spent.

Comment by Allakhazam

i bought one for fun for my new lock and i get a green drp 1in5 atleast

Comment by Allakhazam

i was thinking that this would be a total waste of gold but decided to try it out .... i got 3 blue the very first hour of having it and several green items .... i then sent it to an alt and at lvl 13 got many more green drops than usual .... i dont know if it was all just luck , but it seems to work from what i have seen

Comment by Allakhazam

after farming for a few hours for Enchant Weapon - Major Spellpower, i decided to buy this thing. sure enough, 4 kills later, it dropped. someone else was farming them too, so they were spawning near me.

also, a guildie that was farming blood elves with me for about a half hour got a blue tailoring pattern when i had it on.

definitely seems to work :)

Comment by Allakhazam

I can honestly say that this works. I wore this while grinding recipes (enchant melee weapon: major spellpower) and greens and superior potions have been dropping like mad. Without it, the potions certainly don't drop as often.

Comment by Allakhazam

I was instancing in steam vault, when I noticed a lot of blues dropping off trash mobs. I won "the bringer of doom" btw. Anyways I made a comment like; dam I wonder why so many things are dropping, and someone in party linked this necklace. needless to say I bought one shortly there after, and have seen my drop rates increase for greens or better.

Comment by Allakhazam

Ive farmed over and over and got nothing only a thorium lockbox...

Comment by Allakhazam

Absolutely no one here, even those who are saying that this thing doesn't work (who are right) has mentioned the word "mundane".

If this thing really did work, you'd be finding epics in water barrels.

Also, notice how there is no equip effect? There is absolutely nothing that shows that the item affects your character. No green writing, no armour, not stats, NOTHING.

Then again, who am I to stop you from wasting your money and being the cause of other people's leisure? Happy WoWing ;)

Edited, Oct 10th 2007 12:49pm by CaptainHelston

Comment by Allakhazam

It doesn't do anything

Comment by Allakhazam

My guildy had this on while we were questing... I got the fel strength recipe (bop), together we got 3 tomes, about 12 greens, and "Cats Swiftness" to drop in under 30 mins.. veryyy nice investment.. :)

Comment by Allakhazam

This thing does nothing, Blizzard isn't nice enough to put a item in the game that would increase the drop rate of rare itmes of your mobs. In fact it just further demonstrates their cruelty by putting these "magic pendants" in the game knowing all the idiots that play their game will waste money trying them.

Everyone saying he is a swinder is correct, stick around the vendor for awhile and you can even read a little comment from Grok about his penandant not working.

Comment by Allakhazam

I bought this in December and in early January, got my first and only epic drop. However, I've only had one blue drop until this item, which has now increased to 6, and my green drops (while fighting boulderfist ogres north of Telaar) have increased substantially. Also, I get less gray items and more white ones like netherweave and the samples.

It's not a complete failure but it's not worth the money you pay.

Comment by Allakhazam

Soap on a Rope:

Does nothing. You don't need to bathe in WOW.

Tikbalang Ward:

(This says it all)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tikbalang

In World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade, Griftah, a Troll Vendor in Shattrath City's Lower City district in Outland, sells an Infallible Tikbalang Ward: A novelty necklace with the inscription, "With this trusty warding talisman, no tikbalang will ever find you and steal you away from the treetops. It really works!" While this is a silly easter egg, it is utterly a scam and the item does nothing.

Stone of Stupendous Springing Strides:

You already have the ability to jump over stuff.

This is only 3 of the items which are obviously ambiguous like a fortune cookie. The others are just as blatantly unspecific for a reason. Griftah's kind of like that John "Biggest !@#$%^ in the Universe" Edwards guy. Need I say more?

Comment by Allakhazam

People, I can understand why you would think this would do anything, but to be honest... its fake. All the things this guy sells are nothing more then "Fortune Cookies". Every one of them is true, but you dont need it to be true. So for instance, your runing around and some epic item drops, or your in an instance and an epic drops (a rare epic) and your NOT wearing this. What caused it? Luck of the draw. But if you where wearing this it tricks you into thinking "OMG! THE THING REALLY WORKS!". The way fortue cookies work. But it cant afect drop rate. Because the loot tables are set dependent on spawn. Has nothing to do with what your wearing when your around them. So far I have had 2 rare world epic's drop since the time i have started playing WoW, before BC, and before this thing existed. And their have been people that have played since it first came out, that have never seen an epic world drop. So this Talismin does nothing. Just messes with the way you look at luck.

