Patch 7.2 - The Broken Shore

Assault on Broken Shore
Unlocking the Broken Shore zone requires completing a quest chain and scenario.

• Khadgar will have a new quest for you, sending you to the Broken Shore to fight the new Legion presence.
• This quest sends you into the Assault on Broken Shore scenario, where you head down to the Broken Shore, fighting your way through the Legion presence on the beach, island, and up to their ships.
• Familiar faces such as Velen and Illidan will fight alongside you.
• Completing the scenario unlocks the outdoor Broken Shore area and rewards 50 x Legionfall War Supplies.

The Broken Shore

• A flight path is available that is connected to Dalaran.
• When the Mage Tower building is active, portals to Broken Isles zones will be available.
• On the Broken Shore, you can complete your Class Hall Campaign, unlocking a new follower as well as your class-specific flying mount.
• New armor kits are available as quest rewards allowing you to upgrade Class Hall set pieces to 870 item level.
• Two new currencies have been added: Nethershards and Legionfall War Supplies.
• A new faction was added: Armies of Legionfall.
• Throughout the zone, you'll find assorted shrines and plants that grant temporary buffs.

New Enemies

• Rare Elites will be marked on the World Map with a demonic skull icon.
  
  • Examples: Doombringer Zar’thoz, Dreadblade Annihilator, Felbringer Xar’thok, Inquisitor Chillbane, Lord Hel’Nurath
  • Rare Elites will drop Broken Shore currencies and may drop rare items (ex., Shadowy Reins of the Accursed Dreadsteed (Warlock only) from Lord Hel’Nurath)
• Elite demonic lieutenants can be spawned using Epic quality Sentinax Beacons. Demonic lieutenants will also drop currencies.
• New World Bosses become available when the Nether Disruptor building is active: Apocron, Brutallus, Malificus, Si'vash.
  
  • Broken Shore World Bosses drop base 900 item level loot.

Nethershards and the Armies of Legionfall

• Nethershards are used to purchase items from Warmage Kath’leen.
• Reputation with Armies of Legionfall will primarily be earned through questing on the Broken Shore and completing Legion Assaults.
• Some, but not all, of her items have specific reputation requirements:
  
  • At Honored reputation:
    
    • Cauterizing Void Shard - 5,000 x Nethershards
    • Legionfall Banner - 4,000 x Nethershards
  • At Revered reputation:
    
    • Legion Pocket Portal - 7,500 x Nethershards
    • Repurposed Fel Focuser - 7,500 Nethershards
  • At Exalted reputation:
    
    • Legion Invasion Simulator - 25,000 x Nethershards
    • Legionfall Tabard - 10,000 x Nethershards
  • No reputation requirement:
    
    • Technique: Glyph of Blood Grip - 200 x Nethershards
    • Technique: Glyph of Frost Grip - 200 x Nethershards
    • Technique: Glyph of Wrathguard - 500 x Nethershards
    • Arsenal: Armaments of the Ebon Blade (Death Knight only) - 1,000 x Nethershards
    • Arsenal: Armaments of the Silver Hand (Paladin only) - 1,000 x Nethershards
    • Nethershard Essence (for crafting Legendary Armor) - 8,000 x Nethershards
    • Dauntless tokens - 400 x Nethershards
• New Sentinax Beacons allow you to spawn and empower demonic portals to fight waves of mobs, providing a great way to farm Nethershards.
• Nethershards can also be used to purchase Relinquished tokens from Thaumaturge Vashreen at a cost of 5,000 x Nethershards each.
• When the Nether Disruptor building is active, the zone-wide Netherstorm buff will increase the drop rate of Nethershards.

Dauntless and Relinquished Tokens

• Dauntless tokens can be purchased for all armor slots. Simply use the token to create an item for your specializations.
• The minimum item level of Dauntless items is 850. These items have a chance to be Warforged, Titanforged, etc.
• Dauntless tokens can also be looted from mobs and containers (Curious Wyrmtongue Cache, Legionfall Recompense, etc.) in the Broken Shore.
• The more expensive Relinquished tokens will create a higher quality, higher item level item than Dauntless.
• Relinquished tokens can give you items from dungeons and raids, including Legendary items.

New Currency: Legionfall War Supplies

• Legionfall War Supplies are used to aid in rebuilding Deliverance Point on the Broken Shore.
• Players can donate 100 Legionfall War Supplies per day via a daily quest, which is counted towards the efforts in rebuilding a single building.
• All three buildings (and buffs) can be active at a time.
• Construction of all three buildings will progress concurrently.
• The compensation for your donation is a Legionfall Recompense, which has a chance to contain gold and items unique to the Broken Shore.
• Once rebuilt, a building will be active for three days before being attacked and destroyed. After one day, players will be able to contribute that building again.
• Each building offers a zone-wide buff and an additional buff that can be granted by speaking with Commander Chambers

