Phat Loot Phriday: Quel'Serrar, the High Blade
by Mike Schramm 
Jan 5th 2007 at 11:50PM
Big swords are cool, and this one is no exception. Plus, it gives you a reason to run an often overlooked endgame instance. A lot. Like, over and over again.
Name: Quel'Serrar a.k.a. "The High Blade"
Type: Epic Main Hand Sword
Damage / Speed: 84-126, 2.00 (52.5 DPS)
Abilities:
- Only obtainable by Warriors and Paladins, sorry Rogues
- Chance on Hit: Grants the user 20 defense and 300 armor for 10 seconds (an ability like that just screams Main Tank Weapon)
- Looks pretty, like an Epic Elven Blade should.
What you'll need is actually another item, called "Foror's Compendium of Dragon Slaying." It's a book (about dragon slaying, natch) that drops in Dire Maul-- reports say it's about 1% random drop from all the bosses, but in reality, it's probably less than that. As in, this is a really, really rare drop. However, it is not BOP, so you can sometimes find it in the AH-- usually it'll run you about 300 gold, but it's been known to sell for thousands before.
Once you've got the book, you want to go to Lorekeeper Lydros in the Dire Maul Library-- it's inside DM North, and he's the same guy you get the Dire Maul enchants and the Mage water quest from. He'll give you something called an Unfired Ancient Blade, and that's where Ony comes in-- you've got to get her to breathe on the blade to forge it for you. In combat, you drop the blade in front of her, and then when she's dead, you use the blade on the corpse, and then boom, you've got... the Treated Ancient Blade. One more FedEx quest back to the librarian, and you've got the shiny sword. Now hit stuff with it!
Oh, and I forgot-- all the quests involved give some pretty good XP. So you might make a note now, and then look this one up on your way to 70.
Bonus Useless Trivia: If the name of that book looks familiar to you more veteran players, it's because yes, the name comes from Blizzard's Furor: he's a former Everquest player who now works as a WoW Quest Designer. He must know a lot about slaying dragons.
Getting Rid of It: The quest item itself is BOP, of course. Sells to vendors for 7g 59s 70c.
Filed under: Items, How-tos, Instances, Features, Phat Loot Phriday
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
AcceptableRisk Jan 6th 2007 3:11AM
Hilariously enough, I bought three or four Foror's from the AH about a year ago when DM-exploiting gold farmers dropped the market out of them on my server. This was in the fairly early days of my server so even if there wasn't a ridiculous supply, there weren't many raiding guilds yet, so the demand wasn't there. Anyway, I didn't even know what they were for but I paid like fifteen gold each for them thinking I could resell since my Auctioneer said they were worth much more.
Well, the price kept dropping and I couldn't unload them at a profit so I stuffed them in the bank. A few weeks later I got bored with WoW and let my subscription expire.
Fast forward five or six months. I get the jonsing for some more WoW and I reup my account. How happy am I that we've now got raid guilds aplenty and the exploits the farmers were using are apparently fixed? Answer: very happy. I sold each of them for 400 gold. Quite the fortuitous event for yours truly.
Jestah Jan 6th 2007 4:31AM
Wow #1, you made out like a bandit on that one dude. and btw, I believe that it is Foror's not Furor's.
http://www.thottbot.com/?i=35776
:D
J.T. Jan 6th 2007 5:17AM
Yeah i was just thinking that it was spelt wrong but oh well errors are natural. But i got a question how long does everyone think this sword is going to last in Burning Crusade
crsh Jan 6th 2007 9:44AM
The DM books, Foror's but also the class books for the Seal of Eldre'thalas, are fricking rare on some servers now due to the DM exploit getting fixed; I got my rogue's book for like 10g way back, but right now I'm unable to find them for both my priest and warlock for less than 100g (tho with BC 2 weeks away, it's now pointless). Scratch that, the priest book is never actually up for sale on the AH anymore, regardless of the price.
I'm not really lamenting on the ban of farmers though. :P
Thomas Jan 6th 2007 10:47AM
The amount of energy you need to expend to get this sword will be totally useless come Jan16. If you're a Swordsmith, you'll be able to make a better weapon. If you're not in a raiding guild, don't worry - you'll get a nice blue sword fairly quickly in Outlands. Not getting TBC for some reason? Just grind honor and AB tokens for the Grand Marshall Longsword/Quicksword (your choice). The dps on those are better than this...and won't take you as long to obtain.
Still, it's a pretty sword...and if you're a gnome go for this baby. Makes you look huge!
GamerJunkie Jan 6th 2007 12:46PM
My guess is with the availability of GM 1h Sword via PVP rewards, the Quesarr is looking less attractive, because even though its a tanking weapon, it lacks stamina and just too much work to acquire the book and the quests involved.
In BC, it'll probably last a good 2-3 levels before those stats becomes the low end and you need greater stats for tanking.
But with druids and pallys all sporting tanking talents, you warriors need to spec something else... :)
Xagothae Jan 6th 2007 9:30PM
300g for Forors? It's never under 1000g on my server