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Gearing Up in Patch 7.2
Posted
2017/03/22 at 1:48 PM
by
Serrinn
Patch 7.2 brings with it tons of new content to continue gearing your main or get that fresh alt some awesome gear to get into raiding. We have outlined here all the ways you can gear up in Patch 7.2.
Artifacts
Empowered Traits
Players with 35 traits or more traits receive a quest in Patch 7.2 to empower their artifact weapon.
There is a new Empowered set of traits plus an Infinite trait.
All of your original 3/3 traits can be expanded to 4/4.
The Artifact Power spent on the original Infinite trait is refunded. You can choose to spend that power maxing out old 4/4 traits or on the new Empowered artifact traits. The cost of traits from #37 onwards is much steeper in 7.2.
The new final trait is the 50 point trait
Concordance of the Legionfall
. This provides a 10 sec proc to your primary stat for DPS and healers, and Versatility for Tanks. Progressing through this 50 point trait provides less character power than the old 20 point trait, and purchasing the ranks is much more expensive.
Obtaining Artifact Power
The upgrades to your Artifact Weapon are made easier by the ability to obtain higher Artifact Knowledge ranks in 7.2.
Artifact Knowledge research ranks go up to 50 in Patch 7.2
; the catch-up compendiums will also go up to level 45.
There are 101 total traits in Patch 7.2. This accounts for the 50-point infinite trait, 3 point traits becoming 4 point traits, and a new Empowered set of traits.
For more information please see our post on
Artifact Weapons: What's New in Patch 7.2
Broken Shore Tokens
There are
two new types of tokens that can be transformed into gear available on the Broken Shore
:
Dauntless Tokens
and
Relinquished
Tokens.
Dauntless Tokens cost 400
Nethershard
, are blue-quality, and turn into an 850 ilvl item.
Relinquished Tokens cost 5000
Nethershard
, are epic-quality, turn into a higher quality item than Dauntless gear (even possibly a Dungeon, Raid, or PvP item), and have a very small chance to contain a legendary.
The Dauntless Tokens can also drop from mobs on the Broken Shore.
For more information, please see our post on the Nethershard Currency in Patch 7.2.
Class Order Hall Sets
In 7.2 you will be able to upgrade each piece of your Class Order Hall gear set with new armor kits
such as
Farseer's Grandiose Armor Kit
going up to ilvl 870.
These armor kits have varied sources. One is a reward from completing the introduction to the Broken Shore scenario. You can obtain others as rewards from World Quests.
You can apply these kits directly to the base Order Hall gear item, no need to do the initial upgrades.
For a full list of these items, see
here
.
Dungeons
Heroics and Cathedral of Eternal Light
Base item levels for existing dungeons are being increased across the board
, up to: 825 for Normal dungeons, 845 for Heroic, and 865 for non-key Mythic dungeons.
The Arcway
and
Court of Stars
are now queable as heroics. The new split Karazhan will also be available as a heroic.
The new dungeon,
Cathedral of Eternal Night
also follows these item levels for its two difficulties.
Some gear highlights from the new dungeon include: a Relic of each type and three new trinkets:
Splinters of Agronox
,
Fel-Oiled Infernal Machine
,
Dreadstone of Endless Shadows
For more information, please see our
Cathedral of Eternal Night Dungeon Preview
.
Mythic +
Mythic + Karazhan (Upper and Lower) are being introduced so your weekly cache can now contain Kara items.
When the Tomb of Sargeras raid is released, it is likely that items in your weekly Mythic + cache will have a higher base item level, as happened when Nighthold was released.
Legendaries
The ilvl cap for legendaries remains at 940 but there have been 4 new crafted legendaries added and big changes to existing legendaries.
These are the 4 new crafted legendaries
:
Celumbra, the Night's Dichotomy
,
The Sentinel's Eternal Refuge
,
Vigilance Perch
,
Rethu's Incessant Courage
.
These Legendaries are Bind on Equip, and can be sold or traded.
For detailed crafting information on these legendaries please see our
7.2 Professions Post
.
Many existing legendaries are being reworked to be more appealing.
Highlights include the changes to
Sephuz's Secret
:
Now always grants 10% increased movement speed and 2% Haste.
When triggered, this bonus is increased to the current values of 70% movement speed and 25% Haste.
Movement speed bonuses now stack with other movement speed bonuses.
Players can also target legendaries for a specific armor slot via the Reliquished Armor tokens.
For the large, exhaustive list of changes to many legendaries,
please click here
.
Professions
To make it easier to get into crafting and to upgrade already crafted items, some Obliterum changes are coming:
The Obliterum Forge no longer requires an elaborate questline
- the Forge is already unlocked and you can start obliterating things. You can pick up the quest
Firing Up the Forge
in Dalaran as a mini-tutorial to earn 100
Obliterum Ash
, but that's all that remains of the old questline.
The item levels associated with crafted gear and Obliterum have also shifted.
In Patch 7.2, crafted gear will start at ilvl 835 and go up to 875
with
Obliterum
.
For detailed crafting information on 7.2 Profession Changes please see our
7.2 Professions Post
.
PvP Gear
With new PvP seasons and a new patch comes new PvP gear.
This patch will introduce
Cruel Gladiator gear
.
Bonus Rolls will be coming
to the rated weekly quest.
PvP Gear Crafting/Target ting:
There is a new type of quest related to the Forge:
To the Forge It Goes...
. This is part of an in-development system to allow players to turn in several pieces of unwanted PvP gear for a piece they'd prefer in the form of a token. It looks like turning in items will reward either
Echoes of Domination
or
Echoes of Battle
, which are then used to purchase specific Legion PvP pieces. This was referred to as targeting the PvP gear you want in the
Brian Holinka PvP Q&A
. These tokens can turn into gear that is Warforged, Titanforged, have tertiary stats, and gem slots.
Raids
There will not be a raid open at the launch of 7.2 but
Tomb of Sargeras
will be opening at some point during that patch.
Base item level range for
Tomb of Sargeras
will be from 870-880 for Raid Finder, 885-895 for Normal, 900-910 for Heroic, and 915-925 for Mythic.
Some interesting items from
Tomb of Sargeras
include:
Infernal Cinders
,
Charm of the Rising Tide
,
Chalice of Moonlight
, and
Shifting Cosmic Sliver
.
World Bosses
Patch 7.2 brings four new world bosses
:
Brutallus
,
Apocron
,
Malificus
, and
Si'vash
.
These world bosses will drop ilvl 890 gear.
World Bosses on the Broken Shore are only available when the Nether Disruptor World Building is complete and not under attack.
World Quests
World Quest base item level has been scaled up to 855.
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Comment by
iriika
on 2017-04-01T22:45:44-05:00
What about Timewalking gear? I believe it's at 830 now. If it's not being bumped up any, TW will become useless. Currently it's how I get a fresh 110 up to speed
When I logged in on patch Tuesdsay, all the timewalking gear I had on toons that had been 830 had been bumped up to 850. Sadly my warforged 845 items from the same dungeons did not change =P
Comment by
Ceece
on 2017-06-07T09:35:55-05:00
pls delete the ptr in the links!
Comment by
blackhawkx
on 2017-06-30T22:40:04-05:00
These armor kits have varied sources. One is a reward from completing the introduction to the Broken Shore scenario.
Head's up. This is false. I was banking on this and did not receive it. Opened a ticket and apparently these are only from wq's
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