Top 5 hot items In Wrath of the Lich King
By now, Deathbringer’s Will. This will be the single most sought after trinket in the game and it's just not even close, more or less every physical damage dealer wants this. If not for the stats, the fact it can transform you into a bunch of different north end races, you could even be a tonka rogue for 30 seconds and retail is only just letting you be a torn rogue. Wrath was clearly ahead of its time, it had a ton of armor penetration which by icc every physical damage dealer wanted to stack as much as possible, it's great for pvp & pve, this item just does everything. Expect this to go for gold cap or more in early gdkp players.
2. Pets
There were more than just rare mount spawns in Wrath. If you're a hunter and you love completionism content, you have four highly rare and sought after pets to track down across northrend. These are the spirit beasts came about only by a beastmaster hunter with the appropriately named beast mastery talent taken. These are a new set of pets which offer a different look and a few unique abilities. They are Arcturis - the spirit bear in the grizzly hills, Gondria - the spirit tigers, Skull - the spirit wolf in the storm peaks and often the most sought after and difficult to obtain Loque’s nahak, the spirit leopard in scholazar basin. The difficulty in getting any of these are the highly variable spawn times ranging from a few hours to an entire day. Many of them have a bunch of different spawn points and they are all dotted across a leveling zones meaning somebody may see a rare tiger, that’s going to drop only for a very sad hunter to arrive a few moments later.
3. Shadowmourne
Out of everything that people will want to get their hands on during the Lich King, there is one thing above absolutely everything else, the new legendary, the orange weapon to end all others reforged through the trials of the frozen throne, shadowmourne. This is the best melee weapon in the game by a very long way. It has crazy good base stats, really high item level, gem sockets, an amazing proc in both visuals and effects, it has a great quest line. This weapon is kind of a big deal and unlike TBC for legendaries, blizzard went back to how things work in max 40 where the majority of the grind is on getting charged from bosses.
4. Black Proto Drake, Plagued Proto Drake
There are a few more mounts that have retrospectively become extremely rare and sought after in WotLK Classic. Two of them in particular which are now only ever seen on the black market auction house for millions of WotLK Classic Gold. So when blizzard first did the glory of the hero raiding achievements, the amounts associated with them were limited time to that actual content patch. This was to reward players who pushed to complete achievements early on and to give them something that would last that people would recognize with the opening of Wrath of the Lich King and tier vii completing all 25 man raid achievements awarded the black proto-drake. It was just a recolor but it was a unique recolor when 3.1 and ulduar came about the black proto-drake was removed from the game and a new limited time drake was added for clearing all the 25 man achievements in ulrduar, which was the plague proto drake. Much like the previous tier, this mount only ever existed whilst ulduar was current content and when 3.2 happened, it was removed from the game, but two other proto drakes were later added to ulduar to award players for completing all of the 10 or 25 man achievements.
5. Realm First Raiding Titles
Wrath is absolutely full of titles, now that raiding is both 10 and 25 man, each version of the raid awarded different titles both so you can make a difference between the two and because 25 man was originally designed to be harder and it gave higher item level loot. As a result of this, the 25-man ones were often seen as more prestigious and some of these titles though prestigious as they were could be earned at any point throughout a tier, if you complete next 10 man with zero deaths on any bosses, you get the undying. What about next 25 of zero deaths, that is the immortal, there were versions of this for ulduar too, 10 man was champion of odor 25 man was conqueror of ulduar, but also special titles too such as herald of the titans which will be defeating algal on the observer 10 man without anybody in the raid wearing gear that is better than 10-man ulduar gear. Trial of the crusader had titles like this too, but the big ones that very few people will get because only one guild can get them are the realm first raiding titles.