Does Blizzard hand it out or is it only updated as people do the bosses and report back what dropped?
May 21, 2009 – 5:08 amPosted by: Epem
Is there a definitive list of all the boss loot tables from Ulduar available? I’ve checked wowhead and some bosses don’t have all the info.
Also, where does this info come from? Does Blizzard hand it out or is it only updated as people do the bosses and report back what dropped?
One Response to “Does Blizzard hand it out or is it only updated as people do the bosses and report back what dropped?”
Items are stored server-side in World of Warcraft, unlike most of the data that places like Wowhead get ahold of. What this means is that until an item drops, it might as well not exist. The information isn’t part of your WoW client, the client pulls the information from the server. Until an item has been ’seen’ on a realm, DB sites can’t get ahold of the data, you can’t link the items in trade for comedic effect, or any of that.
If an item isn’t on Wowhead, it’s because nobody running the Wowhead client has seen that item. That’ll happen often with new raids, the items aren’t going to appear on Wowhead until the bosses are being killed and the drops are being revealed. Blizzard doesn’t hand out any of the information you see on database sites. All of that data is gathered by those using the DB site’s client.
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By kyrios on May 21, 2009