Get Parson's Ornamented Blade

Parson's Ornamented Blade is an epic-quality one-handed dagger from the The War Within expansion. It is a short blade with a broad curved edge and a massive engraved guard: the hilt and pommel are done in a dark bronze-and-stone tone, while the blade itself gleams with a muted steel sheen and a golden trim along the spine. The model belongs to the Earthen weapon series — a stern, "carved from stone" silhouette without flashy glow or effects.

The dagger occupies the one-handed weapon slot and suits every specialization that wields daggers: rogues, druids, mages, warlocks, priests, shamans and demon hunters. The appearance stays the same whether you equip it in the main hand or the off hand, so a single drop makes it easy to build a symmetrical pair.

The item's value lies precisely in its transmog. By item level it has long been irrelevant as a combat weapon, but its restrained stone-and-bronze palette fits neatly into the "earthen" and siege-themed looks of The War Within.

The dagger drops in the The Dawnbreaker dungeon — the flying Arathi flagship above Mereldar, added in The War Within.

• It drops from Anub'ikkaj — the dungeon's second boss. This is an elite humanoid, one of Queen Ansurek's tacticians.
• The boss stands on the streets of the captured city at roughly /way 34.4 49.5 along the dungeon route — after defeating Speaker Shadowcrown and dragonriding down below.
• The drop chance per Wowhead is around 0.38%, so getting the dagger in a single run is rare.
• The dungeon is available on Normal, Heroic, Mythic and Mythic+ difficulties. The dagger can drop on any of them, so the fastest available mode works fine for transmog.
• There is no cap on attempts: you can rerun the dungeon as many times as you like, and loot resets with each new run.

In Season 3 of The War Within, The Dawnbreaker is in the Mythic+ rotation, so the dungeon is easy to find through Group Finder both for random Heroics and for keys.

Parson's Ornamented Blade has no publicly available list of exact recolors with confirmed identifiers, so below are silhouette pointers rather than direct links to model copies.

• The dagger is part of the The War Within Earthen weapon family — this model has variants in other color tones that drop from the expansion's dungeons. Pin down the exact items through the Wowhead dressing room using the dagger filter.
• If you want a similar "stone" silhouette without gold, daggers from the early The War Within dungeons in a cooler gray-blue palette will do.
• For contrast against this blade, daggers with a pronounced glow look great — for example, pieces from Mythic+ of the same season.

The easiest way to match a pair is right in the dressing room: open the item page, turn on try-on mode and compare with other daggers on your character.

• It fits the "earthen" and siege sets of The War Within — the bronze-and-stone trim echoes the armor of the Earthen and the Arathi.
• It harmonizes with dark leather and mail sets in a brown-and-gold range: the blade does not steal attention and works as a tidy accent.
• It is great for "mercenary" and "ranger" looks — without magical glow, it reads as a practical working weapon rather than an artifact.
• It looks striking against the bright cloth sets of mages and warlocks: a debatable but expressive pairing of warm metal and rich robe colors.
• It is convenient for dual-wielding rogues — the same model in both hands gives a tidy, symmetrical silhouette.