
Last week we did a little joke with Phat Loot Phriday (and, if I can brag for a moment, did everyone read my completely-made-up WoWWiki article that the beautiful people over there didn't delete?), but there's nothing funny about the loot this week-- it's one of the most droolworthy world drops you'll find in the game.
Name: Blinkstrike
Type: Epic One-hand Sword (which means, yes, it can be dual-wielded)
Damage/Speed: 143 - 267 / 2.60 (78.8 DPS)
Abilities:
- chance on hit: adds an extra attack to your swing.
- What, no other stats? Nope, it doesn't need any other stats-- that proc might be the best one in the game. Players who've had one say it procs about 5-6% of the time, which is nice, but here's the big deal: unlike most "extra attack" procs, this one supposedly chains. As in, you hit once, get an extra attack, and then get another extra attack from the extra attack. One player reported seeing 8 hits chained in a row-- that's around 1300 damage without any crits with one swing. Ummm... yeah. Unstoppable much?
- Because of that, this thing is perfect for combat rogues, but fury warriors will love it too (Tanks will find better defensive swords, but they have to PvP sometimes, too, right?). Bewarned: the chaining thing is very likely a bug, but even if Blizzard nerfs that, extra attacks are teh win.
The better option would probably be to just farm the gold-- they're selling on the AHs for anywhere from 1500 to 3000g. At least it's not as much as an epic mount, right? If you do go the raising money route, make sure you can find a seller first-- make friends with your guildies, in case they get one, and keep an eye on your AH and your realm forums to see if anyone's found a Blinkstrike to sell.
A Blinkstrike is more of a weapon you just come across if you're lucky, rather than grinding or questing for. But everyone can dream, right?
Getting Rid of It: If you're crazy, a vendor will give you 10g, 19s, 34c for it, and it'll DE into... well, it'll DE, but no one has DE'd it yet-- probably a Large Prismatic Shard or a

















Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
4-06-2007 @ 5:28PM
Quoi said...
FYI,
Level 60+ epics shard into Void Crystals, the next step up from Nexus Crystals.
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4-06-2007 @ 5:56PM
Antenora said...
OMG, if I had a rogue, or if enhancement shammies could use swords, I would be all over that like a fat kid on a cupcake.
That is one sexy world drop. :D
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4-06-2007 @ 6:38PM
martinavila said...
If you have to start making friends with your guildies to try to get this sword, you probably aren't the type of person that will get this sword from a guildie.
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4-06-2007 @ 6:50PM
brian said...
and the extra attack procs with reckoning
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4-06-2007 @ 9:25PM
Deathlike said...
Punishment, hm? Ahahahahahah! Mike can finally be armory'd!
Damnit! No! Tinfoil hat?!
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4-06-2007 @ 10:14PM
brian said...
yeah.. he also has a shaman called shamanic on my battlegroup... i will run into him one day, and kill him
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4-07-2007 @ 4:30AM
RSH said...
How does this work with warriors' and rogues' Sword Specialization talent?
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4-07-2007 @ 3:27PM
Savok said...
They can both proc at once, giving you 3 attacks for one swing. The sheer number of times I got double procs, it's possible that the procced attack may give the other proc a chance to work. Maybe I just got lucky though.
This sword isn't the first to have an extra attack proc.
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