Yet another week has passed and I have logged back on my Warrior to check what is inside of my Cracked Egg. Not to my surprise, there is a few more Aged Yolk. In my bags currently sit 47 Aged Yolk and I have gotten multiple of every pet as well (3 Tickbird Hatchling, 5 White Tickbird Hatchling, 1 Cobra Hatchling, 3 Proto-Drake Whelp), but still have yet to see the Reigns of the Green Proto-Drake. It is the item that is very elusive for me.

When I was leveling my Warrior in 2005, I was around level 40 and got Robes of Insight drop off of a random mob. I sold those robes for 600g (an unheard of amount back then). When I hit level 53, one afternoon I had about 10 minutes to play. I flew my warrior to searing gorge and randomly killed an Orc there and he dropped a Destiny. I was able to sell that weapon for 400g to afford my epic mount when I hit 60. I was extremely lucky to get those random world epics. At the time I read that statistically, most people would never see a random world epic drop while playing. Since then, I have had an epic drop on every character that I’ve played. Randomly when leveling, I get an epic drop off a random mob. It would seem that the statistics are in my favor, and yet I still can’t get that Proto-Drake.

During TBC, we raided a lot of Naxx. Darafeln played on his paladin and was fully decked out in t4 at the time. No matter how many times he ran Karazhan, the Triptych Shield of the Ancients would never drop for him. Every paladin including the horrible ones got the shield before he did. We had full cleared other TBC instances on new characters before he saw one drop. Many weeks of farming Kara for that shield turned up nothing. That used to be his elusive item.

Running through Naxx in WotLK was mind-numbing to say the least. But when you are wearing all BiS gear and you are just running it to get that last piece that has eluded you forever, it pretty much ruins the experience. Especially if that item drops off of one of the first bosses, if it didn’t drop, it felt like there was no reason to go on.

You may have that elusive item that you’ve been waiting for and farming for. The fact is, you may never see that item. There is a good chance that by the time you get that item, it will already be outdated. So don’t focus too much on one item and miss the big picture (unless it is a Green Proto-Drake .