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Kommentar von 3118

15-minute cooldown.

Not a damage or healing offhand, so it's really a caster toy. The skeleton is level 60 and lasts the full minute. Has 4-6K HP.

It DOES keep attacking rogues through vanish.
It DOES automatically defend you if attacked.
It DOES NOT SEEM to have a limited range of chase.

Kommentar von 6954

My druid has this, it's not really useful in raids but it is a lot of un in pvp.

Kommentar von Saiyan

The fire runed grimoire is a more practical offhand and drops in MC. however, my warlock uses this item as an offhand, and the skeleton isnt bad, hes basically like another DoT on a target, and can be annoying for casters by knocking down their casting bars with a bunch of physical hits. Hes pretty tough to kill, but doesnt do all that much damage. Still definitely a fun toy to mess around with, and can be very helpful by keeping an additional enemy occupied while soloing.

Kommentar von 7916

Seems to have a huge drop percentage. Our guild was disenchanting them after only a few weeks of downing onyxia.

Kommentar von 8403

This off-hand is a fantastic toy, but even better as a last resort. My guild just did a 5-mage run of scholo this past weekend, we got to the room with the ghoul and magic-immune skeleton pulls. Needless to say, I used this book to summon my little helper and we painstakingly got past all of the magic-immune skeletons. =D Definitely handy in a tight spot to get out the extra dps (he hits for about 60-100, crits for around 200, roughly a 2.0 attack speed).

Kommentar von 8924

This little guy comes in handy when your in av and everyone else is attacking something else.

Kommentar von 9847

"I have this as my offhand, really its not worth spending dkp people" Its cool to be able to summon a skeleten once in awhile but if your a caster please get something thayt enhances your spell power"

Kommentar von Maed

Very useful for breaking hunter traps in duels/pvp.

Kommentar von 48268

i found it usefull on my druid in alterac valley when soloing very very very usefull if you are like a feral or a resto druid
and dont have the treants from balance or you are balance and your treants are re-charging however its a very low drop rate but s of burning crusade you can take her out easyer however she is still onyxiaand it can easily b replaced by burning crusade

Kommentar von 37107

This thing is the stuff for arenas. Pop it on, and right before you enter combat, summon the skelly and switch back to your main weapon. It interrupts cast time which is sweet against healers. Not to mention like 75 dps. My druid friend an I both use them in our 2v2 group and they spit hot fire.
;)

Kommentar von 6736

This item was hot fixed to be not use-able in arena as of 5/29/07.

Kommentar von 53267

In Laintime's most recent movie a druid used this item, while rooted Laintime dealt approximately 2500 damage to the Skeleton before it collapsed. This should give an indication of its health.

Kommentar von BobTheGreat

basically a better version of Book of the Dead

Kommentar von 123224

For some reason when my be paladin equips this it doesn't not show up on my character.

Kommentar von Tsaza

My friend's hunter uses this to solo the Dire Maul Arena boss, he casts missdirection on it when he gets agro/pet dies, and resurrects pet/bandages... Might be helpful if you know how to use it for good ;).

Kommentar von Thottbot

First Generation got one of these last night on Frostwolf. The Skeleton is Level 69, not sure how hard it hits, but it doesn't have a whole lot of HP. Could still be useful in PvP for interrupting casting and whatnot though

Kommentar von Thottbot

Yeah, this was buffed in the patch, now summons a level 76 skeleton, cooldown is 15 minutes. A rogue I dueled informed me that he sees through stealth.

This has dropped every time we've killed Onyxia, save once. 7.3%? Must be lucky I guess.

Kommentar von Thottbot

one of these crit me for 800 dmg and I'm a warrior. I was using 2h at the time tho but still.

Kommentar von Thottbot

Although im a druid this would be fun to own... already gathered a Dog Wistle from SM, currently doing Cannonball runner in Strat Scarlet...
Maybe some collar too of that bugged rare spawn in Duskwood... :P druid with Felhound, lvl 76 skeleton and a lvl 33 dog will PWN YOU ALL! Not to mention a little cannon shooting you to bits!

Kommentar von Thottbot

this definitley doenst share cooldown with the battlechicken. i had them outside fighting at the same time

Kommentar von Thottbot

This thing is really handy... Got it for 25cp on a roll (Wanted an epic, really, and my off hand really sucked - No real desire to wait for fire runed and then lose on some 60+ bet against the highest locks)

Really, it is nice for alot of things. It is far better than any of the engineering pets and doesn't take up a trinket slot, the 15min cooldown is not TOO inhibiting, and the stat bonuses are good for an off hand. Skeleton helps really well in PvE for a warlock, due to both 2 pets at once to help off-tank at massed mobs, in PvP, due to chasing DPS and especially double caster disruption (Couple a skeleton, voidwalker and curse of tongues on one mage and he will never get off a spell before he is dead)

All in all, though - When Onyxia drops this, don't bid anything that is considered "huge" for your guild in cp. It is nice for many situations, but fire runed grimoire is better, and you need a good caster mainhand for it to pay off.

