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Commento di Sware

During the wintery season, these had a chance to drop off any dungeon bosses, you could tell before hand if they were going to drop due to the mob wearing the hat.

They were later turned into a 'Uncommon' item from a 'Common' item in later patches due to random players taking the hat and the rest of the party had a unfair advantage.

There has been reports of the item dropping off any mob in the world.

Commento di Jimmz

Got one from a Ghoul in Duskwood ;)

Commento di 5027

These are available only during the Winter's Eve holiday. Can't get them during the rest of the year.

Commento di 35479

I've had a red and a green drop for me off Anvilcrack so...

Commento di Byronn

I got mine from a random Goblin in a cave in mulgore when i was like level 7 or 8 a xmas :)

Any one know what enchantment would squeeze on there? I lib of some sort?

Commento di 43546

Does this one disapear when whinter week is over?

Commento di 52664

I got my hat the first day of the Xmas event on my newly created female gnomish warrior. She got the hat off of like a level 6 boar right outside IF. =D

Commento di 82808

Right, this can drop off ANY MOB IN THE GAME during the Christmas event. Got it from a barrens mob myself

Commento di 75845

I believe bosses of Outland dungeons are now dropping hats. Can anyone post which bosses of Outland drop which type of hats?

Commento di 76340

Anyone who has an idea why this item was changed into having a durability? Digged my last years one up from my bank and found it at 0/20 Durability where as it never had any durability on it whatsoever last year.

Commento di Mishuata

Old world bosses don't drop em anymore - just killed the cannon guy and no hat. They drop off of Outlands bosses now :\

Commento di Alenor

Is it confirmed that this still drops off random mobs in the world?

Commento di 95741

Winter Veil bosses of Azeroth:
War Master Voone (Blackrock Spire) - Red Winter Hat
Emperor Dagran Thaurissan (Blackrock Depths) - Red Winter Hat
Cannon Master Willey (Stratholme) - Red Winter Hat
Goraluk Anvilcrack (Blackrock Spire) - Green Winter Hat
Prince Tortheldrin (Dire Maul) - Green Winter Hat
Darkmaster Gandling (Scholomance) - Green Winter Hat

Winter Veil bosses of Outland:
Captain Skarloc (Escape from Durnholde Keep) - Red Winter Hat
Nethermancer Sepethrea (The Mechanar) - Red Winter Hat
High Botanist Freywinn (The Botanica) - Red Winter Hat
Grand Warlock Nethekurse (Shattered Halls) - Green Winter Hat
Grandmaster Vorpil (Shadow Labyrinth) - Green Winter Hat
Exarch Maladaar (Auchenai Crypts) - Green Winter Hat

source http://www.wow-europe.com/en/info/basics/events/winterveil/index.html

Commento di Cort

It is still a world drop also. I was just farming the Deadmines for some wool and had it drop off of one of the miners.

IIRC, it doesn't start dropping from bosses until the 24th or 25th?

Commento di DarthRahn

Dropped today off second boss(Captain Skarloc) in CoT:Old Hillsbrand.

I think they changed drops a bit, it now drops off BC bosses, so you cannot solo BRD and get your hat :(

Commento di grimman

Did Voone 5 times today, 2007-12-16, no drops.
WoW armory says:
War Master Voone 58 Elite Blackrock Spire Guaranteed (100%)

Speculation: I think it's very plausible that it's like Cort said above, they don't start dropping until the 24th or 25th. Either that or they just won't drop for level 70 character off level 60 bosses.

Commento di 91931

I see a lot of posting in regards to the Euro servers but does anyone know if the hats are dropping on the North American servers as of now? Thanks for any responses.

Commento di 108984

these are dropping now i got one off the second boss in mechanar last night and from what i hear they also drop off these boss 100% of the time

Captain Skarloc (Escape from Durnholde Keep) - Red Winter Hat
Nethermancer Sepethrea (The Mechanar) - Red Winter Hat
High Botanist Freywinn (The Botanica) - Red Winter Hat
Grand Warlock Nethekurse (Shattered Halls) - Green Winter Hat
Grandmaster Vorpil (Shadow Labyrinth) - Green Winter Hat
Exarch Maladaar (Auchenai Crypts) - Green Winter Hat

Commento di 31412

This evening 12-16-2007 on the Eldre' Thalus Server which is a North American server I got the red winter hat off the first humanoid boss in Nethermancer Sepethrea in a normal mech run. I figured I would post so that there would be some confirmation from the North American servers :D

Commento di 109085

Actually a guildie just got one to drop yesterday (12/16) from a satyr. Not in Outland, btw.

Realm: Thaurissan (oceanic)

Commento di 68759

why did some1 - rating me? :S its true! it just dropped that hat! :S got one drop on 17/12 and one on 15/12

Commento di 109516

It seems they updated the site for US servers.

http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/events/winterveil/

Winter Veil bosses of Outland:

* Captain Skarloc (Escape from Durnholde Keep) - Red Winter Hat
* Nethermancer Sepethrea (The Mechanar) - Red Winter Hat
* High Botanist Freywinn (The Botanica) - Red Winter Hat
* Grand Warlock Nethekurse (Shattered Halls) - Green Winter Hat
* Grandmaster Vorpil (Shadow Labyrinth) - Green Winter Hat
* Exarch Maladaar (Auchenai Crypts) - Green Winter Hat

Also it dont say anything about it being a world drop. However a guildie told me last night that a green hat fell above lakeshire for them off of a Gnoll of some sort. I am not sure how true it is.. But this person said the item is bop and the caracter is low lvl..

Commento di Aris

Server: Blackhand (North American, Central Time Zone)

Been seeing them drop multiple times in heroic 5mans over the last couple of weeks. Ive finally gotten a red and green one, and have bought matching red and green suits off the AH as well as matching boots. Very festiv.

You can tell before you kill a boss if it will drop a hat. The boss will be wearing either a green or red hat.

Commento di 72558

Just got one from a Windfury near TB.

Commento di 199669

I have this hat with my alt I had to kill 100 of the same NPC to get the hat

Commento di jaxsonbateman

This year Grand Magus Telestra in both normal and heroic Nexus drops a Red Winter Hat.

Commento di jaxsonbateman

It has a 100% droprate from bosses that are wearing the hat.

Only one drops per group, and as it's an uncommon BoP item under normal loot conditions the group can all roll for it.

The hats do indeed drop from Wrath bosses this year.

Commento di CaspianRoach

I can confirm that Grand Magus Telestra is two-mannable on normal by healer+tank group and is wearing the hat. You can actually see the boss wearing a hat, i guess all humanoid bosses in WotLK instances who have hat on her\his head will drop hats. We got 2 hats from 2 runs so i guess its 100% dropchance.

Two-manned by Affliction Warlock 80 using the Voidwalker as a tank and a Holy Priest 80. Both in blues from normal\heroics dungeons. Guess Demonology Warlock could be better but Affliction can do too.

How-to get a hat:
Go to The Nexus, Coldarra and take the lowest entrance to "The Nexus: The Nexus".
From the start, take to your left. Kill one dragonkin tank-and-spank.
In the next room, keep taking left route. There will be a patrol of one humanoid and two demon-dogs (banishable) Dogs can Silence the target they attack for 4 seconds, so be awared.
After that there will be a hall with the frozen Horde warriors. You CAN skip them even if you are not rogue. Just don't go close to them. They thaw once you get melee distance with them.
After hall, there will be another patrol with humanoid and two demon-dogs. Sneak past the 3 humanoids (go near the right wall) and you are near the Grand Magus room.
There will be the hardest part, 4 humanoid trash one, twox2, three. Yes, they are harder than the boss. But if you have a "true" tanking class like warr, pala, dk or druid, this could be easier. For a warlock, tap every humanoid with your Torment at least once so they don't kill your healer.
The boss fight is fairly easy. She has ~120k hp. She drops a fire bombs at her main target which do weak AoE damage and sometime do Frost Nova which freezes all targets around her for 3 seconds. You are unable to do anything while freezed. She also casts Gravity Well which tosses all party members around the room and do little damage. No problem with her main form. Once she hit 50% HP, she splits into Fire, Arcane and Frost versions of herself. My advice is that you CC (Fearable!) Arcane and kill Fire first, because Arcane do mass stun spell (Time Stop) every now and then and polymorphs random party member. Very annoying. Frost one rarely throws frostballs and Ice Lance and mainly do Blizzard which you can simply go away from, and remember the warlock demons have 80% resist AoE damage. Fire Scorches random party member and do the most damage but will stay on tank most of the time. Her copies have ~20-30k hp so it's easy kill. Once all of the copies were klled, she merges into herself and you kill her.
Voila, the Red Winter Hat!

