How many of these people would honestly have gotten shadowmourne in ICC ? Probably half the people with a class eligible for one . My server was full of people organizing pugs and reserving the shadowmourne shards for themselves , including at least three people in my guild . Fukken everyone and their alt was running around with that thing . It was the dragonwrath of wotlk . It never could hold a candle in prestige to val ' anayr , though , of course . And I don ' t just say that ' cuz I was the first in my guild to get one or anything . Though by then I was so burned out I had to take a 3 month break to get back into it . Ah , good old legendaries . At least it wasn ' t as bad as with thunderfury . The moment our warrior completed his back in vanilla , he ditched us for a guild with better progress , with the parting words that we were a faq guild . But I digress .