Kommentar von Thottbot

I love mine...

First time I was able to bid on an item.

Being a squishy priest, my skeleton friend comes in handy farming.

He also helped out with the Tiger boss in ZG when I got some tiger agro. The Skeleton took on the tiger, I was able to continue healing, and he killed the tiger and continued to fight mob after mob.

Tested out how much it hits for with a friend dueling....He reported the hit being 129 non-crit. Not too shabby.

Kommentar von Thottbot

I got it two weeks ago and it is totaly worth having if you like to farm alone and call for back up when need be. the stats help out with my spell casting to give it that extra crit.

Kommentar von Thottbot

I got yesterday and it's realy usefull,now if i use also combined with Barrov caller trinket i will get 4 man + my pet for a total of 5 "slave" that fight for me ,i will test for PVP and for farm some big mob.

Kommentar von Thottbot

Im a 60 rogue and I got this yesterday because no one wanted, that shows how much it sucks, the skeleton is cool but useless that it only stays with you for a minute, if your a caster I guess thr stats would be nice,

Kommentar von Thottbot

Got in an Ony pug,priest, the skele does 100-200 dmg and hits about every 3 seconds. Cool drop but not that amazing of stats

Kommentar von Thottbot

usuable in the arena?

Kommentar von Thottbot

Yes, Gheyness again Blizzard. Can't use this or the Book of the Dead in Arena. WTF

Kommentar von Allakhazam

would the skele summoned be the same as the skele summon from the book of the dead, you get it from balnazzar in the scarlet section of stratholme?

Kommentar von Allakhazam

well, yesterday I wasted my dkp on this terrible useless book of $%^&.
I will have it disenchanted as soon as I come home from work.

Dont ask me why i bidded on it. maybe I was drunk. /cry

Kommentar von Allakhazam

It's awesome! The skeleton is lvl 69, it just looks like a regular skelli though nuttin fancy!

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Mujentas <Skyfang> - Shattered Hand

Kommentar von Allakhazam

is this skeleton elite or something..or is it justt a 69 mob? it sounds too kool for just a plain skeli

Kommentar von Allakhazam

i´ve got this on friday and sthe skeleton is 60:/ i think with a higher lvl its better than now

Kommentar von Allakhazam

wrong post.

Edited, Jul 3rd 2006 at 5:35am EDT by kzp

Kommentar von Allakhazam

its kind of cool vs rouges and `casters... 15min CD and can take some hits :)

but want one whit more stats tho

Kommentar von Allakhazam

Back before the nerf, I had a skeleton vs. skeleton fight with my Book of the Dead vs. the first Ancient Cornerstone Grimoire on the server... his despawned when mine was at 50%. Too bad now they're both 60. Even at level 63 the skeleton was amazing for rogue duels.

Kommentar von Allakhazam

Yes, the skeleton is really level 69, but his level doesn't appear red and he isn't impossible to hit. I'd guess his life is around 4k, but he has pretty high armor and you can heal/buff him. Does about 100 damage, 150ish to a mage. Model is the same as elite skeleton guards (skeletal raiders/warders from duskwood too), but he isn't elite.

Definitely a cool edge in PvP, and the stats on the book are a bit better than penelope's rose.

Kommentar von Allakhazam

A demonologist warlock in my guild got it (then a druid got it.. but lets not talk about that). The skeleton is lvl 60 at the moment and you can have this + warlock pet out.

Kommentar von Allakhazam

Just got this thing off Onyxia. She also droped Shard of scale >_>. Anyhow this thing hits for 90 on average.

Kommentar von Allakhazam

for a serious pvper this is the best rogue off hand in the game

combine it with a /use/swap macro and u cheapshot pop the skellie and go hard..

he can screw up hunter traps.. interupt spell casting and does 2k damage over the 1 min a very pro book

Kommentar von Allakhazam

its a pvp item

Kommentar von Allakhazam

Is it possible to summon the skeleton and then switch to different weapons? and the skeleton stays or not?

Kommentar von Allakhazam

the stats on this thing is just silly

Kommentar von Allakhazam

We beg, for the expansion, bring this book back with even more glory!

2 level 73 Skeletons for 1 minute with a 15 minute cooldown ><

You don't have to put stats on it, but people have no reason to use this crap if it isn't better.

Kommentar von Allakhazam

this is exactly like the epic book of the dead but that summoned a lvl 63 skelli

Kommentar von Allakhazam

If you don't already have this book, dont spend your DKP on it.