Edited, Jun 8th 2007 4:50am by nogardgnik

Comment by Allakhazam

"Answer: While we are not really able to give game hints, I can say that
this item does nothing more than it's tooltip states. Also, keep in
mind that most items that actually grant some benefit have the benefit
text written in green while what one might call flavor text is typically
written in yellow. "

I see this post floating around as evidence that the TTTT might not be valuable so today I saw a link for

Blix's Eyesight Enhancing Romance Goggles

It must not work either because it is a white item with yellow flavor text.

G

Comment by Allakhazam

To get items like this in RL call me now at 1-800-YOUVEBEENHAD. BE FAST and you get a discount on my brand new hat that repels brain scans from outer space

Comment by Allakhazam

I actualy bought this item AFTER looking on the forums about it and decided to take a chance. I am a rouge and when i had thei equipted "for fun" i actualy got items off EVERY humanoid i looted. I.E. junk box's, grey crap that they all carry. I got a grey item off every corps i looted. SO even though his name means "con artist" i think this item actualy DOES do somethin. even if it isnt that great. And before you make a comment like "I bet you only killed one guy," I killed about a hundred and my bags have never filled so fast.

Comment by Allakhazam

OK so the possibility of it really doing something amazing are so very very small. I was on my second day grinding for a smithing recipe when a friend suggested I get this. The recipe dropped on the third day and the talisman probably had nothing to do with it, but I forgot to take it off.

I was happily killing level 70 Demon Hunter Initiates when the incredible did happen. Namely Don Santos' Famous Hunting Rifle. Now was this due to the talisman? Who knows? but this gun is a lvl 70 epic and has a 1 in 136,000 chance in dropping off several elites that live in instances. No listing for dropping off non-elite blood elves.

So was this due to the talisman, no idea. Not sure this rifle could have dropped without a little extra help though. Both a level 70 hunter guildie and I have been made very very happy though.

Comment by Allakhazam

its an item bought from 2 diff vendor n shattra in outland.

1 vendor is a fake "grifter"
1 is real named Griftah

the only i tem i have seen worth buying is this one. as it seems to increase drop rates. the others seem like a waste of gold unlessu list them on ah for a profit

Comment by Allakhazam

Has anyone bought this talisman? I image its like the gnome race talent, in which they can see chests on their maps etc.

?

Comment by Allakhazam

i thought i would try this thing out so i went into SFK wearing it. I solod the whole thing and i recorded all my loot findings. I noticed I was finding good items on creatures that never really dropped anything before (i.e. worgs and arugals VWs). I looked up the % of what i found and i found 4 items that had a 1.2% drop rate, 2 other items that had a 2% drop rate and i found an item that i didnt even know existed til i looked was the 2.32% drop rate rift bracers off of arugal's voidwalker...i also found a green leather tunic off of another VW. That was the first time i ever found anything other than those stupid bracers on those things in running it many times...IMHO I think it has some effect. and i tested the water one...its a slight increase...barely recognizable but you can see the difference. I also found a lockbox and a necklace on the first two creatures i fought after putting on this one. I may be an idiot but its got me sold.

Comment by Allakhazam

This rock also keeps away tigers....you don't see any tigers do you?

I'd like to buy your rock

Comment by Allakhazam

so whats the overall verdict worth it or rubbish seems all are on different sides of the fence i have been contemplating this purchase for about a week now... still unsure about the price tag involved

Comment by Allakhazam

i have opened up wow using mysql in a private server and looked at any stats the item has and comparing to any other amulet or weapon it has no spellid meaning it doesnt do anything, and has no other attributes other than u can have as many as u want, its an amulet, and it goes around your neck, dont waste your time in the placebo effect of this retarded con item.

Comment by Allakhazam

Guys....c'mon. If you really want to spoil the joke, fine. The dude who is selling the amulet is named GRIFTAH. Hello? "Griftah?" As in "grifter." Really? If you think it works, you are a superstitous fool...and I love ya!

(....but it doesn't work.)

Comment by Allakhazam

I Sells for 8g, it has to do something.

Comment by Allakhazam

for sure increased drop rates!
at least for me ;)

Comment by Allakhazam

This item just gives you a higher rare drop rate
inside of an instance not out... I say personally it does work I've ran Scholo with a friend and Life Stealing dropped along with many other blues.
That would be the first time I've seen so many blues drop in Scholo that weren't BoP.

