Must Have - Drums of Battle
Some items in the game are remarkable in that they are either insanely useful or very powerful. Let’s take a look at one.
Drums of Battle
Profile: You and everyone in your group does damage faster.
Where: Pattern can be bought from Almaador if you are honored with The Sha’tar.
How: Crafted and only usable by leather workers with 365 skill. Requires 6 Heavy Knothide Leather and 4 Thick Clefthoof Leather.
Loot: Drums of Battle
There are several patterns for leatherworkers to make various types of drums which do everything from healing, increase run speed, or even fear your enemies. But the drums that give you the most boom are the battle drums. They are most useful for raiding and give the group an extra 80 haste rating, which is roughly 5% faster attacks and casting. This is so useful that some players specifically level up leather working to be able to use them in end game raids. Note that they do not work in arena and you have to be a leatherworker to use them.
The buff doesn’t stack, so it’s handy to have a macro like the one below to warn other players so they don’t waste theirs. Note that this macro uses the /in command which is not a standard command. For it to work you must already have a mod installed which enables this, like Prat or Cosmos.
