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Kommentar von Arcticwolf

I am led to believe that all of the items sold by this NPC are gag items, they will not provide you with anything but a sense of stupidity for purchasing them. If you read the descriptions carefully you will notice that EVERY single one of the amulets he sells provides you with the "ability" to do things you may already do.

For example, the most expensive one claims it will grant you the ability to "come back to the dead", but you can already do that because when you die, your spirit releases. Another claims to keep "dangerous critters" at bay, and says it will make it so that they will not harm you if you do not attack them. Well duh, they're critters. They are a joke, and at the most, a way of suckering people into wasting gold. I hope this saves at least one person from making that mistake.

Kommentar von Magmy

If you actually read the items closely, you can already do everything that is stated on the items.

You can swim.

You can resurrect if you walk back to your body.

You can run over small cracks in the ground.

If you wear an amulet it is located above your heart.

You might find items.

If you equip the soap, you will carry it with you anywhere you go.

Eating/drinking will give you mana/heal you.

You will be protected from Tikbalangs, since they don't exist.

Critters won't attack you, unless you strike them first.

Good stuff, especially from all the people complaining about getting scammed on the General Forums.

Kommentar von 21967

can these be resold at the AH ?.........

-grin-

wishbringer, khaz'garoth

Kommentar von yoshi245

In 2.1.0 Griftah gets a friend. The Sha'tar send Peacekeeper Jadaar to oversee our good troll buddy and the discussion between the two when Griftah is trying to scam is hillarious.

Kommentar von Zurtilik

In patch 2.2 he will be moved outside of Shattrath.

Kommentar von RogueJedi86

Oh and it looks like he's selling 2 off-hand junk pieces now:

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i182/Dracodragon09/WoWScrnShot_071307_145502.jpg
http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i182/Dracodragon09/WoWScrnShot_071307_145539.jpg

Kommentar von 55827

What about the treasure tracking? Is that a scam, or is it the real thing?

Kommentar von 77380

Not only is Griftah a cheapy, he is rather rude if you listen to what he says
" Hey (class/race)! How'bout some soap on a roap to get rid of that awful smell!"

Kommentar von Innuendo

He is outside Shattrath now in the PTRs, on the road north of the exit from Lower City (Next to Scryer Tier).

Kommentar von 26733

damn blizzard... if you buy something from him its your own damn fault.... stop making it easier for people

Kommentar von Zuty

It would be great to see some cool skinned offhands, Like one that looks like Thunderfury or Hand of Rag. I would pick them up for my bank-alts hella fast.

~Zuty

Kommentar von Hawtt

As of patch 2.1.3 Griftah has been exiled from shattrath city and in his tent is a scryer investigator and Peacekeeper Jaadrar. I guess his shady dealings finally caught up with him lol. When you click the peacekeeper he tells you hes been exiled. And if you stand there for awhile he tells you Griftah might walk up to you if you are outside the city walls

Kommentar von sturmtiger

Here are some quotes from Griftah's new location from the perspective of a male character:

Amazing amulets! Incredible curios! The newfangled jewelcrafters be havin' nothin' on the tried and true mystical methods of... the... uh... the newly relocated Griftah! Improve yerself through these magical talismans for a bargain price!

I can't believe they be chasin' me outta the city. Innit supposed to be a refuge? Ol' Griftah be a refugee! Not my fault I be an ENTERPRISIN' refugee...

Check this out, <race>! Ya know what ya be needin'? One of these flowers. Lilacs, right outta the mystical forest of Terokkar! Rare! So rare! Ya don't see any of 'em around me, do ya? A pretty flower for a pretty lady, right? Right?

Heh... heh... hey! You! I may be down, but I be gettin' back on my feet! Come over here and look at what I got. The rarest and most marvelous amulets, right here! I even picked up some extra bits! Come on, come on, ya know ya wanna look.

Okay, okay, I know what ya be thinkin'. This be a stick. But it be no ORDINARY stick, no! What ya be seein' here, <class>, be a stick of incredible rarity and extraordinary value, shaped by the very powers that wrought the world! Ya wanna own this fantastic piece of Draenor, touched by magnificent power, I know ya do. I be practically givin' em away!

Kommentar von 42868

Removed from inner Shattrath as of 2.2. Now located 36,30 in Terokkar Forest

Kommentar von 11636

Confirmed: Griftah's banishment is an ongoing storyline and not the result of real-life complaints. This from Griftah's developer himself:

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=2215493312&sid=1&pageNo=2#21

Kommentar von 74054

<3 his amulets. Ever since I got them, no tikbalang has ever touched me. Then again, they haven't got me before, but this reduces the odds!

