Emissary Scaling

[Sorelai-wyrmrest-accord (Sorelai)]

Not sure why people keep linking speculation topics on a third-party site. That is right, the topics on wowhead are speculation and guesses based on things they datamined. During PTR, things are changed and these guesses aren’t always updated. Also Blizzard does try to keep information hidden and will change things at the last moment so they can’t be datamined. Who knows, maybe people will get lucky and get a 425 Titanforge from a Warfront or lower level Raid.

Here is the topic you should refer to when you’re discussing the scaling in 8.1.0 -

What's Changing (and Not!) in Season 2

Hi all, We have a series of blogs accompanying the release of the upcoming Battle of Dazar’alor raid, the new Mythic Keystone season, and the new PvP season, offering deep dives into each of those features. But in the meantime, the community clearly has a ton of questions (and some confusion) about exactly what is and isn’t changing. Should you be spending or saving your bonus rolls? What should you expect from the weekly Mythic Keystone cache next week? What’s up with the Azerite vendor? For …

I don’t really expect any changes to happen to this until 8.1.5 is released. There is no need for a catch-up mechanism for Heroic raiding now. You can start this with the mixture of 400 and 385 ilevel gear already available to everyone.