Comment by Allakhazam

Quote from Wikipedia:

" exploit human weaknesses like greed, dishonesty, vanity, but also virtues like honesty, compassion, or the naivity of believing in the existence of something called "good faith""

Comment by Allakhazam

This talisman doesn't have an effect at all. Like all the other "magical" items you can buy from the vendor it only exists to make fun of how different things in WoW work.
Let's say you killed a boar and it had an epic 2handed sword hidden deep inside its stomach, right? Riiight...that's what this item wants to tell us.
Just think about it, it's nothing more but a little joke. It won't increase the droprate of items for you as the droprate isn't affected by the player. Instead it's randomly generated for every item.
And for those of you who are screaming "OMFG I HAD AN EPIC DROP WHILE WEARING THIS IT WORKZ!", the epic item would have dropped even without this incredible superitem...

Comment by Allakhazam

ok for all of you that think that this item is garbage listen to this.....
we were runnin SM Cath earlier today and i had this item on my 37 druid. Well were killin the place and we got to the big double doors. The first mob we encountered dropped the scarlet chest. of course i asked party if i could open all chests and what not to see if this item worked. Coincidence?.. Well we keep on goin and yet again another mob drops the scarlet boots..... Coincidence?..
well then after we killed everyone and start headin back to entrance...spawns appeared. so we start killin again and Burning War Axe appeared. So tell me why all these items have a .02% drop rate and yet all 3 dropped in 1 instance run. Needless to say these ppl will be usin me as a tank in all their instance runs.
tell me its a joke item and ill /pimpslap you.

Comment by Allakhazam

Okay, I'm gonna clear this up once and for all. Every single amulet Griftah sells does exactly what it says it will do. However, all they are claiming is stuff that already happens!

"No tikbalang will ever find you" Duh

"the ability to bound over obstacles and across small gaps" It's called "jump"

"Allows you to move through the seas" You guessed it - Swimming!

"Keeps dangerous critters at bay" True, since critters are yellow

"draw great energy from ordinary food and drink - even heal wounds!" Happens anyway

"anchors your spirit to the world, allowing you to come back from the most dreadful of demises once your essence returns to where you perished" Sounds a lot like a corpse run to me

and finally:
"Wearing this,one might find the rarest of items in the most mundane of locales!" Yup, you sure might. That's kinda the point of grinding isn't it?

All the text is yellow and in quotation marks. A lot of other items have those little extra fun text at the bottom and we don't don't believe those! Any item that has anything useful to it will be written green, and will say "Equip:....." or "Use:......"

Comment by Allakhazam

The name says it all!

A "grifter" is slang for a dishonest person or a swindler.

My vote goes in the "this neck item doesn't do anything" box.

Comment by Allakhazam

If you bought this and actually think it works, I have a bridge I want to sell you.

Comment by Allakhazam

Wish I had the same luck as most of these people :( Thought I'd give this a try after grinding away for a recipe drop. After putting it on, not even a green drop, which I usually have pretty good luck with. I guess it does take patience, but I'm definately second guessing my purchase :P

Comment by Allakhazam

It got me a GF! her name was Rhoada Johnson, and she's a HAWT orc =D

Comment by Allakhazam

It is just a good luck charm, look at the other items the same vendor sells.

They all -do- work, they just dont change anything. Just yesterday I found a pair of blue gauntlets off of a mob in arathi, a 'mundane locale'.
They work, in the same sense that if you were to place a bottle of water outside your house to keep aliens away, and have never seen an alien, then that bottle of water is a good alien repellant

Comment by Allakhazam

In the first week of TBC there were reports of this thing spitting out 6 blues a day for multiple people with post of the items mentioned...

I bought one even noticing things like rediculous price .. no specific ability .., and no proof of value what so ever, along with the fact that the venders name can be roughly xlated to swindler....

on easy fights i will through this thing on, and see if it yeilds me anything

with it on ... 0 greens, 0 blues, without it .... 1 blue, 87 greens =/

yeah i wasted some money, but it got me excited, and so readily destroyed that excitement.. leaving a small glimmer of hope....

just as every second of this game does, just a little more

worthless yet fun.. not a waste of money, but don't expect this to make you rich, anyways if you are lvling .. you are making 100 to 120 gold a day grinding quest ... whats the harm in buying something fun..?

