Shadowmourne - Legendary Weapon Preview

[Furytitan]

I dont know why ppl were complaining earlier about Shadowmourne not having pre-established lore. It is in actual fact the reforged version of Arthas' original hammer, Light's Vengeance.

http://www.wowwiki.com/Light%27s_Vengeance

They want us to reforge the weapon Arthas wielded before he had Frostmourne, in the hope that it will provide an advantage, because the Ebon Blade believes we should fight fire with fire. Thats pretty damn good lore there that makes sense.

[FamilyGoat]

Your weapon swings have a chance to drain a Soul Fragment granting you 40 strength. When you have acquired 10 Soul Fragments you will unleash Chaos Bane, dealing 1900 to 2100 shadow damage split between all enemies within 8 yards.

Call me an idiot, but I can't see where this says doen't work on humanoids (the proc), unless there was a previous version out there. Even the proc aside, the stats on this more then make it worthy of getting (this might change once we see what the heroic 25 man weapons are like, but I still think it will be hands down better).


IMO, they have done a nice job of creating the lore behind this, creating a new legendary instead of putting together an old one. No, we will never get Ashbringer, lorewise it's only a little bit less powerful then Frostmourne, which is the source of much of Arthas current power. Game is easy enough already tyvm, please don't get them to make weapons that can 2 shot final bosses.

As for all the other legendary weapons that we have been able to get, reason we can use them and not 2 shot things is they were broken, and we needed to reforge them, so they can always claim that some of their power was lost when they were shattered (Warglaives and the bow being an exception, but neither of those were really powerful to begin with in terms of other legendariy weapons, the weilder always had other artifacts that boosted his power).

[Cattava]

Call me an idiot, but I can't see where this says doen't work on humanoids (the proc), unless there was a previous version out there. Even the proc aside, the stats on this more then make it worthy of getting (this might change once we see what the heroic 25 man weapons are like, but I still think it will be hands down better).

old version was only to undead/demon/elemental targets, but higher damage

anyone who says this is crap is fooling themselves, 400 str buff, 50 dps higher than ICC 25 man heroic 2h weapons, massive stats, 3 RED sockets... this is king, period.

[MystNL]

Hmm and imagine. You are bladestorming and after the bladestorm you pop Chaos Bane. This will be so OP for wars in 5v5 ;D

[Keosen]

Hmm and imagine. You are bladestorming and after the bladestorm you pop Chaos Bane. This will be so OP for wars in 5v5 ;D

Thats the purpose of a powerfull PvE legendary after all....arenas.

[skakruk]

What does it DE into?


(and now that there is a legendary 2h Axe I guess we wont be seeing another one ...)

[Tauhid]

What does it DE into?


(and now that there is a legendary 2h Axe I guess we wont be seeing another one ...)

Legendary weapons DE now?

[bladey]

who cares about proc? look at base wep dmg, 3 RED sockets and STR you get from it....

[Luris]

This just went from a good weapon to peoplestomer!

Can't wait to see videos of warriors slapping around with it. (Not saying warrs should get it, I just play one).

I'm not a big fan of the artwork though, I guess they mean it to be similar to Frostmourne due to the story, in which case it is.

[Rizrak777]

I find it funny that people dismiss this Weapon because of a silly thing like the proc.
It is a PvE based weapon. The weapon is made to combat the Lich King and his minons. None the less the top end damage alone is amazing and then adding in 3 Str Gems so for a none JC your talking 283 Str. I wonder if the 40 Str Proc is per soul fragment or just 40 no matter how many you gain.

Also silly as this is, makes me wish shamans had a 2 hander build and could use that. Winfury Proc on it would be scary.

[Righteousrage]

you won't be getting it anyways so you don't worry.

and how do u know that..........................

all that i am saying, since vanila wow, all that ppl (that love lore) wanted is to battle arthas and get frostmourne.......... after all w8ing all that we get is an axe!!!!!

and story behing this axe is so poor.......... its another blizz fail.....

its clear that weppon have very good stats, but its not only that that makes one weppon, legendary!

p.s sry for bad english

[deathfade]

ya for ppl complaining about the proc....first off it doesnt have a 'lasts for x seconds' so thats 400 str constantly, now they might have it like the mote flame trinket were after it builds up u go back to 0 but seeing as its every swing will proc it its pretty much a constant str boost, which is better than any trinket so far even tho the verdicts' proc rates are really good. the chaos damage effects all enemies, not just undead. ya the chaos dmg proc isnt that much, but its not a legendary proc its a legendary weapon. if that doesnt convince u then the dps, weapon dmg, and ilvl are far better than anything thatll be in wow till at least cataclysm.

[jespersa]

i so lol at ppl that say the proc sucks....

1 soul fragment = 40str

when 10 soul fragments, dmg proc

So having 9 soulfragments is equal to 360str

getting 558 str from just one weapon sucks yes, with JC gems even 648 str, which is like 750 fully buffed with talents etc...

on average during you will still have 180 strength extra due to the proc, which is like an additional berserking proc

(btw i dont know if someone brought this up, i just read the first page and /facepalm)

including the 3.70 speed, the awesome strength and dps, this will surely be BiS for every dk/warr/pala out there...

[Masterpd85]

and how do u know that..........................

all that i am saying, since vanila wow, all that ppl (that love lore) wanted is to battle arthas and get frostmourne.......... after all w8ing all that we get is an axe!!!!!

i played WCIII and instead of getting all orgasmic in wow over the thought of having that sword I recalled what happend to Arthas when he took it. I began, and still do, why anyone would want such a demonic sword?

and for the axe, it must have some lineage with frostmourne as it is called Shadowmourne. Just imagine what would happen if this axe and that sword fused as one or were both in the hands of a fury warrior. I bet they're like the alpha and omega of legendaries and not even the dragons could stop the warrior O.O

[Gladena]

i love reading this and how so many non DK's Pallies and Warriors say there going to get this legendary ahahaha u scrubs need to learn its for the epic plate class not for u ;D

[skakruk]

I wish there were less 'epic' plate classes... Would make things easier...

[Feralz]

OP for pvp, but when hasnt top raiding gear been used in arenas?