Rarest item in the game?

[Kruul]

The rarest obtainable item in the game is the boe spellcaster leggings from zul'farrak or atleast they used to be not sure if they upped the drop rate. only a tiny amount (well under 100) have ever been recorded to have dropped.

[coocoo]

http://www.wowhead.com/item=68050
So rare, nobody in the world seems to have got it yet, despite GMs claiming it is indeed obtainable.

[Sett]

Elixir of dream vision.

Plenty of old-world patterns are pretty rare. I'd also rate Teebu's being on the very rare list.

[cubby]

well, i remember reading something on wowpedia bout this legendary necklace back in vanillia. dropped only once and blizz decided to remove it from game but let the person who got it beforehand keep it.

Edit: http://www.wowpedia.org/Talisman_of_Binding_Shard
that's the link to this item

I would have to agree, this is the rarest item. However, it's also unobtainable, so I would think there are two categories of rare items. Those that are no longer unavailable, and those that are still obtainable.

Talisman probably wins for unobtainable, as there is only one in game.
Others are old-school epic mount, before armor. The legendary caster staff from Naxx 1.0.

AQ Gate Opening mount is probably rarest still obtainable (forgive the poor grammar).
Hand of Ragnaros. The Legendary Bow from KT.

[wariofan1]

Rare and unobtainable is two very different things. What the most rare item is, I have no idea of, but just wanted to point out that the Necklace and Atiesh are not rare! They are rare to see (the necklace being impossible because the guy who had it quit during TBC), but they're not rare to get, because they're simply unobtainable.

[Deleted]

AQ Gate Opening mount is probably rarest still obtainable (forgive the poor grammar).

Actuly you cant obtain it anymore blizzard wont open new realms with the AQ gates closed so you cannot finish the quest and if im not wrong they actuly removed the quest for it.

[Deleted]

Easily the legendary Talisman!

[Vladimeir]

Teebu's blazing longsword is ridiculously rare. It may not even drop any more. I know a majority of the ones that ever dropped were from the AQ events.

Pendelum of Doom was extremely rare and super valuable since it was a .01% drop off of a mob in Ulda. And there were only like 10 mobs that dropped it per instance. Very difficult to far. In BC, I know of people posting on forums looking, willing to transfer and spend large amount of gold to buy it for their twink.

Technically, the old epic mounts are feasibly still in game as a BoE. I doubt it, but the chance exists. Before the mounts went BoP, you could wrap them as a gift preserving the BoE status. There may be one on an old account still but this would probably be the most valuable item in game if it does exist wrapped still.

Bags with stats on them. Ie, Journeyman's backpack of fiery wrath was on Sen'jin for a little. I don't know what happened to it.

Reports of actual 372 trash items (with stats to match, not just 359 w/ wrong ilvl) dropping.

Discontinued items like blinding powder, thistle tea, old rogue poisons, etc...

That one hot dog recipie from scepter quest chain. (Is quest still in game?) while obtainable via quest, so few people have actually spent the time to do the quest chain let alone the resources. Any completionists must have for their cooking.

[Pafinator]

All of the "event gear" like from the original undead invasion before BC launched is unique and unobtainable.

[cubby]

Actuly you cant obtain it anymore blizzard wont open new realms with the AQ gates closed so you cannot finish the quest and if im not wrong they actuly removed the quest for it.

Ah, ok then. Scratch that off the list, and put it on the other one.

[MonsieuRoberts]

Teebu.

Aetsu has the Thistle tea recipie, so it's not THAT rare.

[Mufasaprime]

another rare item is http://www.wowhead.com/item=49704
i was lucky enough to recive this about a few months before blizzard droped the card company making their original tcg cards
shame its no longer in game, and now selling on ebay for nearly 1k /sigh, damn soulbound item =[

i suppose this would be both rare and unobtainable now

rare for how you needed 25000 UDE points to even get it
and almost unobtainable since the only way to get the idol now is to already have the code to loot the item

[Vladimeir]

I would only consider "rare" items to be BoE/Tradable. BoP, while it may be rare, is practically unobtainable as it would, 99% of the time, no longer be available thus the reason it is put in the rare category in the first place.

[tenzing21]

Talisman of Binding Shard was supposed to be part of the attunement for Molten Core hard mode, half a key for "extra" or additional bosses in a UBRS> BWL style progression, or probably (and most likely) the first version of the requirements for Thunderfury.

The design team that was in charge of MC, Strat, Naxx, and AQ 40 all left the game en masse before the release of WoW to join the studio that made Hellgate:London, so each one of those instances had to be essentially completed very very quickly. All of the unfinished ideas were discarded, and that included many things that did make it into Hellgate, as well as the idea of having a few legendaries per expansion, and an artifact, which I personally believe the Talisman turned into. As of this writing, even tho the quality "Artifact" is listed in the original game manual, none have made it to live.

The guys who ported over from EQ, as well as the other game companies Blizz absorbed, were light-years behind the crew that left, I'm afraid to say.

[Cranica]

I'm just gonna jump into this thread to mention that I've got a Teebu's for sale - Durability @ Whisperwind, hit me up

As for the rarest item? The Alliance pvp tabard that my (troll) DK wears.

[mugiwara1984]

I have seen it on the Auction House, drop in a group and equipped on players. Back in the days this used to go for as much as 800 gold.
This was during TBC, so back when gold was harder to come by.

These days, I guess it would go for 30k at least, on an active twinking realm...

not at all... its noone needs it anymore. the only reason it was so expensive were all this lvl 19 bg players. but now they got the boa weapons which are just better.

[Deleted]

This Parrot would be pretty rare ^^

[Deleted]

Atiesh is no doubt the rarest, I have played since the thing was attainable and still only ever seen 1

[Tural]

This Parrot would be pretty rare ^^

There's consistently 3-5 on the AH on both realms I play on. They're down under 10k at this point.

[Deleted]

The old Thistle Tea recipe. No longer freshly obtainable, but they still exist out there. Beyond items that are completely unobtainable like the Talisman, it's probably one of the rarest things to be able to find now. One up on Kel'Thuzad's AH right now, and a guildmate found one on an alt around a year ago.

Amuse/terrify me - how much is it listed for?