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.

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It was a 1H sword, Stan was holding a shield at the same time.

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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.

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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

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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.

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1hander nearly 90dps and not unique.. not concluding anything but yikes.

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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.

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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.

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Aw...in the show the sword had 120dps, +80stamina, and a chance for instant mana burn on hit...

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@#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.

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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

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It looks like they may have simply changed the weapon from the Slicer to the Sword between the two pictures being taken.

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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!???

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Blizzard is changing critical strike from percentage to rating...as well as to-hit, spell to-hit, and many other stats.

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jojo29, read the forums once in a while...

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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).

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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.

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Not fake:
http://members.iinet.com.au/~link22/beta/WoWScrnShot_101306_225344.jpg

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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.

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