Battered Hilt

Battered Hilt starts the epic quest chain.

It is the hilt of the famous sword Quel'Delar, forged by the ancient Kaldorei with the help of the Dragon Aspects in ages past. The sword eventually became the high elf equivalent of Quel'Serrar.

This item drops randomly from both elite trash mobs and bosses in the Frozen Halls instances on heroic mode.

The hilt also has a chance of being listed on the Black Market Auction House by with the opening bid of.

• The item was made by game designer Owen Landgren.
• This will commonly sell for large amounts of gold at the auction house. In Wrath of the Lich King, it was largely because it yielded the best weapons outside of raids. Even now, the Battered Hilt still sells for high auction prices (about 10-30k) because of its transmogrification value and rarity, as few people do Wrath heroics these days and the chance to see one drop is very low.
• During the Death Rising event rares and mobs within Icecrown had a slight, slight chance to drop the Battered Hilt.