The Nazmir assault is giving an Azerite cache to Horde, and even the 370 gear only has 4 traits. So that’s interesting…
That’s because it’s an assault piece and not an emissary piece.
All epic Azerite armor of item level 370 or higher, obtained from Battle of Dazar’alor, world quest emissaries, Season 2 dungeons, or Season 2 PvP, will have a fifth outer ring with additional spec-specific traits.
This outer ring only requires a Heart level of 15 to access.
No, it should scale. I think you have to be over 380ilvl for my shaman has a 385 azerite chest piece. Let me check for incursion…
Definitely not, my dude. I’m 382 in bags and I still got a 370, but a guildie that saved their azerite armor emissary that was only 380 got a 385 from their emissary
No, not unless it works on a different scale than Emissaries. The Emissary I had saved instantly jumped up to 385 when the patch went live and the Assault I did several hours later was still 370. Assaults weren’t mentioned in any official announcement discussing scaling content, that was an assumption on the part of the community.
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It did mention assaults on Wowhead, some clarification now would be nice.
I’m thinking that was just them kind of assuming since it would basically be the same content as doing an emissary.
My favorite thing about it is Blizz just added these incursions in 8.1, and a month later made them almost completely pointless to do
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Yeah I could have sworn I read it somewhere that assaults were going to scale up, but everything I read yesterday and today doesn’t mention them.
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I’m thinking that was just them kind of assuming since it would basically be the same content as doing an emissary.
My favorite thing about it is Blizz just added these incursions in 8.1, and a month later made them almost completely pointless to do
Yeah, notes I’m finding on official page versus everywhere else is different which is stupid.
Knowing this expansion it might as well be a bug. I was hoping for the new azerite 5th pieces more than anything.
Guess not though.
Doubt it’s a bug. If anything, it’s just Blizzard “forgetting” to change something in the coding again and they’ll hotfix it in 2 days when more people catch on and call them out on it.
Yeah, tell me how to play. Would you like to pay my sub too? Shut up.
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Wowhead may have assumed. This says nothing about assaults.
Overall
The maximum possible item level will go up by 30, from 395 to 425.
Warfronts
Arathi/Stromgarde rewards will remain as they were previously.
Darkshore rewards will go up by 15 item levels, so that the outdoor world boss and the once-per-cycle quest both award item-level 400 gear.
The power of all enemies in the Darkshore Warfront will also go up by roughly 15%, and the item level required to queue for Darkshore will go up from 320 to 335.
Special note: The two Darkshore changes will only take effect after the current Warfront cycle has ended. So if Alliance is attacking Darkshore in a given region when Season 2 begins, and has 3 days left in that attack cycle, that Darkshore will still give Season 1 rewards.
This is being done to avoid any unfairness to people who had already completed the Warfront or done the world boss just prior to the season rollover.
Kul Tiras and Zandalar World Content
Emissary weapon and armor rewards will scale up to 385 (based on a player’s own item level), up from 370.
The loot from Kul Tiras and Zandalar world bosses will remain item level 355, on par with Normal Uldir.
The rewards for in-progress emissary quests may reroll or update when Season 2 begins, though the quests themselves won’t reset or change.
Dungeons
The item level of rewards from max-level Normal, Heroic, and Mythic dungeons will go up by 30. Baseline rewards will be 340 from Normal, 355 from Heroic, and 370 from non-Keystone Mythic.
Difficulty of Heroic and Mythic dungeons will also go up by roughly 30%; Normal dungeons are unchanged.
Mythic Keystones will go down by an additional 3 levels when the season transition occurs, to account for this difficulty increase. So if you do an 11 this coming week, instead of getting a Level 10 keystone when Season 2 starts, expect a 7.
Mythic+ rewards will also go up by 30 item levels; however, during the first week of Season 2, rewards from end-of-run chests will be capped at Mythic 6 quality (item level 385), and the chest you open next week will contain Season 1 rewards if you do a Mythic+ run this week. (So, for example, if you do a Mythic 10 during the final week of Season 1, you’ll get a Season 1 item level 380 piece and 60 Residuum from your first Season 2 chest.)
The weekly cache that becomes available in the second week of the season will not be affected by this cap, so if a player does a Mythic 10 dungeon during the first week, they will get a Mythic 10 reward (item level 410+) from their cache the following week.
PvP
Season 2 rewards from rated PvP sources are 30 item levels higher than they were in Season 1, including Conquest rewards and the weekly chest.
End-of-match rewards will be capped at 385 during the first week of the season, to maintain parity with other endgame systems until Mythic Battle of Dazar’alor becomes available.
Azerite Armor
All epic Azerite armor of item level 370 or higher, obtained from Battle of Dazar’alor, world quest emissaries, Season 2 dungeons, or Season 2 PvP, will have a fifth outer ring with additional spec-specific traits.
This outer ring only requires a Heart level of 15 to access.
Titan Residuum is not reset or capped between seasons.
The Residuum vendor will offer item level 385, 400, and 415 pieces for sale in Season 2.
A random item-level 385 token costs 165 (as it does today)
A random 400 costs 675
A random 415 costs 1725
A specific item-level 415 armor piece costs 7150
Just as Residuum costs roughly triple with each 15-ilvl tier, so will rewards:
Disenchanting an item level 400 Azerite piece yields 115 Residuum
Disenchanting an item level 415 Azerite piece yields 365 Residuum
A weekly cache for a Mythic 4 in Season 2 awards roughly the same 60 Residuum that a Mythic 10 did in Season 1; a Mythic 10 in Season 2 will award ~625 Residuum
Heart of Azeroth
Artifact “Knowledge” will resume accruing as soon as Season 2 begins, increasing the effect of AP earned by 30%.
That will be the first of ten increments. Knowledge will again pause after the week of March 26th.
Note that the Heart of Azeroth currently has a maximum level of 50. This cap will increase in the Rise of Azshara update, along with significant changes to the underlying system.
Miscellaneous
Seals of Wartorn Fate are not being reset, and the same currency will work for Battle of Dazar’alor and Season 2 bonus rolls; the cap on how many can be held at once remains at 5.
If anything remains unclear or seems to be missing from the above, please let us know and we’ll try to clarify as soon as possible.
Uh… calm down there, sir. He was offering another reason to do them. Which is a good point. Medals have value. No reason to flip out on him and get all insulting.
Legion assaults never scaled. BfA assaults remain as an avenue for leveling alts so they aren’t completely useless.
There’s profit in ambiguity.
Didn’t they mega-nerf the XP you get compared to Legion assaults though?
They are still worth doing for the 395 ring after that its forges might happen or forget them 100% after oh and if your going for the mounts forget those existed.
We are talking about item level, not xp.
I thought the same thing…I thought they were supposes to go up to 385…Bellular even says in his Season 2 gearing up guide…at 2:00 in to the video he mentions it…
I just want that stupid currency for more pets/mounts/toys.
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