Proximo's Rudius

A reference to the character "Proximo" in Gladiator (film) Although, Proximo from said film may have been an actual historical person that they just cast in the movie. Im not sure.

'Rudius' is actually a Roman term. A Rudius is a wooden sword that was given to a Gladiator (In this case Proximo) by the Emperor at the time as a sign of the Gladiators freedom from the arena.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proximo Oliver Reed played the character

It's actually a reference to a developer's character. As also shown on the Gladiator's Greatsword.

Just to say for a little background of what I know..........Proximo was umungst the first 10 to fight in the Roman Games back in BC times, he was the 1 of the 3 left standing at the end of the Match and his sword he used somewhat look's exacttly like this one and for a grey has some awsome Speed.

Notable for being one of the few grey items that is sold by a vendor. The rest are chestpieces and leggings (the ones that certain classes start the game in) that are sold in Caverns of Time.

bop and gray... really uncommon.

And Unique.

This item really suck.

"Shadows and dust...." /cry

required for one of the steps to obtain Waist of Time

[i]"Last you, I'm not even going to think of a rhyme for you, Mugs. I will dance on your grave, you were [b]uniquely terrible[/b]."[/i] This is the only unique gray item in the game. Clever.

to buy this sword you can either get from the AH for a few thousand gold to 20k or more, or buy from the vendor in Nagrand at Halaa, bear in mind you need to have control of HALAA to buy the sword from the vendor...good luck oh and remember to flag yourself for pvp or you cant capture the town..

Lesson learned the hard way, this is considered "JUNK" and will be sold if you have autosell addon turned on... SO, if you are working on the Waist Of Time.... Do Not Open A Merchant, or be sure to buy it back if it was sold.

And ofc it belonged to the wrong faction. :-(

If you need to get this for the [item=162690]...

(just an fyi, you can potentially buy this in your auction house if someone else has taken the trouble to get it and put it in your AH)

First your faction needs to own Hala, if it does it's a no brainer you just buy it from the vendor.

If your faction doesn't own Hala (you should see which faction owns it at the top of the screen when in Nagrand (outland)) then you're going to have to get it.

To own Halaal: - you need to enable pvp (not sure if wm on will cut it). - you need to kill all the guards. At 120 you can simply 1-shot them (thank god you don't need to bomb them because it takes forever). - Once you've killed all the guards you need to be in Halaal (not flying, on the ground). Then you'll see a slider object on your screen that will slowly move to your factions side (you won't see this slider if you are in stealth, so you can't be in stealth). Once it gets all the way to the end the vendor you need will show up.

All during this time there will be zone wide announcements that Hala is being attacked, so be aware that you may have to do some pvp.

It's Haala, Haalal is something a bit different :P

Yeah this whole process takes [u]forever[/u], and if you're not good at PVP and you're on a populated server, you'll end up very frustrated and still may not end up getting the [item=30569] after all your efforts! Spending half an hour PVPing and waiting for the vendor to spawn, only to have the vendor be killed immediately after spawning... that's not [i]my[/i] definition of "fun." I'm quite relieved these can be bought/sold on the Auction House, because if not, I'd have been screwed. I'm more than happy to fork over a bit of gold so that someone else can deal with this headache for me, lol.

If not obvious - this is now trivial to get if you have an alt on the opposite faction, regardless of who is in control of Haala. Can just send it the toon you are going for the waist of time on.

I wouldn't call it "trivial": it can still be a big pain in the ass. Even if you have an alt on the same server that is of the faction that is currently controlling Haala, you can still end up having to wait quite a while for the vendors to even spawn, if they were killed. It takes a while for the corpse to despawn, and it takes even longer for the vendor to respawn. And then, if there's a nasty person camping it, there's a high likelihood that they will kill the vendor [i]again[/i] before you even get the chance to buy [item=30569]! Super annoying. Best to just buy off the Auction House!

there is no npcs here and the area isnt controlled by anyone Sad day this is the only missing piece nothing on the Ah either.

You can control the area alone, it takes 5 minutes ^^

I assume I'm doing something wrong but I flagged for pvp, took the flag in the center and camped that for like 45 minutes and nothing happened. It said 0/15 guards at the time I logged out.

Have u turn on the war mode? Horde and Alliance have 2 different vendor check in the "sold by" tab

If you have an auction mount, you can buy one at a time and list on the AH as you go.

If you are seeking out this item for the [url guide=7177]Waist of Time[/url] secret, the vendor that sells [url=https://www.wowhead.com/item=30569/proximos-rudius]Proximo's Rudius[/url] may not be spawned when you arrive in Halaa, A faction will need to be in control of Halaa for the vendor to spawn - preferably on your character's faction. I did this on a War Mode character with no faction in control of the area, thus no NPCs were spawned. It took less than five minutes to gain control of the flag.