It appears as though the The Lost Ring–lore of Ere­gion quest has wrapped up on most, if not all, servers. This is great for high level char­ac­ters that are ready to move along in Book 14, but it also means some­thing else: if you’re still look­ing for class quest items this is prob­a­bly your last chance to get them easily.

Class quest items are basi­cally just what the name implies: items required for quests spe­cific to your class. At Level 45 you will be offered quests unique to your class that will give you access to impres­sive items and new skills. These quests are far from easy, how­ever. In most cases the quests require a sig­nif­i­cant amount of drops, includ­ing ones from sig­na­ture mobs in the most dif­fi­cult areas of the game.

For the more casual player, some of these items were pretty much out of reach. Quite a few required your pres­ence in raids against the biggest bosses in the game, which is made even more dif­fi­cult by the fact that the drop isn’t guar­an­teed to come to you. You could also amass a met­ric ton of gold to pay for the items on the Auc­tion House.

So any­way, the Ring–lore of Ere­gion quest come offered class quest items on a rare basis. Since many peo­ple either already had these items, didn’t know what they were or didn’t even need them most have appeared on the Auc­tion House. This drove prices on items down sig­nif­i­cantly. Some items that could fetch 14 Gold could be found for 1 Gold or less. As the most dif­fi­cult to gather class quest items are trad­able, this makes fin­ish­ing these quests off that much easier.

I really sug­gest peo­ple take advan­tage of this before the cheap items sell off and every­thing is back to square one. It’s likely already hap­pened on some servers. My thought is that Tur­bine did this to allow for peo­ple to get ready for Mines of Moria on more equal foot­ing. Whether or not they’ll do some­thing of this nature again is anyone’s guess, but I’d be surprised.

All I know is that it would suck to need a Flaw­less Scale of Lhugrien down the road only to find it’s 4 Gold, real­iz­ing you could have got­ten it ear­lier for 250 Sil­ver. Lotrolinks​.com has a nice list of all the items these class quests require. Check it out.