Did you know they are actually red items in WoW called Artifacts? If you didn't then don't worry, Blizzard put the functionality in there, but there aren't actually any such items.

What is the purpose of white items in World of Warcraft. Here's the blue response... and it probably enlightens a lot of people - including me!

White items are generally used as an inexpensive way of working up a weapon skill by some players since the dps is lower than a higher quality item. So, you can whack on a mob for longer and get more skill out if it than ripping through all the mobs in an area with a blue or purple item.

Some people like to buy some of the merchant items just to have them for flavor too.

There is a method to the madness for item quality and what is referred to as an item budget. Better quality items have a higher budget so often have a few more stat points available to them.

As far as internal balance testing goes, it depends on what the QA team is testing for. Generally we're looking at what we think players should be using or have available to them for a particular encounter or what we want the difficulty level of an encounter to be with certain itemization available. 

Thottbot have made some changes to how they score items in World of Warcraft:

All items now have a score value.  Score is essentially the sum of all stats on an item.  If an item has 20 strength and 20 intellect, by default it has a score of 40.  Some stats of course are more valuable than others, for example Blizzard considers 2 attack power to be equivalent to 1 strength for item value, so Thottbot does too. 

Odds are, whatever class you're playing doesn't like every stat in the game equally, so you can freely customize your score values.  There's even a forum, for finding and discussing the perfect formula for your specific spec, role and playstyle (PvE, PvP, etc.).

Once your formula is set, finding items you want in a zone gets a whole lot easier.

If there was one item you would never sell, no matter how useless it was, what would it be?

Lots of different items on the PTR have just received buff. The list of items includes:

• Arena Gear
• PvP Honor rewards
• Lower City Rewards
• Kazzak and Doomwalker items

I am sure this has confused us all at least once or twice. You are doing a quest, collecting items, and then you run out of time, or space or something. So you need to abandon the quest, get it again, and then you should still have the items that you got so far right? Wrong...

With limited bank storage, many players were finding themselves with extra items that they didn't know what to do with. Usually these items were things collected from quests that had been abandoned and long since forgotten about. To help with both the storage issue of having too many items saved away and to help with clearing the clutter many players were being left with, items that are collected as a part of a quest are usually deleted when the quest is dropped.

We've all been there, you need to get X amount of an item from a certain mob and it just doesn't drop, so you sit there spending hours and hours to get like 10 of the things! Why!? Drysc responds:

Item drops are generally a challenge based on time investment. They're not technically unique to MMO's, but definitely a staple of the genre. If you're looking for rationale on "why doesn't every snake have an eyeball?", make up whatever you like (the idea that they must be undamaged is a pretty good one), but the only purpose is to provide a challenge based on an influenced probability reliant on time investment.

You probably just wanted to complain without an explanation though, huh? Sorry.