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Comment by Droes

Has it something to do with Spirit of Kalytha? But where does this item come from?

Comment by Cruciatum

Looking at the spell effect, it causes a change model to model 35567, if you look at the model database npc 35567 is The Spirit of Kalytha a night elf NPC from Azshara used in a horde quest line.

Expect to be transformed in to her.

Comment by t2teddy

This will perhaps replace the ring item from this quest, Memories of the Dead, in which you 'become Kalytha and discover the truth about the destruction of the Lake Mennar Academy and what the Highborne there did to delay the Burning Legion's invasion of the ancient capital of the highborne/night elves before the great Sundering.

Comment by HikariOblivion

Purchased from a goblin vendor in Xylem's Tower (not the mountain thingy) for both factions for 5000g. Transforms you into the ghostly female night elf Kalytha, complete with her outfit. 15 minute cooldown, 30 minute duration.

Comment by ToragTheDwarf

Does not persist through death but will not cancel upon taking damage.

Comment by Zxvwt

Just bought this tonight and can confirm what most of the other comments say about the price, seller, and effect. I have not done any quests in Azshara and I was still able to buy it.

Here are the few things I have figured out by experimenting with it:

You can fight, cast spells, and take damage while using this illusion. So far, only death (or clicking it off yourself) seems to remove the illusion. You take on the appearance of Kalytha, but you do still get to see your weapon and shield/off-hand.

For those too lazy to look up Kalytha, she's a night elf female with a purple robe and a ghostly aura. The ghostly aura transfer to mounts as well. For example, if you use vial of the sands, your sandstone drake will be semi-transparent and have a ghostly aura. A lot like shadowform except that you don't take on a dark hue.

I tried to use the naga illusion item from archaeology and I got the message, "A more powerful spell is active." However, using a lifegiving seed removed the illusion. So be careful about using other illusions while this is active if you don't want to lose it.

So, why spend 5000g on this item? With a 30 minute duration and 15 minute cooldown, you could theoretically run around permanently as a ghostly night elf female. The only situations where you couldn't would be times where you are dying a lot (raids, pvp). Not necessarily that impressive for most people. However, if you're like me, and you like illusion items, this is probably one of the best in the game simply for the fact that it doesn't have the restrictions most other illusions in the game have. It's especially fun as a horde character since people aren't used to seeing night elves in their groups.

I'll try and keep this post updated if I find out any other uses for this item.

Comment by Avinoch

Like most transformation items, the effect is removed by druid shapeshifting.

:'(

edit: With the Warlords of Draenor transformation system, this no longer breaks on shapeshift!

Comment by 120907

This item was added the same day Faded Wizard Hat had it's effect changed, thus rendering it a bank/town item.

This item has 2 hidden debuffs. One will affect you once, the other, all the time.

Debuffs:
-5000 gold
-1 Inventory Space

Comment by Revenga

Wonder if they are going to make this item unusable in arena. This is really confusing your opponets, especially if your arena mates have it too.

Comment by 5326

If you use Super Simian Sphere followed by Kalytha's Haunted Locket you will become a very large Night Elf in a pink bubble.

Comment by SpoinkyNL

Transforming into a Sandstone Drake doesn't remove the buff, in fact it makes your drake form transparant

Comment by Kuroqt

Cooldown also resets upon joining arena, thus able to effectively use it in every arena game regardless of death

Comment by wxcvbn

should be fixed soon :(

Comment by Pintis

This thing about resetting cooldown, does it really reset the cooldown for you, or is it just the tooltip?
For me it "resets" but I get 'Item is not ready yet' when I try to use it.

Comment by Deathbang

Fun Fact: If you are a male toon and use this item, and then use an item that transforms you into a different race of your same gender (ie Orb of the Sin'dorei, Orb of Deception, or Darkspear Pride) your transformation will be female! The only other ways I know of pulling this off are to either go to the Val'kyr daily village in Storm Peaks, or get the female gnome transformation from Pygmy Oil making this item very useful for pulling off a hilarious gender changing transformation to amuse and confuse your friends.

Edit: No idea why this is being downrated, it's a true statement. I've tested it with all three items mentioned above, and it does cause a female transformation.

Comment by NinjaPirateTaki

Alliance can interact with the shopkeeper and can also purchase this little goldsink. *ahem* Trinket.

And again, I do not understand the downrating. This is on a neutral shopkeeper buried deep in what is now a Horde zone. It is not a logical assumption that Alliance players would have access to it.

Comment by Derren

too much fun to set the price cheap.

