There are actually more guides out there for how to dress like a pirate in WoW than any other look in the game. And yet, I find there is still more that must be said on this topic, and most especially in answer to that vexing question that has bedevilled luckless sea dogs since before Arthas burned his fleet:"What the hell is my pirate toon going to wear for headgear if I don't have the First Mate Hat with its 1:10,000 drop rate and don't want to tick off the Steamweedle Goblins by kissing up to the Bloodsail for their Admiral's Hat?"
The hat makes the outfit, friends, and if you don't have either of these you have to get creative. This post is the pirate hat guide for the rest of us.
There are really only two options for pirate hats aside from these. One is infinitely cooler than the other but is unavailable to clothies. For them, the best option is to go with the various bandanas or even a turban if you feel like a corsair of the Arabian Nights variety. For the rest of us, it is all about eye patches.
There are eight (count 'em, 8) eyepatches suitable for pirates in the game, and all but one are leather (the other is mail). Because this is a fashion guide, we are not concerned with their stats. All we need to know is how they look and how hard they are to get.
Eyepatches (as far as I can tell from peering at screenshots) come in 4 variations. You can get 'em in Black, Brown, Red, or either Black or Brown with a creepy reddish skull in the patch. There are also a bunch of engineer only eyepatches but they all have lenses and are more suited for steampunk than stevadores.
Eyepatches, with a single exception, are a challenge to get, and some of them are quite rare indeed. The only red one is Swashbuckler's Eye Patch that has a 1-3% drop rate from mid 50s rares and rare elites. That rare buzzard in Badlands has a good a drop rate as any, but unless you see this in the AH (and then snap it up friends) you may never see it drop unless you have great luck farming the silver elites... Still, for my money this is the best fashion accessory for the non-hatted pirate who favors red.
There are a couple of options in Black. In order of difficulty and likelihood of dropping from hard to hardest, these are:
- Netherstorm Eyepatch: a reward for the level 70 group quest Sabotage the Warpgate;
- Ragefury Eyepatch: a 9% drop from Hurley Blackbreath in the Grim Guzzler of BRD
- Foror's Eyepatch: an 11% drop from Gahz'ranka in Zul'Gurub. This one is a raid, though perhaps one of you heroes thinks you can solo it...
Who cares that one of these is epic? You want black, do the Netherstorm quest (or if you already did it, go whack Hurley around a few times).
The two eye patches with the skulls appear to come in both black and brown varieties.
- Malefactor's Eyepatch is a reward from a level 70 group quest reward after avery long chain in Blades and appears to be brown. It is also mail armor.
- Warp-Raider's Eyepatch comes at the end of a level 68 group quest in Netherstorm called It's a Fel Reaver, But With Heart. It looks almost identical to the malefactor's patch, but is made of leather and seems to be either dark brown or black.
Lastly, there are two brown eye patches.
- Eye of Rend drops 17% of the time from Warchief Rend Blackhand in Blackrock Spire.
The other is by far these easiest eyepatch for anyone who can get to Northrend. All you need is 30 minutes of winterfin clamdiving. 30 winterfin clams to Ahlurglgr the Murloc quartermaster in Borean and you, too, can be the proud owner of
- Winterfin Patch of Honor , modelled for you at right by Sterkvark. You did do those Winterfin quests, didn't you?
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