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Some items in the game are remarkable in that they are either insanely useful or very powerful. Let’s take a look at one.

Elemental Seaforium Charge

Profile: Open locked chests and doors
Where: Auction House or Engineer
How: Crafted and usable by engineers
Loot: Elemental Seaforium Charge

The Elemental C4 Seaforium Charge is like having your own personal lock picking rogue, that explodes.  With it engineers can open locked chests and doors that require up to 350 lock picking.  This includes most chests, lockboxes, and Outland doors like the shortcut door in Shattered Halls.  The charges are fairly cheap to craft but the schematic requires revered reputation with the Consortium.  If you aren’t revered you can sometimes pick them up at the Auction House.

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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.

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Some items in the game are remarkable in that they are either insanely useful or very powerful. Let’s take a look at one.

Everlasting Underspore Frond

Profile: Continuously free mana and health regeneration food
Where: Underbog, behind Hungarfen
How: Quest Oh, It’s On!
Loot: Everlasting Underspore Frond gives Underspore Pod

Having trouble finding Mana Biscuits or just tired of the taste? Get your own Everlasting Gobstopper^w Underspore Frond and try Underspore Pod’s. Sometimes tasty and always free.

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Some items in the game are remarkable in that they are either insanely useful or very powerful. Let’s take a look at one.

Goblin Jumper Cables XL / Goblin Jumper Cables

Profile: Jump start your wipe, a chance to ress when everyone else is dead.
Where: Schematics drops from Plugger Spazzring in Blackrock Depths / various vendors.
How: Crafted by Goblin Engineer / Engineer
Loot: Cables XL / Cables

This item and it’s younger brother are must haves if you’re Hunter, Rogue, or Mage that has Engineering. It gives you a chance at resurrecting a party member out of combat. Why is this useful? Recovering from party wipes.

As a Hunter, Rogue, or Mage you are one of only four classes in the game that can escape combat. The other is a Paladin with Divine Intervention, but they can already resurrect your party if they survive. With these cables, if your party is about to wipe you can Feign Death, Vanish, or cast Invisibility to escape combat. You then wait for everyone to die and for the creatures to run back. And viola, resurrect a party member that can resurrect everyone else. It saves time, repair bills, and in instances it gives you more shots at the next boss before the repops.

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Some items in the game are remarkable in that they are either insanely useful or very powerful. Let’s take a look at one.

Medallion of the Alliance / Horde

Profile: Stop being crowd controlled, it’s not just for PvP.
Where: honor reward
How: Get ready to run some battlegrounds
Loot: Medallion and it’s younger brother Insignia

Both this trinket and it’s younger brother the Insignia of the Alliance / Horde have undergone a few changes over their lifetime. There is a version for each class in the game that used to do different things, but since patch 2.1.3 they all have the same effect. The remove slow and crowd control effects cast on your by other players and often by creatures. This turns out to be insanely useful in PvP and surprisingly useful in many creature encounters as well.

Those who have been doing PvP since before The Burning Crusades usually picked up the Insignia and even continued to use it in the expansion after they hit level 70. But for some reason, and I did this too, a lot of us glanced at the Medallion and thought, meh it’s not much of an upgrade. We saw the 50 resilience and the, if we didn’t miss it, the reduced cooldown. It seemed to cost too many honor points so we happily went off and spent the points elsewhere.

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