Kommentar von Oley

Tikbalang one can be real because i did some research and look what popped up :P http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tikbalang .....in other words tauren ancestors

Kommentar von Erycius

He will sell the Hula Girl Doll which will be needed by Engineers (amongst many other things) to upgrade their normal flying mount to an epic flying mount.

<link removed, evidence is no longer on mmo-champion>

Kommentar von 3040

Currently on the PTR patch 2.3 Griftah is back inside Shattrath City at his old location.

Kommentar von Faileas

In 2.3, this Investigator Asric https://www.wowhead.com/tbc/npc=23719 and Peacekeeper Jadaar https://www.wowhead.com/tbc/npc=23079 are located in the World's End Tavern where they discuss their failure of Griftah's investigation. Evidently some of the evidence was... misplaced or rendered useless to their investigations. Griftah has returned to his spot in Lower City, and Jadaar and Asric are barely on speaking terms.

To read all of their comments, you will need to bring both a Draenei character and a Blood Elf character to the Tavern as they each have some lines in their native tongue.

Kommentar von 88783

In 2.3 he no longer sells his pointed stick or Terrokar flower, but he has all of his amulets again for sale and the hula doll. The two investigators are now standing in the World's End Tavern. With Lower City reputation you can get his items cheaper, like the Hula Doll for about 75g.

Kommentar von backfire

In fact, as of patch 2.3 Griftah has been let back into Shattrath and starts a new quest involving Zul'Aman. He also sells a Hula Girl Doll necessary in crafting the epic engineering mount.

Kommentar von 15688

If you emote /no at him, he'll do a /rude at you

Also, if you /wave at him, he'll /nod at you

Kommentar von Trock

makes me sad too see the lowest shady dealer is a troll, they might look evil and just ready to kill u but they are nice ppl!:)

Kommentar von tanos

All of those are just crap for people with too much money.

Kommentar von Veilence

Developer Kisirani says to have created him.

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=6286660338&sid=1&pageNo=7#136

Kommentar von Thottbot

Soap on a rope seems to work just fine.

Kommentar von Thottbot

All of them things "allow" you to do things you can already do, read the descriptions properly.

Kommentar von Thottbot

The Tikbalang Ward works, too

Kommentar von Thottbot

...would such an obvious trick work so well.

With practically all the content in WoW screaming "don't upset the customers", people think every NPC is honest and every action you take must be "safe".

Brilliant!

Kommentar von Thottbot

Scam is when you do some extortion.

No way you have any pressure telling you to buy.

No way you don't know what you gte, read the description.

If you pay, you do it WILLINGLY, and can't be sad except if you suddenly realize you are stoopid.

Blizzard did it mainly for _FUN_ as many other things in the game.

If your only question ever is "how can it be used ?" and your first thought is "usesell thing, blizz noob" then....

... go get a life, a brain, some sense of humour.

And please never come back in wow.

Kommentar von Thottbot

Guys this is just a joke vendor for novelty.
There's no conspiracy there's no use for the items either.
IT'S for fun just like the mood rings and wedding rings from Booty Bay. I do not want to see anymore posts here because it is completely not needed unless someone finds a miraculous use for some of these joke items.

Kommentar von Thottbot

This NPC is a retard-check. It's refreshing to see how many ppl are really retarded :D

Kommentar von Thottbot

well his name is griftah, and he is a troll, 2 obvious reasons he must be a fraud.

Kommentar von Thottbot

lol tikbalang
Philippine mythology.

Kommentar von Thottbot

Do you know.. you can actually...
run to your corpse with that amulet?
Heal your wounds with ordinary food?
Find a rare item in a normal place?
Jump over small rocks?
Swim?
Never ever get pulled into a tree?
Never get attacked by a critter unless you attack it?
Never get attacked by a non-existing creature called Tikbalang?

NEVER KNEW!

Kommentar von Thottbot

I think of him as an idiot indentifier

Kommentar von Thottbot

I found this mob to be very entertaining and I'm glad Blizz put him in the game. After seeing his name I never bought from him. Once I saw a person %^&*! about spending 40g on a worthless P.O.S and got a good laugh out of it.

Kommentar von Thottbot

I personally think Blizzard put him in for 2 reasons:

1) Economy control. Blizzard deducts inflation through auction house deposits, mail, and vendors. Why not add an extra NPC that takes money from the rich and... gullible...

