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Comment by cptmurdok

The buff that this item grants is dispelled if you unequip the ring.

Comment by Robyn

Note this only holds as long as you take no damage, and you can only re-activate it every 30 minutes, so it's only useful for classes which can stand back. Caster dps or healers only, basically, and totally useless on a paladin or anyone else who gets close enough to take the occasional Cleave.

Comment by Lesser

I remember this dropping on my first run through LBRS back in December of '04. I was outrolled by a Priest, and I was exceptionally mad. Would have been some fun stuff. Good times, good times.

Comment by 65490

This item is absolutely useful at level 70 to any casters that can be certain they will not take more than 500 damage during a long fight. This obviously makes it situational, but it's simple to sub it out for fights where it cannot be utilized or it is unneeded.

Comment by ArgentSun

It looks like something really good even for a level 70 healer. Since the 22 mp5 holds until you take 500 damage, if the fight doesn't have any AoE or abilities that target random player, you are safe to keep it. And 22 mp5 is a bit.

Comment by Valkyre

No stats and a 30 minute buff... this is definitely one of the more interesting items in game.

Comment by 224706

Dropped for me on the first kill. Still in the bank and showing him from time to time on my guildies to bugger them off :P

Soloed him as a 70 warrior :O on Neptulon EU.

Comment by 152785

i cant find the mob that drops it can any one help me
ow and when i get in the casle do i need to go in some dungeon or just kill mobs in the casle ?

Comment by rmziidx

This is a fun one to use around town, just for looks.

Comment by SolarStoned

got this a few days ago....Its just an awesome effect in shadowform <3
the 22mp5 effect is cancelled upon 500+dmg which makes it kinda useless.
but it is just for looks really...and nothing comes close :D

Comment by 190060

Question: How does this work with Power Word: Shield? What shield takes the damage first?

Comment by frostbolt

did get it in classic wow and it is good :D

Comment by 124192

little fun fact, the floating thing looks same as the shadow orb effects in WC3, probly same code, just bigger, and body instead of weapon
addition: I hear it looks like the old troll priest racial spell, confirm or deny? I never made a troll priest

Comment by Octayvius

I got it in roughly 10 runs, Didn't take long.

Engineers Guide: I cut my run time to 5 minutes to farm this you have to be an engineer or atleast some one who can use http://www.wowhead.com/?item=35581

This is how it works As soon as you go past the first corridor near the lava and the ledge, your going to ignore it and goto the ledge ABOVE YOU where http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=10296 Resides

When you get there you need to have the slow fall enchant on your cloak or atleast have the http://www.wowhead.com/?item=10518

You pop your boots jump towards the OGRES and use your chute AS YOUR PRESSING THE SPACE TO JUMP if you mess up the timing it can cut it close and you could miss.

But basically rinse repeat when ever you kill http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=9568 Theirs a bridge right before his room you jump from there with rocket boots and cloak on to where you originally entered.

NORMAL GUIDE: you guys pretty much have it @#$%ty now you can make this easy or hard but what i recomend is when you enter the room with the lava you jump down the ledge like previously noted and you go all the way up to right before the spiders, once you get to the spiders USE AN INVISIBILITY POTION OR LESSER INVIS DOESNT MATTER BUT PLEASE USE ONE

These guys can not be avoided so using an invis pot will save you a good 3-7 minutes of killing these %^&*ers, They spawn little adds of them selves after killing the big ones like twice its ridiculously time consuming this is definatley the best place to use the invis pot, And from their you just head towards the ogre and to the last boss simple as Pie.

To SAVE TIME ON ZONING IN AND OUT TAKE OFF YOUR ARMOR KILL YOUR SELF IN BY JUMPING OFF THE BRIDGE RUN BACK AND RESET THE INSTANCE BEFORE ZONING IN

You res in burning steppes so it's literally a 1 minute walk

HAPPY FARMING <3

Comment by 415054

Still drops as of 4.0.3a, saw it during a LBRS run with my alt

Comment by QFred

This amazing healing ring can(could) last you quite a lot both if you raid(ed) on Vanilla or went to Outland by the time you were 58 as an instance healer power leveler.
Providing the shield stays on at full time, this ring grants 17 intellect and 44 spirit, which are the stats to aim to surpass. Pre-BC, there were not many better rings that could be easily gathered, being hard to replace this in up to BWL, though maybe the Ring of Sulfuras (and direct upgrades) could be a viable option, since at a raid environment, it's not so sure to affirm the shield stays on full time. Tier 3 rings were also majorly BiS for their classes and even The BoN signets seem inferior until Revered.
Even after BC, this ring's bonuses seem hard to thwart, making it only viable to switch for 155 rings, from Borean Tundra or Howling Fjord, raiding or reputation, and even on those, the gain is bigger healing power (through Intellect) and Stamina (almost 90% of post Vanilla items have some).
This analysis is made from a PoV post Cataclysm, that is, assuming Int = SP+crit+mana and Spi = mp5, based on raw data (didn't filter items that can't be picked anymore) and assuming the ring is always active, which is hard to force but not impossible.

