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Commento di mashby

A Thorium Shield Spike deals 20-30 damage

Commento di Furyo

These plans are really quite difficult to get a hold of. An extremely low drop rate as well as only dropping from a few 58-60 mobs means they rarely appear on the auction house.

Commento di 83153

These spikes are a cheap way to level blacksmithing in the 280-300 bracket i suggest picking this up if you see it floating around at a affordable price

Commento di 135133

These plans are ideal for grinding out blacksmithing. Thorium bars tend to go for about 1G a piece, making leveling from 285 to 300 cost around 12-20G per level. These plans reduce that to about 7G per level, and make the 275-300 stretch quite a bit less painful. However, like Furyo stated, these plans are extremely difficult to come across, and take quite a bit of time to locate in the auction house.

Commento di Thottbot

Are you required to be a blacksmith at 250 to use this or can it be attached to shields of non BS characters such as a mithril spike?
This may explain why it's only an uncommon items vs. Mithril plans that are rare.

Commento di Thottbot

The blacksmith skill required (250) is only to install the spike on the shield. It's (275) skill required to actually craft it.Once installed there are no requirements. This add-on "overwrites" any previous enchantments. It does 20-30 dmg each time you block an attack.

The thorium spike requires essences of earth, hard to get and expensive, what makes this item far less profitable than mithril shield spikes. However, it's the best spike in the game, and in my opinion, best "enchantment" available for shields.

Commento di Thottbot

with specced increased block+str pally can get up to around 10% block + redoubt 30% + 30% holy shield with judged seal of the crusader JUST your block does around 150 dmg.

This OWNS rogues.

Throw on a shield spike with the shield that drops off the guy in baron that does also +dmg per block. probably could get up to 180+dmg per block.

problem is if youre a pally specced this way but you arent actually getting hit... so you dont trigger redoubt and holy shield just wastes mana.

with warriors getting beefed its not worth it for a pally to be specced like this after he hits 60.

Commento di Thottbot

Anyone notice how this is only a 'Green' item yet it's especially rare to find, while the lesser mithril shield spike plans are 'Blue' and a lot easier to come by. Seems Blizz has underestimated this item's worth.

By the way, found mine as random world drop off something in Azshara.

Commento di Thottbot

As I saw some replies wrongly stated I write this small article about what block is and how numbers interfere with it

Block is a passive action to subtract physical damage from incoming attacks.

-HOW MUCH DAMAGE DOES A BLOCK PROC SUBTRACT FROM ATTACKS?

Equal to the shield's block value plus 1 for every 25 strength points

-WHAT AFFECTS CHANCE TO BLOCK?

Mostly the DEFENSE skill (25 defense=1%) as well as items and certain talents

Commento di Thottbot

hehe, got it on the AH for 6g this morning :P

Commento di Thottbot

roflcopter, just bought it for 2g buyout in ah was wondering it it is worth the money, but since i collect all plans i get it seems as it was ;)
didn�t test it already but i guess it can be quite useful for a defensive warrior with shield block...

Commento di Thottbot

Given that the best shield enchant is
+2% block, and rarer than hens' teeth, a spike is better than nothing.

You could also go for +70 health enchant (+7 stam), but that make so little difference compared to the damage a spike will do even with 5% block.

Commento di Thottbot

the spikes
iron
mithril
thorium

?

I got the iron, am going to get the mithril one

but what's the difference in stat?

Commento di Thottbot

20-30 Damage for Thorium Shield Spike

Commento di Thottbot

Totally random drop off a stormer in Silith...noticed that its not even on the drop list here...lucky me

Commento di Thottbot

People in here talk about anything and everything besides where to get this plan. I know it's a random drop but there's gotta be some sort of pattern here. Please post where you got the drop b/c I want it and can't find it anywhere. And I absolutely never see it in AH.

Commento di Thottbot

Got the plans for this in the STV Arena Master chest not 45mins ago!

Commento di Thottbot

i have this spike on my sheild for my pally.....i AoE Grind with him and it helps alot. if you dont believe that pallys can AoE grind go look it up on google/youtube....this is an AWESOME spike besides the felsteel one but im not going to put a 50g spike on a sheild im only gonna use for 10 lvls or less. gl

Commento di Thottbot

With the drop in price for Essence of Earth since BC from 4-5 g to 40 silver (Tanaris server), the profit margin on Thorium Shield Spike went from 4-5 g to over 12 g per spike. I found one in a Thorium Lockbox, and bought two others on the AH just to maintain my monopoly on the AH. The first one cost me 1g (I almost felt guilty), but the other cost 80 g. I only see them come up every few months, so it was well worth it as I sell about five of them a week for 18 g each.

Commento di Thottbot

The plans are never ever at the AH and the spikes themselves are usually around 40-50 gold! No thanks. BTW I play on Aggramar.

Commento di Thottbot

WTB these plans or just a spike on Destromath (US-PvP), Horde-side. Whisper Fahsky, paying 50g for plans, 12g for spike.

