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Commento di Thottbot

Are you required to be a blacksmith at 250 to use this or can it be attached to shields of non BS characters such as a mithril spike?
This may explain why it's only an uncommon items vs. Mithril plans that are rare.

Commento di Thottbot

The blacksmith skill required (250) is only to install the spike on the shield. It's (275) skill required to actually craft it.Once installed there are no requirements. This add-on "overwrites" any previous enchantments. It does 20-30 dmg each time you block an attack.

The thorium spike requires essences of earth, hard to get and expensive, what makes this item far less profitable than mithril shield spikes. However, it's the best spike in the game, and in my opinion, best "enchantment" available for shields.

Commento di Thottbot

with specced increased block+str pally can get up to around 10% block + redoubt 30% + 30% holy shield with judged seal of the crusader JUST your block does around 150 dmg.

This OWNS rogues.

Throw on a shield spike with the shield that drops off the guy in baron that does also +dmg per block. probably could get up to 180+dmg per block.

problem is if youre a pally specced this way but you arent actually getting hit... so you dont trigger redoubt and holy shield just wastes mana.

with warriors getting beefed its not worth it for a pally to be specced like this after he hits 60.

Commento di Thottbot

Anyone notice how this is only a 'Green' item yet it's especially rare to find, while the lesser mithril shield spike plans are 'Blue' and a lot easier to come by. Seems Blizz has underestimated this item's worth.

By the way, found mine as random world drop off something in Azshara.

Commento di Thottbot

As I saw some replies wrongly stated I write this small article about what block is and how numbers interfere with it

Block is a passive action to subtract physical damage from incoming attacks.

-HOW MUCH DAMAGE DOES A BLOCK PROC SUBTRACT FROM ATTACKS?

Equal to the shield's block value plus 1 for every 25 strength points

-WHAT AFFECTS CHANCE TO BLOCK?

Mostly the DEFENSE skill (25 defense=1%) as well as items and certain talents

Commento di Thottbot

hehe, got it on the AH for 6g this morning :P

Commento di Thottbot

roflcopter, just bought it for 2g buyout in ah was wondering it it is worth the money, but since i collect all plans i get it seems as it was ;)
didn�t test it already but i guess it can be quite useful for a defensive warrior with shield block...

Commento di Thottbot

Given that the best shield enchant is
+2% block, and rarer than hens' teeth, a spike is better than nothing.

You could also go for +70 health enchant (+7 stam), but that make so little difference compared to the damage a spike will do even with 5% block.

Commento di Thottbot

the spikes
iron
mithril
thorium

?

I got the iron, am going to get the mithril one

but what's the difference in stat?

Commento di Thottbot

20-30 Damage for Thorium Shield Spike

Commento di Thottbot

Totally random drop off a stormer in Silith...noticed that its not even on the drop list here...lucky me

Commento di Thottbot

People in here talk about anything and everything besides where to get this plan. I know it's a random drop but there's gotta be some sort of pattern here. Please post where you got the drop b/c I want it and can't find it anywhere. And I absolutely never see it in AH.

Commento di Thottbot

Got the plans for this in the STV Arena Master chest not 45mins ago!

Commento di Allakhazam

got them for 3G buyout in AH (bid was only 2G). Seems someone didn't know their worth. However, as I see that they need elements of earth, they can be quite expensive and should be put on ones best shield (Draconian Deflector hmmmm).

Commento di Allakhazam

I picked up a copy of these plans off one of the elementals a week ago - I cannot remember if it was a Rock elemental or an Air elemental; one of the two though, since it was all I was hunting for essences.

Edited, Thu Apr 7 12:13:41 2005

Commento di Allakhazam

Does this require that you be a blacksmith in order to use it? the plan discription is:

Plans: Thorium Shield Spike
Requires Blacksmithing (275)
Use: teaches you how to make a Thorium Shield Spike
Requires Blacksmithing (250)Use: attaches a Thorium Spike to your shield that deals damage every time you block with it.

Requires Thorium Bar (4), Dense Grinding Stone (4), Essence of Earth (2)

Anyone know?

Maybe this is why this item is uncommon whereas Mithril Shield Spike plans are rare.

Commento di Allakhazam

As weird as it is, I got these plans as a reward for a tailoring quest! In the quest named The Undermarket (The Undermarket one of the rewards is a bag of stuff that usually contains tailoring items. Well, mine contained the usual spider's silk/etc, but also these plans.

Cool :)

Commento di Allakhazam

No luck here... sigh

Commento di Allakhazam

I got one off of a lvl 46, non-elite Vilebranch Soothsayer. Weird.

Commento di Allakhazam

Opps double post.

Edited, Sun Feb 13 01:47:32 2005

Commento di Allakhazam

Got mine in ST off of one of the random snakes, its so hard to make. If any of the horde wants this pst me in-game.

----Lord Nebels----
Daggerspine - Nebels 58 Warrior
Master of Gnome drownings

Commento di Allakhazam

Dont bother trying to farm these. its one of those patterns that is so rare, it will never drop unless you dont expect it to, and then only VERY rarely heh. played a few characters to 60, 1 to 70, working on another 60 right now and i never even seen this pattern, and im a blacksmith.

Commento di Allakhazam

Has anyone had any luck finding these plans off any of those creatures? Please post if you have.

Commento di Allakhazam

found it in a mithril lockbox off of elementals in silithus. wondering how much to see the plans for now since im hearing that its incredibly rare.

Commento di Allakhazam

Was farming dragonkin on my hunter in terror wing path just now and the chest popped with an assortment of food, vendor trash armor, bolt of mageweave and this. Could be worse...

Commento di wellspj

Dropped out of Cuergo's Hidden Treasure quest box for me. Doubt it has a high percentage to but it is a force farmable repeatable I believe if you farm the maps?