Edited, Feb 5th 2007 6:01pm by bobbafetty

Comment by Allakhazam

hah it sold for 75g on AH in Draka's server.

Comment by Allakhazam

This thing works, my friend was wearing it when i found an Epic Shield, Sold for 299g and the next day i found the Precisley Calibrated Boomstick(Epic Gun)

Comment by Allakhazam

Ok look, I've read all you guys have had to say. My personal experience:

I acquired the Talisman at 65 from the vendor. I have always felt that my green drop rate was fair to good - I was happy with it anyway. In all my questing to 65, I have never (to my recollection) had blue drops, outside instances obviously. In any event the good drops have always been a few levels below mine.

Since wearing the Talisman it seems to me that my green drop rate has declined (this might be related to level I don't know) but I have had two stunning blue drops which were almost too good to be true and certainly completely outside my experience up to 65. One was for pants two levels above my level at the time of the drop and which I kept and used because it had such awesome qualities.

The other drop was Design: Smooth Dawn Stone which I put on auction for 450 gold and it sold within two hours - I definitely asked too little but the point is this is more than 10 times what the Talisman cost - by far the most I have ever made at AH probably because I don't really do instances and the best drop I have ever had.

Now if this is not attributable to the Talisman - its at least enough to make me think...and to keep it on.

Edited, Dec 23rd 2007 3:28pm by Horseleaf

Comment by Allakhazam

It's just like a real life marketplace, some people sell ridiculous stuff for ridiculous prices.

Comment by Allakhazam

it might show nearby chests in the minimap. or so the description would seem to tell. or then it does nothing like some people already told. :)

Comment by Allakhazam

Alright I was skeptical at first, but hey i was farming this enchant for a short time, i killed about 20 then had a look at some posts got a bit discouraged and saw the thing about this talisman, I remember when i first saw this vendor and laughed, but i bought it anyway because i was desperate about 10 kills later i got 2 greens and the enchant i wanted, that made me a believer, I think its great blizard put something like this in to make the game less of a grind.

Comment by Allakhazam

I stuck a 16" railroad spike completely through my head before logging in, and I had the entire bloodfang set drop off of hogger! You guys should really try it, it works 10 times better than this necklace.

Comment by Thottbot

Everything Griftah sells is useless. It makes you able to do things you already can do, such as jump and swim and protects you from dangers that are not there :P

Comment by Thottbot

i bought the tikbalang ward and not one has come near me this man is a hero lay off i suggest buying all his ammys

Comment by Thottbot

notice that word in the description? you might find the rarest of items in mundane places. well finding the Quel'Serrar book in a dusty tome counted as a rare item in a mundane place in pre-TBC. nowdays an especially rare pattern or item dropping off a grind-mob MIGHT happen... regardless of whether you wear this or not

Comment by Thottbot

ah the psychological power of suggestion. wonderful stuff

Comment by Thottbot

I have talked to a GM about tham items turns out there just there for fun and show off at the gold u can trash
anyways no big deal... so the ppl at blizz like to have a bit of fun also lol

Its all good fun

Comment by Thottbot

This guy gets drafted, trained, and get shipped off to war, later he bumps into an old friend.

The old friend notices his old chum is wearing all manner of religious icons, lucky charms, and a few other things he didn't recognize.

The old friend says, "Hey man, what's all this? I've known you a long time and you never believed in this silly stuff."

His old chum simply says, "Man, we could be dead any minute now, so I'm not taking any chances!"

The moral of the story is: "Believe what you want. You'll still be dead!"

Blahahaha!

~Vec

Comment by Thottbot

Somebody up there posted a reference to magic find items in D2. Anyone who played D2 knows how cheesy the game was at that point (perfect topaz socketed tarnhelms... >:P) and believe me, Blizz knows it too. That was a blatant last ditch effort to save the failing hack-riddled game (and in that game, the loot wasn't rolled up until the kill so whoever killed it actually did have an influence on what dropped). An item like this cannot do what you hopeful souls are imagining unless it actually spawns the mobs for you.
(by the way, it doesn't actually claim to do anything special, just like every other thing griftah sells)
Common sense, folks. The whole Griftah guy is one big comic interlude. I know we'd all like to believe that Blizz would tuck a secret juicy bit in with all of the useless garbage this guy sells but there is no Easter Bunny, no Tooth Fairy, and this ammy doesn't do anything. Please save your gold...
...for that AWESOME jumping ammy! now THAT works! I tried jumping 200 times with and w/o it and I definitely think I can jump a teensy farther wearing it than without. ;)

Comment by Thottbot

i think blizzard consists of a bunch of gamers that do some crazy, fun but sick things. They created this item...so this would happen. Name calling, flaming using the words "nub" or "noob". They are chilling at the heaven of all jobs, reading this message saying " see i told you so, they dont have lives..." *LOL'ing in the back ground*

-amen

Comment by Thottbot

THIS THING WORKS! while wearing it ingame... it cured my rl baldness! <3 blizzard!