Buildings and Buffs

• Command Center
  
  • Zone-wide buff: Forces of the Order
    
    • Grants: Cathedral World Quests, Legionfall Reinforcements, Challenge Mission
  • Potential bonus buffs: Heavily Augmented, War Effort, Worthy Champions, Well Prepared

• Nether Disruptor
  
  • Zone-wide buff: Epic Hunter
    
    • Grants: World Bosses, Unstable Nether Portals, Armorcrafter Commendations
  • Potential bonus buffs: Fate Smiles Upon You, Netherstorm, Reinforced Reins, Seal Your Fate

• Mage Tower
  
  • Zone-wide buff: Fel Treasures
    
    • Grants: Artifact Challenges, Veiled Wyrmtongue Chests, Portal Network
  • Potential bonus buffs: Knowledgeable, Reputable, Power Overwhelming

World Quests and Legion Assaults

• The Broken Shore features new World Quests that can be completed to earn Legionfall War Supplies and reputation with the Armies of Legionfall.
• Broken Shore World Quests feature rewards from the regular assortment of World Quest rewards (Artifact Power, Blood of Sargeras, etc.).
• New Legion Assault World Quests are available in Azsuna, Highmountain, Stormheim and Val’sharah.
  
  • Assaults on a specific zone will feature multiple World Quests (which will count towards that zone’s Emissary quest, if active).
  • Once 4 of these Assault World Quests have been completed, a short questline will lead you to queue for a 3-player scenario.
  • Complete the scenario in each zone to earn Defender of the Broken Isles.

The Sentinax

• The Burning Legion’s command ship, the Sentinax, patrols the Broken Shore. You can see the location of the Sentinax on your World Map.
• Fight enemies in The Shadow of the Sentinax, and you’ll be able to loot Sentinax Beacons.
• Sentinax Beacons can be used to open demonic portals which will spawn more enemies.
• These mobs will drop Nethershards and have a chance to drop higher quality beacons which can empower portals to spawn more difficult enemies with better rewards.
• All enemies spawned by the portals, including Elites and bosses, are all tap to faction.
• There are four different types of beacons:
  
  • Uncommon Beacons: Sentinax Beacon of Carnage, Sentinax Beacon of Domination, Sentinax Beacon of Engineering, Sentinax Beacon of the Firestorm, Sentinax Beacon of Torment, Sentinax Beacon of Warbeasts
  • Rare Beacons: Sentinax Beacon of Greater Carnage, Sentinax Beacon of Greater Domination, Sentinax Beacon of Greater Engineering, Sentinax Beacon of the Greater Firestorm, Sentinax Beacon of Greater Torment, Sentinax Beacon of Greater Warbeasts
  • Epic Beacons: Portal-Stone: An'thyna, Portal-Stone: Fel Obliterator, Portal-Stone: Force-Commander Xillious, Portal-Stone: Illisthyndria, Portal-Stone: Skulguloth, Portal-Stone: Than'otalion
  • Profession Beacons: Sentinax Beacon of Fel Growth, Sentinax Beacon of Petrification, Sentinax Beacon of the Bloodstrike
• Profession beacons will not spawn or empower mobs, but will instead make specific tradeskill materials become available.

New Crafted Legendaries

• Four new crafted Legendary items have been added to the game. These items are Bind when Equipped.
• Armor crafters (tailors, leatherworkers and blacksmiths) can speak with Eliezer Hammerbeard on the Broken Shore to start the questline.
• Leatherworkers have two questlines.
• The questlines require players to:
  
  • Farm 100 “Ancient“ quest items from creatures in the Broken Isles.
  • Kill bosses and loot quest items from normal Mythic dungeons.
  • Kill the quest-assigned raid boss on any difficulty.
• Each crafted Legendary also requires a Nethershard Essence, which must be purchased from Warmage Kath’leen for 8,000 x Nethershards.
• Legendary item questlines will also require Armorcrafter’s Commendations, which can only be earned when the Nether Disruptor is active.

Artifact Appearance

• A new Artifact challenge appearance has been added. You must be level 110, purchase all 35 traits for your weapon, and complete the quest to unlock the four new traits.
• To unlock the challenge appearance, the Mage Tower must be active on the Broken Shore. A special quest will become available that offers a class-specific solo scenario.
• You will get one free attempt at the scenario; additional attempts will cost Nethershards.
• Additional challenge appearance tints can be unlocked by wearing the appearance and defeating Heroic Kil’jaeden, winning 10 rated battlegrounds, and defeating all Legion dungeon bosses.

Completing Broken Isles Pathfinder
In 7.2, you’re finally able to complete Broken Isles Pathfinder, Part Two and unlock flying in Legion. To complete this achievement, you'll need to do the following:

• Complete Broken Isles Pathfinder, Part One.
• Defeat Legion Assaults in each of the four zones detailed in Defender of the Broken Isles.
• Reach Revered status with the Armies of Legionfall (Legionfall Commander).
• Explore the Broken Shore, uncovering all areas of the world map (Explore Broken Shore).