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Heated Ancient Blade
Item Level 1Quest Item
Quest
Use: Plunging Blade into Onyxia
Not sold on the Auction House
This item is acquired in-game. See its sources below.
Heated Ancient Blade Effects
- Use: Plunging Blade into Onyxia
Drive into the heart of the brood mother to temper the heated blade.
Spell effects bound to this item, from first-party game data.
Heated Ancient Blade is not traded on the Auction House, so it has no Auction House price. Its first-party game data (identity, effects and sources) is read from the official World of Warcraft client build.
Requirements & Properties
- Duration
- 20 minutes
Read from the World of Warcraft client build files.
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| Heated Ancient Blade (this item) | 1 | Not listed | |
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Built from the World of Warcraft client build files and recorded Auction House snapshots.
Heated Ancient Blade in WoW Classic and World of Warcraft: Forever
Heated Ancient Blade is in the Classic Era game data, the era World of Warcraft: Forever is built on. Blizzard describes Forever as vanilla World of Warcraft plussed up: its story sits in year one, characters level to 60 and stay there, and it launches November 4, 2026. Blizzard has not said which vanilla items appear in Forever, so nothing here is a Forever claim; it is the Classic Era record for Heated Ancient Blade next to the live retail market on this page.
- Is Heated Ancient Blade in World of Warcraft: Forever?
- Not confirmed. Blizzard has not published Forever's item list. Heated Ancient Blade is a Classic Era item and Forever is built on vanilla World of Warcraft with its story set in year one and a level 60 cap, so this page tracks it. Forever launches November 4, 2026.
- What level is Heated Ancient Blade in WoW Classic?
- In Classic Era, Heated Ancient Blade is epic quality, item level 1 with no level requirement.
Read next: World of Warcraft: Forever is Classic+, launching November 4 · Classic Era page for Heated Ancient Blade
WoW Forever: what our data shows
- Sighted in the WoW Forever beta client
- Build 1.60.1.70205, read from the beta game data we hold
- Also in the Classic Era client
- Yes - this item is in the Classic Era client's data too
A sighting in the beta client is a fact from our own database; the launch roster is Blizzard’s to finalize. World of Warcraft: Forever launches November 4, 2026. World of Warcraft: Forever is Classic+, launching November 4