For some reason, I love the Steelforged stuff, on tanks I like to use the Steelforged Axe in combo with the Steelforged Shield. There are a few more weapons in that set. It came with the Warlords of Draenor Blacksmithing.
Interestingly over the years there are other items that showed up, that look just in the same style, but with different names. The Honorbound Skullcrusher as example or the Skyhold Bulwark.
Coming back after a long break(since end BfA) I see a “Tower Shield” that looks very closely to the middle Steelforged Shield(Steelforged usually has 3 versions, since you could upgrade it 2 times) just in a dark color scheme.
On WoWhead I can’t find anything, in WoW it says you get it from a quest, but which quest? According to WoWpedia the item never made it to the finished game in Shadowlands… but it appears under shield in appearances!
I would be happy if someone could help me with this!
I read also that it never made it into the game, the question is then why does it appear in the shieldsection within the game? When many Trading Post items not even appear unless you own them?
There are probably data items in the item database that aren’t accessible because they aren’t assigned any way to be given to a character. Sites like WowHead examine the entire database (“data mining”) and uncover the existence of these items, but they don’t find any way to create an example of one in the game (for instance, as loot or a quest item).
So the item exists in game but is unavailable.
It’s like there’s a recipe but no way to cook it.
Maybe the devs could be persuaded to unlock those items.
I understand that there are many “looks” for items that are not used on any item a player can pick up. But that is not what I as talking about. Said shield appears inside the “Appearances” menu within World of Warcraft Retails “Shields” section. So either this shield is attainable… or it is a error/bug that it shows up in the ingame menu.
I want to emphasize that I am not talking about the shield appearing on web sites like WoWhead or WoWpedia.
This is quite possible. Either it’s a bug, or it isn’t obtainable yet. (It could become obtainable in a future patch. A lot of cosmetics were in the system data, even in the collections UI, but were unobtainable until, for instance, they were added to a Trading Post.)
Just found this item on the appearance tab as well. Strange how it’s by the WoD stuff and somehow referenced in Shadowlands. Thread helps knowing others are just as confused lol, still searching for an actual answer though.
So do I, lol. Why does it show up if you can’t get it? And other stuff that you can get either by Tradepost or other means doesn’t show up. Typical Blizzard.