Is it bugged in 2.3? I honestly killed 70+ Mage-Lords and not one dropped it. For a 6% drop-rate that's a little ridiculous.

I gave up just now, I wouldn't suggest going out of your way to find it.

I soloed the quest, 48 lvl warrior, got the orb at 59,73 from a 46 lvl mage-lord, I think that 45 lvl mage-lord are not dropping the item

Got orb at 58.70 - kill 4-6 lords 45lvl.

I found it at 60,66 it dropped off a Ogre Mage dude...hope this helps everyone out

Got it after killing 4 mages. 60.67

Easy

Ok, after 2 hours of killing everything around the ruins where the mage-lords spawn, i started to count my kills :P
currently 236 mage-lords killed, and even more of all the others! gotten 2 lvls here only trying to get this orb lol, wtf?
this just cant be right, with 3.20% drop chance i should have gotten 1 each 32 mage-lords or so. so i should have gotten about 12-13 orbs so far :D but nada! but i did get 1 epic, and 4 blues, and tons of cash and xp... but still this is just stupid!
I can understand some bad luck, but this is just not right!

i got it from first ,ogre mage
60.68

I had to kill about 20 mage lords before it dropped.&nbsp But this is the guy who can't roll over a 20 for an item talking.

60,70 - Killed 2 46 Mage-Lords and the second one dropped it.

I killed *ALOT* of mage-lords around the ruins of Isildien with not a single drop. Some of the ogres seem to spawn random mage-lords/warlocks/shaman so I killed absolutely everything I could see to get more spawns. Still no luck. I went into the cavern and mined some ores aswell as killing more mage-lords - still not a single drop - I must have killed between 50 and 60 mage-lords.

Then I went up the ramp to the big ruin and circled it - the orb dropped on the 3rd or 4th mage-lord. Try doing that too - if you have problems - it may be a different drop rate for the mage-lords up there ?

the mobs share spawn points. So if you don't see many Mage-Lords start killing everything around there.

There were only 3 when i got there then I started killing all the battle masters and then alot of mage-lords started spawning.

You have to kill the Gordunni Mage-Lords for it, the droprate is very good, i got it on my second kill. I found the Mage-Lords at the coords 58.68, Hope this helps :)

It dropped on ~15th kill for me, I suppose i was unlucky..

The low drop rate that Thott indicates is because most people do not have this quest. I killed about 5-8 Mage lords before it dropped.

There in the ruins with the warlocks, warlords, and shamens.

solod this as 44 warrior and dropped on my 5th kill. cords are 58,70
do the quest ogres of feralas at the same time coz its saves time

Its in the big building where the warlocks and shamyms are. bunch of mages in there. solod as a 42 fire mage

Go south all the way to the "temple grounds" and kill a lvl 46 on that area.&nbsp After killing about 15 45 and no drop.&nbsp I killed one 46 on the "temple grounds" and it dropped.&nbsp GL!&nbsp xD

1 ogre, 1 orb =D
hehe i think i had lucky ^^

I got the orb the first guy I killed...maybe I am just lucky?

First kill had the Orb with [Serpent Sting]... ^^ If you ever wanted to see a Rouge happy that would be the time...

1st kill it dropped.
managed to kill one mage lord lvl 46 with my lvl 41 warrior.

I had a horrible drop rate on this quest. I killed 48 mage-lords, but to no avail, so I gave up. Later that night I decided to try my luck again and returned to the ruins. I killed one mage-lord and got the orb first try. It seems that if you're searching rabidly for the orb, it won't drop. My advice is to take a break and go back later if you're having trouble, and you'll probably have much better results.

I got it on the first kill. 59,68

I found this quest to be ridiculously easy at level 44 (affliction warlock). I picked off the mage-lord guarding the ramp to the temple and then the guy doing the long patrol around the entrance. Inside you will find several mage-lords. It's very easy to take down everyone inside, one at a time. After cleaning out the mobs inside with no orb, I went back outside where I found that the first mage-lord that I had killed (guarding ramp) had respawned. This time he had the orb. Very quick completion time with this one combined with the final "ogres of feralas" quest.

got for 11st

The orb Dropped from a level 45 Mage-Lord - I only had to kill about 3 of them, all level 45's, before this happened

Couldn't find the orb until three mage-lord kills after finishing The Ogres of Feralas quest that also comes from and goes back to Rok Orhan. Might just be a coincidence but worth a shot after some of the terrible drops others have been getting. Got 8000xp for the two on return.

This quest isn't bugged, I got the gordunni orb off the second level 46 mage-lord I fought. I took it out right in the ruins of isildien took me all of 5 minutes. I've heard that the orb only drops off of level 46 mage-lords so that may be the problem.

Tis first kill at 59,68

Edited, Sat Mar 19 20:12:59 2005

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aaaah i dont believe u... 40mage-lords.... 236mage-lords ... 50-60mage-lords... who will stuck on some stupid Q and kill dozens of fcuking mobs... everyone i know have to kill no more than 6-7 of them... mine droped on third

got it on the 41th kill

I don't understand why people have such bad luck with these kinds of quests.. The first mage lord I killed gave me the orb lol..

Honestly, nothing posted here has shown a bug of any sort exists. Perhaps the earlier posts gave everyone the impression the drop rate is high, but if you look at the Gordunni Orb's drop rate, it is actually only 7% (as I type this, there are 18,799 documented kills on wowhead, so it's probably fairly accurate). You would in fact be quite lucky to receive it on your first or second kill.

It is not improbable for a streak of 35 kills without a drop to occur when the drop rate is only 7%. In fact, it is a 0.93^35 = 0.078868 or approximately 7.89% chance you'll kill 35 mage-lords without a drop. It is actually more probable to have a dry streak of 35 than for the orb to drop on the first kill.

A streak of 70 without a drop is indeed quite unlikely but not impossible. Ignoring the fact it might have been exaggerated, one single story of an improbable 0.62% chance does not indicate a bug exists. At best it suggests one exists, although I highly doubt it. Further testing would need to be done. One would need to repeatedly destroy the orbs with and without /script LeaveParty() and document the corresponding probabilities. I personally neither care enough nor have the patience to test this myself. Plus I completed the quest a few minutes ago.

If you want to know what I think (and I do admit guessing is pointless), Triggerclaw might have left a raid before questing, yet the game still considered his character to be in a raid. Perhaps the GM saw this and gave him the script command to leave the "ghost raid." If this were the case, the bug is actually a raid related bug and not quest specific. There is also the distinct possibility the GM was clueless and proposed a placebo.

Obviously I cannot completely rule out the possibility of a bug, but nothing presented here has really suggested it exists.

i got it easy! about ten kills and i got it! happy now

Didnt had any problems with the droprate, had it on my first kill.

This item didn't drop on the first one I killed. i got it about 10 kills or so.