Comment by Thottbot

exactly what it says.

All the item descriptions promise you an ability that your character already posseses.

For example:

Marvelous Madstone of Immortality
"This anchors your spirit to the world, allowing you to come back ... once your essence returns to where you perished!"

This means --> When you die you become a spirit and you revive when you get to your corpse.

Another example:

Talisman of True Treasure Tracking
"Wearing this, one might find the most rarest of items in the most mundane of locales"

This means --> You can find rare items in ordinary places. Also know as 'worlddrops'.

So why did the WoW-guys make these items?

Roleplay - they explain game aspects that normally wouldnt seem 'realistic'.
Blizzard humor - bringing irrelevent irl phenomenons into WoW - like beeing stopped by a hawaii looking guy who tries to sell you 'magic' necklaces - They do it all the time and it's often quite fun.

Comment by Thottbot

Are supposed to be for fun. A JOKE. Not only do people take these WAY to seriously and believe them, but there's people on the other side that don't think it's humorous at all. I find most of his amulets to be humorous. And I find it REALLY funny that people think it works.

Comment by Thottbot

http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l88/oxygenwaster2188/fakeQQ.jpg

Kind of disappointing but it's good to know.

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Comment by Thottbot

You know, this mite actually work. Other necklaces are crap but this one doesn't have any special effects; it leads the people to thinking theyre getting more rare drops. Not a technical effect, but a mental persuasion

Comment by Thottbot

Well, I have not try this talisman, but I have tried mechanical squirrel, that engineers craft. It brings luck and the drop from ordinary mobs raise! I found a lot of green items, and few blue. Now I am waiting for purple! :D
IT IS REAL! THE SQUIRREL WORKS! DON'T LOOSE TIME WITH THIS NECK! GET SQUIRREL ASP!

Comment by Thottbot

One reason these neck pieces serve a purpose. They romove gold from the economy, it's an attempt to keep prices of various items. The more money people have the higher the cost of items in auctions houses and from players. It's simple economics. Not the only contributing factor to outragous prices but part of it.

Comment by Thottbot

I bought this Neckpiece and logged out, the next day I logged in and had full tier 6 and a legendary staff. I was also granted level 71 and had a new title of <GOD> over my name. kinda strange , this thing works:P

Comment by Thottbot

the only effect I've noticed from this thing is I have less stam, AP and crit chance because I'm not wearing my other necklace -.-

Comment by Thottbot

Noun: Grifter

1.A person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud.

There. Enough said.

Comment by Thottbot

Stacks with Rabbit's foot (https://www.wowhead.com/wotlk/item=3300/rabbits-foot)

Confirmed!

Comment by Thottbot

Hunter Weapon.

Comment by Thottbot

People, just like everyone else said if you buy this item it ain't going to work because the guy in Shathrah or that Outland city whatever it's called is a CON-ARTIST which means a person who pretty much fools you into giving them money! So please for the luvva dirt don't buy it! Peace out! d:D

Comment by Thottbot

Actually, it turns out he is a con artist, I'm afraid.

You see, I bought this talisman one day, thinking that maybe it would be my key to finding, say, silver pieces lying around on a bear or something crazy like that, I don't know. As it turns out, after I logged out, my girlfriend called to tell me that she'd found someone less gullible than me. Then I opened my post to discover that my parents, burdened with my slightly special DNA had eaten a salmon two years past its sell by date and died. My manager phoned the next day to tell me that I was being let go because I'd invested our entire company assets in these fantastic chocolate teapots that some guy on the street told me were about to take off in a big way. Never did see him again. It is, in fact, a BAD luck talisman!1111

Bit of good luck today, finally, a chap in China that I've never met sent me an email saying he's got $2.3 million in gold that he wants to share with me and all I have to do is give him complete access to my bank accounts. How cool is that?