Commento di Leyah

Grand Magus Telestra - Nexus - Red
Jedoga Shadowseeker - Ahn'kahet - Red
Mage-Lord Urom - Oculus - Green

Commento di EightBitBus

Grand Magus Telestra is soloable by a decently geared Retribution Paladin. I buffed up with Kings, a +40STR/+40STA food and a 132STA scroll putting me at 20.8k HP with 3150AP. I used SoC, no feedback damage.

First dragon: FrR aura, tank and spank.

Single caster mob with two dogs: Repent human, kill dogs. Do not break repent, stand about 20ft away and on breaking the mob will rain of fire on your position. This leaves you free to beat the mob down without being hit with RoF.

Four pull before boss: Repent any of the casters (I picked the initiate). Heal often and early since they silence and can burst you down. Not much else to it, just use your normal tricks to burn them down one by one.

Boss: Easy part. Use your FR aura (you will take almost no damage) and take her to 50%. Repent the arcane, blow up the fire while having the frost stunned (and silenced if you're BE). Switch auras as necessary. Toss FR back up and burn her down. Enjoy the hat. :)

Commento di 158881

Just 2 manned Grand Magus Telestra with a moonkin and a fire mage. Moonkin tanked the first dragon on the way, then for the pat the mage sheeped the humanoid and the moonkin rooted one of the dogs, then we killed the other. Then killed the rooted dog, then the humanoid. After that first pat, you run through the room full of frozen mobs, they don't aggro, and repeat the same strat on the second pat. You hug the right wall as you reach the room with the boss and avoid the next pull. For the pull of 4 in her room, you start off by rooting the melee type, sheeping one of the casters, cycloning another caster for 9 seconds while the mage burns down the 4th mob quickly. If the first mob isn't dead before the mob being cycloned becomes immune, the druid shifts to bear form and bashes. Then you kill the mob the druid has been CCing after renewing roots on the melee one. Then kill the rooted mob, then the sheep and voila, you're ready to fight the boss.

In all honesty, the boss is easier than the trash pull before her. The mage uses fire ward to soak up her attacks as the moonkin dot's her up and throws a lifebloom or two. One lifebloom per player is enough to heal through her entire throw-you-around-the-room attack. Once she splits into three, sheep the arcane one and cyclone the frost one, using fire ward burn down the fire one, then kill the frost one, then the arcane one. After that she returns to simple mage-tank 'n spank, and voila, brand new hat!

Commento di Hellreject

Me and a friend (2x 80 warlocks) just duo'd Mechanar to see if the hats still drop there, but they don't. So it's confirmed, they only drop randomly from mobs, or 100% from various WotLK bosses. This information will probably not be valid come Winter Veil 2010 and beyond, as Cataclysm will be released by that time.

Commento di 278774

Soloed grand magus as a mage.. all mobs just a joke frost elem+mirrors pwnz all

Last 4mob pack have spellstealable +15%haste+150spp buff + hot = killemall

Blue geared mages should down boss to 50% sheep 1 add kill other 2, then reship 1st and wait for next elem-coldsnap-IV etc etc etc + bandage if something gone wrong. Then just nuke add and boss.

p.s. dampen=30dmg per aoe tick from boss = nothing.

nothing to elaborate just nuke using spellstealed buff from last trash pack, then use all abilities and down her to 50%... kill 2 adds, reship 3rd for 2 minutes, bandage >> then kill last add and boss

Commento di 271353

Just done as a Holy Paladin,bring a few mana pots for the four person pack and kill the steward first as he silences/spellbreaks.Follow the previous strategies for the rest.

P.S

Don't try fearing the dogs,they'll run into the frozen horde and aggro them.

Commento di 267773

Did grand magus as a frost mage.

I started with ice barrier and fire ward up, waiting a few seconds to bring the fire ward cooldown closer to 0, and then popped water elemental, mirror images and icy veins and just straight dps'ed her until 50%, refreshing ice barrier and fire ward when up.

When she split I sheeped the arcane one and killed the two other adds, they didn't hit me too hard as I remember. When just the sheep was left, I evocated and waited on my icy veins / water ele / mirror image cooldowns, and when they were up I didn't use them yet but killed the sheep. When she reappeared in the middle, I popped all the cooldowns like at the start of the fight and continued to dps her until dead.

Don't forget to dampen magic either.

Commento di 58086

Well geared 80 Warrior couldn't solo.. split is just a bit to much damage to mitigate.. bring a buddy and do it twice...

Commento di suicidalkatt

This is easily 2 man-able and fairly soloable. Just takes some thinking maybe a few tries. I did it as an enhancement shaman with a priest. Just enter nexus on normal take the left hallway and kill the casting guardian. Continue on to you left and take the passage kill the group of 3. The next area with frozen mobs can be walked around my going to the inner wall and sticking to it. Kill the next 3 group and continue on. avoid the group on the left and kill the last group of 4 before the boss. The boss is pretty easy mode with a healer.

Commento di Falcon213

Just soloed as a prot Warrior. Unlike other classes, the 4-pull is incredibly easy (didn't need any cooldowns or pots), but the boss herself is a bit more tricky due to lack of cc.

Took me a few tries, but the way I got it done was by interrupting her frost nova and just burning her to 50%, then when she splits you have to target arcane, fear, and when the fear is up hit shield wall. Make sure you keep spell reflect up, interrupt polys and then kill fire. At this point I would blow my enraged regeneration and kill frost, then it's the same thing as phase 1.

Finished with 13% hp.

Commento di 279013

From wow-europe:
Winter Veil bosses of Northrend:

* Grand Magus Telestra (The Nexus) - Red Winter Hat
* Jedoga Shadowseeker in (Ahn'Kahet: The Old Kingdom - Red Winter Hat
* Mage-Lord Urom in (The Oculus) - Green Winter Hat

Commento di Taishigi

I whould also like to add that killing Grand Magus Telestra as a Demo Lock is also a easy to obtain this hat.

Commento di 129955

VERY easy to obtain using the above strat about nexus.
Did this myself with Ret paladin+holy paladin.

Also i've confirmed and you are not able to enchant it with .
I can also confirm that you are infact able to enchant it with [Arcanum of Ferocity

Commento di 18560

Just solo'd the Grand Magus as an enhancement shaman in Naxx10/heroic gear.

I went the left way as I entered the instance, then turned right again, the two dragons should not be that much of a problem, and I could let out all the mobs on the rest of the way to her. I also avoided the big group just before her until afterwards because as a shaman you don't have the physical migration plate wearers have and three mobs (1 hexed) hitting you plus their spells can be risky if you get unlucky with your maelstorm charges. It is possile to do those as I found out after I killed the boss, but not nessescary if you don't mind a little risk with the throwing-around-ability.

The boss herself was quite simple, she misses relatively often with her fire bombs, so you don't have to stack your maelstrom weapon for healing waves, you can toss a lightning bolt or two at her. When she splits, just simply call your wolves, the stun alone knocks one of the three out until you burned that one down.

The only problem I faced was that on my first try, after her split she smashed me right into the group that I left out, but as stated before, you can kill them before. On my second try she was a bit more generous and I just bounced up and down, so I did not have to worry about the group anymore ;)

After all not that big of a deal, but as a shaman I think you need at least a decent gear level to survive the split without much trouble.

Commento di 118812

Hat dropped off Grand Magus Telestra from The Nexus.

She was wearing the hat prior to the battle. Apparently if the boss is wearing the hat then it is a guaranteed drop.

I tried the boss from Shattered Halls that was suppose to also drop a hat, Grand Warlock Nethekurse, according to the wow community site, but I was unlucky. I think they are only dropping off WotLK bosses this year.

Good luck

Commento di 16820

Farmed several times, seems to have 100% drop rate from Grand Magus Telestra on normal and heroic.

Easy to solo as a prot paladin in decent gear. I do advise pulling the 4 mob pull in front of her though so you aren't accidentally thrown into them.

Commento di 279611

Just soloed Grand Magus Telestra in normal Nexus as a BM hunter with a Gorilla pet. I wouldn't recommend it unless you're geared and have T5 bonus. You basically send your pet in with Mend Pet and immediately Bestial Wrath + Rapid Fire until she splits. When she splits, trap one of them and kill the clone that casts Blizzard. When that one dies, the other two should be easy. Bandage yourself if you're low on health before the clones are dead since your pet needs a lot less heals in this phase than when she merges back to her original form. After she merges, she should die without casting a second round of clones. Then just loot your hat and leave. Don't bother trying to solo the second boss (and fail miserably like I did).