They're nerfing the pet to level 60, so its pvp usefulness against the anti caster (rogues) will be very limited. They're also cutting its damage in half according to tests from the test server.

Their reasoning? He was never supposed to be level 76. You know, despite the fact that they mentioned specifically in a patch that they were increasing its level to make it more useful.

So he went from 63 -> 69 -> 76 and now to level 60. Yeah, a bug.

They aren't increasing the stats either to compensate for the uselessness of the effect, so once again casters are screwed in the offhand department compared to shields.

This item has 2 more sta and 1 more spirit than Book of the Dead, which drops in live side strath off of Balnazzar, something you can do with 5 people.. hardly "epic" before, but the skeleton was fun.. Now it's useless.

More information http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.aspx?FN=wow-realm-test&T=39120

Edited, Mon Jun 6 16:01:10 2005

Kommentar von Allakhazam

he gains levels?

Kommentar von Allakhazam

Damn, I want this thing. Perfect for mages in every way. Dropped for us before, but I was outbidded by another mage.

Would go great with my sorcerous dagger ;)

Kommentar von Allakhazam

Got this on Perenold to go with my Aurastone Hammer. The skele may not be as powerful as it once was but it can still off tank while i'm soloing, allowing me to take out 3 mob groups of 60's with ease.

As a priest this item is great for fending off rogues in pvp... I actually had one log on to an alliance alt just to ask me what had happened :-)

Overall it may not be the most useful item ever, but it's the most fun item I currently own.

Kommentar von Allakhazam

thats a really helpful item. i found one similar (but a much lower level) it was called fel collar or something, it spawns a fel hunter that will gaurd u for 30 mins or an hour (he is level 30)

Kommentar von Allakhazam

this skeleton is now level 76 ... avg hit is between 150 to 200... also does alot of critical hits for 400 to 500 dmg... awesome tank for 1 minute with only 15 mins cooldown... this skeleton is way better then arcanite dragonling..... very very amazing......

Kommentar von Allakhazam

He got nerfed badly last patch =/ From lvl 76 -> 60, /mourn

Kommentar von Allakhazam

Its not that good, but indeed funny to use! Equip it sometime, summon the skeleton and equip back my staff!:) Totally imba fun

Kommentar von Allakhazam

Just paired this thing with Fang of Venoxis, not too shabby if I do say so.

Kommentar von Allakhazam

Got this not too long ago, it's nice, but he should do more damage... He doesn't even have a weapon and he fights unarmed for about 90 dmg. The damage wouldn't be so bad, if it were balanced with an increased ability to pull aggro (tank).

Also, he should be set to defensive, for a joke I took him to Gnomeran and he just ran around and aggro'd to everything in sight, looked like he wanted to clear the place.

Kommentar von Allakhazam

dropped on thursday night and a mage guildy got it... he can own in pvp now. says the skeleton makes a big difference.

Kommentar von Allakhazam

I have reason to believe that offhands have no cooldown between switching; this makes me see this offhand in a whole new light. Keep good stats -AND- use a skeleton... If this is the case, I can see why Blizzard would nerf it now...

Kommentar von Allakhazam

For the life of me I do not understand as to why everyone is complaining over this item. It still has it's uses.

I am a Orc Warlock and I replaced my Spellbound Tome with this and I enjoy playing with the Skeleton by making him attack Magmadar, Lucifron, Razorgore etc.

It's got some nifty stats and the skeleton can act as a cast interupter in Caster/Caster fights.

It's not as good as it use to be; but it's still good.

Edited, Tue Oct 25 10:21:44 2005

Kommentar von Allakhazam

what's the cooldown?

Kommentar von Allakhazam

IMHO this book is a disapointment,
Looted it tonight, it only have one more statpoint then Penelopes' rose.... the summoned 69 skel cannot hold agro, does 45 to 100 points per hit, has a VERY slow attackspeed.... has around 3 to 4k hps... at best a toy... my mithril dragonling is more effective

Kommentar von Allakhazam

He's now level 76, and seems to hit for 200+ often.

Given his level, he also sees through rogue stealth (or did yesterday at a TM raid), so I'd hardly call it a dissapointment.

Screenshot of the book and pet inc shortly.

Kommentar von Allakhazam

I got this book last Friday. The book is cool looking as you can see in the picture above. The skeleton is 76. He took down our best geared Rogue to 40 something % himself.

He also does see through stealth because of his level. It is very funny having a rogue stealth, and then popping this thing out.

Now I just need the mageblade =)

Edit: From what the rogue told me, he is very hard to hit. A priest also told me he resist alot.

Edited, Tue May 24 12:59:21 2005

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