Comment by Thottbot

He reacts to the /no and /angry

Comment by Thottbot

I must say. This IS the most hillarious thread in thottbot history.
I have NEVER laughed so hard reading about items on thott, EVER. :)
Just for the record of the guy with his GF looting items of herbs. NEWS! - Lichen drops items BY itself (omg!) it DOES NOT have anything to do with this silly necklace.

I have been very lucky with my drops in wow, always. Got a epic dagger off arcatraz run and won it. Gotten items i wanted to drop, fast. Just got epic mail shoulders and leggins from Heroic Underbog and Slavepens (shaman). Both yesterday, first time i was there.
I have found alot of BoE epic.
I am lucky with motes drop, got almost 4 primal airs in less than one hour farming in Shadowmoon.
Do i have to say i was NOT wearing this silly piece?

If you have alot of gold to spend, buy it.
If you have common sence. Do not.

Comment by Thottbot

Has noone noticed the conversation between Griftah and the Peacekeeper Jadaar that stands right next to him?

If you walk up to or past Griftah it sets off the conversation, along the lines of:
"Griftah says: C'mere, <race>. Ya don't want to be riskin' yerself in a dungeon, do ya? Filthy work, and for what? Some worthless trinket? Nah, what ya need be one of my amulets. Guaranteed to work!
Peacekeeper Jadaar says: Truly? "Guaranteed?" We'll have to sit down and talk at length about this "guarantee" of yours, merchant.
Griftah slumps his shoulders, muttering imprecations under his breath."

If you stand near him long enough and enough people go by, or if you walk past him a few times the other trigger conversations you get are:
"Griftah says: Hey! Hey, <race>! I be havin' just the thing for ya. Ya ever see a tikbalang? Frightenin' creatures. Prone to stealin' ya away. What ya need is one of my tikbalang wards. Guaranteed to ward away all tikbalangs!
Peacekeeper Jadaar says: I've never heard of a tikbalang in my life. In fact, the Scryers tell me they can't find a single mention of one in their libraries...
Griftah says: Look, man, they didn't live to be writin' about it, okay?"

and
Griftah says: Look over here, <class>! I got somethin' for ya. Just what ya need. It's soap, right... and it's on a rope! No offense, honey, but yer a little ripe, know what I'm sayin'?
Peacekeeper Jadaar says: Are you insulting our citizens?
Griftah says: It's the truth, man. Can't ya smell that?
Peacekeeper Jadaar sniffs the air and frowns. He glances over his shoulder.
Peacekeeper Jadaar says: That... odor is from Tobias, I believe.
Griftah's frustrated frown disappears into a sly look.
Griftah says: ...do ya think he be buyin' soap on a rope, mebbe?
Peacekeeper Jadaar rolls his eyes."
or

"Griftah says: Ya look lovesick. Special someone be gettin' ya down, eh? No worries, no worries. Ya get this medallion from me, ya wear it when ya see 'em, and they be all over ya, man!
Peacekeeper Jadaar says: Are you insinuating that you sell devices which hold sway over others' minds? That is a very dangerous claim...
Griftah turns to Jadaar with an exasperated expression.
Griftah says: Ya be crampin' my style, man. Seriously.
Peacekeeper Jadaar says: Provided your "style" does not include swindling the inhabitants of the city, my words should not "cramp" it whatsoever.
Griftah says: Yeah, yeah."
Though I must admit my favourites are:
Griftah says: Ya look tired, <class>. I be havin' somethin' for ya. These amulets, they can help ya leap obstacles and swim through the rivers like ya be born to it. They energize the food ya be eatin', makin' yer wounds close before yer eyes!
Peacekeeper Jadaar says: I don't suppose you'd be amenable to demonstrating the amulet's healing power here and now...?
Griftah says: Ah... nah, man. Don't wanna get the merchandise all messy, ya know?
Griftah smiles nervously.
Peacekeeper Jadaar says: Very well. Later, however, I wish to see proof of your claims.
Griftah says: Yeah! Yeah. Later, man. Much later."
and
Griftah says: Dangerous out there, innit? Know what ya need? Protection. I can help ya defy death itself! Ya wear this madstone 'round yer neck, see, and then ya be able to come back if ya find yerself in the spirit world! Just a quick jaunt to yer corpse and up ya come, fresh and new!
Peacekeeper Jadaar says: You cannot possibly be suggesting that these baubles of yours hold sway over the very fabric of life itself!
Griftah growls angrily.
Griftah says: Ya wanna find out?
Peacekeeper Jadaar gives Griftah a chilly stare.
Peacekeeper Jadaar says: ...was that a THREAT?
Griftah says: Ah... uh... nah.
Grok says: Hey, troll! Why dis charm no work?" (Grok is the guy that stands at the opposite stall to Griftah, near Granny Smith)