Commento di 255569

Soloed this from normal Nexus at lvl80 enhancement shaman with heroic + few nax10 pieces gear. Can skip most mobs ( the whole part with the dudes frozen in icecubes can be skipped ).

Probaply can't skip the first dragon mob. He hits hard ( if it's not the caster - dunno about that one ) but nothing Maelstrom instaheal can't fix.

The first pack with mage and two puppies can't be skipped. You might wanna hex the mage ( occurred to me after the run :P ) and kill puppies first. Use your own puppies if you feel like it. Use Maelstrom to heal again as the mobs can silence you.

Skip the icecube dudes, their aggro range is very minor so you should be able to slip past them. The draenei berserkers hit like trucks so you really don't wanna break any cubes.

Kill the second puppies + mage patrol.

Kill the three-pack before boss ( hex the steward as you should be able to resist alot of the spells but melee damage hurts ).

Now it's just the four mobs before boss. Hex one of the stewards and corner pull. Obviously you should use your totems.
Kill the other steward first, then either of the mages. Re-hex the other steward when you can and kill the remaining mage if you didn't already. Bandage and kill the steward.

Now it's just you and the boss.
Save your puppies for when she vanishes and calls for aid and go by instinct. I just killed the first copy that got on my way but there might be a more reasonable solutions available as well.
I also used my Fire Elemental totem.

When she reappears, Bloodlust and finish her off.

Profit.

( Edit: Ran this again to help a guildie and realized that not all mobs are always the same so use your best judgement :) )

Commento di 279922

Soloed as 80 Retribution Paladin, with no problems at all.

Kill the dragonkin as you enter, then repentance on the humanoid, kill the dogs first. Sneak through iceblock room (not getting too close to the iceblocks). Repentance the humanoid, kill dogs. Sneak past the mobs outside Telestras room, repentance the Steward, kill 3 others, kill Steward...

Then it was basically just a spankfest, I used art of war as soon as I got it, and I was using Seal of Wisdom so I wouldnt run out of mana. Never got close to dying, had both bubble and lay on hands left after the fight!

Commento di 118081

So can anyone confirm if this will drop in and pre-TBC instances or raids? I'd like to get this achievment for toons other than my main, but am not sure how to go about it. Any information would be greatly appreciated.

Commento di clinic

Succesfull 100% drop ONLY from "Winter Bosses" in Northrend.
Succesfull WordDrop from randomly mob in Azeroth.

They are both lootable by either faction.

Winter Veil bosses of Northrend:

Commento di MattHock

Acquirable solo from Nexus as an 80 shadow priest

- Dragons in the hallways can be simply burned down
- The two dog packs can be a bit annoying, but with careful use of DoTs and Dispersion, it's possible to take down a pack without needing to run away - MC the humanoid and let the dogs kill it first
- Just run past the iced mobs. If you wake a set of them up by mistake, you can use Mind Soothe to run past
- The 4 pack before the boss is probably the hardest pull. I was able to take out two the first go, using MC to pull, then MCing a second and using it to hit the others and pull aggro off me, but I had taken enough damage at that point to die after MC broke. It might be possible to do the whole pack without dying - MC one of the melee, focus on DPSing a caster, then MC the other melee and focus on that caster again, and it might be possible to have 3 mobs down before the second MC breaks. When one is alone, it's easy - DoT it, MC it, then just wait for the DoTs to tick down.

For the boss:
- When she's alone, it's pretty easy. Just make sure VE is up and burn her. If necessary, toss yourself shield/renew/PoM while she's tossing you around.
- When she splits, get in the middle, and immediately fear. Burn the arcane mob down immediately. Once it's down, you're past the hard part. Fire next, frost last.
- If you get past the 3 images, and you still have a chunk of mana left, you've got it, just keep burning her down.

Commento di 8489

Just solo'd Grand Magus Telestra as a ret paladin with blue/heroic and crafted epics/BT gear. The trash getting up to her was more challenging than the boss herself. Chaining repentance works wonders for mana regen.

Commento di Random112556

Was just farming barons mount in the original strat and it dropped of a Skeletal Guardian trash mob!

Edit: I am horde, here is the screenshot I took: http://img518.imageshack.us/my.php?image=rehatdropwf3.jpg

Commento di 262702

I have soloed Grand Magus Telestra as an 80 human shadow priest, decently geared in heroic purples. The hardest part about this solo is actually getting to the boss. Mind control and Mind Soothe are your friends here.

Go into the center room and out the left side. This way, you skip any encounters with the dragonkin. The short hallway leading down to the area with the frozen dudes is your first challenge. Mind control the humanoid, and have it attack the 2 demon dogs. After your MC dies, try and take out the 2 dogs on your own. Using your shadowfiend followed by a Fade should get the dogs off you while you kill them. Divine Hymn should help as well. I don't suggest using your fear since they tend to scatter about and attract other mobs.

After that, make your way past the hall of frozen dudes. No Mind Soothe required. Just stay out of melee range and you should be fine. The short hallway after that area has 2 more dogs and another humanoid. Kill them as per above.

Then you should see 3 humanoids on your left. Mind soothe those and push past to Telestra's room. Take off all your gear to prevent durability damage, mind control one of the four mobs before Telestra, and have them die from the other mobs. After that, let yourself die, re-enter the instance, and make your way back to Telestra. Rinse and repeat with the remaining mobs. Now...the boss.

At level 80, most of her spells should miss you, making the fight alot easier. Put your dots up, along with Vampiric Embrace and DPS her down to 50%. Power Word: Shield when you need to. When she splits, use your Shadowfiend and then fade, so her copies mainly focus on it instead of you. Take down her purple copy first, then use a fear or divine hymn to CC the other 2. DPS them down (which shouldn't take too long) and heal up while she is re-combining her parts.

The last 50% should be pretty simple. If you ever get in a tight spot because of her ice trap spell, don't hesitate to use a PvP trinket (or every man for himself if you're human).

That should net you your red winter hat! Have fun and good luck!

Commento di Raiking

Also soloable by a lvl 80 protection paladin with just a well fed buff. The mobs hit like girls ;)

I think you got downrated by several girls.

On the topic, this is indeed easily obtainable by doing normal mode nexus. I did it with a fury warrior, ele shaman and demo/destro lock (me). Might've been a bit overkill, but everything goes really fast and it might save some time overall.

Commento di 282206

Confirmed that this is not solely from the bosses is Northrend. Though the drop rate is much lower it does drop elsewhere.

My lvl 42 Druid just had this drop from a Zanzil Zombie in STV.

Just to give hope to those that have not reached Northrend yet :)

Commento di ElmosEvilTwin

Just got it off of Grand Magus in Nexus

Commento di 184283

Soloed as a feral druid with decent gear (Crafted, with some 10 man/25 man Naxx gear).

The pulls are really the hardest part:

First pull: Azure . It's just basic tank and spank, shouldn't be too hard if you're decently geared. Use cooldowns if necessary. (But I'd advise saving them for the next pull)

Second pull: 2 Hounds and a descendant. This is a little bit trickier as there's more damage output, but still manageable. Just pop beserk and barkskin. Use survival instincts if needed.

Now you'll be at the room of frozen guys, just stealth through

Third Pull: Same as second.

Fourth pull: 4 pack of humanoids, pop berserk and go nuts, use regeneration and instincts as needed. (I also potted)

Now for the boss:
What I did was basically just tank and spank till 50% where she spawns her adds. I popped berserk here and went to town, they die fairly easily but do some damage.

After they're all dead it'll be about 5-7 seconds before she respawns. You should use this time to heal yourself to full, or as close as possible to live the rest of the fight. Put HoTs on you as well. From here it's the same as 100-50, it should be fairly manageable. If you get low, just pop cooldowns (Barkskin, Instincts, Regen, ect.)

I finished with about 67% health, and I don't have improved leader of the pack, so, it would be easier with it :)

If you've got some decent gear, this shouldn't be too hard. Enjoy your hat! :D

Commento di ExEvolution

I got this from Grand Magus in Nexus as a Feral Druid.

