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Artifact Weapons: What's New in Patch 7.2
There have been many updates to artifact weapons since we last previewed them on the 7.2 PTR, including Infinite Traits, new Artifact costs, and more! Here's our updated rundown of what's coming for Artifacts in the patch, plus a video previewing one of the new Empowered Artifact questlines:
7.2 PTR Build 23623 Artifact Knowledge Scaling, Infinite Artifact Traits, New Emissary Cache Mounts
It's time for the weekly 7.2 PTR build; here are the data changes from today's update. Big artifact updates, some mounts from Paragon reputation satchels, Relinquished items that can reward legendaries and more. Blizzard clarified infinite artifact traits, relinquished items, and more, which we've rounded up
in this other post
.
Artifact Knowledge from 26-40
has been rebalanced
and grants much more Artifact Power for rank than previously in the PTR.
More details on the "Infinite" final Artifact Traits were revealed: there are 50 ranks, which increase your primary stat via the proc
Concordance of the Legionfall
.
New
Relinquished items
create a Broken Isles item appropriate for your Loot Specialization. There is also a chance it may contain a
Legendary Item
. Is this one of the ways to target the legendary you want in 7.2?
Legendaries require level 101
in the latest build; not sure if intended. Several legendaries have also received updated procs including the 7.2 Blacksmithing Legendary
Rethu's Incessant Courage
.
More
raid testing is on the way
for four Tomb of Sargeras bosses.
Each
Emissary Cache
will have a mount drop from it. This version of the Emissary Cache is from the Paragon version of the reward - a special "Exalted Plus" tier coming in 7.2. You get these caches on the PTR for every 20,000 rep past exalted and collecting 10 of these rewards
Paragon of the Broken Isles
. We do not know if the mount is guaranteed to be in a cache yet.
Highmountain Elderhorn
-
Highmountain Supplies
from
Supplies From Highmountain
Valarjar Stormwing
-
Valarjar Strongbox
from
Supplies From the Valarjar
Cloudwing Hippogryph
-
Farondis Chest
from
Supplies From the Court
Wild Dreamrunner
-
Dreamweaver Cache
from
Supplies From the Dreamweavers
Leywoven Flying Carpet
-
Nightfallen Cache
from
Supplies From the Nightfallen
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