Is it still obtainable? i feel its kinda buggy since i got the Outlaw’s one recently. I don’t know if i have to summon 2000 ghouls prior to being elegible to obtain it, but as I’ve been spamming Raise Army in proving grounds I think I surpassed that margin long ago.
So the question would be, did blizz patch proving grounds? or, is it required to have the artifact equipped in order for a Ghoul to drop the book? or is it just buggy since the expansion ended?
I know they’re hidden and we’re not supposed to get clues from blues and stuff but if its bugged i would like to get it fixed in order to obtain it, thanks.
It’s rng unless something has changed. I did it in legion while watching netflix. Believe it took about 2 hours. That said, I know others who’ve gotten it more recently, so it’s still available. Only thing not available is the mage tower. All other skins are still obtainable.
Not sure, but I would guess you need it equipped for the item to drop, but that’s purely a guess.
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thanks for your answer i needed something to hold to before i went mad, this skin is the real N’Zoth’s creation
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Hopefully you mean Apocalypse when you say Raise Dead.
Just cast Apoc and Army on cooldown, it will drop eventually.
Did you do it on proving grounds?
While you can still obtain, there is a chance that you’ve missed the spawn, where you can check with this script:
/script print(IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(44188))
Then there’s this guide:
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The hidden appearances for apocalypse are still obtainable yes. It’s just a small chance for a book to spawn whenever you use apocalypse. I don’t know if it procs from army of the dead, but I do believe it can proc from vision of perfection ghoul spawns.
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I got it on the 3rd Army/Apoc cast when I went looking for it. Super lucky, I know.
But yes you can still get it.
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I was sitting in front of the training dummies in the class hall just watching netflix and casting apoc/army on cooldown.
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Thanks everyone for your replies, i’ll keep trying to get it.
I dont think I ever saw whatever it was you needed off one of your minions. I was running ICC to attempt to get Invincible to raise my DK street cred, and I happened to notice I could go down and get the hidden weapon.
I got it at 120 in 8.3 while questing. Wasn’t grinding it out and didn’t have the artifact equipped.
Actually, the book dropped the first time I was doing the Legendary Cloak quest line and I thought the book was part of that quest for way longer than I care to admit.
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it’s obtainable, but I think you need to have a Legion artifact transmog active. There’s a script you can run to check if your character has the book, as your character will get the check mark to progress if you interact with the book or not. I got the Appearance and I didn’t see the book, I figure it spawned in raid.
My experience getting the Appearance was running the script to check the unmarked quest progress for the Book, seeing that at some point I got it, going to the Labs in ICC, and getting the Hook.
[UPDATE] Okay thanks everyone for your replies, i was using the script but thanks for pointing it out for the ones who don’t know, the book indeed drop from one Ghoul but NOT from the ones of Army of the Dead, it just drops from Apocalypse casts, or so it seemed to me, after more than 6 hours of only spamming AOTD, i got it 20 mins in the Proving grounds when i started using just Apocalypse, i had the artifact equipped but as a comment suggested, it seems unrequired to have it equipped.
Also as i said earlier i got outlaw recently and i didn’t have the artifact equipped so i think its fair to say that you don’t need to hold it, just be patient and cast a lot of apocalypse.
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I made this video when we didn’t knew how it was released, while other classes got drops, or intricate questlines, we had it tied to a cooldown. One of my favorite skins, but one of Blizzard’s worst ways to acquire a weapon.
As if they hooked us into their ruse.
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I remember cheesing it by joining a proving ground spamming apoc/army and resetting until I got it so I didn’t have to wait for the CD. Not sure if it still works but if it does, it’ll be faster.
I wanted to chime in briefly, as someone who also got the hidden skin within the last two weeks:
The Proving Grounds is still one of the best places to farm this skin, as it allows you to constantly reset Apocalypse (with each round), which is the biggest factors for getting the book to drop. I think I got the book to drop after roughly ~40 Proving Ground rounds (I did half of that near the end of Legion, the second half recently). The book and the summoned orc are really difficult to miss when you’re in the Proving Grounds arena due to the color palette and nearly-featureless, interior floor.
I didn’t have a legion artifact transmog active, and I believe the only real requirement is that you have unlocked the legion artifact in general. Once I unlocked the base weapon skin, all my progress on each color variant was applied automatically.
I’m glad to have this one finally. I don’t play Unholy very often, but I like my DK, and having another transmog option is great.
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