Comment by 798716

Some awesome things i love about this item.

1.It has a cool effect.

2.The cooldown is shorter then the effect.

3.Its not something that you equipp.

4.The effect wont end if you enter combat.

Its totally worth the money!

Comment by 591364

I've come across a small bug with this item. When sometimes trying to activate it, it says "Item not ready yet" when there is no sign of the item being on cooldown.

Comment by 802092

I want it, but is it really worth 5k?

Comment by Northrender

if used after simian then mounted, you will be the night elf mounted in sphere, but if you instead remove the locket's buff while still mounted you will be a very large monkey in sphere riding your mount ^_^ see pic

http://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s88/Destyne4305/WoWPics/monkeymount.jpg

Comment by 140512

Target someone using this and use Potion of Illusion seems to turn you into random npcs.
Tried this three times and I got a Twilights Hammer Looking human, a undead, and a Human Female with brewfest clothes.

Fun fun!

Comment by missfunk

At guild level 24 it costs 4.5k thanks to 'Bartering' perk :)

Comment by Seany

Note that this has a peculiar effect on mount scale.

If you remove the buff it gives you while you are mounted, your mount will grow back to your original race's scale... and you will grow as well!

This means that you will look noticeably bigger than anyone else.

Comment by 287191

The illusion is fully Night Elf - not just the skin.
You get the salto jump, all the Night Elf /silly and other emotes.
So if you sometimes feel like playing a Nigth Elf even as Horde, this item is very handy.

Comment by 818283

Does this item work for rogues? or does the it break when you stealth?

Comment by 211232

Useable on low lvl alts?

Comment by 697870

After reading about this item, I decided to put a list together of all the items I know of that change
a player's appearance, size, the appearance of the world, the appearance of other players, or
the appearance of a player's mount.

1. Iron Boot Flask
2. Orb of Deception
3. Orb of the Sin'dorei
4. Gordok Ogre Suit
5. Rituals of the New Moon
6. Blessing of the Old God
7. Burgy Blackheart's Handsome Hat
8. Super Simian Sphere
9. Kalytha's Haunted Locket
10. Sandstone Drake
11. King Mrgl-Mrgl's Spare Suit
12. Overseer Disguise Kit
13. Tree Disguise Kit
15. Dartol's Rod of Transformation
16. Xink's Shredder Control Device
17. Ensorcelled Choker
18. Enchanted Moonstalker Cloak
19. Winter Veil Disguise Kit
20. Darkspear Pride
21. Gnomeregan Pride
22. World Enlarger
23. Blix’s Eyesight Enhancing Romance Goggles
24. Noggenfogger Elixir
25. Pygmy Oil
26. Deepstone Oil
27. Ethereal Oil
28. Lesser Invisibility Potion, Invisibility Potion, Gnomish Cloaking Device, Mage: Invisibility
29. Rogue: Stealth
30. Magic Eater
31. Potion of Illusion
32. hallowed wand (Bat, Ghost, Leper Gnome, Ninja, Pirate, Random, Skeleton, Wisp)
33. Discombobulator Ray
34. Gnomish Poultryizer
35. Mage: Polymorph (Sheep, Black Cat, Pig, Rabbit, Turkey, Turtle)
36. Death Knight: Raise Ally
37. Preserved Holly
38. Savory Deviate Delight
39. Deviate Fish
40. Elixir of Giant Growth
41. Gigantic Feast
42. Small Feast

Note, I plan to edit this later to put the items in order by category, but for now this is good enough.

Comment by 697870

Kalytha's Haunted Locket is sold by Tex Vortacoil for 5000g on the first floor
of a tower at coordinates (Azshara) 25, 37.

If you look at the map of Azshara, the tower is slightly north east of
Gallywix Pleasure Palace and when the tower is moused over it says "Bears Head".

The locket binds when picked up, has no 2 hour refund time,
and if you open up a vendor window and then mouse over the locket it says "no sell price" (update: as of patch 4.1.0a it has a sell price of 1250g).

When disguised as a night elf the base (emote) voice will be the same as a normal female night elf; however
if you have a death knight, the voice will have the same extra effect to that voice that death knights have.

If you mouse over the buff it says:
Kalytha's Haunted Locket
One Xylem's Apprentice is as good as another.

Comment by Lagom

No Longer useable in arena :(

Comment by 707711

Very annoying how it's no longer usable in arena considering it wasn't in the patch notes at all. They need to add stuff like this is so I don't say go buy it after 4.1 thinking I can use it in arena and then BAM enter an arena and "This item is not usable in arena". >:(

Comment by Keakee

Now, just make it so that my worgen can be a Nelf to get the stupid argent tourney mounts!

