ZOMG CASTAR LEGENDARIE!? ...No.

The new Quel'Delar lore info has a lot of people excited, and it really should, it's exciting news.

For any class that is unable to wield it, however, the Sunreaver blood elves and the Silver Covenant high elves will gladly take this relic of their history in exchange for a usable weapon.

But this bit has a lot of people are a bit TOO excited about it.

So, let's start out with the cool news: This is an epic quest line that anyone in the game can do to get a cool weapon. How good we don't know yet, but it's nice to see epic quest lines, especially epic quest lines with epic rewards for all. Not only that, but the quest is focused in the 5 man areas with points of interest throughout Azeroth. There is an interesting quest mentioning the Sunwell, but nobody knows yet if that means returning to old content or if it's a phased quest line taking place in the Sunwell as it exists after being liberated from the Burning Legion. Unless it is a content revisit in Sunwell, this is also a completely non-raid quest line - it's open to casuals and raiders alike (and will likely reward some of the best weapons for non-raiders, though Icecrown raiders will certainly get better from the raid).


However, this is not a legendary weapon, which a lot of people think. The only legendary confirmed for Icecrown is Shadowmourne, which has it's own epic quest line, but you can't trade in Shadowmourne for an equivalent weapon of another type. Shadowmourne, like Val'anyr, Thunderfury, or Atiesh, is (lore wise) one of the extremely powerful weapons of the world, and nothing like it exists in mortal hands to trade for.

But Quel'Delar isn't quite that good. It's very good, but it's only an epic weapon - think more like Rhok'delar or Benediction than Thunderfury or Val'anyr. There are equivalent weaons in the world that you can pawn it for, and the idea of pawning something as priceless and historic as Quel'Delar for a bit of power seems exactly the warlock style.

Regardless, this is a quest line I'm looking forward to greatly, and I think everyone should be excited about. But be excited for what it is. Don't be blind sided when your coveted welfare legendary turns out to be a "crappy" itemlevel 260something epic.