Coldflame Saber
Scroll of the Saber
Vindael's Spectral Pickaxe
Rockslicer
Yeti Skinner
Mithril Blacksmith Hammer
Corpse Chopper
Graverobber's Shovel
Rusty Propeller Blade
Silverlaine's Family Seal
Seal of SylvanasWoW Forever adds items that do things Classic gear never did. A sword makes mages want to melee. A pickaxe shows ore nobody else can see. A thrown weapon doubles as your skinning knife. This page collects the ones we could check in the game files (build 1.60.1.70790), plus the ones players found during the beta.
Effects and stats below are copied from item tooltips in the files. Where an item drops is often not in the files, so we mark it when it comes from players or is unknown.
Coldflame Saber (Shadowfang Keep)
The best-known oddity. A sword for a frost mage.
| Type | One-hand sword, Bind on Pickup, Mage only |
| Required level | 21 |
| Damage | 25–48, speed 2.0 (18.4 DPS) |
| Stats | +7 Intellect |
| Effect | Melee attacks deal 98 additional Fire damage against Frozen targets |
How to make it
You do not loot the Coldflame Saber. You make it:
- Get the Blade of Silverlaine, a level 21 one-hand sword (Bind on Pickup). It drops from Baron Silverlaine in Shadowfang Keep. Conquest Capped puts the drop rate at about 1.7%, so expect many runs.
- Get the Scroll of the Saber (Bind on Pickup, mage only). It comes from deciphering scrolls with the mage Comprehension skill. Method lists it under the skill-15 scrolls. Its tooltip says: “Use on Blade of Silverlaine to create a powerful weapon.”
- Use the scroll on the blade. It is a 10-second cast that uses up the blade and gives you the Saber.
Only a mage can make and wear it. Because the blade is Bind on Pickup, the mage has to loot it personally.
Why it matters
Frost Nova and Frostbite both count as freezes. With the Saber, a frozen target takes 98 extra Fire damage per melee hit. That is a lot at level 21. It opens a “battle mage” playstyle that was a joke in Classic. It is fun for solo play. In dungeons, a ranged rotation is still safer.
Vindael’s Spectral Pickaxe
| Type | Quest-type item, Bind on Pickup (quest binding) |
| Required level | 1 |
| Tooltip | “Reveals Ghostly Iron Deposits while in your inventory. Also serves as a regular mining pick!” |
Carry it and you see a special ore node, the Ghostly Iron Deposit, that other players cannot see. It also counts as a mining pick. See the Mining guide for normal ore.
Not confirmed: who gives the pickaxe, where Ghostly Iron Deposits spawn and what they contain.
Gear that doubles as a profession tool
| Item | Type | Req. level | Effect |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yeti Skinner | Thrown | 1 | Serves as a Skinning Knife |
| Mithril Blacksmith Hammer | Thrown | 34 | Serves as a Blacksmith Hammer. Concusses the target, slowing it by 20% for 6 sec |
| Arcanite Blacksmith Hammer | Thrown | 49 | Serves as a Blacksmith Hammer. Stuns the target for 1 sec |
| Cracked Blacksmith Hammer | Thrown | 17 | “Can’t use it for smithing? Just throw it at your enemies.” |
These save a bag slot for Skinning and Blacksmithing characters and still give you a ranged attack.
Other unusual effects in the game files
| Item | Type | Req. level | Effect |
|---|---|---|---|
| Corpse Chopper | Two-hand axe | 16 | Chop a nearby Humanoid or Undead corpse in two, restoring 150 health, 150 mana and 15 rage |
| Graverobber’s Shovel | Two-hand mace | 23 | Dig up a grave at Raven Hill Cemetery and the Scarlet Monastery Graveyard. +12 Attack Power, doubled against Undead |
| Rusty Propeller Blade | Two-hand sword | – | Propellerstorm: slows your fall for 15 sec and deals 100% weapon damage to nearby enemies when you land |
| Wolfsbane | Two-hand sword | – | 49 Holystorm damage on use, three times as much against wolves and worgen |
| Moongazer’s Wand | Wand, Bind on Equip | 14 | +5 Intellect at night |
| Silverlaine’s Family Seal | Ring | 21 | 2% movement speed in Tirisfal Glades, Silverpine Forest and Shadowfang Keep |
| Seal of Sylvanas | Ring | – | Now +8 Stamina and +6 Attack Power (Attack Power instead of Strength) |
| Forsaken Greataxe | Two-hand axe | – | 2% movement speed in Silverpine Forest and Hillsbrad Foothills |
Silverlaine’s Family Seal drops from Baron Silverlaine in Shadowfang Keep. Seal of Sylvanas is the old Shadowfang Keep quest ring with new stats. For the other items, the files do not say where they come from.
Rockslicer: mining without Mining
Rockslicer is the old two-hand axe from Rhahk’Zor, the first boss of The Deadmines. In Forever it has a new use effect:
“Slice open and gather from a target Copper, Tin, Silver, or Iron Vein (does not require Mining).”
| Type | Two-hand axe, Bind on Pickup |
| Required level | 18 |
| Uses | 30, according to Warcraft Tavern |
It is most likely the Deadmines axe PC Gamer wrote about during the beta. With one in your bags, a character with two crafting professions can still pick up low-level ore. It only works on Copper, Tin, Silver and Iron, so it will not carry you to Mithril or Thorium.
What is not confirmed yet
- How rare the Scroll of the Saber is. It comes from Comprehension, but the odds are unknown.
- Whether the Coldflame Saber’s bonus scales with spell power. The tooltip shows a flat 98. Conquest Capped also lists +32 spell power on the Saber, which our game files do not show as a stat.
- Whether Fingers of Frost procs count as frozen for the Saber.
- How to get Vindael’s Spectral Pickaxe and what Ghostly Iron Deposits yield.
- Drop sources for most items in the “other effects” table.