Comment by Kokiron

Drinking Pygmy Oils as either gender until you turn into a gnome and then using your orb of the sin'dorei will turn you into the opposite gender blood elf. For females you can also use the Iron Boot Flask before the orb and be transformed into a male blood elf.

Comment by 790454

It's actually 4500g. I just got one, and I'm not a Goblin.

Despite the price though, it's one of the best shapeshift items there is. It doesn't need to be equipped like the hats or trinket, allowing you full stats with the shapeshift. And unlike the Nogger or Deviate, it has unlimited uses.(But you could buy like a thousand pots with 4500g anyway) Better yet, almost no one has this due to the price. Nogger and Deviates are relics that anyone can get for next to nothing. Almost no one has this thing.

I'd rate this as the second best shapeshift item in the game, being second to the boot flask.(It has unlimited usage, no equip, and free on top of it)

Comment by silverspring

Kalytha's Haunted Locket + Orb of the Sin'dorei works great and if you use portal Orb of the Sin'dorei will double on you and one of them still remain 5 min. But new one transform you back to your gender.(if you remove new one trasnform to opposite gender.)

Comment by Fizzlerocket

This locket and the Vrykul Drinking Horn stacks. Makes you large, also difficult to get into doors, and stuff.

Comment by chop360

What would happen if you were a male human and used Kalytha's Haunted Locket, then Orb of the Sin'dorei and then Orb of Deception?

Could you become a sexy female Draenei?

Comment by Dudeplessis17

If you are transformed and use a Potion of Illusion you will keep the ghostly look...nice way of copying someone as a ghost.

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 Wrashis

this item stacks with Leyara's Locket to form a ghost female druid of the flame, even when used by male characters! Protip: use this locket first.

Comment by 13389

Logging out while the buff is on will cause the Armory to display your male character as a female (of the same race) instead.

Comment by 856896

This item currently has the highly unusual property (probably a bug) of removing shapeshift effects that cannot normally be removed with a right-click. For example, gnomish engineers who teleport to Toshley's Station sometimes get the Transporter Malfunction debuff and are turned into a chicken for 3 minutes. Similarly, visiting a candy bucket during Hallow's End may result in a 45-second "tricked!" debuff. While in these forms, the player cannot take a flight point or mount up. But using this locket dispels the unwanted effect.

Comment by tired

If you were going for a transmog that looks like this model, you cannot.

Shoulders: There are no shoulders in the game currently that match these. The grey on the Soulcloth Shoulders is gold on Kalytha's shoulders. But as of this writing, it's the closest match there is.

Robe: Apprentice's Robe is a grey item and cannot be used for transmog. There are no other robes that match the same model/color.

Comment by Alek1997

I just bought this on my twink, it looks nice !

But it was very expensive like 4500g :(

Comment by 933142

Hmm, was wondering before i buy this.. Im playing resto druid. if i go cat form etc, and go out again, does it remove the effect? Or will i still be the night elf when i go back to normal form?

Comment by 934481

Warning to those w/ too much gold on their hands the Locket shares a CD w/ itself.. i wasn't sure of this and since it was not unique i decided to buy another to see if it would each have its own CD and this was not the case :/

Comment by 940800

In the dungeon "Well of eternity" you get a buff/effect that turns you into a night elf. With this active you cant use certain shapeshifting items. But if you use the locket before you enter the dungeon the effect of it wont disappear when you enter, in fact if you have a male character the two buffs will "stack" causing you to become a female night elf with your regular armor visible.

Comment by Lostelf

Any tips for getting to the vendor on a level 1 ? all of my friends are too selfish to summon me, and no one has a 2 seater mount.

TL;DR: How can i get this on a level 1 without having anyone help me get up there.

Comment by 921340

If you use Kalytha's Haunted Locket and then Orb of the Sin'dorei you turn into a sexy blood elf.

Comment by suffacate

If you're a male and logout with this on, you no longer turn into a female of your same race on WoW Armory.
It was fixed sometime back.

Comment by aceyaface

This may be a pain to get but its worth it

Comment by 1017211

I discovered something today, why transformed your gender is changed into female. I was trying on an item from trade chat and freaked out when i saw a woman with a beard in the dressing room...

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Kalytha's Haunted Locket

Item Level 1
Binds when picked up
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Use: Invite the spirit of Kalytha to overtake you. (15 Min Cooldown)

Sell Price: 1,250

Kalytha's Haunted Locket

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