So I am brand new to the game. Like a month. Been playing MMORPG’s for 20 years so I am pretty good at figuring stuff out… but this mask and visions thing is totally confusing me. Is there a SLOW English speaking video that explains visions? I did get the cloak, but that was pretty much brainless. I don’t understand what I do now for different levels of the cloak… and what are Masks? I keep seeing people saying masks when they mention visions. Is there like a linear basic explanation of visions? I have been to all the usual sites wowhead etc… and I just get more confused. I need to understand it from the beginning I think. Dumb it down to my level
Also, what are the purposes of dailies other than rep/gold and occasional upgrade pieces? Do they feed into a different story or are required for anything?
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Hopefully I can explain this well enough for you so you don’t need to watch a video.
You need 10k coalescing visions to enter a horrific vision and you can get them from dailies in Uldum and Vale of Eternal Blossoms. You can also get them from the weekly assaults you had to do in the legendary cloak questline.
Don’t worry about masks you get them for full clearing visions.
You upgrade your cloak via a quest from Wrathion. He gives you a quest to go into a vision and complete one objective. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pt3i7kdaB0Q
Thats the method guide mentioned by the person above me.
The best way to gear right now is Mythic+ dungeons. They are a system where you go into a Mythic dungeon and get a key to another dungeon that makes it slightly harder but reward better gear. At certain points the dungeon is affected by modifiers as well.
You can upgrade your armor and weapons by doing emissaries, mythics, visions, mythic+, assaults, raiding both LFR and above, capping 500 conquest a week, arena matches, BGs, etc. You upgrade your cloak by completing quests given to you by Wrathion.
The mask runs to my limited understanding increase the difficulty. I too am new to this vision thing. I only just got my first cloak this weekend because I don’t like my guys looking like shadow priests.
Masks are basically ways to augment the run to be harder (with varying difficulties by mask, and per mask) with higher rewards at the end.
Completing a 5-mask, for example, as your first run of the week, nets you a nutty amount of momentos, and gives you a random 470 piece, which will always corrupt.
The reward will diminish the more you complete a run, so make your first one your best one.
Dailies are just a vehicle for reputation, sometimes currency depending on type of dailies, and content. They do feed into the story sometimes in some grand fashion, like in MoP, the bronze dragon you were feeding all these timewarped coins to ended up using them to free Garrosh and jump into past Draenor.
This is a bad time to start IMO, there’s a lot systems this expansion (heart of azeroth, azerite gears, essences, cloak and corruptions), take your time to learn, don’t rush it.
As for horrific visions my advice is to follow the guide, focus on getting your cloak upgrades first and don’t worry about those colored potions, candles, masks, you’ll get to it on higher cloak level.
I can’t copy the important part because editing on phone is annoying and when I copy the part my phone auto include those anchor links and the forum doesn’t allow me to post URLs, but read the part with the title “Legendary Cloak Upgrading - How to Not Fail Upgrading Your Cloak”
Agree completely, I was a little overzealous in pushing myself at a low cloak level. Ended up failing a couple of runs because I ran out of sanity and missed cloak upgrades because of it.
Just another example. No freaking clue what those are and never even heard of them until this post. Sheesh. Very overwhelming.
Lol. This was actually going to be my next post after I figured out visions. No real idea what my necklace does. I get the armor stuff and selecting the bonuses, sorta, but the neck piece is completely confusing and can’t find any videos like walking through it at a normal level heh.
Your neck is the thing that allows you to use your helmet, shoulder, and chest powers.
It also, once you do the questline (Nazjatar) for it, gives you access to essences (right click it like a piece of armor) and all the fun things inside.
Your essences will become stronger the higher the neck is, up to level 85, in which case it’ll only give pure stat bonuses from then on. icyveins.com or method.gg are a pretty good place to start if you want to maximize your gains with them, but I wouldn’t worry about it until you feel you need to min/max.
Sanity is the resource you get to use while in Visions. Initially when you have a new low rank cloak you have little resistance and your Sanity will drain faster. The more you progress through ranks the easier it will become as you retain your Sanity and can spend longer in the Visions.
Eventually you will be able to kill all 4 of the side bosses and the end boss for a full clear, which means you kill those bosses, you do not have to kill all the mobs.
When you complete a full clear you will start get rewarded Masks, up to 5, that increase the difficulty of the Visions from reducing your Sanity to adding various mechanics you have to deal with.
When you full clear with 5 Masks you will get rewarded with 470 corrupted loot.
You also get a currency called Momentos that you can use to buy extra talents used only in Visions, the console is in the Chamber of the Heart and is activated by Mother initially.
Yeah, WoW right now is not at all friendly to new folks, way too many systems.
That being said, a simple answer on masks: when you finally manage to do a Horrific Vision and kill all five bosses (SW week is Deepforge, Shaw, Inquisitor and Umbric, then Alleria) before your sanity runs out, you are given a ‘mask’, placed on one of the pedestals in the warm-up room with Wrathion before a Vision. You can activate it to make your run a bit harder, and completing a full run with it active will grant more, eventually also increasing the item level of the gear you’ll get at the end from the boss’ chest.
It’s just a way to bump up the difficulty once all of your research is done and you can easily stomp a vision.
I’m thinking of coming back after a hiatus. Is there a recommendation whether doing visions solo or in a group is more effective? Does class change the answer to that question? I have a mage and a Paladin. Thanks!
The various potions give you buffs except for one, there is an NPC in each Vision that has a potion lying next to them, the color of that potion will tell you which one not to use.
The crystals give extra Momentos which you collect and then hand into an NPC near the final boss before you head into the room and kill them, and they will drop a chest with the extra currency in.
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