World of Warcraft meets Guitar Hero
by James Egan 
Oct 27th 2008 at 8:00PM
Filed under: World of Warcraft, Fantasy, Video, Events, in-game, News items, Humor
Our sister site WoW Insider has video footage of a new World of Warcraft drop that's an 'axe' in every sense of the word -- the Arcanite Ripper is a guitar as well as a weapon. In fact, WoW Insider's dubbed it "The WoW Guitar Hero."
The drop comes from the boss Tenris Mirkblood in Karazhan. Once equipped, the Arcanite Ripper can transform you into a skeletal rockstar. Check out the video of the Arcanite Ripper in action below the cut, as WoW-player Telanis rocks out with it in Ironforge.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Calarius said on 9:23PM 10-27-2008
Weak! Not everyone can get one to do that. I don't ever want to hear anyone cry "Nerf Warlocks!" ever again.
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John said on 9:13PM 10-27-2008
This was part of Blizzard's April Fool's joke for 2008.
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Fess said on 11:07AM 10-28-2008
Yes, it was, and now they've added it to the game. Or perhaps I was hallucinating when a night elf Warrior ran out of Kara and transformed into a guitar playing Forsaken.
Daraujo said on 11:08AM 10-28-2008
That picture is quite delusional. I thought they had made that April Fool's Guitar Hero thingie. The actual item sucks. Whatever.
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James Egan said on 11:24AM 10-28-2008
The image I used does come from Blizzard, from their practical joke page about the Bard hero class:
http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/wrath/features/bard/bardclass.xml
The picture fit. The animated image on the Blizzard page is quite similar to what you'll see in the WoW Insider video I embedded.
It's not a joke now though, the guitar is really in the game.
db said on 1:23PM 10-28-2008
And this is why I am glad I took the DDO route. Putting gh in a mythical mmo is really indescribable in any sort of politically correct way. This seals the coffin for me that wow is really a cartoony kids game of orcs with more repetition than the playings of margaritaville.
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Tasogare said on 2:57PM 10-28-2008
To be fair, the Warcraft universe was NEVER without pop culture jokes and satire, that's as much a part of the world as the races that inhabit it. I don't think it's fair to call it a kids game, you just have a more "realistic" fantasy preference.
bassmodel said on 3:46PM 10-28-2008
yea, totally. 11mil kids... most of which are in their 20s or 30s and grew up on a steady pop-culture nonsense.
have fun playing less polished games with 2nd rate gameplay mechanics and underdeveloped user communities thanks to your petty idealism.
mor lewtz for meh!
The Prince of Cats said on 4:32PM 10-28-2008
Wait... The Night Elves dancing like Michael Jackson (not to mention the Blood-Elves doing Napoleon Dynamite) didn't already make you think WoW was less than serious?
Half the charm of WoW has always been that it isn't even trying to be hard-core fantasy. The art style alone belongs in a good old-fashioned cartoon.