I have some rare things like the Big Blizzard Bear, but the rarest item might be one that I can’t easily track.
I have a spellstone leftover in my bank from when warlocks could make those and firestones. If you didn’t have one crafted before the spell was removed, you couldn’t make them anymore. I’m guessing most were tossed after they became useless.
I’ve kept a lot of old items though from quests that I thought were fun, like the Faded Photograph from the Linken quest chain.
I have many rare mounts and items.
But what I truly consider rare are the letters from players that I keep.
For New Year’s or similar occasions, I send out messages to my guildmates and receive reply letters with thanks through in-game mail.
Once, someone accidentally sent me gold and asked me to return it. I gave it back and received a thank-you letter, which I also kept.
I save all letters from players unless they’re advertisements.
My Immortal title. Dark Portal tabard. Rank 11 PvP mount when it was still a bag item you clicked on to summon.
Blackened Urn. Every Whelpling pet available in the game. Awake The Drakes achieve mount.
I have a “Mature Blue Dragon Sinew”. Probably some other discontinued items lying around.
Swift Razzashi Raptor mount from the original Zul’Gurub is my favorite, though.
Competitor’s Tabard
Spirit of Competition
Baby Blizzard Bear
An old Warlock alt has a Firestone still in her inventory. The Blood Elf Paladin that I made during BC still has the Blood-Tempered Ranseur from the Paladin weapon questline. I have no idea if the ZG Tiger is still rare since it’s been on the BMAH, but I have that, too.
Probably my Swift Spectral Tiger, Magic Rooster, or other TCG mounts and items. Otherwise, it was Aeonaxx, the TLPD, and Posiedus - but Blizzard has trivialized getting them.
BTW, I picked up Aeonaxx and Posiedus (subdued seahorse) this morning on Cata Classic (within 13 minutes of each other).
Nice. 100% of everything my hunter has ever looted, ever. And every item that toon has ever gotten. So it has the original quiver. My rogue also has a bow and some of its old arrows on it as well. I have not checked to see if this version of Classic rogues can use bows cuz they have changed a lot in there so maybe not but in original WoW you could on a rogue. All of its throwing knives, I had stacks of them… they just turned into single stack grey items now. Shammy other account ahs an arena tabard that is kinda cool.
Paladin still has all of it’s unused symbol of kings. And I still have some of my pets from way back in the day and some mounts that are still in unlearned forms in my bank. Account bound some are and soulbound others are.
I kept all my twighlight cultist gear from years ago… Just cuz it looked cool Just recently they allowed us to mog into grey gear so I learned them and can now mog to them.
I have a couple blood of heroes and argent dawn commissions.
Rohk delar longbow of the ancient keepers from the hunter class quest.
Battle bear from killing the horde leaders in world pvp.
Season 1 brawlers guild shirt
I still have all my old Vanilla stuff in the bank. Like my Nozdormu token, and some Naxx runes. Also still have my Sawbones Shirt on my original Warrior.
Th rod was 3 min transform on a 3 min CD. You could be permanently furbloged. The toy has a 1 hr CD.
I had the rod for years in my bags. But I did the catch up boost when I came back after a long hiatus, and all the items in my bags were placed in the mail, including the rod. But because it’s not in the game anymore, I couldn’t take it out of the mail. When I tried, it disappeared. A month’s worth of tickets and appeals did nothing and GMs wouldn’t/couldn’t restore it. I’m still bitter.
Amunition !
I dunno even know what’s rare. I have some vanilla shirts, Linken’s sword, things like that that don’t drop anymore.
The original Quel’serrar.
Swift Alliance Steed (from TotC 10 heroic with no wipes).
Runed Elementium Rod (from my enchanting days🤣).
I’ve got some items that are just no longer available. I kept them because they have memories behind them, and not just because they are rare.
They among them are: Light of Elune. Blade of Reckoning (Onyxia questline). Archeus (Mor’ladim quest). Hook of the Master Angler (still available, but I won the very first STV fishing competition and chose it), Drakefire Amulet (Onyxia key, no longer needed), Seal of Ascension (UBRS key, no longer needed), and Jin’rohk (thankfully still proper side up and not embarrassingly flipped upside down like Zin’rokh was.
I’ve got other items, like parts of the Undead Slaying gear (unfortunately, I didn’t save all the pieces on characters that had the full sets), Argent Dawn and Tabard of the Protector, classic Blacksmithing items (Glimmering Mithril Insignia for example), Dartol’s Rod of Transformation, Argent Avenger, and so on. I also have some rare mounts (if you care, you can just check what I have in my armory, lol).
The rarest thing I have in game is probably the “Find Minerals” spell that is still on my hotbars, lol. I put it there back in classic and never removed it, even after they moved tracking to the minimap area. I still remember having to click that every time I died, because tracking would get removed on death. There’s probably a way to add it to the bars now, considering it’s still there for me and is completely usable, but I’m guessing not many characters actually have it on their bars. It’s not really an item, and the ability itself isn’t rare by any means, but I thought I’d mention it for fun.
(I know this is a few months late to reply to, but…)
It’s not all that surprising, considering the numerous factors in play: First of all, it was an Alliance thing only at the time, meaning that the novelty of having a Horde character on a ram was not there yet. It required you gathering 600 Brewfest Tickets, which was quite a grind. The mount itself is basic looking, not much different at all from the other basic rams you could buy. It took a bag slot, and could only be used on the character it was earned on, since the mount tab and shared mounts weren’t available yet. And it was a 60% speed mount. Most people who have it went for the epic mount and were able to get the basic one as a bonus later on. Finally, the quest was only available the first year.
All of those factors together make it rare. I never bothered at the time because I didn’t need a ram taking up inventory space, regardless of if it was the epic one or not.
Probably my Pets from the OG CE. Mini Diablo is the best. I dont know how rare they are but I cant imagine a TON of people have played since then.
I still have ammunition in the bank (unless Blizz deleted that , I havent checked in a few years)
Okay, I went and looked at one toon and came across a couple items:
Royal Seal of Eldre’Thalas.
Seal of the Dawn.
Seal of Ascension.
Chained Essence of Eranikus.
Drakefire Amulet.
Explorer’s League Lodestar.
Onyxia Blood Talisman.
Argent Warhorn.
Barov Peasant Caller.
I’m sure there are others. Not including tabards, pets, or mounts. Just random crap I don’t throw away because I have a problem. Hahaha.
Have a Warglaive of Azzinoth on this char but can’t mog it since Blizzard changed it from one hander to a warglaive. Amanthul’s Vision on another char. And Old Crafty.
Tiger drop from Zul’farrak
Invincible
Link’s sword? Not sure if this quest can still be done, I heard it was rare.
Conqueror and Lt. Gen title, warlord tmogs.
Gold. It seems to constantly vanish and rarely replenish