2)And the more likely reason that EVERYONE has stated (except the rare few that take blizzard too seriously) is that it's a joke, and a funny one at that. You'd figure Blizzard would give a crap if they put in useless NPCs... but no, they don't. If you've been playing blizzard games as far back as starcraft or diablo, you would know they have a history of putting in useless quests and gag items.

And for those who did fall for it. well i can understand, I had the temptation to TRY it once, just to see if it worked. WEll look at the bright side, you're doing your part to control inflation

Kommentar von Thottbot

I'm being safe. Just you all wait until that Tikbalang swings out of the trees at crits you for 15K. Then they take all your items and delete your account. How's that for economy management? I can see the combat log now: "Shoulda bought an amulet, %^&*!."

Kommentar von Thottbot

I love reading these comments :) 90% of the time, the people yelling 'noob' at every oppertunity are ones themselves. The more serious players getting annoyed by these necklaces are also entertaining to read, Keep going. Please! :D

Kommentar von Thottbot

I bought the Tikbalang ward, and i was walking through terrokar when suddenly this huge donkey-man jumps from a tree, stuns me, grabs me and jumps into a tree, and raises this massive axe-mace, and he's qbout to crit me for 15k (i knew he would, it wasn't that difficult to guess how much damage the axe-mace would do) when he stops and says:
"Oh, my bad. I see you got a ward there, damn my luck. i get to come outta this tree, what, once a monther, and i pick the guy who has a ward."
Then he gave me a quest to talk to him.
I talked to him and he gave me 50 gold.
And...if you still believe me...
He then got me to level 70, bought me an epic flying mount, tripled my size (permanently), gave me another 500,000 gold, along with every piece of my tier 900 armor, and, uh...gave me some soap on a rope.

Kommentar von Thottbot

What I love about this guy's stuff is that it's a commentary on all the stuff your character does that's completely ridiculous really, but completely mundane in game terms -- healing wounds with food? Running back to your corpse after death and resurrecting? Finding armor, weapons, and lockboxes on animal mobs? Clearly every character was issued a set of these amulets on entering the game, and just hasn't realized it yet!

Kommentar von Thottbot

This guy is not a scammer. All of his things to exactly what they say they do.

The Critter Warding one, bought that and not a single bunny or squirrel has attacked me. Same with the Tiki whatever they are called things.

I bought the Stone of Stupendous Strides and I can now jump over the average gnome. I can also swim very well in the ocean.

Treasure Tracking, I bought this and I managed to find a nice green axe inside a boar. Oh, and the spirit anchoring one. I bought that, and one time I got jumped by an Alliance, and then I was in like Shadowworld or something, but everything was where it normally was, and I walked back to my body and came to life again!

And the Soap on a Rope. Bought this, and no one walks up to me and says "You stink" and no one vomits as I walk by.

Kommentar von Thottbot

I got attacked by a tinkabling anyways, I guess it doesn't work for locks...

Kommentar von Thottbot

You'll understand the trick by osserving the comedy between Griftah and the Drenei near him. As you go close to him, Griftah call your name (or eventually your race or class) and try to convince you to buy something... The Draenei comment warn you that he's not a trustable vendor.. just a good joke btw.

Kommentar von Thottbot

he's outside of Shatt now. coords are 36.4, 30.8

Kommentar von Thottbot

He does sell the hula girl which is needed for the engineers epic flying mount

Kommentar von Thottbot

Rumors are that he is going to sell an Anti-Lag Amulet for Battlegrounds with the next patch.

Kommentar von Thottbot

As you're sitting down to eat some food and regain your lost health, Tikbalang swims across the river... jumps over a small stone... pulls you over to a tree, interupting your dinner... procedes to search you for his missing rare soap-on-a-rope so he can take a bath. Unfortunately he beats you to death with the soap before jumping over a small stone and back into the river.

Kommentar von Thottbot

Some of the best fun I've ever had...

Though I was saving for my epic mount at the time...

I went ahead and bought ten Soap on a Rope...

And did my duty to keep the Horde Clean by handing it out to random ppl...usually low level's who weren't aware of the joke...

*laughs so hard he passes out*

What? htanks!
No problem citizen, just doing my duty to keep the Horde clean!
ok...
Xjba cackles maniacally at the situation

Kommentar von Allakhazam

ok, English is not my first language, how was I support to know the name off the vendor sounds like some slang for con-artist. (to my knowage 2/3 of the players aren't native english speaking)

is there some money-back-quest for the *!@# I bought here?

or is it just a way of blizzard to make me play another week to earn what I spend here?