Soloing this instance is fairly easy if you're a level 80 tanking druid, provided you have improved leader of the pack and a decent amount of armor and health. Stay in bear if you aggro any groups, Glyph of Maul is great. Two things you should know, the Dragons in the beginning and the dogs both detect stealth, the dragons are easy enough to get past if you go through the center path. The dogs you might have to end up fighting. I managed to get past the first group by using feral charge (cat) while stealthed on one of the frozen alliance when they stopped at the end of their path. As long as you don't attack or stand right on top of them, the frozen alliance shouldnt aggro. Just go through that room, you'll find another group with 2 dogs and a mage. Wait for them to reach the top of the path where you can target the group behind them again, feral charge (cat) again. That should get you through the stealth detection mobs, if you happen to aggro them, just shift into bear, take out the mage first, but try to keep mangle active on the dogs too for the 20% maul damage bonus from rend and tear. I never tried to Soothe Animal, its the only spell I have never used once on my druid.

Sneak past the group of 3 mobs on the left side, and you will see the group of 4 right before the boss. To make it a bit easier on you, use entangling roots on the melee mob (using it on a caster won't do much good to reduce the damage you take) and let the rest of them aggro you. Shift to bear again, and just go crazy, If your gear is good enough you should come out with at least 6k health left without using any cooldowns, but if you run in to trouble, pop your Survival Insticts, Barkskin, and Frenzied Regeneration all at once. Since Frenzied Regen recovers a percentage of your health, Survival Instincts will greatly increase the amount you recover, while also giving a nice chunk of additional (temporary) health. Kill the Initiates first, because they have a debuff that will drain a considerable amount of your health when it hits, try to use Bash on Magic Burn whenever you see it being cast (Brutal Impact helps a lot). Then kill the Ascendants, then finally the steward. I do not suggest shifting out of your bear form at any time to heal unless the only mob remaining is rooted.

For the boss, she hits like a baby, if you Feral Charge or Bash her Fire Bomb, she will melee you while that school is locked, use Demoralizing Roar to reduce that damage, when she does the AoE that throws you around the room, it usually leaves a considerable amount of distance for a nice interrupting feral charge. When the split comes at 50%, you have a short time to heal yourself if necessary, I usually go for a Rejuvenation + Nourish. I found it easiest to kill the arcane one first, then the fire, and finally the ice. Just try to get them close together, now is a good time to pop Berserk because you want to burn the heavy damage dealers down fast. For the Merge, you have maybe 10 seconds to heal yourself, which should be more than enough, and she should go down, piece of cake.

Commento di 282993

Just soloed Grand Magus Telestra as a feral druid (equipment: mostly blues with a couple of green and epic pieces, nothing mindblowing).
Died a couple of times on the trash mobs and the boss before finding the best tactics, but all and all doable for a feral.
Remember to use berserk, expecially when Telestra splits, and you'll be fine.

Commento di 197078

Soloed as a holy paladin. Killed the dogs first for the humanoid / 2-dog packs. I wasn't able to pull off the 4-pull before the boss, so I just skipped them. I bubble-pulled the boss to the opposite side of the room from the trash, then faced the back wall. When she did her Gravity Well, this positioning kept me from flying off toward the trash. Just make sure to face the back wall at all times and you should be okay. When she split off, I killed arcane, fire, then frost.

Commento di 283063

Just got one of these a few minutes ago for my level 1 bank alt. Took ~4500 kills in Fargodeep Mine. =D

Merry Christmas!

Commento di 85595

Pretty easy as any DK. I did it as frost by saving army of the dead for when she split and then popping it. Take the arcane, then the fire, then the frost. Nice and easy.

Commento di Malfious

Adding the the wonderful list of "solo'd as" ;p

Solo'd as an ele shaman in naxx epics.. hardest part for me was the 2 patrols, the dogs silence so had to warstomp/pot/run.. the pack of 4 before her weren't too bad, just Hex'd one and killed another.. though I died twice on them so I had only 2 to kill at the end

The boss isn;t worth mentioning, she was a walk in the park

Endede up with 29% dura left

Commento di sunsmoon

Winter's Veil bosses of Northrend!

Happy hunting!

Commento di 274349

Was fooling around on my bank char at lvl 4. Attacked Gamon who killd me in 3 hits. Got a ress from a paladin who healed me while I "tanked" Gamon and killd him. He dropd the hat for me so I got 1 on my bank ^^

Commento di Wildesane

Just killed a Dark Iron Steamsmith in the Searing Gorge.
Wanted to confirm this is a random world drop.
Very low percentage to drop.

The mob was not wearing the hat.

Good luck!

Commento di Shinylol

Dropped off a Hillsbrad Peasant today, so it can actually drop off from any humanoid in the game I suppose.

Commento di 119811

kinda sucks cuz not everyone can get into instances or are limited to the time they can play so now people are can not complete this with out the stupid hat =(

Commento di 150841

a guildmate (lvl80) got the red one from a shaman in felwood.
combined with reputation grinding for timbermaw hold.
a good thing for a good achievement :D

Commento di toastmaster7727

Just killed Grand Master Telestra in Heroic Nexus and she wasn't wearing the hat yet it still dropped. The bosses probly have a small chance of dropping it even if they aren't actually wearing it. Also, was leveling in STV and one dropped for me from a troll in Ruins of Zul'mamwe.

Commento di 283341

I got the hat from a random Defias miner in the Deadmines, so it _is_ capable of dropping off random low-level mobs.

Commento di 286128

Does it still drop in Strat? Or only Northrend bosses this year?

Commento di 284815

I have yet to see comment about a combat rogue duoing to get the hat. So to add to the ring that as a low-equipped just turned 80 rogue and similarly low equipped just turned 80 feral druid managed to take the Magus down using a modified variant of ExEvo's feral druid solo strat a few posts above this.

We killed the drake on the left and proceeded to stealth pass the two dog packs ( by hiding on the left side in the corner behind the third 'block' as they came toward us, and then secondly by following behind the next set and then tucking into the corner where the force field hits the pat hallway on the right as they came back by ). Then we did a sap & root combo for the 4 pack that generally worked if there was 1 steward, (the druid died on the second time through when we got 2 stewards instead of one).

We generally did the same strat for the boss druid-wise with the addition the rogue, the first phase is pretty easy if the druid gets the bash off, if not be sure to face a distant wall for when she gravities, that way you are out of range for a few seconds of the AOE to bandage. When she splits get away and vanish so the Druid can get all threat or the Arcane one will polymorph the heck out of you. Pop killing spree and blade fury once the threat holds. Bandage as she merges back.

Challenging without a scrap of gear or decent healing, but we got it twice. :)

Commento di 267678

I've got to admit that something like this to celebrate the season shouldn't be aimed at grinding and high level groups only. I consider it a mistake given it's the Holiday Season.

Personally, I'd have made all the clothes vendor learned or made them a reward from the Smokeywood people for completing a simple quest. At least considering what the clothes do; which is very little.

I might be very much alone on that opinion though. *halo*

Commento di 290130

Soloed Grand Magus as a resto Shaman.
You can killed her without aggroing the four humanoid trash.

Commento di doggy

does it only drop i the winter veil season or any time of year?

Commento di doggy

do they only drop in the winter season or does it have a small chance anytime of year?

Commento di doggy

oops i just typed the same thing...sorry:) ROFL

Commento di 358373

Commento di mkrivacek

Sololed Grand Magus Telestra (on normal where hat also drops) as feral dps in bear form (only 26k HP). Just stealth right to boss and nuke. Improved Leader of the Pack helps me heal myself + used one healing potion. Easy, no group - no need / greed :-)

Commento di Bleedo

1st Boss Normal Nexus is Soloable as Mutilate Rogue... I died twice but oh well LOL, Both deaths was 3nd phase I got tossed to the pack of adds near her.

It should be ALOT easier as Combat tho cuz you can just blade flurry all 3 adds instead of killing em 1 by 1.

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Commento di 111622

One of these dropped in Forge of Souls today.

Commento di mouseno4

Did this completely 100% solo as an enhance shaman. Pretty simple in normal nexus.

Kill the dragonspawn at the beginning, little bit longer fight than a normal 80 but it was ok, just use every 5 stack of MW on healing wave. Next is the single blood elf and 2 dogs. Either burn or hex the blood elf and burn the dogs, pretty simple, just watch their silence as it can kill you. Avoid going into melee range with the frozen blood elves, you can avoid every single frozen mob, just by hugging the wall like a best friend. Kill the blood elf and 2 dogs just like the last lot. Here is actually the hard bit, avoid the group of 3 blood elves and get ready to really burn burn burn. Dump your totems as you will need them for this group of 4 blood elves before Telestra. Load up lightning shield and hex one steward. Pop your puppies and nuke the others asap. You shouldnt need to burn any MW stacks on heals as your puppies should be sufficient. Takes a bit of time but its all good. As for Telestra herself, just wait the 3 mins for your puppies to cooldown then pop em and nuke away. 10 times easier fight than anything else so far as almost all of her attacks are spell... and since your an 80 shaman... you wont need heals. Easy Red Winter Hat and the boss herself only took 1 min 13 seconds to own.

