Like the ol' Orb of Deception, here's another fun toy -- that's brand new in patch 2.4.
Name: Orb of the Sin'dorei (Wowhead, Thottbot, WowDB)
Type: Rare Item
Damage/Speed: N/A
Abilities:
And don't forget that to get into MrT Heroic, you've got to finish the quest to kill Kael first. Get that done, get Heroic Countenance, head on into Heroic MrT, and down bosses until you see this pop up.
Getting Rid of It: Sells to vendors for 46s 18c, and disenchants into an Arcane Dust, Lesser Planar Essence, or (very rarely) a Large Prismatic Shard. But I'd keep it if I was you -- you never know when you want someone's girlfriend to wish you were "hot... like... me."
Name: Orb of the Sin'dorei (Wowhead, Thottbot, WowDB)
Type: Rare Item
Damage/Speed: N/A
Abilities:
- On use, transforms the user into a Blood Elf. Lasts for five minutes with a 30 minute cooldown between uses.
- Also drops on shapeshift of any kind.
- One of the cool things about this trinket is that it keeps your equipment looking the same. Always wanted to see what a Blood Elf warrior looks like (since they don't exist in game)? Use this on your tank, and how they might appear.
- Unfortunately, there is a catch: if you use this item on your Blood Elf, they won't change at all.
- Lore note: "Sin'dorei" actually means "Children of the Blood" in Thalassian. Before the High Elves got all corrupted, they were the quel'dorei ("Children of Noble Birth") and then they split into the BEs and the Night Elves (who are also known as the kal'dorei -- "Children of the Stars"). Unfortunately, there still isn't a perlman'dorei in Azeroth (though that, of course, would be the "City of Lost Children").
- Yeah, this orb thingy is kind of silly, but Blood Elves are, as the kids say, pretty hawt. Who wouldn't want to be one?
And don't forget that to get into MrT Heroic, you've got to finish the quest to kill Kael first. Get that done, get Heroic Countenance, head on into Heroic MrT, and down bosses until you see this pop up.
Getting Rid of It: Sells to vendors for 46s 18c, and disenchants into an Arcane Dust, Lesser Planar Essence, or (very rarely) a Large Prismatic Shard. But I'd keep it if I was you -- you never know when you want someone's girlfriend to wish you were "hot... like... me."
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4-11-2008 @ 7:42PM
Frank said...
why no love for wowwiki in this story? http://www.wowwiki.com/Orb_of_the_Sin%27dorei
it sucks less, and also doesn't support evil goldfarmers.
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4-12-2008 @ 12:17AM
Miyari said...
Are you some kind of idiot?
4-12-2008 @ 2:05AM
Frank said...
thank you, no. just someone who does his research and knows what's what.
4-11-2008 @ 7:42PM
Gnu said...
Way to work in the obscure Ron Perlman reference.
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4-11-2008 @ 8:01PM
Scribblette said...
[[Before the High Elves got all corrupted, they were the quel'dorei ("Children of Noble Birth") and then they split into the BEs and the Night Elves (who are also known as the kal'dorei -- "Children of the Stars").]]
Um, say what? Usually the lore here is fantastic, but this is rather backward sounding.
The Blood Elves only formed from High Elves after the Third War (Warcraft III) when their little sunwell went kablootski. The Night Elves didn't come from High Elves - it was the other way around!
The High Elves themselves are a race descended from the Highborne Night Elves who left Kalimdor (see Wowwiki) - being exiled for embracing arcane magic, while their brethren embraced druidism.
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4-11-2008 @ 10:09PM
Unagieater said...
And the Night Elves themselves, are just mutant Trolls, let us not forget that!
4-11-2008 @ 8:27PM
JPaterson said...
Oh noez, incorrect information in a WoWInsider article?
I am shocked, SHOCKED.
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4-11-2008 @ 8:35PM
Byron said...
What's elvish for 'Children of the Corn'?
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4-12-2008 @ 1:00PM
niko said...
Popcorn'dorei, of course.
4-11-2008 @ 9:00PM
Jalindrine said...
"Yeah, this orb thingy is kind of silly, but Blood Elves are, as the kids say, pretty hawt. Who wouldn't want to be one?"
Um, male characters?
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4-11-2008 @ 10:33PM
Jason said...
Ugly trolls, let us not forget that!
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4-11-2008 @ 11:16PM
Scribblette said...
As cool as the Night Elves are descended from Troll theory is, I believe Blizzard knocked that back a while ago - they didn't say it was DEFINITELY NOT TRUE, but instead said that race/faction specific myths did not equal fact. Here:
http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/story/troll/trollsandnightelves.html
So they're purposely not telling us whether it goes either way because (a) they get to milk it for fan speculation and (b) they probably haven't decided yet themselves, either, therefore it won't come out for years.
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4-12-2008 @ 6:08AM
Super Guest Man 9000 said...
I'm pretty sure they're making it non-definitive for a reason.
4-12-2008 @ 1:38AM
Scribblette said...
See below for response on trolls/elves. ^^
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4-12-2008 @ 9:05AM
Scribblette said...
@ Superguestman9000 - uh, that's what I said. :)
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4-12-2008 @ 10:38AM
Autumnbear said...
It'd be great to have an Orb of Illusion that you could choose what race you'd like to look like. All you Gnome lovers could pretend you had a Gnome Druid with something like that then!
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4-12-2008 @ 11:54AM
deatherage said...
"and then they split into the BEs and the Night Elves"
I'm am sorry that is wrong. It should say: and then they split into the BEs and the High Elves.
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