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[[Image:rhok.PNG|frame|The bow part of the reward to the [[hunter]] class quest.]]
[[Image:lok.PNG|frame|The staff part of the reward to the [[hunter]] class quest.]]
'''Rhok'delar''' and '''Lok'delar, Stave of the Ancient Keepers''' were [[Hunter]] only bow and staff rewarded for completing a challenging quest started by the Ancient Petrified Leaf, which was a drop out of Majordomo Executus' chest in the Molten Core.  The weapons were very prolific in the early [[MC]]/[[BWL]] days but most raiding [[Hunter]]s would replace '''Rhok''' with one of the weapons in [[BWL]], the Gun from Ebonroc or the Crossbow from Chromaggus.  The bow really stood out for it's cool "living" style model and the staff was commonly seen on [[Hunter]]s for the entire duration of [[Vanilla]] raiding as it was a good stat stick that [[Hunter]]s didn't have to fight melee dps over.  
==Source==
To acquire '''Rhok'delar''' and the accompanying ''' Lok'delar''' the [[Hunter]] would first need to obtain the Ancient petrified Leaf out of Domo's chest in [[MC]].  This quest starter had a 50% chance to drop, the other 50% of the time was the [[Benediction|Eye of Divinity]] for the [[Priest]] quest line.  

Once the [[Hunter]] had their Leaf, they had to go to Felwood and talk to the petrified trees.  The trees would give the [[Hunter]] a quiver in exchange for a Mature Blue Dragon Sinew which was a 100% drop off of [[Azuregos]] or could be farmed as a rare drop from the blue dragonkin in Azshara.  Also the trees would tell the [[Hunter]] to go kill 4 demons around the world.  Sounds simple enough, but this was no easy task.  These demons had a fairly long respawn time and would despawn if more than one target was attacking them.  This included other [[Hunter]]s/players and even the [[Hunter]]'s own pet.  So the [[Hunter]] had to kite and kite well.  If the demons made it to the [[Hunter]] it was almost a certain one-shot kill.  

[[Image:leaf.PNG|frame|The quest starter.]]Many [[Hunter]]s, who were regularly some of the shittiest players in the game, just couldn't do it.  Some had other players do the demons for them.  [[Ahazi]] asked [[Drewbie]] to do the quest for him because he was so shit.  [[Drewbie]] didn't even main a [[Hunter]] but made short work of the quest demons because he wasn't total [[Shitty players|shit]].  Other players just gave up entirely and waited to be carried through new content that would just drop a weapon they could equip without going through quests to get.  

After the 4 demons were defeated, the [[Hunter]] needed to kill [[Onyxia]] for the Enchanted Black Dragon Sinew.  The [[Hunter]] could then combine the Sinew with the quest staff they had received for killing the demons to create '''Rhok'delar, Longbow of the Ancient Keepers.
==Lok'delar, Stave of the Ancient Keepers==
Originally, the [[Hunter]] could only use either the '''Rhok'delar''' or the '''Lok'delar''' because they were transform items, similar to the [[Benediction|Benediction/Anathema]].  Many would use '''Rhok''' as their primary weapon until they got a weapon from [[BWL]] and then switch the quest bow to '''Lok'delar''' as it was a quality [[Hunter]] stat stick.  However, on October 10, 2005, the 1.8 patch made it so that the [[Hunter]] could have both the bow and the staff and took away the ability to transform them, much to the joy of [[Hunter]]s everywhere.  
==Legacy==
With the 4.0 [[Cata]] pre-patch the old world of Azeroth (Kalimdor and EK) were remade.  A side effect of this was that the areas in which the quest for slaying the demons were changed/removed.  This meant that the quest could no longer be completed.  Because of this the Ancient Petrified Leaf was removed from Domo's cache in [[MC]].  Any [[Hunter]] who had not already obtained their '''Rhok'delar''' by the end of [[Wrath]] was now SOL.  The '''Rhok'delar''' and '''Lok'delar''' became very popular [[transmog]] targets for [[Hunter]]s after the system was introduced in late [[Cata]].  One of the [[Challenge Mode]] rewards in [[WoD]] was a higher res "living bow", presumably paying homage to the '''Rhok'delar'''.