Commento di christov

Just solo'd this as a BM hunter (no t5 bits for extra pet healing) and a tenacity pet.
Fairly easy, you can skip all the frozen mobs by running around them carefully, pet died once due to the 'pet-coming-back-with-half-heath' bug, rest of it was easy peasy. Boss wasn't much of an issue either, just pop BR, MD, all CDs and Intimidation at the start to give your pet tons of threat, then dps down as usual.
I am geared quited nicely in toc25 hc and some icc25 stuff now so perhaps that's why it was seemples.

Commento di Kruithne

Easy to solo Nexus normal as a level 80 BM Hunter with T9 MM raiding gear. There is a video on my YouTube page showing this. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjJgBLTzAT0

Merry Xmas :)

Commento di 74354

easily solod as ret lvl 80. repent one of the adds if she splits to greatly reduce dmg taken and you're golden

Commento di Khaledra

for 2009:

Winter Veil bosses of Northrend:
Grand Magus Telestra (The Nexus) - Red Winter Hat
Jedoga Shadowseeker (Ahn'Kahet: The Old Kingdom) - Red Winter Hat
Mage-Lord Urom (The Oculus) - Green Winter Hat

Commento di malletin

this is probably not overall usefull but paladin and death knights with decent gear shouldnt have problem soloing telestra on normal and possibly other classes as well.

well the fight as dk is relatively simple just pop army and use death strike alot since her spells still some dmg(after a minute i was from 35k - 13k while she ofcourse almost was dead^^)

Commento di maxchum

Just soloed Telestra, while waiting for my heal to arrive, hehe.
Blood DK 245-258ilvl gear.
If you decent geared, don't worry about anything, especially party, since you have do it more than once to get everyone an hat.

Commento di 230694

Soloed Telestra as an Unholy DK in a mix of blues and epics... it was really easy, even with gear i-lvls around 200 on average. No need for awesome gear to do this.

Commento di 498752

Just soloed Grand Magus Telestra with my 80 non-BM specced hunter. Didn't die any, but not easy either. Make sure your pet holds aggro most of the time and has lick wounds at least. Also, use resilience gear if you have decent gear, as the pet gains resil now too.

Commento di Figgins

What is the consensus on need/greed for this?

Also, why are people rating the boss comments down? The only way to reliably get the hat for 2009 is from the three Northrend bosses, so comments about the boss fights are completely relevant.

Commento di ZarDoom

Apparently, it won't drop on old bosses where it used to drop before, such as Master Canonner Wiley or Dark Master Gandling.

Commento di 469716

I just soloed Grand Magus Telestra with a pally tank. Wasn't too tough. Just letting pally tanks know it can be done by yourself.

Commento di 71771

I soloed Grand Magus Telestra last night in my pvp gear as a pally ret spec, with a 2032gs. Easily done, just have to kill 1 dragon at beginning, 3 BE pats with dogs, and go around the frozen npcs. The 4 npcs before the boss were also easy, just dps the initiate and aspirant first. I used Sacred Shield and Seal of light to help with heals.

Commento di Sintos

Attention hunters.

You win.

Easily soloed Grand Magus Telestra in normal nexus today to get the hat. I skipped the frozen horde and all the mobs and went straight to Grand Magus Telestra.

Go beast mastery. Keep mend pet up at all times. Because its normal she will only mirror image once into 3 images. When low on mana bust out Aspect of the Viper, keep mend pet up! pretty much 3 crits and she's mirror imaging.

KEEP MEND PET UP.

Feign death when argoed, and stay out of the AoE`s.

When she's down loot that hat and /flex.

GG. GL.... although you wont really need luck.

Commento di 500104

Tried getting hat in crypts 4 times, scholo 3 times no luck on dropping. But got it first time in nexus 100% drop rate. and it dosent matter if you have red hat and green clothes all color combos must work

Commento di froeshunter

Just make a party with some friends, go to nexus normal and kill=>reset telestra. Do that 5 times and every one gets it, YEAH every one is happy.

Commento di 481488

People are putting too much work into this. I had planned on doing the same as others were posting here, running dungeons and such, but I just happened to get it off a world mob.

Go to save Metzen, the far east point of that cove in Tanaris, start killing the pirate mobs around there, the red hat should pop up fairly soon. I was just clearing them to get to the reindeer, it dropped on the 3rd or 4th guy.

Save yourself the need/greed drama or effort from running dungeons. Especially when you can combine it with another holiday achieve.

Commento di Nolimit

Soloable by rogue.
I'm 80 warlock and took my 80 rogue friend who pretty much soloed it all, with some help from me of course but he could have done it without me.
He does have best gear on server though so maybe take someone that can heal/tank a bit.

Commento di kinigit

Regular Nexus to the first boss Grand Magus Telestra is soloable by any class at level 80. You may have to respec, and some classes may take a few tries on some of the trash pulls, but it is definitely doable. Teleastra has a 100% drop rate during Winter Veil.

Whether it is easier to run the instance with others and roll against them, pay/convince someone to help if you feel unable to solo, or just solo it is up to you.

I chose to solo it.

Commento di Tootoo

Here's the green one

Commento di 509587

Dropped to my group from Deadmines trash mob on this year 2009.

and yes, it is true. on EU Moonglade RP realm.

Commento di 95husum

Hehey. they drop from Risen stalker in Ghostlands too. but i dosen't stand on the list=P

Commento di Ecoblaster

someone know where this will drop in cataclysm?

Commento di Deathsaber

I can confirm this drops from Northrend Heroic Dungeon Bosses, probably from Cataclysm Dungeon/Heroic Dungeon Bosses as-well. :)

Commento di Owtdemun

Can you guys confirm what Demokro said?

I just solo´ed Telestra on normal and no hat =(

Will try on heroic.

Commento di 703441

Where does this drop in Cata?

Commento di 284038

This hat is still dropped by Grand Magus Telestra in Heroic Nexus for the 2010 season.

Commento di 480475

Soloed Telestra three times on normal today, hat did not drop.

Did drop on Corla from Blackrock Caverns (Normal) though.

Commento di 619749

from wow-europe.com

Cataclysm Winter Veil bosses

Deadmines (Heroic) - Admiral Ripsnarl
The Stone Core (Normal + Heroic) - High Priestess Azil
Blackrock Caverns (Normal + Heroic) - Corla, Herald of Twilight
Shadowfang Keep (Heroic) - Lord Godfrey
Grim Batol (Normal + Heroic) - Drahga Shadowburner

hope it helps!

EDIT: heres the link http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/blog/1400555#blog

Commento di 707091

Totally and completely solo'd Grand Magus Telestra and no hat...she wasn't wearing the hat prior to the battle. So maybe you need at least 2 ppl in ur group.

Commento di borsko

Last boss in heroic SFK had a green winter hat for those looking for the hat in 4.0.3

also Drahga Shadowburner 3rd boss in Heroic grim batol drops green

Commento di 596820

As of Cata release, it is no longer a 100% drop from Grand Magus Telestra (The Nexus). Went in and solo'ed her on my 80 Shaman and there was no hat. There's the chance that she might still drop it on a lower drop rate, but I'm not going to be finding that out.

Commento di Alterraia

She drops it on heroic, yes. I think a big clue about whether they drop it or not, is if the NPC appears to be wearing the hat!

Gonna test that out in normal see if I can target her and see her wearing it or not. If not, run out and reset, and try again. I've got 2 alts that I don't feel like getting to 80 to do a heroic.

Commento di 68464

The hat still drops from Northrend dungeons on heroic mode.

Commento di Nagimaru

Solo'ed Grand Magus Telestra on Heroic as an 85 rogue, confirmed that she does drop the hat.

Commento di Gerasik

Grand Magus Telestra dropped it twice for guildies today. One, a paladin, soloed it. The other run was between myself (a mage) and a hunter. Hunter and I just ran past first boss and mobs, invis'd/feigned death if we pulled any, killed the pats up the ramp and the surrounding room of Telestra. All of us lvl 85 and Telestra WAS wearing the hat. This was done on heroic mode. I didn't win the roll on hat, QQ.

So far it seems having the boss wear the hat ensures a drop, considering for some of the people in the previous comments it had not dropped.

