As far as I can remember, we've never done a cloth belt (although, believe it or not, we have done a plate belt). So here you go.

Name: Anetheron's Noose (Wowhead, Thottbot, Curse)
Type: Epic Cloth Belt
Armor: 133 Armor
Abilities:

• Yellow and blue gem sockets (Socket bonus: +4 spell damage)
• Improves spell critical strike rating by 24, increases damage and healing done by spells and magical effects up to 55
• So the biggest thing about this belt isn't necessarily what it does have (it does have the highest +spell damage you can find on a cloth belt), but what it doesn't have-- spell hit rating. Unlike other high level epic caster belts, this belt trades off spell hit rating for a little extra spell damage. And so if you've already capped off spell hit rating, then this belt is your best bet.
  
• Shadow priests are lucky in this regard-- they get a talent that makes their spells much easier to hit, so they don't need as much spell hit rating. For an endgame shadow priest, your other gear will likely already cap your hit rating, so this is definitely the best belt for you.

How to Get It: It is called Anaetheron's Noose, so it drops from Kael'thas. No, I'm only kidding-- it drops from Anetheron in Mount Hyjal. I thought maybe that Anetheron was hanged before he was somehow turned into a dreadlord (you think you can match the might of one?), but I couldn't find anything like that in the lore, and I don't even think dreadlords are made-- they're probably fashioned from pure evil or something sinister like that.

So odds are the people doing the hangings here are you players. Sure, kill the dreadlord, string up his body, and take the noose from his broken neck to wear around your waist. That's real classy.

Getting Rid of It: As requested, I will not say something like "are you crazy?" or "why would you want to do that?" Instead, I will assume that you are reading this a few years from now, Wrath is out and we are all level 80, and you found this in your bank and Googled it to find out why you still had it. In that case, a vendor will give you 2g 71s and 88c for it, or it will disenchant into a Void Crystal.

Tags: anetherons-noose, cloth-belt, endgame, mount-hyjal, phat-loot-phriday, shadow-priest

Filed under: Items, Analysis / Opinion, Humor, Phat Loot Phriday