Breakfast Topic: I threw that away, d'oh
by Deb Montague 
Mar 31st 2010 at 8:00AM
On this past St. Patrick's Day, guild members were doing the quest chain in Hellfire that rewards you Mirren's Drinking Hat. At the time my main was doing this chain, I wasn't the connoisseur of hats that I am now. 10 and counting. Yet another reason for Blizzard to make wardrobes (urge to rant rising.) Several guild members have that hat and it provides much laughter when they pull a random brew from it. I, however, am so sorry I didn't save it. 2 gold for selling it was, at the time, a lot of money for a perpetually broke dwarf and I had a "better" hat for questing.
Yes, I know. A dwarf tossing away a drinking hat! That alone is almost sacrilegious. But sold it I did. Now, when guild members pull some brew out of their hats, I regret my decision and I'd go do the quest chain again in a heartbeat just to get that hat. I'd have to toss something from my inventory (Archmage Vargoth's Staff maybe, or Monster Slayer's Kit, neither of which I use but are awesome in their own right) to carry it around in my bags, but I'd do it to get that hat.
How about you? Is there any quest reward that you sold or otherwise disposed of that you'd do the quest chain to get again?
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 5)
Guyver2 Mar 31st 2010 9:33AM
Dartol's rod of transformation.
As a young druid, i needed the money and xp; I still regret that turn-in.
Meadow Mar 31st 2010 10:30AM
As of 3.1.0 completing the quest chain doesn't make you give up the rod anymore! Too late for my main, unfortunately, but my alts have it, at least.
kooda Mar 31st 2010 10:51AM
I wasted my "recover item" on that thing, trouble is it got removed 5 minutes after i got it because he realised i was horde >.>
Zahira Mar 31st 2010 7:35PM
Same, I turned in the quest and it was gone.
Minidrake Mar 31st 2010 10:00PM
Luckily, I had read the questchain on Wowhead, so my Rogue kept the Rod. When I came back later on my Druid, I felt it was unimportant, so I went to turn it in. Imagine how happy I was? :D
My massive regret is Chu Chu's Tiny Box of Horrors. On my Rogue, I got this trinket, looked at it, and vendored it. It just didn't register with me at the time. Later, I was browsing Shadowpanther et. al., I realised what I'd done. When my druid got to Icecrown, I made damn sure I got. Now I imagine my feral kitty going all displacer beast when it procs Tentacles. :D
Yvels Mar 31st 2010 8:13AM
deleted for more space little phoenix bird pet from MT .. back when i had to keep single pet in my bank slot ... 50 MT and counting .. no luck ... gdamnit.
Namy Mar 31st 2010 8:20AM
That sucks! Such a lovely pet too! I sold my sprite darter by mistake and didn't realise for weeks. Luckily I was able to buy it back from (I think) the stable Master who retrieves lost pets :) Shame that doesn't work for none qst pets. Then maybe I could get my hyacinth maccaw back. I didn't know it was so rare!! *sob* : (
Josin Mar 31st 2010 8:22AM
Fortunately, I haven't done this, but I know some friends who regret getting rid of their Dungeon Set 0.5 sets. All the work that goes into upgrading the original set into the .5 version... and you can't do it again after it's done.
Heck, I'm still working on getting my Dungeon Set 0 fully upgraded on my rogue. Takes a damn lot of grinding in Silithus!
BadAndyMk3 Mar 31st 2010 8:18AM
Lantressor's Warblade. I vended it because I was using the warsong howling axe and was about to get the honed voidaxe, so I figured I'd rather have the gold. Stupid me. It's one of the coolest looking weapons in the game (if not the coolest) and a perfect RP weapon for my orc warrior. I know the same model of a weapon drops of Blackhand, but I havn't tried to get it yet. I will though.....eventually.
GrumblyStuff Mar 31st 2010 10:05AM
There's a similar one! http://www.wowhead.com/?item=12583
bofh Mar 31st 2010 8:19AM
OH yah. Most definately.
Dartol's Rod of Transformation. At the time, I was questing. I needed it for a quest - it was for the Furbolgs! Now it is gone, and at the time I did not care. It was only useable in the Ashenvale area anyhow right? Wrong. Item said it was, but much much later, there's a Furbolg running around Outlands. Now I would absolutely LOVE to park myself on the stairs in the horde zone in Dalaran (Yes, I play Alliance) and pop the Furbolg suit. *sigh*
Ericcc Mar 31st 2010 7:24PM
Darto's Rod of Transformation is usable anywhere. I was using it in Dalaran just last night.
David King Mar 31st 2010 8:21AM
I didn't even know about this hat or the quest chain. Where are the announcements for stuff like this? I'm a pretty new wow player and events like this sound so awesome. I want to be a part of it. Actually, if you want to get started on rants, how about the fact that it feels like if you aren't level capped, you don't matter in blizz's eyes?
Rockstaert Mar 31st 2010 8:26AM
it's a questchain in hellfire peninsula in Outland. You can get it somewhere in the southwest part of the area.
Gimmlette Mar 31st 2010 9:26AM
http://www.wowwiki.com/Mirren%27s_Drinking_Hat
He's kind of tucked away up in the hill but if you have quest finder turned on, you'll see his !.
Aaron Mar 31st 2010 9:42AM
@David, since you are so new you do NOT realize how much Blizzard has done for the new player. You get mounts really early and SUPER cheap. Experience, upgrades, profession mats, gold etc etc just fall out of the sky now. Blizzard has done SO MANY things to make the trip from 1 to 80 so much more bearable I would have to say they care much more about you than you think. It's hard to appreciate what you have been given when it's all you know, but just imagine for one second have to walk EVERYWHERE you go. Having to group for certain quests, doing really long epic quest chains to obtain class specific pets, mounts, forms, etc etc. Adding experience gains to battlegrounds was a HUGE change. Looking for a group between levels 1 - 79 just changed things even more. I'm not upset at how easy leveling is, but it does irritate me to hear people complain.
Niiru Mar 31st 2010 9:47AM
David, I think part of the fun of levelling is supposed to be happening upon interesting quest lines. If Blizzard announced all of the interesting quests, there would be no joy of discovery. Sure, you might miss a few, but the ones you stumble upon and complete are all the better.
Quint Mar 31st 2010 9:57AM
@Aaron: Remember the time you not only had to walk everything, but the flightpaths weren't connected? No flying from Stranglethorn Vale to the plaguelands in one smooth run and preparing a hot cup of coffee in the mean time. No sir! Every single flightpoint you'd come across, you'd have to click again. Countless are the times I returned from a trip to the toilet, only to find my character idle next to some flightmaster, waiting for the next leg of his epic trip to some deserted place at the other side of the continent. And this was on a good day. If it wasn't a good day, on my return I'd probably find some Horde thug dancing on my dead body beside that same flightmaster (who'd most likely also be dead).
"if you aren't level capped, you don't matter in blizz's eyes"
*Sigh*
Aaron Mar 31st 2010 11:26AM
@Quint I may or may not have raged a time or two upon the discovery of a dead flight master. CURSE YOU GRIEVERS!!!! STOP KILLING MY TAXI!!!!
micktha Mar 31st 2010 4:45PM
You used to have to click on the FM for each stage of a flight??? OMG I didn't realise things were so bad in the olden days, and people actually played at this time???