You knew this was coming...
by Elizabeth Harper 
Oct 12th 2006 at 1:00PM
Reader Nelson sends in this screenshot showing that in the Burning Crusade, yes, you will be able to wield the infamous Sword of a Thousand Truths. Just like the South Park kids. Of course, the screenshot could be faked, but if so the image looks awfully clean to me.
Filed under: Items, Expansions
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Pinguino Oct 12th 2006 1:08PM
I may be totally missing something here.. But isn't the screen behind like a vendor buying screen? I highly doubt a vendor would be selling this sword. And wasn't it a two handed sword on South Park? This is a 1 handed sword.
Bozworth Oct 12th 2006 1:14PM
It was a 1H sword, Stan was holding a shield at the same time.
Ghostle Oct 12th 2006 1:20PM
It's fake. Heres the actual picture of where that comes from.
http://www.monthsbehind.net/pictures/bcpvpreward.jpg
If you scroll down to the weapons (says page 7 on the items page), then you can see that next to the quickblade is a slicer not that thing.
Debunked
Aaron Oct 12th 2006 1:18PM
Well he has the paper doll up in this one:
http://www.uweb.ucsb.edu/~kazk/img/wow/TBC/WoWScrnShot_101206_065930_1000truths.jpg
and it does look like the sword from the episode.
Maybe it's in the game as a PvP reward from one of the new areas. There are enough other pics in that directory to convence me that they're playing in the Beta.
Wouldn't be the first time that Blizzard has given us that kind of fan service.
Jacob Oct 12th 2006 1:20PM
Regarding the vendor screen:
1 - it's beta, who knows what vendors may sell for people to test
2 - the vendor isn't selling those items for gold, there's another icon next to the numbers (which go as high as 3700!). Just speculating, but it may be some kind of faction/rep item turn in...sweeeeeeet.
Deam Oct 12th 2006 1:29PM
1hander nearly 90dps and not unique.. not concluding anything but yikes.
Kaylos Oct 12th 2006 1:34PM
Its nothing but a name change on the Gladiator sword (PvP rewards weapons), and I believe that is honor tokens or something of that nature. The sword as shown in Southpark was "The Hungering Cold", a tanking/off-hand sword that drops from Kel'thezud.
Axela Oct 12th 2006 1:53PM
Yeah, I always thought it was kind of dumb that the Sword of a Thousand Truths was blue/purple with a skull on it. Doesn't seem to have that "truthiness" quality to it, to steal a word from the Colbert Report.
Willferal Oct 12th 2006 1:57PM
Aw...in the show the sword had 120dps, +80stamina, and a chance for instant mana burn on hit...
Lance Oct 12th 2006 2:22PM
@#4: I concur.
To the people still posting on and on about it; what more is there to say? It's a fake.
Sorry Elizabeth. Not a scoop, just a bust.
bliSSter Oct 12th 2006 2:40PM
The values of the items (and subsequent icons next to them) are part of the new honour "currency" that has been touted in the reworked PvP system.
As for the item - odds are good that it's just a name change during the beta test. I'm going with that just b/c in the screenshot, this guy links it to his guild. Would be an awful lot of work to go to...not saying it couldn't be done, but Blizzard has shown their propensity to weave comedy into their items before. Wirt's Third Leg anyone?
On a lighter note, I too am upset that the dps is so low. The original [Sword of a Thousand Truths] had much better stats. OTOH, I'll take "Godly Weapons" for $500 Alex (296 top-end would look HAWT on my hemo-specc'd rogue). :P
SeiferTim Oct 12th 2006 3:46PM
It looks like they may have simply changed the weapon from the Slicer to the Sword between the two pictures being taken.
jojo29 Oct 12th 2006 8:03PM
Its fake. WoW doesnt have its stats labeled as "ratings" first of all
If it was real it would have read like this:
Example: Equip: Improves your critical strike chance by 14% NOT rating!???
bliSSter Oct 12th 2006 8:16PM
Blizzard is changing critical strike from percentage to rating...as well as to-hit, spell to-hit, and many other stats.
Ikono Oct 12th 2006 8:32PM
jojo29, read the forums once in a while...
rich Oct 12th 2006 10:11PM
i'm in the alpha (well, beta now).
those tokens the sword are purchased for are honor tokens, earned in world PvP or arena matches (1 per kill in world PvP, or 1 per round in arenas).
the new critical 'rating' system has been talked to death, so i won't recover it here, but that's how new weapons and armor are rated. "+2% crit" is no longer called that, it's called "+26 critical rating" (varies with gear level).
karaidon Oct 16th 2006 2:55AM
4. It's fake. Heres the actual picture of where that comes from.
http://www.monthsbehind.net/pictures/bcpvpreward.jpg
If you scroll down to the weapons (says page 7 on the items page), then you can see that next to the quickblade is a slicer not that thing.
not exactly. if u look at the screenie the vendor portrait shows the lower jaw of a mal golbin. none of the vendor screens in the provided link show male goblin vendor, thus that vendor in the link may not hav the sword.
Aurion Oct 18th 2006 12:40AM
Not fake:
http://members.iinet.com.au/~link22/beta/WoWScrnShot_101306_225344.jpg
issei Oct 24th 2006 6:54PM
it's real :>
not really sure how my screenshot has spread so far, but yeah, that's my character, and blizzard has confirmed it. i believe it was introduced as an easter egg for alpha testers; the arena vendor has been off-limits since closed beta began.