Commento di Thottbot

I just got one of those from a Thorium lockbox and put it onto AH for 7g.
I logged off and looked on here to see how much it was actually worth.
Logged back on, canceled the auction and repriced it at 57g... sooo lucky. LOL!

Commento di Thottbot

I received these as a quest reward from completing "Lard Lost His Lunch" in Reventusk.
I am not a blacksmith so I figured I would AH them. Looked them up on Thottbott to see a possible price. I was in shock to see 118g. I put it in the AH for 100g just to see if it would sell.
I told my friends who have been playing WOW much longer than I have what I had done and they were slightly sceptical at such a high price I think.
The next day there was 95g in my mail. It had sold for a bit under my max but I am not complaining. Unbelieveable. Hope to see some thorium spikes at the AH now.

Commento di Thottbot

If you can get your hands on this while you are training blacksmithing, make these instead of thorium resistance gear (Thorium Helm, Thorium Boots etc.). I did, and i had saved around 400 Thorium Bars for the 280-300 streak, and used only 80.

Commento di Thottbot

Just picked these plans up this morning for 85g and it felt like a steal. I NEVER see these on the AH, and the other spike plans cost about 75g (mithril) and 25g (iron). Very nice compared to the felsteel spike, which has an insane rep grind and mat requirements. It's also a plus for warriors using shield slam. Whisper Chancelot on Rexxar if you want one made for you (Alliance).

Commento di Thottbot

Just sold for 250g about 2 hours after the auction started (deep in the night).

(Draenor)

Commento di Thottbot

ok am a rogue lv 56 about to ding was in WPL and dropped off a skeleton undead i was gonna vendor it but i decied to check thottbot and woohoo worht that much and i told the guild they sed yer its super rare :P

Commento di Allakhazam

got them for 3G buyout in AH (bid was only 2G). Seems someone didn't know their worth. However, as I see that they need elements of earth, they can be quite expensive and should be put on ones best shield (Draconian Deflector hmmmm).

Commento di Allakhazam

I picked up a copy of these plans off one of the elementals a week ago - I cannot remember if it was a Rock elemental or an Air elemental; one of the two though, since it was all I was hunting for essences.

Edited, Thu Apr 7 12:13:41 2005

Commento di Allakhazam

Does this require that you be a blacksmith in order to use it? the plan discription is:

Plans: Thorium Shield Spike
Requires Blacksmithing (275)
Use: teaches you how to make a Thorium Shield Spike
Requires Blacksmithing (250)Use: attaches a Thorium Spike to your shield that deals damage every time you block with it.

Requires Thorium Bar (4), Dense Grinding Stone (4), Essence of Earth (2)

Anyone know?

Maybe this is why this item is uncommon whereas Mithril Shield Spike plans are rare.

Commento di Allakhazam

As weird as it is, I got these plans as a reward for a tailoring quest! In the quest named The Undermarket (The Undermarket one of the rewards is a bag of stuff that usually contains tailoring items. Well, mine contained the usual spider's silk/etc, but also these plans.

Cool :)

Commento di Allakhazam

No luck here... sigh

Commento di Allakhazam

I got one off of a lvl 46, non-elite Vilebranch Soothsayer. Weird.

Commento di Allakhazam

Opps double post.

Edited, Sun Feb 13 01:47:32 2005

Commento di Allakhazam

Got mine in ST off of one of the random snakes, its so hard to make. If any of the horde wants this pst me in-game.

----Lord Nebels----
Daggerspine - Nebels 58 Warrior
Master of Gnome drownings

Commento di Allakhazam

Dont bother trying to farm these. its one of those patterns that is so rare, it will never drop unless you dont expect it to, and then only VERY rarely heh. played a few characters to 60, 1 to 70, working on another 60 right now and i never even seen this pattern, and im a blacksmith.

Commento di Allakhazam

Has anyone had any luck finding these plans off any of those creatures? Please post if you have.

Commento di Allakhazam

found it in a mithril lockbox off of elementals in silithus. wondering how much to see the plans for now since im hearing that its incredibly rare.

Commento di Allakhazam

Was farming dragonkin on my hunter in terror wing path just now and the chest popped with an assortment of food, vendor trash armor, bolt of mageweave and this. Could be worse...

Commento di wellspj

Dropped out of Cuergo's Hidden Treasure quest box for me. Doubt it has a high percentage to but it is a force farmable repeatable I believe if you farm the maps?

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Plans: Thorium Shield Spike

Livello dell’oggetto 55

Richiede Blacksmithing (275)
Usa: Teaches you how to make a Thorium Shield Spike.

Prezzo di vendita: 40

Thorium Shield Spike
Livello dell’oggetto 55
Usa: Attaches a Thorium Spike to your shield that deals damage every time you block with it.

Massima Pila: 5

Prezzo di vendita: 5

Richiede Thorium Bar (4), Dense Grinding Stone (4), Essence of Earth (2)

Plans: Thorium Shield Spike

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