Name: Shroud of Chieftain Ner'zhul (WoWDB, Wowhead, Thottbot)
Type: Epic Mail Head
Armor: 902
Abilities:
- In order to save space, I'm going to give you the lore behind this helm while I tell you its stats. So Ner'zhul was an old Chieftain/Shaman of the Orcs, and since this is Warcraft, he was powerhungry and it drove him to make deals with demons. Plus his helm had +48 Stamina and +41 Intellect, which actually made it nice for PvP as well.
- It also had a Yellow and Meta socket, and a socket bonus of 2 mp5. Ner'zhul didn't exactly knowingly make deals with demons, though -- he did what he thought was right, and aligned with Kil'jaeden, who he thought was actually a helpful "ancient ancestor."
- But realizing Kil'jaeden is evil is actually as obvious as the 33 spell haste rating and 13mp5 on this helm, and eventually Ner'zhul did. It was too late, though -- Gul'dan took over, and Ner'zhul only barely saved the Frostwolf Orcs from drinking Mannoroth's blood.
- Kil'jaeden wasn't thrilled with that, obviously, and stuck Ner'zhul in the Frozen Throne as the Lich King, until a young man named Arthas Menethil came along, shattered the Frozen Throne, and combined his bad self with Ner'zhul's in order to become a crazy powerful being (with lots of Wrath, which we'll see sooner or later).
- And oh yeah, the helm's got 134 healing and 45 spell damage on it. Ner'zhul was originally an Orc Chieftain and resto Shaman, so this helm came from back when he was still supposedly a good guy. But interestingly enough, he still kind of is -- both he and Arthas slaughtered a lot of people thinking they were doing the right thing, and both he and Arthas were corrupted by the deals they made for power. Maybe they belong in that Frozen Throne together.
Blizzard is trying something new with the Sunwell Loot -- if you don't like the loot you get or want to switch it out for another piece of gear, you can bring the old helm to a Transmuter, along with a Sunmote (that can be obtained from trash inside Sunwell Plateau), and they'll transmute the helm for you. So get the Cowl of Gul'dan (drop rate unknown), add a Sunmote in there, take it to the Transmuter, and voila, you've got (what's probably a replication of) the Shroud of Chieftain Ner'hzul. Cake, right?
Getting Rid of It: Oh, you won't, not for a while anyway. All of the non-raiders will be switching out their casual epics for greens at level 71, but a helm like this you'll hold on to for a while. It does disenchant into a Void Crystal, though -- at least we assume it does. The ancient ancestor was unclear about that one.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
4-25-2008 @ 7:30PM
Smurrf said...
Please. In the future, stats in one section, lore in another. Please.
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4-25-2008 @ 8:56PM
Justin said...
No, no, much better mixed in... rofl
4-26-2008 @ 4:44AM
Jamie said...
No! This was very funny.
4-25-2008 @ 7:49PM
Arcturus said...
I was just thinking...what if a transmutation master could proc off one of these!! Too bad they are BoP.
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4-25-2008 @ 8:00PM
Edboy said...
yeah... too bad alchemists can't actually transmute these things.
4-25-2008 @ 8:57PM
Skuling said...
lol, I cant belive noone have ever called kill'jaeden kelly jay, thats wicked. What il be calling him from now on. Oh and btw, you forgot the "open portals and destroying dreanor" part. And also, id say ner'zhul is pretty bad, I mean he did one atemt to help the orc's. Witch mixed succses he just reverted back to the ol' trade hounor for power thing..
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4-25-2008 @ 9:43PM
Zeplar said...
Amusing, but harder to read; I'd say leave off the lore in the next one.
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4-25-2008 @ 9:46PM
Shame said...
I still don't get why you can switch out loot. Especially dps loot for healer/tank loot.
I can see it now. Every dps loot that drops is going to a healer/tank so they can switch it out. Great. GG bliz.
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4-25-2008 @ 10:15PM
Suzaku said...
Let's say you have like, a DPS guy and a Healer guy, right? And the boss has a 30% chance of dropping either a DPS helm or a healer helm. If the Healer guy gets unlucky and it drops the DPS helm two or three times in a row, that's completely going to waste.
This way, it has a 30% chance of dropping just the DPS helm. When the DPS guy gets his helm, the next time it drops, the Healer guy can just roll on it and transmute it into a Healer helm. Or maybe if the Healer guy needs it more, he can roll on it the first time. They can work that out ahead of time.
Makes sense to me.
4-26-2008 @ 12:53AM
ash said...
lol, nice "But realizing Kil'jaeden is evil is actually as obvious as the 33 spell haste rating and 13mp5 on this helm, and eventually Ner'zhul did."
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4-26-2008 @ 3:22AM
Kadamon said...
So wait...what?
Ner'zhul wasn't that much of an evil prick as I thought he was?
Wow.
My mind, it be blown.
Imagine if He/Arthas became good again.
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4-26-2008 @ 5:25AM
Dunwich said...
Oh, they are.
If by "good" you mean "hates the Burning Legion". And they intend to create a truly peaceful, equal society. By killing every living thing on Azeroth and raising them as puppets of the Lich Kings will.
Still, that's a nice helm.
5-02-2008 @ 1:15PM
Sokram said...
Damn, this was too funny xD
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