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Comment by 165543

What does this do?

Comment by leivadaros91

I believe a good guess is that the use effect of this item transforms you into some kind of NPC look-alike and most probably a mob that might be in one of the titans-related instances.

The long cooldown paired with the very low duration leads me to believe it might have a certain event use rather than an actual battle use (1 hour is way long) or any cosmetic mean (20 seconds is way lower than the average transformation duration of other items).

Comment by ravenspirit

well
this mob is NPC number 5460

https://www.wowhead.com/cata/npc=5460

Edit: when I wrote this (Beta) it used to be the pink-ish bug, in live they changed it to green version.

Comment by Kalx

Transforms you in a Qiraji bug (like the mounts, except without saddle)

Would be funny if you could carry people around like the sandstone drake from alchemy

Comment by Pachuca

Typo: I before E, except after C

Comment by ViceVersa

One of the rare tier items in Nerubian Archaeology.
Requires 140 Nerubian Archaeology Fragments.
Keystone: Nerubian Obelisk

Common tier Nerubian items:
Infested Ruby Ring
Scepter of Nerzar'Azret
Vizier's Scrawled Streamer
Spidery Sundial
Six Clawed Cornice
Gruesome Heart Box
Ewer of Jormungar Blood

Rare tier Nerubian items:
Blessing of the Old God
Puzzle Box of Yogg-Saron

Comment by Pyromancer4

Sounds epic. And deadly.

Comment by brune12345

This item transforms the player into a Green Battle Tank silithid for 20 seconds.

It has a 10 minute cooldown

Comment by Anarial

When you use this item your character's name is changed to "Green Qiraji Battle Tank". Your title is also applied to the name change, so when I used this I became "Assistant Professor Green Qiraji Battle Tank".

Apparently a similar name change occurs when you use the Night Elf rare artifact "Wisp Amulet".

Comment by 40315

This became my current project at 512 archaeology after finding 2 previous common nerubian artifacts.

Comment by gold07

Made this today and can confirm that it does infact turn you in to a battle tank, and, if you have your weapon out while you use it, the battle tank will hold the weapon in its um, claw? :P

Uploaded a screenshot.

Comment by 756979

This item seems to have a hidden function. Whenever you pick up archeology related items (say, keystones like Highborne Scrolls), you occasionally hear random C'thun quotes upon picking the item up, as long as you have this item in your inventory. It might be all RNG, or happen whenever you pick up a keystone in a zone near a known old god or any adjacent zone.

I'm not sure of all the details however, but seems like the item description wasn't joking when it says that you're afraid of going insane upon completing the artifact.

Comment by Amberlee

Eating a food such as fish feast while in this costume will let the silithid hold a little piece of bread in its claw and make gnawing motions. Yum!

Comment by 127222

Has anyone tried to use it in a actual fight?..does it have any actual function ...protection/armor ?/ anything noticable like that...blizz is famous for hidden buffs..hmmmmm...

Comment by panica

Blessing of the Old God - tooltip before you complete it:

You have discovered a very bad thing. It hurts your mind to even look at fragments of this artifact and you worry that it might drive you insane were you to complete the final object

I wonder what's the point of the text if you already have this anyway Insane in the Membrane

Comment by Grimreepr

Dunno if anyone has tried it, but it occurred to me that using this may assist in opening the Puzzle box of Yogg-Saron. What better way to open the puzzle box of an old god than to have his blessing.

Comment by 479284

Third Nerubian solve and I proc this rare, 160+ troll solves to my name and no Zin'Rokh. Uber sad face.

