I hit the jackpot with Skereye during the Greenskin Chapter 8 Public Quest today. I rolled highest for a golden bag and receiving my first WAR epic, a pair of boots: "Squigkickas of the Driven".

I kid you not, I ran the same PQ again to maximize my Influence and once again I won the roll on a golden bag. The epic was the same pair of boots of course, so I chose the next item in the bag, some blue shoulders: "Vilein Shouldateef".

Add to these the other blue items I obtained last night and today and suddenly my Squig Herder is covered in pretty damn good gear.

Some days, you just get lucky.

Blizzard is testing the waters and looks poised to jump into the same pool shared by Thottbot, Allakhazam and Wowhead. They've opened the official WoW Item Database today. It makes sense, they've been accounting for these information databases for awhile now and if you can't beat 'em, join 'em.

There's potential for the official source to steal the thunder here, but my first impression is that much like the rest of Blizzard's websites, it runs as slow as molasses, no doubt due to their bandwidth shared with WoW's login system. Their competitors also have a head start on a lot of useful features like comments, quest links, etc..

While I'm on the topic, I've been thinking of adding a Wowhead search box directly on my blog (on the left or right sidebar). Here's a sample of what that looks like and well, give me your opinions if I should add it permanently. I appreciate Wowhead's lack of gold farming ads or associations and it works much faster than Blizzard's site.

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