Commento di 564530

I just did 4 solo runs with my ret. pally of the Nexus for the red winter hat on normal. She didnt drop the hat. Sooo..this happened for one or more of the following three reasons. 1. The drop rate is not 100% this year (2010), 2. She no longer drops the hat on normal. or 3. You must be in a group. so I wouldnt advise you waiste your time trying this way as I have already done that for you :) My guess is it most likely is becasue cata has much better gear and a higher lvl cap of 85, this makes it much easier for people to solo as I did. I didnt even kill every thing. I was able to skip all the adds exept the ones in the doorway of the room she's in. I did it that way the first 3 times and decided to try killing up to her thinking somthing may trigger her to have the hat. anway what ever the reason is, the fact remains it is not a 100% drop on normal if you solo. I can not say for sure what the case is in a group. hope this was helpful to everyone who is looking for this item.
Edit:I didnt see all these other comments before i posted this so i guess i wasited more time as it was all covered lol.

Commento di 639041

2010
Also two man party killed Grand Magus Telestra on Heroic (Nexus) ... Confirmed Hat drops
Also two man killed Mage-Lord Urom on Heroic (The Oculus)... Confirmed Hat Drops

LVL 85 Feral Druid and LVL 85 Demonology Warlock

Commento di 201261

Still in game, Managed to solo Grand Magus Telestra in Heroic Nexus with a lvl 85 prot pally in mostly greens to get it.
dont understand why i got negative rating, just stated what i found! Guess there is a forum grinch out and about.

Commento di 734876

yea confirmed Grand Magus Telestra droped hat on heroic mode first time i tried (about 30 min ago).
I am not awesomest player ever and i managed to solo it pretty easily with lvl 85 feral (bear) druid. I have pretty bad gear (average item lvl 325). So i encourage you to try and solo it cos its really easy.

Commento di DrWatson

Confirmed: Grand Magus Telestra dropped the hat 3 times in a row on Heroic. I ran it 5 times on reg and she didn't drop it once.

Commento di Flappers

Doesn't seem to drop on Normal in the Nexus, dropped for me on my 1st attempt Heroic, easily soloed at 85 on a prot Warrior. One small tip, take the right hand side of the corridor with the ice blocked Boss & trash in, if you try the left side you'll pull.

Commento di kwjohnstone

Confirmed, dropped for me off the last boss in STONECORE

Commento di PersonalProxy

Seems to be a lot of confusion about the hats this year (post Cataclysm 2010).
Here is my experience, disregard the "dates" in the Blizzard statement everyone is throwing around, as it seems to be inaccurate.

Northrend Dungeons:
Grand Magus Telestra in The Nexus: Red Winter Hat
Heroic: 100% DROP!
Normal: 0% - 3% Approximate DROP!
Jedoga Shadowseeker in Ahn'Kahet: The Old Kingdom: Red Winter Hat
Heroic: 100% DROP!
Normal: 0% - 3% Approximate DROP!
Mage-Lord Urom in The Oculus: Green Winter Hat
Heroic: 100% DROP!
Normal: 0% - 3% Approximate DROP!

Cataclysm Dungeons:
Lord Godfrey in Shadowfang Keep: Green Winter Hat
Heroic: 100% DROP!
Normal: 3% - 14% Approximate DROP!
Drahga Shadowburner in Grim Batol: Green Winter Hat
Heroic: 100% DROP!
Normal: 3% - 14% Approximate DROP!
High Priestess Azil in The Stonecore: Red Winter Hat
Heroic: 100% DROP!
Normal: 3% - 14% Approximate DROP!
Corla, Herald of Twilight in Blackrock Caverns: Red Winter Hat
Heroic: 100% DROP!
Normal: 3% - 14% Approximate DROP!
Admiral Ripsnarl in The Deadmines: Red Winter Hat
Heroic: 100% DROP!
Normal: 3% - 14% Approximate DROP!

As always your mileage may vary as far as the NORMAL MODE drops are concerned, all in all if your REALLY want the hat, run a heroic.
There is of course always the slight less than 1% chance you can loot either of these hats off of any HUMANOID mob in the game.
Don't count on it however.

Please be mindful that Wowhead receives it's data from it's users, so the loot tables of the for-mentioned Bosses can be, and probably are inaccurate to some degree just from not many people looting the hats and uploading the data.
Also, the bosses get looted thousands of times when the holiday even is NOT going on, so if the hat appears on the loot table, the drop percentage is likely horribly inaccurate as well.

Happy Holidays!

Commento di bramleybj

High priestess in stonecore- three times on normal- all three times dropped red winter hat
go go go. (dec 17 2010)

Commento di 151654

I'd also recommend trying the runs with guildies if you can. The average wait on my server for any of the dungeons is around 30 minutes upwards.
Was even more annoying as the Alt I'm trying for the ach on is a level 80, so not fantastically geared or anything yet. Tried doing Black Rock Caverns normal with a random pug of level 82 and 83's who all majorly out dps'd me. Got to the Priestess and saw she was wearing the hat. Thought yay! Then got kicked from the group for not having high enough DPS.

So either find guildies, be well geared, or prepare to wait over half an hour between dungeons. This is so far, the Ach i hate the most.

Commento di 722614

I just solo'd Telestra as well on heroic which was pretty easy as a demo lock.

Only slightly challenging fight was against Commander Kolurg on our way 2 Telestra.

For some reason he didn't spawn in my instance and neither did any of the frozen mobs in his hallway. Anyone else have that happen? Ended up making the hat run super fast!

Commento di carrus

I will put my comment here so I can see it get down rated.

Solo'd Grand Magus Telestra on Heroic as a Frost DK last night with a gear level 322. I died a few time but was able to refine my mechanics to get the kill finally. She indeed drops the hat on Heroic Mode.

Tried using the path through the Halls of Stasis but had a difficult time with the mobs. Decided to come from The Librarium side and it made things a lot easier.

I hope this helps.

Commento di 304555

Drops off High Priestess Azil in Stonecore on normal

Commento di 736962

can anyone confirm normal mode drop on shadowfang keep or deadmines? i see different things here and there, mostly repeated confirmations that heroic drops in this dungeon and that, but i'm wondering if those of us below 85 are just wasting our time trying to get this achievement this year.

i'm still trying based on Gsusnme's info there, but i'd be helpful if someone confirmed a drop on normal mode on those lower level dungeons.

Commento di 404185

For the record, this does not drop off of Normal Ripsnarl.

Commento di 372734

I had this hat drop off a Hillsbrad Worgen while I was questing in Silverpine Forest tonight. Guess there's a small chance to get this outside of the heroic dungeons.

Commento di 428107

While leveling my DK, i got this one from a random mob in the Blasted Lands. It dropped from a Dreadmaul Mauler just right off the Altar of Storms.

Commento di 705611

I've seen it drop from the endboss in stonecore twice.

Commento di Ravij

Solo'd Grand Magus Telestra on Heroic mode as a lvl 83 Feral Tank Druid.

~Majaha lvl 83 Tauren Druid

Commento di 734612

Just thought I'd share that this drops anywhere in kalimdor. I dont know about eastern kingdoms but for me it dropped from a Twilight Geolord while farming Encrypted Texts. VERY low drop rate..

Commento di 736094

Dropped first time of Grand Magus Telestra HC, solo'ed easily as 85 Ret Paladin

Commento di NikNovi

I got it from silver rare orc Garneg Charskull in Wetlands.

I wonder if other parts of the set of winter clothing drops somewhere in Eastern Kingdoms or Kalimdor?

Commento di Hackensack

This just dropped for my lvl 47 Hunter when I was killing Dwarven Archeologists for the Crumbling Past http://www.wowhead.com/quest=25068.

Commento di helleno

so as a lvl 48 how am i supposed to get one?

Commento di 200027

Does anyone know if the Red Winter Hat drops in any post-Cataclysm BC dungeons? I have a 61 warlock and a 64 death knight that I would like to get this.

Commento di Takata

Hmm, apparently now it only seems to drop off certain boss mobs in certain instances. They made it even harder to get?

http://www.wowwiki.com/Red_Winter_Hat

Commento di 747960

I see that this is a very rare drop outside of dungeons, but does anyone know if it drops AT ALL in non-heroic dungeons?

Commento di Hackensack

I just got a Red Winter Hat Berretto di Grande Inverno Rosso from one of the Dwarven Archeologists doing this quest during winter Vale.

