Brain Hacker

Sold mine on Earthen Ring (Euro) for about 180g in July or thereabouts. Definitely worth more than a nexus.

Actually, this axe is godly for a twohanded fury build, maybe even more so in 1.13. Add a crusader enchant and the new 41-point talent in the Fury tree, and you have some wicked AP for your bloodthirsts.

Intel reduction procs only serve as comic releif. Yes, this axe is cheap and available, but there are already easy replacements. Consider the quest-reward Optimus Prime with STR and Hit, making it far superior for 2h Fury. If raiding anything above 5-person is out of the question, then grind out AV exalted and buy a The Unstoppable Force. You'll be much happier and much deadlier.

I'm not quite sure why everyone thinks this weapon sucks. It is good for any Warrior period. I guess everyone that plays the game missed these changes that were placed in game months ago. This is from Blizzard on one of the patch notes. Instant Attacks The mechanics of most instant melee attacks have been modified to improve item balance. Previously, instant melee attacks did damage based on the damage range of the weapon, plus a bonus for the player's attack power. This bonus was then multiplied by the speed of the weapon. As a result, slow weapons did more damage than was intended, and fast weapons were considered inferior by most players. We have changed the way the attack power bonus is calculated for instant attacks. This change does NOT affect attack power calculations for normal melee attacks. Instead of multiplying by the speed of the weapon, the attack power bonus is now multiplied by a fixed number pulled from the following table: Two-handed weapons: 3.3 (this means the 2.1 speed of Brain Hacker is considered 3.3 and so is the damage range when using an instant attack) Daggers: 1.7 All other one-handed weapons: 2.4 As a direct result of this, many weapons have shifted position in their relative power. In particular, many Epic (purple) quality items are now more powerful than slower Superior (blue) weapons. This change was not made to reduce the power of instant attacks, but to correct the relative imbalance of weapon itemization. At a given level requirement, epic quality weapons should always be more powerful than superior quality weapons. Please also note that all normal weapon swings will be completely unaffected by this change. The following abilities are affected by the design change: Sinister Strike, Ambush, Backstab, Whirlwind, Mortal Strike, and Overpower. So you tell me why this sucks? 3.3 speed on instant attacks is not too bad at all. 3.6 or 3.8 is better of course but it is not bad at all. This weapon is also a great one for Shamans and Paladins since they use auto attack. The proc is 25% of the swings so it definately makes up for the damage lost from stats on other weapons.

It doesn't "suck" as most of the nay-sayers will comment. Most people have a very narrow focus about what is good and bad for players out there. It's important that it work for your style. As far as 2H axes go it's not too shabby. I think most people however prefer the easily attained reward from exalted AV rep called Unstoppable Force --http://www.wowhead.com/?item=19323 They prefer that weaon because it has fun stats, a bonus to %crit, a possible stun proc (which is important as an interrupt), AND it has a few more dps. I think the mysterious "proc rate" is what keeps people away from th

You're....very, very wrong. Yeah instant attacks use a normalized speed for the attack power component. They deal the increase in damage which would be given per swing on a (for 2h) 3.3 speed weapon. The speed is a lot less important because of that. But the weapon damage is exactly the weapon damage listed. 95-143. As opposed to, say, 175-292 on an Unstoppable force. That's a lot of damage. That's exactly what makes this item so terrible. It could be used, I guess, by a prot paladin grinding, using SoR and Reckoning, but other than that-no. It's garbage.

You are correct but you don't count in that slower weapons will STILL automatically have higher average damage even after the change. The ice barbed spear is muuuuuuuch better than this. The Brain Hacker is bad. period.

This weapon *DOES* suck for an MS warrior, and almost all 2h using classes at that matter. Why? They need the slowest weapons they can find. Yes, weapon speed was normalized, but damage sure wasn't! It isn't really the speed that matters, it's the top-end damage. However, the top-end damage is always higher for slower weapons, making slower weapons more favorable.

This weapon is pretty much a pile of trash for anyone on alliance side, and still isn't all that hot for shamans. All leveling paladins should have Seal of Command. It by far does the most damage of any seal. SoC is procs per minute (PPM) so the speed doesn't make it proc more/less. Thus, the slower the weapon, the more benefit you will reap from SoC, the damage seal of choice for paladins. For shamans, you tend to use Windfury in PvP mostly, (leveling too, i know, but even so, you use rockbiter sometimes) and in PvP you want a lot of burst damage. You get more burst with slower weapons, and this weapon is about as fast as a 2h can get. Windfury may proc less, but those few procs willl be 2-3x as strong with a slower weapon.

