World of Warcraft Item Report: The Ancient Keystone Grimoire vs. the Book of the Dead

The Ancient Cornerstone Grimoire is an upgrade to the item called Book of the Dead. The two elements are improvised elements. You can find Ancient Cornerstone Grimoire in Onyxia (a dropdown item). Onyxia is the current broodmother of the Flight of the Black Dragon on Azeroth, and resides in Onyxia’s Lair. This is a 40-man instance raid. The Book of the Dead falls from Balnazzar in Stratholme. This is a 55-60 dungeon in Eastern Plaguelands, so you can do it solo if you have 70 levels or more.

The Ancient Cornerstone Grimoire will give you 10 Stamina, 15 Intellect, and 11 Spirit. The Book of the Dead will give you 8 Stamina, 15 Intellect, and 10 Spirit. The book and grimoire have a 15 minute cooldown in use to summon a 60 second skeleton, which will fight for you. The skeleton itself is quite strong and will do good damage, it will also take away the agro.

The skeleton summons of the Book of the Dead and the Ancient Cornerstone Grimoire are the same. So the only advantage of the grimoire is the additional resistance of 2 and 1 spirit. With that said, you will also need to know that while the book has a drop rate of only 2%, the grimoire has a drop rate of 20%. If you are 80 years old and have one or two friends, you can do it for the grimoire, but if you are low level and just want to do it alone, you can go for the book and get the same (almost) item with less effort on your part.

The two items come together when picked up, so if you want to get them and can’t do it yourself, you can always pay someone to help you and agree to deliver it. A fair price will be 200 to 300 gold if it goes down.

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