Commento di Funeralwolf

i got this off a random miner in a mine while in the death knight start zone

Commento di Ajin

Still drops from Gran Magus Telestra in heroic this winter for lvl85

Commento di 712374

Now with Patch 4.3 and Transmogrifying, can you transmogrify your head piece to look like these?

Wouldn't it be cool to run around in raids with your Winter Hat on?

Commento di PsychoBilli

For 2011, it looks like the Normal mode Northrend bosses no longer drop the Winter Hats. I just went through normal mode Old Kingdom and Nexus and neither Jedonga or Telestra dropped hats. I did a quick run through Heroic mode Nexus and saw that Telestra was wearing the hat, though I didn't bother to kill her.

My guess is Blizzard didn't want obtaining these hats to be too trivial. Players in 2010 experienced some challenge in getting the hats, it's only fair for the same to be true for 2011.

Edit: I just remembered that the hats didn't drop on Normal mode WotLK dungeons in 2010, but they did in 08 and 09.

Commento di Jayveel

Just dropped for me from Jedoga Shadowseeker in Heroic Ahn'kahet: The Old Kingdom. Before that, I tried it on normal but the hat didn't drop then.

Commento di 427719

I tried it this year on heroic Nexus and no drops in 2 runs. Working on 3rd run. It is no longer 100% drop rate. Thanks Bliz!

Commento di Takata

I Always HATED the fact that this only drops off in heroics if your at the max level. Its easier for lower levels to get. In Blackrock Caverns, Corla, Herald of Twilight will be wearing it on her head if she has it.

Commento di rynoski

Just to update and confirm for those achievement hunters out there as of patch 4.3 - Hat still drops off its previous bosses. Hat is ON the mob and it WILL drop. If the mob isn't wearin it - neither will you.

I'm an 85 frosty Mage - and so i ran Nexus on normal about 4 times. Cake walk really stay away from the icy guys to save time and any Mage with common sense can easily kill everyone along the way up to grand magus talestra. Nothing ever dropped though. Rate is still low for normal mode.

Switched over to Heroic mode and I Solo'd it. Was fairly easy until the 4x groups of mobs. Get your pet out CC the casters proceed to kick booty. Pop the ice barrier and ward and if you aren't Forrest Gump behind the controls you should emerge triumphant.

The more difficult of the fights is the 4x mobs inside Telestra's cone, with the Seward. Sheep a caster focus on the Seward. I popped a ring of frost so they all froze to death while trying to attack me and blizzard lance hit procs always, nova, ward, barrier etc.etc.. CC another caster if need be and viola.

The fight with Telestra was a little longer but not really harder. Burn as much dps as you can on her, pop the mirror, veins, orbs, battle pot, and use the ward and barrier every time its up. When she splits you should be able to burn all 3 down didn't even have to CC any actually - and rinse repeat. After the merge copies are killed you have a moment to band aid or evo if need be. Just be careful and watch yer health and she go poof.

On heroic she was wearing the hat and dropped it first time for me. Since some are claiming that not all heroic runs drop and we know the rate is 5% or so for normal mode we can guess that the inverse is true of the Heroic mode thus dropping 1/0.5 or 80% of the time. Anyone who is sufficiently geared for cata dungeons and knows even slightly how to run a dungeon should be able to solo this save maybe priests.

So team up or lone wolf it - head for the nexus and get yer red winter hat!

Commento di 552512

does this drop off any normal classic dungeons? looking to get on on my 10 druid!

Commento di 766812

Just picked up the red hat from Heroic Nexus. This works at 85 and is soloable.

Commento di 924148

Drop from Telestra (Heroic Nexus) confirmed. Very soloable in Bear (feral) with Heroic 5 man gear. Probably soloable in 85 quest gear.

Commento di 840267

Does anyone know the droprates on the bosses

Commento di sapristoire

For Nexus heroic runs, once you click on Gran Magus Telestra, you will know from her head icon whether the hat is available.

As previous comment has guessed, it's even soloable for undergeared lvl 85 (quest only armor) as DK.

Commento di crabbyguy

Tried four times on normal, no hat from Grand Magus Telestra. People who say it's a 100% drop rate are wrong.

Commento di 925444

As of 4.3 Grand Master Telestra still drops the Hat on Heroic mode.

Commento di 927243

Easily soloed Grand Magus Telestra - Nexus as not so well geared survival hunter, seems like it is a 100% drop, cause for me it dropped on first try too

Commento di elektroneg

also have a VERY low droprate from any humanoids in the game. http://img522.imageshack.us/img522/971/wowscrnshot122511060446.jpg - killed around 4000 of them and it dropped

Commento di kaimox

Wanted to "carry" to twinks lvl 74+76 through normal Nexus with my lvl 85 - Telestra wore the hat, but did not drop it. I will try cleaning the trash with lvl 85 and leave. Guess the twinks have to manage Telestra for themselves.
Edit: Tried again with lvl 79+79+73 - no hat on boss and no drop.

Commento di BReal85

Dropped from Telestra in HC Nexus, for 1st kill. However, in normal mode, it didn't drop. But, in normal mode, she wasn't wearing the hat while in HC he had the red hat on her. Maybe it doesn't drop from normal any more? Or it has the low drop rate (6%), and HC has a 100% drop rate... Don't know it.

Commento di 837761

I farmed it for 3 hours on my trial account, then I finally got it :D
Location: Island South-East of Ratchet.

You also get rep with booty bay and all those factions so it's a good place to farm.

Commento di 910142

By Zaquak (144 – 2) 10 days ago (Patch 4.3.0)
Just wanna tell you guys that this hat got a 100% droprate on Normal difficulty in The Nexus on (NPC #0) Grand Magus Telestra. She can easily be soloed by every class.

Just kill her... didn't drop, either you have a lucky group or you meant heroic...

Commento di Jannerette

I tried the Nexus a dozen times on normal with no luck but got the hat first time on heroic. I took a level 85 paladin to help me, we managed to get past the frozen guys without waking them. Otherwise you may need more than 2 to get through. I don't know how anyone managed to solo on heroic; even at 84 and 85 it was tough.

Commento di Kyrros

Just ran heroic Nexus today on four lvl 85 alts that were still 60-80 at this time last year.

I didn't even bother trying to run it on normal. Went all four runs on Heroic, and got a hat every time. You can see her wearing it as you approach her chamber.

In all honesty, the trash leading up to her was probably more difficult than she was - primarily for limited heal and limited CC classes.

Don't get reckless though, the first boss leading up to her is still able to fear you, and you will most likely pull the other packs - so pull/place the first boss accordingly.

Happy Winter Veil!

Commento di Ryusan

This item cannot be transmoged! Too bad, I really wanted to be festive for Christmas.

Commento di 869130

For anyone wondering where to get this as a lvl 90, just go to The Nexus. The first boss Grand Magus Telestra is lvl 82 meaning that she's green for you. She has a 100% drop chance and is the first boss in the instance. I did it as a prot paladin no problem but I think most classes can solo her.

Commento di 839765

Grand Magus Telestra in the Nexus still gives the hat after release of Pandaria.

By far the easiest way for any 90 to get one.

Commento di StuartM

As a level 89 Fury Warrior I was able to get to Gran Magus Telestra in the Nexus without killing any trash and solo'd her down before she split by blowing all cooldowns, Took about 3-4 hits and dropped the Berretto di Grande Inverno Rosso.

Commento di 723578

As of 5.1.0 Jedoga Shadowseeker in Ahn'kahet still drops the Red Winter Hat on heroic.

Commento di gathorga

For anyone wanting an easy hat without rolling against a group this still drops off Grand Magnus in the nexus this year soloed nexus as lvl 90 rogue on heroic and it dropped first time so could be 100% drop.

Commento di mezili

Confirmed for dropped from Gran Magus Telestra, in Nexus (heroic). The entrance is in the basement-level of the tower in Coldarra (Tundra Boreale). The heroic dungeon is still the 85 heroic, so it's very easy to solo. As an elemental shaman with mostly blue gear, I killed her in 4-5 hits, and she dropped the hat the first time.
Her model also showed her wearing the hat, which could be a useful indicator if you're not sure whether you'll get the hat drop or not from a boss with a lesser drop rate.

Go down the left hallway, when you enter. When you get to the ice bridge, do not get in melee range of mobs to avoid engaging. They will not unfreeze unless you go close to them. I was able to get by without any of them thawing, and I ran around the edge of the inside of the bridge (except for the beginning and end, when I ran between the mobs with the biggest gaps).