Comment by 803829

LMAO..I love the Grammer Speach But Ahhhh...it will never be dropped only because if they understood the song only refered to I before E ecept after C.
It was said that they were Silent too as anyone can cleary see. Sci Ence Anci ent.
the letters actualy stand out and are pronounced and most words that start with sci are mostly more than one sylable.....as for the BBC ..i would'nt listen to a station thats use Benny Hill as there Headliner...LOL

All in Fun.....LOL

Comment by Snaake

Ok, I posted about my experiences getting most, if not all rares (assuming I was eligible) by the time I ran out of new common projects to do for said races. I theorized this would be a rule, but actually it's more of a "it's easier to get rares to proc as long as you still have new commons to discover in that race too", as detailed in http://wowdigsite.com/guides/rares-explained/

This is because commons will not repeat until you've discovered all commons that are available to you at the time, so if the RNG says you should get a repeat of a common before this point, it rolls again, thus increasing your chance of getting a rare as well.

Comment by 235214

No offense, but if you wish to correct or admonish someone in a superior tone, and given that the entire rule is "I before 'E' except after 'C,' or when sounding like 'ae' as in 'neighbor' or 'weigh,'" I'd advise against citing examples of the rule as exceptions:

"seize, weird, theism, eight, weight, protein, sovereignty, foreign, vein, feisty, kaleidoscope, being, neighbour, and their"

Exactly 6 of these 14 "exceptions" actually follow the rule. Hell, you even cited "weight" and "neighbor," words used in the rule itself, as exceptions.

This is without splitting hairs over the fact the understanding for the rule was always that it was only meant to clarify in the case of words where "I" and "E" were paired to make a long "E" sound (ee). In which case, the only exceptions you cited were "species" and "seize." Anyone confused over which comes first in the word "science" has deeper issues than such as phonics can ever hope to solve.

Doubtless there are many exceptions to the actual rule, and it is outdated (how one could ever make a coherent rule for a patchwork language such as English is beyond me). However, it takes something out of your going after another's ignorance when you fail to show a basic comprehension of the subject, and leave the distinct impression your information is simply something you gleefully noted during a night of using StumbleUpon.

At the very least you could try and understand what is written.

For the first part, I quoted my source (the TV program 'QI' from the BBC), it was not something I found on StumbleUpon. QI is a comedy quiz show where the aim of questions is to highlight common misunderstandings of facts and knowledge, catching people out when they make mistakes by stating things that are commonly believed but are wrong. Their book, as I mentioned above, found 923 words that included the letters "cie" in that order in the word (so all breaking the rule).

The common rule, indeed, the one quoted by Pachuca in his/her post is "I before E except after C", a rule I was taught when younger. The longer form about the additional sub rule about how it only applies when words sound a certain way is not commonly taught or quoted, indeed, I found a few variations on the sub-rule on a quick google search. I only found out that the rule was only meant to apply in certain pronunciations after reading up on it and in my second post, I provided further examples of the "ee" sound where the rule does not apply (caffeine, concierge and Madeira - wikipedia provides a few more examples: either, heinous, inveigle, keister, leisure, monteith, neither, obeisance, seize, seizin, sheikh, teiid).

The next part is the 14 examples, where you suggest 8 are wrong - the rule says "i before e except after c". That statement presents 2 specific arguments that must be followed:

1) I is always before E
unless
2) There is a C preceding in which case, it is EI

The examples thus actually prove the commonly quoted rule is wrong as these are 14 words where I is NOT before E and there is no C present which is part of the rule (i.e. you cannot have EI in a word without a C). Perhaps you misunderstand the full part of the rule, indeed, the episode of QI that this was on had this issue with one of the contestants not understanding that the statement is read in more than 1 way.

If you go by the rule of "i before e except after c" then "weight" should be "wieght" or "neighbour" would be "nieghbour" because there is an I and E together and no C preceding. Do you see where you made the mistake?

The comment made originally was to follow up Blizz making a typo in game (they spelt Receive incorrectly), I was simply making the point that the rule of "i before e except after c" is wrong on numerous occasions and as the QI book points out (again I linked my source) there are more times where following the rule would result in a spelling mistake than there are when it is correct.

