Martin Thunder

Martin Thunder is an weapon which can rarely be linkable on certain realms. Quite uniquely, it has no weapon type so it can be wielded by any class. Given its description, the weapon is likely a weapon used by Blizzard for testing purposes. It is not accessible to regular players and has only appeared wielded by Game Masters in screenshots.

Its graphic is almost exactly like that of the from a Stratholme quest line, but has some blue on the hilt.

Since Patch 3.3, the item is now called Martin's Broken Staff and has had its attributes changed. This page still exists for historical purposes.

In April, 2009, Martin Thunder was accidentally mailed to a player in the guild The Marvel Family on the server Vek'nilash (US) as part of restoring the player's account, which had previously been hacked. Instead of being a weapon, Matrin Thunder did however come in the form of a shirt. In addition, it also had 100 charges. The player and the guild leader Karatechop, whom the player told about his new item to, believed the item had been purposefully sent to them as it came from Blizzard Entertainment. Karatechop and his guild then used it 14 times to one-shot raid bosses, mostly in Ulduar but also in Eye of Eternity. The rapid progress was claimed to have given them some "world firsts", even though it wasn't their intention to do so. The guild's usage of Martin Thunder was eventually discovered by Blizzard Entertainment who chose to ban every guild member - regardless of whether the individual player had been participating in the raids or not. Some of them were not even aware that a guild member possessed Martin Thunder. Most (if not all) of the players considered this to be a rather impolite and a poor solution from Blizzard Entertainment's side, given how they - as mentioned - believed Blizzard Entertainment knowingly had sent them the item. Karatechop personally considered quitting World of Warcraft and try "something else" instead.

WoW Insider, which documented the story, later got to interview Karatechop about it, revealing some of this information.