Before, I had tried running Deadmines multiple times for the drop from Ammiraglio Ghignotruce, but the Nexus run was much more efficient, as it dropped on my first run (and I had been through Deamines approximately 11 times).
This is the easiest way to get Berretto di Grande Inverno Rosso.

As a side note: you can get Sdoppiamento della personalità (if you don't have it already) if you kill her before or while she's splitting.

Commento di BSDEVat

Gran Magus Telestra dropped it at the first try, confirmed with tree chars.

Tried it before some times from Ser Godfrey without a drop of Berretto di Grande Inverno Verde

Commento di Eleca

Just dropped off of a Mago Ogre Rodifuoco by a random chance. Didn't see it on the NPC list so i thought i'd add this.

Commento di karatechop

Anyone know where this drops for level 90 instances?

Commento di 1022203

I can confirm that the Red Winter Hat still drops from Grand Magus Telestra in the Nexus even in MoP.

Commento di ShiekraTora

GOOD NEWS EVERYONE!

I just ran this on my 90 hunter and I can confirm that as of 5.1, the Berretto di Grande Inverno Rosso does drop from Gran Magus Telestra in The Nexus on Heroic. Second boss in, nice easy way to get it for those of you hunting for the Hat. :)

Happy Winter Veil everyone!

Commento di mew4ever23

Confirmed, Red hat spotted and dropped from Grand Magus Telestra in The Nexus. Ran it as a level 90 boomkin druid still on greens. Victory in less than a minute.

Commento di BubbRubb23

I received my red winter hat today from high priestess azil in the stonecore on my first try. She has the 2nd highest drop rate for this item. Good luck!

Commento di Menjina

Being Level 90:
Still drops from Ammiraglio Ghignotruce on heroic.

Commento di 1024601

Raid boss General Nazgrim is wearing this hat, atleast on LFR.
And can confirm he drops it too.

Commento di drewbster

Hat sighted in 2013 atop the bonny head of Gran Magus Telestra.

Commento di 945326

I see several posts here saying that Grand Magus Telestra drops this item in The Nexus on both normal and heroic modes.

As of today (December 16, 2013):

I killed Grand Magus Telestra on normal mode and she dropped some blue wand.

I went out of the dungeon, reset it to heroic mode, and she dropped the Red Winter Hat.

Considering the fact that there is actually a very small chance of many regular mobs out in Azeroth that drop this hat, I suspect there is also a small chance that Grand Magus Telestra may drop it on regular mode. But since this dungeon, even on heroic mode, is easily soloable at level 90, I would suggest that if you don't want to waste time, just do it on heroic.

I also remember that, in years past. bosses in dungeons that dropped the hat (of either color) were wearing the hat when you came upon them. When I got the Red Winter Hat today, Grand Magus Telestra was not wearing a hat, either red or green.

Commento di 1145392

Also dropped by General Nazgrim in Siege of Orgrimmar!

Commento di mrneko

Got one in SoO normal... in Nazgrim

Commento di thugius

Just had one drop of Generale Nazgrim in LFR

Commento di Korkol

Always sick of the people who go through and downvote everything they can. Seriously, find something better to do.

But yes, General Nazgrim can drop the hat in apparently any difficulty. I have not personally received one, but others in my guild did. It must be through the personal loot system. Yes, Nazgrim definitely marches around wearing a hat, and he is even more badass because of it.

However the easiest way to obtain this hat would be from Heroic Nexus. Grand Magus Telestra, as many others have pointed out, has a 100% drop chance on Heroic difficulty. I went around and picked it up on about 7 toons over the past couple days, it dropped each time.

Commento di Kelindre

Wow. I was quite perplexed for a while. I just ran into a level 8 Panda while leveling my Panda on the Wandering Isle. As it's BoP, i can confirm that it does drop on the Wandering Isle as there is no way in the world they could have gotten the Red Winter Hat otherwise.

Commento di 788393

Confirmed!

Grand Magus Telestra (inside The Nexus instance at Coldarra, off the coast of Borean Tundra) drops the lovely Red Winter Hat 100% of the time on Heroic mode. This is very easy to solo at lvl 90 even with my crappy gear at item lvl 454. You can head straight for her via the left wing.

Even though she looked dashing in the Christmassy Cap herself, I gladly prized it from her dead body, wiped off the blood with my festive sleeve and popped it on my head. Finally, my outfit is complete and I can bear the title of merrymaker with pride - Hurrah!

Commento di Kifojuxcy

Cannot be Transmogrified. Shame :(

Commento di 1416724

Just got this off of Jedoga Shadowseeker in Old Kingdom If anyone was wondering if the old bosses still drop it

Commento di Osskaar2

This still has a 100% drop chance from Grand Magus Telestra (Heroic).

Commento di 1564426

Just got one from a Winterfall Ursa in Winterspring.

Coordinates - 66:49

Commento di parrydox

Confirmed today that Berretto di Grande Inverno Rosso has a 100% chance to drop from Gran Magus Telestra on 5-man Heroic in Nexus.

Also confirmed today that Berretto di Grande Inverno Verde has a 100% chance to drop from Signore dei Maghi Urom on 5-man Heroic in Oculus.

Edit: In case anyone is confused, these are Dungeons, not Raids.

Commento di Atremis

In the 2015 update the Red Winter Hat is guaranteed to drop from these bosses:

Northrend:
Jedoga Shadowseeker in Ahn'kahet: The Old Kingdom
Grand Magus Telestra in The Nexus

Cataclysm:
Corla, Herald of Twilight in Blackrock Caverns
High Priestess Azil in The Stonecore
Admiral Ripsnarl in The Deadmines

Pandaria:
General Nazgrim in Siege of Orgrimmar

Draenor:
Gug'rokk in Bloodmaul Slag Mines
Commander Tharbek in Upper Blackrock Spire

Commento di Leannis

Just dropped off Death's Step Putrifier in Eastern Plaguelands (trash mobs).

Commento di cryptid420

I've ran BRC many times over the years and have never seen the hat drop until this morning. Merry Christmas

Commento di Zvezdichko

This Berretto di Grande Inverno Rosso still has a 100% drop from Nexus as of 2017

Commento di Leencah

In 2018 still The Nexus has 100% drop of Berretto di Grande Inverno Rosso

Commento di BunnyPrime

As of 2019 (8.2.5), Berretto di Grande Inverno Rosso still 100% drops from Gran Magus Telestra in Nexus on Heroic!

Commento di tjfort

indeed Grand Magus Telestra - Nexus - Red is soloable in about 5 minutes. 100% hat drop. I couldn't believe after all these years I didnt have the red hat

Commento di Mypciscraze

Hi all

On This Christmas Achievement Conciati per le feste You need to do 4 thinks:

See My Video if need it - https://youtu.be/HFXu1dtL73w

1 Find Berretto di Grande Inverno Rosso or Berretto di Grande Inverno Verde. I drop this item from Gran Magus Telestra 2nd boss in Nexus on Heroic mode.
2 Craft or buy Giacca di Grande Inverno Verde or Giacca di Grande Inverno Rossa ( they need to be green color , white will not work ). To craft need Tailoring recipe you can buy from Khole Taschepiene in SW 62 70.
3 Craft or buy Stivali di Grande Inverno ( they need to be green color , white will not work ). To craft you need Leatherworking recipe you can buy from Khole Taschepiene in SW 62 70.
4 Pasticcio Agrodolce di Graccu that can be find inside Regalo Rubato or Dono Rubato. You can by Cake from Khole Taschepiene in SW 62 70.

First put on clothes then eat cake :)

Hope that hhelp You :)

Commento di Areyanna

This is still unchanged during 2021 Winter Veil- just kill Grand Magus Telestra (Nexus) for the Red Winter Hat.
Make sure you set to HEROIC, it is not 100% (if it drops at all?) on Normal, as I did it first without remembering to set heroic and did not get it.
You can skip the first boss and one shot anything that gets in your way if you're higher level, takes about one minute once you get there just because you have to walk a little.
A Merry Winter Veil to All!

Commento di Sloppythor

Can confirm, normal mode Nexus Grand Magus Telestra is 100% drop rate for WOTLK classic :)

Commento di entropicdragon

2022 Winter Veil: This hat still drops in retail WoW from Heroic Gran Magus Telestra. Easily soloable by high levels.

Commento di TheZonk

as of 2023 Winter Veil - Heroic Grand Magus Telestra still dropping one of the Hats

Commento di EpicPants25682

Just noticed the human commoners standing outside the auction house in the trade district in Stormwind have their Red Winter hats on with their hair still down! Looks soo much better, hope we get that tmog look soon.

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