Hello All,
To get to the chase, Ice Barbed Spear was a Polearm quest reward in AV. In its’ final form patch 1.11 ( Circa June 2006), you just had to be level 51 and win a single AV match. I believe its purpose was to help people get geared quickly and into raids before BC would come out 6 months later, and make every item from vanilla pointless anyway.
The weapon in many ways is better than any crafted weapon by weaponsmith. Arcanite Reaper, Hammer of the Titans etc. Blizzard is planning to release AV at patch 1.12. If this quest, with this item is included it makes weaponsmith pointless and vastly changes how people will quest from 51-60. The quest should not be instituted until phase 6.
Also, the Unstoppable force was released in 1.5 which seems right being released at AV launch with Phase 3.
Just wanted to bring this to the community’s attention along with blizzard. Its an easy over sight to miss. I personally worked stupidly hard to get Hammer of the Titans ( still have it) in classic. Would hate to see that whole aspect of the game made obsolete by an early Ice barbed spear.
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AV isn’t out until later, and it’s fine. It’s the same with the crossbow for Hunters - the only other weapon that’s as good is from BRS.
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AV is out at Phase 3, that is still too early for Ice-barbed spear. It should come out at phase 5 or 6.
Stop making things up, it was added in 1.5 as a reward for killing Korrak.
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Oh I know, let’s add it as post-Naxx content!
Bam! 2 birds with 1 stone.
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It was added in 1.11 according to wowhead. Everything I am saying is still correct even if it was released earlier.
Patch 1.5.0 is when it was
I am trying to find something on that. Everything I am finding is saying 1.11. However at 1.5 Korrak the bloodrager was still in AV, so getting this item was much more difficult than it was once Korrak was gone and you just had to win a single game of AV.
No, it was available pretty much as soon as AV was if not day in date. You aren’t finding it correctly because you are failing to click the classic link on WoWhead on the top right. This spear was added in 1.5 and its proven by the comments dated June 8th 2005 right there from Allakhazam on WoWhead if you click classic.
Ice Barbed Spear coming with AV is blizzlike and completely accurate regardless of how you feel about it. It was from a quest initially for Korrak. I remember when they changed the quest because my Hunter chose the bow, then when they changed the quest to require only an AV win, I was able to get the second version of the quest and own both the spear and the xbow on my hunter at the same time.
From the comments on WoWhead:
From Allakhazam By Boytje [on 2005/06/09]
heh got mine yesterday… way too good for such an easy quest, but hey… you won’t hear me complaining 
can use my arcanite for something else now
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Actually like above said, if you go by your website it says it’s even earlier then we were.
Added in patch 1.13.0.28211 according to your own link.
Yeah, I see it now thanks. Still shouldn’t be in the game until later if there is no Korrak. Also still completely kills weaponsmith.
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Arcanite reapers and heart seekers will still be useful upon launch. It’ll be 9+ months post-launch before AV is released.
Whats funny is there are people in those old comments that agree with you. One guy is there in 2005 complaining about spending all his gold on an Arc Reaper only to have everyone get this free a few weeks later ![:joy:](https://d38bqls1q93fod.cloudfront.net/en/wow/images/emoji/twitter/joy.png?v=6" ":joy:")
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It really was a head-scratcher . I appreciated Ice barbed spear later because it made leveling so much quicker, but that was during TBC and WOTLK.
The item doesn’t really make sense when the game is Classic only.
But they have said.
So it’s very possible the change made will not take place until one of the much later phases.
Essentially the Questing, Content, and loot drop item locations and method of gaining them is part of the path of progression.
Anyone who actually played vanilla knows it was from the Korrak quest.
Yes, when I read that I was hoping they had this item in mind. But I wanted to bring some attention to this specific item and its ramifications.
Not sure how they plan to handle it for a fact because they appear to be going with the “Final” version of AV… So there is that too.
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Right, but the quest reward was still there even when Korrak was gone. Essentially you sit in an AV game at level 51 and get an item that is better than every weapon pre-raid. It is very strange. Why go weaponsmith after this is out? Kills a whole aspect of the game.
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Because weapon normalization was in 1.8 and no one really cares about you wasting arcanite on pre-raid blues.
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