Last week on our Phat Loot Pheature (ok, sorry, I know that's annoying, I'll stop), I promised we'd do something BOE. Now, there aren't a lot of BOE epics out there, but there is this nice mace, and it comes with quite a history.

Name: Wirt's Third Leg
Type: Rare One-hand Mace
Damage, Speed: 49-91, 2.30 (30.4 DPS)
Abilities:

• +9 Agility, +4 Stamina
• Looks boring doesn't it? But wait, there's a story here...
• Way back in Diablo, Blizzard's classic hack and slash game, there was an NPC named Wirt, who had a wooden leg. He got killed, however, when Diablo attacked his town, Tristam, which was above the dungeons the player was hacking and slashing through.
• Then, in Diablo II, Wirt didn't return, but his leg did. On a mission back to Tristam, you could find his body, and loot Wirt's Leg. And not only that, but you could use his leg to find the super secret Cow Level, in which you fought hordes of armed cows (no, we're not making this up). This is also why one of WoW's tips says "There is no secret cow level" (and why Techbot in Gnomer says something similar). And it also explains the origin of the Cow King's Hide cloak, but that's for another Phat Loot Phriday.
• Finally, in the Warcraft III expansion, a character called "The Butcher" (another reference to a Diablo character) guards a chest with an item called Wirt's Other Leg in it. That makes this one his third wooden leg that you can find.
• That's why they call this Wirt's Third Leg. No other reason, no matter how dirty a mind you have. Ask your mother.

How to Get It: This one's not hard to get at all. All you have to do is hit up the pirates through the cave on the eastern coast of Tanaris and eventually one of them will drop a footlocker with this thing in it. You won't have to try for too long, as this one seems to drop pretty often. Plus, from 40-45, the pirates make for good grinding anyway.

Auction Price: You want to sell this? What will Wirt think?! On most servers, you'll be able to get rid of this pretty easy for 20-25g. If no one on the server has an appreciation of Blizzard history, you might have to drop it to 5g, but players have been able to see it for 50g before, so start higher if you want. A vendor will give you 1g 95s 77c to part with this phantastic relic! (gah, sorry, said I'd never do it again...)

Tags: diablo, phatlootphriday, warcraft, wirtshirdleg

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