It was dropped as a mnemonic to teach to children in the UK as it was really not a useful rule (particularly as few people are taught that it is reliant on the pronunciation of the word as much as the spelling). In the Appendix of the 2009 edition of Support for Spelling, by the English Department for Education, there is a note:

The i before e except after c rule is not worth teaching. It applies only to words in which the ie or ei stands for a clear /ee/ sound and unless this is known, words such as sufficient, veil and their look like exceptions. There are so few words where the ei spelling for the /ee/ sound follows the letter c that it is easier to learn the specific words: receive, conceive, deceive (+ the related words receipt, conceit, deceit), perceive and ceiling.

I think you need to re-read the rule (and the way it is understood by the majority, and not English Language students) and understand what it means and then maybe you will get the point of the post which was simply to correct a common misconception rather that "going after someone's ignorance" and you will see I did not get the post wrong but rather you did.

Comment by Zelinei

Great use for this item as a shadow priest:

Macro the following:
/cast Dispersion
/Use Blessing of the Old God

Behold; shadowbug. People see you go into the cloud as your race, and exit it as the bug.

-edit
Still works in 4.3

-edit 2: bug boogaloo
If you have Pendant of the Scarab Storm you can add it into the macro for even more buggy fun.

So if you macro:
/cast Dispersion
/Use Blessing of the Old God
/use Pendant of the Scarab Storm

You go into the cloud as bunch of tiny bugs appear around you, and the shadowbug master appears a few seconds later.

Comment by 298971

I made a list of gimmick items which you can use to transform your character into a different form or race or even gender to play around with. I didn't add items like weapons that provide a procc with a transform effect that only lasts a few seconds even though I know about them. My intention was to list all items with controlable transformations. Feel free to let me know if I missed an item!
I want to thank all the people below my lists who pointed out items I missed! This list grows thanks to your effort as well! Thanks guys, you're great!

Item Name:	Transforms you into:	Duration:	Cooldown:
Fandral's Flamescythe	Molten cat while in cat form (Druids only)	Til shifting out of form	-
	Molten cat while in cat form (Druids only)	Til shifting out of form	2s
Glyph of Mutilate	Any human you pickpocket (Rogues only)	5m	-
Glyph of Arcane Barrage	Anyone else (Mages only)	2m	30m
Leyara's Locket	Druid of the Flame	5m	1h
Kalytha's Haunted Locket	Ghostly female Highborne	30m	15m
Blessing of the Old God	Qiraj	20s	10m
Burgy Blackheart's Handsome Hat	Gostly pirate gnome	Til unequipping the item	-
Orb of the Sin'dorei	Blood elf	5m	30m
Orb of Deception	Race of opponent faction	5m	30m
Bones of Transformation	Male Naga	20s	10m
Pygmy Oil	Voodoo gnome	10m	-
Deepstone Oil	Stony appearance	Til cancelled	1s
Stave of Fur and Claw	Furbolg	3m	1h
Carved Ogre Idol	Red Ogre	10m	10m
Magical Ogre Idol	Red Ogre	5m	30m
Savory Deviate Delight	Ninja or pirate	60m	-
Noggenfogger Elixir	Skeleton	10m	-
Gordok Ogre Suit	Ogre	10m	-
Super Simian Sphere	Gorilla in a bubble	5m	1h
Iron Boot Flask	Iron Dwarf	10m	1h
Muradin's Favor	Frost Dwarf	10m	30m
Vial of the Sands	Sandstone Drake	Til cancelled	-
Heart of the Nightwing	Obsidian Nightwing	Til cancelled	-
Potion of Illusion	Someone else	2m	-
Winter Veil Disguise Kit	Snowman	Til cancelled	-
Dragonwrath, Tarecgosa's Rest	Blue dragon	Til cancelled	-
Dire Brew	Dark Iron Dwarf	Til cancelled	-
Wisp Amulet	Wisp	20s	10m
Time-Lost Figurine	Arakkoa	5m	30m
Lifegiving Seed	Random herb	Til cancelled	-
Frenzyheart Brew	Wolvar	5m	30m
Hook of the Master Angler	Fish	Til cancelled	-
Magic Eater	Basilisk, locust, whelp, or whisp	1m	1s
Underbelly Elixir	Wasp, Tuskarr	10m	-
	Moonfang the wolf	10m	1h
Rituals of the New Moon	Giant wolf	2m	10m
Rituals of the New Moon	Black wolf	2m	10m
Rituals of the New Moon	Red wolf	2m	10m
Rituals of the New Moon	White wolf	2m	10m
Orb of the Blackwhelp	Black whelp	15m	-
Faded Wizard Hat	Apprentice of a different race (Horde only)	30m	30m
Arcanite Ripper	Guitarist of the Tauren Chieftains	10s	1m
Arcanite Ripper (NEW)	Guitarist of the Tauren Chieftains	10s	1m
Vrykul Drinking Horn	Bigger and with saronite helm	10m	1s
	Gives you a wolf helmet	10m	1h
	Stony appearance	10m	1h
	Like a targeted player when using	10m	1h
	Mister Smite	30m	2h
	Makes you nearly invisible	10m	1h
	Doctor Theolen Krastinov	30m	2h
	Beach Clothes	30m	2h
	Mogu stature	5m	2h
	Forest Sprite	10m	10m
Demon Hunter's Aspect	Demon Hunter	5m	30m
	Panda cub	10m	-
	Skeleton mariner	10m	2h
	Ordon Fire-Watcher	Til cancelled	1h
	Celestial Defender	15m	2h