Kommentar von Allakhazam

lol @ the items he sell.. Soap on a rope ftw

Kommentar von Allakhazam

Just in case someone misses it below, since people still swear by the Treasure Trinket.

grift·er
–noun Slang.
1. a person who operates a side show at a circus, fair, etc., esp. a gambling attraction.
2. a swindler, dishonest gambler, or the like.

It might seem as if your luck has changed, maybe.....
But you definately got swindled if you bought one of his trinkets, definately.....

Edited, May 15th 2007 10:35am by Naslu

Kommentar von Allakhazam

he's outside of Shatt now. coords are 36.4, 30.8

Kommentar von Allakhazam

The hula doll is a useful item now tho, you need it as a mat for the epic engineer flyer =D

Kommentar von Allakhazam

Here's the hilarious part; to the person below who whined because they were from Germany and aren't native English speakers? His German name is GAUNAH...which is almost GAUNER...which means "TRICKSTER." -_- Just like in English, his German name is a play on words.

Kommentar von Allakhazam

anyone buy these and test them out?

Edited, Jan 20th 2007 4:47am by Vocu

Kommentar von Allakhazam

Vendors name is Griftah, like Grifter in the sense of con artist?

Kommentar von Allakhazam

Read the descriptions carefully.. Can you see it? You can already do all these things anyway. Like for example, The Talisman of Treasure Tracking: "Wearing this, one might find the rarest of items in the most mundane of locales!" Kill a spider and he drops Blinkstrike. This is a very mundane locale. Rare items drop in the most mundane of locales anyway. And the Polished Pendant of Edible Energy. Food and Drink already heal your wounds and give you energy already. So don't waste gold on these things unless you want them for novelty purposes. Because you can already do all these things (and they don't work either way)

I bought them all for fun :P

Kommentar von Allakhazam

Too bad he doesn't sell senses of humor, some of the posters would get some benefit from it ;p

Kommentar von Allakhazam

All of these items work exactly as he describes. Buy them quick before Blizzard nerfs there awesome power.

Kommentar von Allakhazam

lmfao ima buy soap on a rope, im sure ill get all of these eventiually but hey! just cause im a big cow lady dont mean i gotta be smelly! wootness!

Kommentar von Allakhazam

the sha'tar are racists to Jamaicans if they remove Griftah, i LOVE griftah! hes awesome!

Kommentar von Allakhazam

blizzard hates trolls -.- trolls 4 eva man :o

Kommentar von Allakhazam

LOL I am 1st 70 on my server...so I bought them all and linked all my BoE's and such sayin they all work...sooo many ppl bought this crap!

Kommentar von Allakhazam

i hear in patch 2.3 they're gonna change it so though the items actually do what they say they will.

Kommentar von Allakhazam

best vendor ever.

Kommentar von Allakhazam

gotta addmit it'd be pretty cool if the stuff acutally worked lol :)

Kommentar von Allakhazam

As of 2.2 Griftah has been exiled from Shattrath. Don't know where he's been moved or if he's been removed from the game completely.

Kommentar von Allakhazam

i brought one of these from the ah and now i got tbc i decided to sell it and buy one from the merchant and maybe more to make a profit at the ah, i sold mine and notcied that i did defo get less drops, went to get a new one and he is no longer selling them. he is now at 36, 30

Kommentar von Allakhazam

it mite be possible that what they do depends upon reputation, like theymite actualy do what they say when your full exalted with lower city? i dunno and honestly wont care to test it lol, but that was just an idea sorry if it sounds stupid lol

Kommentar von Allakhazam

I'd be filthy rich from all the idiots buying the stuff...haha

Edited, Feb 6th 2007 1:53pm by Alexkg

Kommentar von Allakhazam

just talk to the peacekeeper standing next to him, he says that there have been "complaints" filed about Griftah...

Kommentar von Allakhazam

And now it seems he doesn't sell the Treasure Finding trinket...*mad*

Kommentar von Allakhazam

I can verify, with absolute veracity, the efficacity of these heretofore aforementioned artifacts. They will make your life unimaginably more superiororitous and will enhancify your dreary mundanitude to a point of extraordinarity.

Buy now! Quantities are limited! Buy now! Get more for your alts! BUY NOW!

/end

/run Outlook Express
/new
To: Griftah@shattrath.gov
From: Harold.Hill@musicman.net
Subject: Payoff

You're late with the gold, Troll-boy. Pay up or I stop assuring people that your crap actually is worth the price.

Kommentar von Allakhazam

Grifter- swindler: a person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud. Griftah...Grifter...duh.

The only reason to buy this stuff is to say to your friends, hey look what I got and laugh.

Gaunah <Erstaunliche Amulette>

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