back story:
Years ago I deleted my arcanite ripper when I rage quit the game because of lack of faith in development. Because blizzard has changed their recovery services over the years to restrict time frame of recovery and I quit for a while, the item is no longer “available” to recover.
On to it then. I know I am asking for some outside the box, special treatment, here. I just want my ripper back. I’ve spoken to blizzard many times about this and have been told the item has been verified to have been owned on my character but the SPECIFIC item id no longer exists and they wont recreate one. All I can ever do is beg so that’s what I am here to do. It’s one of the rarest items I know of in game and I think it deserves special treatment.
Isn’t it a drop? Can’t you just go steamroll the content again instead of bother poor Blizzard over this? They have more important things to do like sell transmogs. (/s)
As far as I know blizzard can track what characters obtain. Proof in the recent bugs that caused multiple characters to revert to a random point in time from a previous expansion.
I don’t know how far back that info goes or if they’re willing to restore a item you willingly deleted.
There are lookalikes, but the original with the on use was part of the Wrath pre-patch event and it’s no longer in the game along with the Sun-Lute of the Phoenix King.
I hate to be the one to say this… but I find this sentence HIGHLY unlikely. There is no such thing as “id no longer exists” since the actual item is still in circulation and appears in the BMAH.
Either they lied to you, or you lied. Not sure what to say… it’s been shown that IF you could prove beyond doubt you had the item, they do restore it. Since AR doesn’t have any achievements associated with it, I don’t see how exactly you can prove you did have the item in the past.
Not just a drop. It’s an item that had a drop chance off a rare spawn boss in kara for 2 weeks during BC. Someone said you can get it off the black market but another said that the on use wouldn’t be available like the original.
I rage quit for a reason. I dabble in every expansion for the first raid tier and haven’t stayed any longer since. The game just isn’t that good any more. Between that and this major failing of mine I can’t cope with staying long any more. To have this item back would be a major deal and would change my future considerations. Not that, that should be a reason to give it back to me but just shootin the issh.
The version available through the BMAH does in fact still have the on-use effect and you can use it. It is identical to the original one. I believe the starting price is almost always 70K gold.
No, you are correct. Both items are available through BMAH. I was just mentioning that they have been removed from the original ways of acquiring it.
I was being a bit sarcastic and giving the answer I see so much around here.
I actually have this, but couldn’t remember where I got it. The lookalike is an heirloom I think. I don’t know if there are others - but none of those have the emote I think.
I believe you had your reasons, I’m not judging you. The state of the game can be frustrating sometimes. But take this experience as a teaching lesson of not letting yourself be carried away by your emotions next time and try to cool down before making a decision.
Thanks kalli. I’ve tried for a while but the price usually goes past my budget. One day though! I just haven’t felt good about this game since that happened, it left a sour taste. Specifically because old school blizzard support would recover things from years ago. First hand experience.
Yeah, outside the 2 weeks (i think) window the automated system now has, it’s near impossible to recover anything nowadays unless you have irrefutable evidence that shows in their system. Screenshots won’t do sadly. I remember having a weird bug happen to me back in Legion where I lost about 30% of all my shields collected… and even though they recognized it was a bug on their end, I ended up having to farm them all over again. There are still some I haven’t recovered to this day since they were world drops. It is what it is.