The following items you cannot get anymore. Only to complete the list.

Item Name:
Transforms you into:
Duration:
Cooldown:

Gnomeregan Pride
Gnomeregan Infantry (Alliance only)
30m
4h

Darkspear Pride
Darkspear Warrior (Horde only)
30m
4h

Enchanted Moonstalker Cloak
Moonstalker
5m
-

Murloc Costume
Murloc costume
Til cancelled
-

Dartol's Rod of Transformation
Furbolg
3m
1m

Comment by Undeadlord

To be honest I think this should turn you into a Faceless not a Silithid...

Comment by iplo472

Does anyone else find it odd that the icon and art for this item is commonly used in Tol'vir architecture? Check the portal to Uldum in Orgrimmar for an example.

Comment by scottiegazelle

After reading a ton of comments, I felt like I was going crazy because I couldn't find the appropriate checkbox on my DBM. Turns out they took it out and packaged it as a separate addon, DBM-Archaeology.

From Curse:

Originally just put in DBM-Core as a bit of humor during a test phase. The sounds became quite popular and when removed from last DBM release got numerous requests from users wanting them back. Since archaeology sounds don't really belong in the base mod, I decided to bring that feature back in plugin form!.

Now you can enjoy all your old god whispers in your dig sites. What this mod does is play a random C'thun and Yogg Saron whispers from the game files any time you loot a keystone. Archaeology is a profession meddling with the ancient artifacts of azeroth yet no one is paying any mind ot you. This plugin gives archaeology a bit of RP when the old gods whisper you as if they are noticing you meddling with things you should not be, giving archaeology that feel it should have had to begin with.

Hopefully that will save someone the stress of thinking they just couldn't see what was right in front of them, which is the problem I thought I was having.

Comment by damnnnittt

Unlike other transformation items, this can be used in Caverns of Time instances to effectively clear the human/night elf illusions. Once the battle tank transformation expires (or is canceled) you will revert to your original race without regaining the illusion.

Comment by sicknessinside

In case anyone out there is interested in manipulating the size of yourself while transformed, I can confirm that you can use the Vrykul Drinking Horn to enlarge yourself, and Noggenfogger Elixir to shrink yourself.

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Blessing of the Old God

Item Level 1
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Use: Receive the Blessing of the Old God for 20 sec. (10 Min Cooldown)

Sell Price: 5

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