If those last 2 don't imply he's a dodgy swindling guy I dunno what does!
It's role play guys! Like the other guy said in his post, you can buy various items, shirts, flowers, rings, that just make you look good so you can flash off how much gold you have spare that you can spend it on this stuff, or, of course, to wear to that wedding or funeral you've been invited too ;).

Comment by Thottbot

I dunno...I purchased this item and sold it in the AH for 60 gold.. Its workin 4 me...

Comment by Thottbot

actually they do work, turns all of the ppls into female orcs

EEwwwwww....

Comment by Thottbot

This is fake, people, as you can already find rare items in mundane places. Wouldn't you consider it rare if you actually lived in that world and found that a demon boar was wearing Moldy Pants? It's just for fun or, for some, to show off their items that they think are cool, yet really aren't necessary. I do that with my Brewfest Ram; I alternate mounting on my ram and my tiger because I like the ram and it's kinda fun to show off. The same sort of thing goes for the Winterspring Frostsaber as well. Some people get the rep for it though it really isn't necessary.

And Deathkage, I'm just wondering because I think I've seen someone by that name before: are you a horde lock on Sargeras? I'm not sure but I think I saw you at Marshal's Refuge

Comment by Thottbot

It looks like the Hula Girl Doll is used by very high level engineers to upgrade their flying machine, so at least that one item appears to have real in game value.

Comment by Thottbot

I kofor a fact that the <B>Hula Girl Doll</B> has a purpose. It's a required item if you want the fast engineering mount.

Comment by Thottbot

The doll is used to created the epic flying machine :P kidna sucks

Comment by Thottbot

Strange, but wearing it, my chars got various spider silks even in succession. I cant believe this happens normally. Plus I got blue items form beasts. No Joke.

Comment by Thottbot

Anyone who was suckered into buying this talisman and is now assaulting this page with claims of its authenticity would benefit from understanding the principles of Confirmation Bias.

You have a hightened memory of the times you get loot while wearing it, but forget the countless amount of mobs you killed that didn't drop loot. Your perception of the events that happened are biased towards evidence that supports your claim - that the talisman does work.

And if you genuinely did get a disproportionately high amount of loot then please bear the following in mind.
I was recently levelling a character through Nagrand and had a green BoE drop from 10 out of 11 mobs in a row. About 15 minutes later, on the way back to my quest giver, i killed a rarespawn ogre and got a blue BoE necklace. When i got to the quest giver i found ANOTHER rarespawn who dropped a mail chestpiece (blue BoE).
That's just how it goes sometimes, it would've happened whether I was wearing expensive dress jewellery or not.

Comment by Thottbot

Mage port to outlands- 10g

buying this necklace- 33g 25s

farming kolbolds for epics- Priceless

Comment by Thottbot

rofl @ the guy who said wearing it in game cured his real life baldness.

Comment by Thottbot

I KNOW it works! I was told that if I wore it, I wouldn't be attacked by Snipes, and thus far, I haven't!

Comment by NloveWithyou

I really wish Wowhead would separate the search engine from the other versions of their site... I am so tired of ending up on pages that don't apply to current content and cause people to miss out on crap.

For the current retail version of the game THIS ITEM HAS A PURPOSE!

You might be nuts if you actually go through with it but it's there just the same. I give you the craziest thing you will ever do in Azeroth...

Good luck and enjoy the newly padded walls.

PSA: Although added with the sole purpose of eliminating players predisposed to a type insanity believed to be incompatible with the usual "insanity" of World of Warcraft players, at this time, Blizzard will not be issuing any assistance or reimbursement for materials, installation or costs of inpatient facilities to players' families, or the families of any friends conned into assisting in the attempt(s) of completing this achievement. However, Blizzard will greatly miss your monthly subscription and strongly suggests players 'Recruit a Friend' who will not be assisting with this adventure prior to starting it.

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"Wearing this, one might find the rarest of items in the most mundane of locales!"

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