Onyxia not skinnable.

[Cataclysm]

After our flawless Onyxia kill last night, upon skinning her we did not acquire any of her scales.

According to this snapshot of allakhazam, from 6th of April 2005 (That is 16 DAYS before patch 1.4), the Scales of Onyxia (aswell as the HEAD which we did not get either) is on the drop table.

Following the logic of my other post regarding item ID's, the fact that Scale of Onyxia has an item ID of 15140 implies that it was in the game very early on.

Here is another snapshot, from the 26th of March 2005 (Which is a month before patch 1.4!).
It's clear from this snapshot that Blizzard already had plans for the next tier of content (BWL where the Shadow Flame actually matters).

Please help us by resolving this issue. If anyone else has any information regarding this, I would love for you to post in here to help clear this up.

xoxo


EDIT:
The Head of Onyxia, with it's item ID of 18422 (18423 for the Alliance version), seems to have been added in patch 1.3 (Dire maul patch), which should, by the logic that the server is pre-1.4, also be in the game.

[Botanist]

bump

[Armilus]

http://web.archive.org/web/200503271143 ... item=18403

People seemed to know this was a reward from ony head in march 2005 so it was likely 1.3. It's hard to tell with item ID's alone on this one, unless we know of some other item added to Onyxia in 1.3.

[Cataclysm]

Bump. Can we atleast get some word on why the scales aren't in the game?

[Windi]

There once was a man from Nantucket, who got all his Onyxia scales in a bucket. GMs said ban, cause the loot is a scam, YOU CANT SKIN WITH A BUCKET.

[Zach]

This is problematic.

[Lachis]

This is problematic.

Even though we all know how awful Zach is he's correct. Them not getting domo/rag loot. And now not getting proper ony loot and scales is just going to put the server's timeline farther back. BWL is coming out in 2 months, I think they'll be abel ot make enough cloaks to 1 shot it which get us into AQ faster. But the loot Id's being messed up just throws up a lot of red flags of how things are going to work going forward.

I think that being dazed with an absorb shield is more important though. Fix this first. See below for details.

viewtopic.php?f=5&t=4694

[Keftenk]

I'm more worried how BWL is scripted D:
I never played on Nost. Beta, but we didn't test any of the BWL content in the PvE sessions.

[Lachis]

Given how easy UBRS is, and the mobs that are missing, plus the missing loot ID's, plus the fact that abilities are being spammed/not spammed. I'm gonna go with 75% accuracy. Playable but not robust enough to not complain about.

[Banezilla]

Shhh Illuminati is at work behind the scenes. Was the aim of 1.4 loot and 8 debuff slots to keep the scrub guilds away from raid content? All these timeline changes haven't affected the 1% or slowed their progression, who will they cater to next?