For warriors, this weapon sucks because of it's speed. 2h Warriors are MS warriors, and use MS (Mortal Strike) as a prominent source of damage, especially in PvP (because it's instant, great for burst dmg). Because MS is based off of your top end damage only, which this weapon has very little of, slower weapons will be leagues better.

I hope this helped clear a little bit up =D

I've used this in PvP and PvE and it works great. I also use TUF but for plain grinding this weapon blows TUF away and almost anything else away (before they put in DW). Winfury procs pretty much non stop with this and the proc on this weapon goes off 2-6 times a fight and a lot of times it will proc twice off one hit (I'm not quite sure how but it does). The proc also says 200/300 damage and it is more like 140-250 damage (I thought mobs just resisted it but I've tried it on tons of mobs and it is the same no matter the type or lvl). The proc does crit and I've had it crit for 450+ many

if the proc is white damage, the mob's AC reduces the dmg taken.

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the speed is considered quite alright as the others can be 3.60.

Fast speed is bad for Ret Paladins and MS warriors (who are the only two classes who should use this). You want a high max damage, which comes with a higher speed.

If a Ret paladin wants to use a weapon that procs, then a fast speed is better, cos they do not have as many attacks like a warrior does. MY Retribution paladin used Kang & yes the massive damage blows were nice but the wait inbetween attacks was a nightmare. This with Crusader on it would be a dream for a Retribution paladin...a warrior should go for something a bit slower with a meatier damage range.

However, something of note, this does indeed suck for ret pallies. and shaman, but you'll be DWing by this level. and DKs, but you won't be using this anyways.

The Undercity Guardians need to check if this sold in the Auction House if you ask them where the mailbox is.

Most gruesome name in game.

It is so awesome to read all these old comments that discuss the high-end items of those times, the times of the original WoW. Both interesting and just awesome, yet another reason why I love wowhead.

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This axe sucks! Its too fast for a 2handed and the high end damage is poor for it's level! For two handed its the slower the better for those lovely crits n BIG hits. Also it doesnt offer any solid stats either - just some useless proc!

This axe is notable for being the fastest 2-handed axe in the game, Pre-BC.

That title actually goes to the [url=http://www.wowhead.com/?item=9449]Manual Crowd Pummeler[/url]

I don't think Manual Crowd Pummeler counts as an axe.

USE THIS TO KILL THE BRAIN OF YOGG SARON!

Given the low item level, would this be useful at all in PVP/Arena for a level 80 Ele shaman? Strictly for swapping out to kill the casters, then swapping back to my main weapons to continue killing "normal" enemies. I'm afraid the low dps and mystery proc rate might make this way too inefficient for an 80 character, but I sure would like a caster-specific weapon.

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the perfect weapons to defeat the mighty old gods

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Okay....so no one else is going to say it? BEST LOOKING AXE EVAR!

Believe it or not but it seems that on the EARLIEST version of WoW Orchish Warriors started with this weapon. We dont know for sure if it had this stats, it can be seen in the alpha trailer.

if you want to farm epics, try Stratholme, for me seems to have a higher drop % than other dungeons.

I've just completed Stratholme for the 43rd time and it dropped! Baron Rivendare's mount did not, though...

On my server it's worth %^&* =(

I snagged this for 250g, and put it on my new DK. It's pretty cool, but i tried to get one on eitrigg and some guy is trying to sell it for 15k. Gimme a break.

I actually just got this from a Dreadlord Defiler in Blastedlands. I didnt see it on the "Dropped by" list. So yeah. Just throwing that in there in case someone wants to add it to the list.

weapons like this have the opportunity to be disproportionally more powerful than slower weapons of the same DPS for Retribution Paladins. this is due primarily to the fact that Art of War does not run on a PPM system but a set proc chance. since exorcism's damage runs off your attack power/spell power your overall weapon damage wont affect it and your crusader strike and Templar's verdict are normalized it will be treated as if it was a 3.3sec swing time with the same DPS. since exorcism will do similar damage with this as with a weapon like treant's bane only proc considerably more often and generate considerable damage spikes.

Would be cool if it had a chance to MC on hit. It would give brain HACKER a totally new and awesome meaning.

Lowers Intellect by 25, not 1257.

I CALL HACKS

Obtained one from a [item=114120].

Interestingly, I just watched a video titled "[url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnM1q6lpOUY]Oldest World of Warcraft Trailer (2001)[/url]" and all of the orc characters used the Brain Hacker model as their default two-handed axe. The Brain Hacker might just have the oldest Two-Handed Axe model in the game! You can also tell that this trailer was made so early on in development that Tauren's boots actually covered their hooves.

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