THIS was a surprise. Back in October, I posted that I was attempting to grind out a Dark Whelpling. That lasted on-and-off until about mid-December when I stopped playing WoW due to real life vying for my attention. After a brief couple month siesta, I returned, but with no desire to work on this crazy project. Instead I shifted my attention to starting a priest with the goal of at least getting to the outlands.

Well, a little bit ago I was working on the Fiery Blaze Enchantments quest in which you have to slay Black Whelplings until one of them finally gives up its Black Drake’s Heart. As some of you may know, and as I’ve tried to allude to, this is not a fun quest as the drop rate is pathetically low (shouldn’t all Drake’s have hearts? …I hate these kinds of quests). To compound matters, there were three other dudes killing Black Whelplings, two of whom were level 80! I was just about to give up when I suddenly found myself all alone; everyone else had mysteriously vanished. Thankful, I went ahead and ground out the quest item which took about 20-30 kills. All told, about forty minutes of work.

After turning in the quest, I decided to hit up the goblin vendor, Jazzrik, and sell all the junk I had collected. That was when I noticed the dragon head icon, and time momentarily stopped. I thought, “No way, it can’t be,” but low and behold, I had picked up a Dark Whelpling somewhere along the way. It turns out it dropped the same time as the quest item – how crazy is that? I’m pretty excited about it, but now I don’t know whether to keep or sell it… I still can’t believe the dumb luck – practically hand-wrapped, couldn’t have been timed any better. I’ll let the picture speak for itself.