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Blizzard confirms The Sword of a Thousand Truths is real

by Alexander Sliwinski on Oct 13th 2006 9:00AM

It's not just for the kids of South Park anymore. After sister site WoW Insider tipped us off that the sword created by Salzman in Blizzard's accounting department may be real, we did a little investigating. Blizzard has confirmed that The Sword of a Thousand Truths, used by Stan to defeat "The Evil Man," is in the World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade expansion -- for now.

The Sword of a Thousand Truths is currently intended as a reward in the new Arena System. The Arena System is one of the new PvP elements available with the Burning Crusade expansion. Blizzard emphasizes that like anything else available in the closed beta of the expansion, which started today, this content could change at any time.

Sadly, unlike the real Sword of a Thousand Truths, this one does not cause 120 DPS with instant mana burn and give an enchant of +80 stamina. But it was created to Salzman's specifications!

See also: Joystiq's review of South Park's "Make Love, Not Warcraft"

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I was wondering if the good old folks at blizz wouldn't pick this one up AS SOON AS the ep aired.

This just confirms the theory that, that SP episode was the best TV/Movie-ad ..since The Wizard.

Now who is the nerd now Matt & Trey?

Well Blizzard was involved in the whole South Park process, so it's not like the developers weren't privvy to this information.

Actually, note that it's made to Salzman's specification, singular. So it just had to fulfill one of them and it's true.

>>Now who is the nerd now Matt & Trey?

Everyone who plays WoW and got noogied by Matt & Trey.

Hunter weapon.

(Sorry... Couldn't resist...)

Well, even though it's not as cool as the South Park version, I'd use it.

I wonder how much it'll cost, it shows 1875 gold? Flying mounts will be 5000 gold? Does Blizzard think we're made of money? And they don't want us to buy gold... Learn to make your own gold at http://www.easygoldguide.com

Ghostle on WoW Insider states its a fake!!!

"It's fake. Heres the actual picture of where that comes from.

http://www.monthsbehind.net/pictures/bcpvpreward.jpg

If you scroll down to the weapons (says page 7 on the items page), then you can see that next to the quickblade is a slicer not that thing.

Debunked"

Can anyone say Sword of a Thousand Truthiness!

Man its good for warriors too.but theres a few other wepons i would like instead e.g. Might of Menethi

"The Sword of a Thousand Truths is real"

Real? Can I touch it in real life? Can holding a piece of metal improve a person's stamina? Can a real person's stamina even be represented as a number?

So it's in a game, filled with made-up items and magic. That doesn't make it "real". Just because a game programmer enters a few numbers doesn't mean anything. There is nothing remotely "real" about anything in WoW.

"Real", does not, nor does it need to only imply the representation of tactile validity.

@That8.
I remember that article as well from yesterday. However, that does not mean that Blizzard could not have updated it. The above poster states that it was confirmed by Blizzard, so the "real" question is, whether or not he's lying :)

I say we get a Blue on this.

I was expecting an orange or red weapon, but a measly purple for something they advertised as the most powerful weapon in the game? Bah...

@9:

That doesn't look like a gold icon. Possibly a PVP reward for turning in honor?

@Evan

you got owned.

EggMan - "I wonder how much it'll cost, it shows 1875 gold? Flying mounts will be 5000 gold? Does Blizzard think we're made of money?"

You won't be buying PvP rewards with gold. Instead rewards will be purchaced with honor points.

I thought 60 was the level cap.

the level cap has been increased to 70 in the expansion.

It's a photoshop FAKE. Get your story straight. It's a "Gladiator's Slicer" that had the name altered.

So, this confirms BLizzard paid off Matt & Trey for a 30 minute long advert?

dont make me get all matrix on you #12. What is real? If real is what you can se smell touch, then all "real" is is electric signals sent to your brain.

That 1875 is not gold. You will be using honor points gained to buy things, so you will need to use 1875 points to buy it.

Some people are so obviously clueless about what's going on with WoW and TBC that I don't understand why they bother posting at all.

Dude where is the chance on hit dispell's target???
it dispelled dudes mana shield WTF WTF dammit blizzard at least make it right. that is suppose to be uber Mage Pwnage

Fake here's the real picture
http://www.monthsbehind.net/pictures/bcpvpreward.jpg

yes it is real, look at the picture and u'll notice they aren't the same screen, in the large listing shown in whoever's link up there, it shows a female goblin, in the one that showed the sword, it was a male goblin, while that doesn't prove anything, it does intorduce the possibility that these are two diff screenies...

Well since all the items shown in the screeny are being named Gladiator's Whatever and the SoatT is the only item not being named like this, I'd say this is a fake...

SOOOO FAKE PHOTOSHOP!! and besides Blizz knows Proper English and who ever made this doesnt, instead of Sword of a thousand truths, it should be Sword of ONE thousand truths

besides there is only two things diff about it than Gladianters slicer, the bottom "note" and the name

[b]FAAAAKE!!![/b]

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