17 intellect and 44 spirit is an amazing amount these days for an item prior to LK, but actual users would feel safer switching it for another less powerful but more stable ring, with more int and some sta, like it were usual back in the days.

So, lesson, if you are levelling a new healing char thru instance power leveling, chances are you won't find a better ring till mid-BC or even further, maybe mid-LK.

Comment by FishHead

Saw this drop on my alt resto druid, lost it to a ret pally who traded it to a mage for the Worg Carrier he won earlier.

Pugs....

Comment by bojan112

4.2 got it on my rogue after 40 runs
http://img843.imageshack.us/img843/3052/wowscrnshot092011000259.jpg

take 3mins for sub rogue to reach, kill boss and run out

Comment by AnarchyAo

I've uploaded a high-quality video of me going straight to Overlord Wyrmthalak. In the video, I also show you the fastest way to get out of the instance, which is dying. You may mount on a tundra mammoth to repair just outside the instance, so if gold is not of any concern to you then this method is definitely the way to go if you're farming the boss for this ring.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHguw2XIPuY

(Be sure to watch the video in 1080p).

Comment by HaiLeX90

Was just farming LBRS for some Large Brilliant Shards and this ring dropped off of the last boss. So it's still in the game. Soulbound though unfortunately, otherwise I'd sell it. :(

Comment by 918749

I had the luck of this dropping for me after roughly 20 runs as retribution paladin. It takes +/- 3-4min in and out.

My routine is:
- Zone in, turn right then left. If should get you into a big room, run towards a group of mob with a wolf on your right side (on a lower platform) then bubble and jump off the platform at its furthest point.
- It should get you all the way down. Run straight forward then turn right, at the end you should see a ramp going up filled with spiders (yikes! >.>), run across the bridge when you are on top, there's a small door which leads you the ogre-area. Make a left turn and it will lead you to a hall way then turn right into the first doorway.
- Walk across the room (careful: don't fall off the bridge) you'll a narrow bridge which leads to the final room where the boss is.
- I suggest you to turn back the that last bridge and jump off of it after you've killed the boss. It's much faster that way.
- Having a Travelling Mammoth and/or Jeeves (or anything similar) is very useful when your bags are full.

Good luck farming ;P

Comment by Argiach

You can find how to obtain this and other epic items from Classic Dungeons here:Guide to all Epic Items in Classic WoW Dungeons

Comment by 1071596

Well, just ran through this dungeon to farm for transmogs to sell, and got this twice in a row.

Comment by 1054531

68 kills of Overlord Wyrmthalak on my level 60 discipline priest but no sign of the ring yet.

It may be more than 68 as the 'Statistics' tracker only began counting Overlord Wyrmthalak kills relatively recently, since before it only tracked Drakkisath kills in Blackrock Spire.

A GM confirmed this week that it is still available in game, so let's hope my luck changes soon...... Knowing me, it will drop and then I'll lose the loot roll to a non-mana user....

Comment by 924453

I used to equip the ring, *use* it to gain the shadow orb effect, then equip my normal ring so I could have a fun aesthetic. Recently I discovered that the orb will disappear if you unequip it, so I guess holding on to the ring just for fun is pointless now.

Comment by 1106181

can you mog it?

Comment by Whoisthiscook

The swirly ball has been corrupted!

Comment by Arcues

This ring when used surrounds you with a shadowy orb for 30 minutes. as long as the shield is up the orb will still rotate around you, its a pretty cool vanity item.

Comment by Asmundr

Unnecassery Knowledge:

The orb surrounding you from the Mark of the Dragon Lord buff when using this ring is orbiting you slower than the orb from Electromagnetic Gigaflux Reactivator 's Static Barrier

Comment by HylianSW

Today I seen 2 of these drop at the same time from boss. That odds of that are staggeringly loww

Comment by Tiralyon

Reducing the cooldown on the rings use from 30 to 1 minute was a great idea. Making the buff only last 1 minute down from 30 was idiotic.

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Mark of the Dragon Lord

Item Level 29
Binds when picked up
Unique-Equipped

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+3 Stamina

Use: A protective shield surrounds the caster absorbing 21 damage. While the shield holds, increases Versatility by 2 for 1 min. (1 Min Cooldown)
Requires Level 23

Sell Price: 2 13 72

Dropped by: Overlord Wyrmthalak

Drop Chance: 8.17%

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