Patch 8.3 PTR - Legendary Cloak Guide

[Stoy]

Patch 8.3 PTR - Legendary Cloak Guide
Wrathion returns in Visions of N'Zoth, and of course he is bringing along a new legendary cloak to aid us in our fight against the Old God. Here is what you need to know about this legendary cloak, Ashjra'kamas, Shroud of Resolve.

How to Obtain
Acquiring the initial item level 470 Ashjra'kamas, Shroud of Resolve is not hard at all. In fact, you will receive it just by accepting and completing the Black Empire Campaign quest chain upon logging in on patch day. Here is a guide for all parts of the chain. Part 3 specifically deals with the scenario to unlock the cloak.

How to Upgrade Your Cloak
Your Ashjra'kamas, Shroud of Resolve will start off humble without any perks other than being 470 item level with 5 corruption resistance, but don't let this fool you. Your primary goal this patch is going to be entering Horrific Visions in order to upgrade your cloak and obtain massive benefits that not only increase its power, but also your corruption resistance and even the appearance!

• In order to enter Horrific Visions, you will need to collect Coalescing Visions, the main currency you need to purchase Vessel of Horrific Visions which provide you an entry pass. It takes 10000 Coalescing Visions to purchase 1 Vessel of Horrific Visions. Coalescing Visions are obtained by:
  
  • For a more in depth look at collecting Coalescing Visions in assaults, check out our N'Zoth Assaults Guide.
  • Completing the weekly Black Empire Assault grants you 1 Vessel of Horrific Visions automatically each week.
  • Completing the bi-weekly Allies of N'Zoth Assaults grant you 5500 Coalescing Visions per assault.
  • The first time you complete your lesser vision daily during the week you will receive 2000 Coalescing Visions.
  • Completing it multiple times a week will reward 1000 Coalescing Visions per day completed.
  • Reputation dailies found in assault hubs
  • Killing Rares and mobs in assaults and lesser Visions
  • Killing Corrupted rare mobs in assaults
  • Completing Bonus Objectives in assaults
  • Looting Chests in assaults

Increasing the Rank of Your Cloak
Now that you know what you need to do to enter Horrific Visions, now is a good time to explain what completing them does for your cloak. Ashjra'kamas, Shroud of Resolve can increase in rank for a total of 15 times before reaching max rank. Every time you increase the rank of your cloak, the following happens.

• Its item level increases by 2.
• Its corruption resistance increases, allowing you to potentially wear more corrupted gear.
• You gain a passive decrease to sanity loss in Horrific Visions by 20% by equipping the cloak. This percentage goes up as the cloak's rank increases.
• At rank 6, your cloak will receive an on-use effect with a 3 minute cooldown that will dispel any negative corruption effects currently happening to you (by having too high of corruption from gear) and make you immune to these effects for 6 seconds.
• At ranks 5 and 12 the appearance of your cloak will change.
• At rank 12 the cloak will also gain the Draconic Empowerment proc effect that has a chance to increase your primary stat for 15 seconds.

Appearance Change
The cloak will change to the middle appearance at rank 5 and the right one at rank 12.

Quest Items Needed for Rank Upgrades
After unlocking Horrific Visions and receiving rank 1 of your cloak, Wrathion will give you a quest to collect the following items from Horrific Visions after each rank up:

• Ranks 2 - 5
  
  • Rank 2: The Curse of Stone - Obtained by killing the main boss of Horrific Visions (Alleria or Thrall) and looting the chest at the end. Failing to kill the boss will result in you not obtaining the item for that specific Horrific Vision attempt.
  • Ranks 3 - 5: Torn Page of "The Curse of Stone" - Obtained by killing the main boss of Horrific Visions (Alleria or Thrall) and looting the chest at the end. Failing to kill the boss will result in you not obtaining the item for that specific Horrific Vision attempt.
• Ranks 6 - 11
  
  • Rank 6: Fear and Flesh - Found by completing Corrupted or Lost areas of Horrific Visions and looting the chest at the end. These can be seen on the map before starting a Vision by talking to Wrathion before using your vessel. They drain your sanity more and contain harder enemies. Corrupted are less difficult than Lost areas, which are the hardest. The final boss of the Horrific Vision (Alleria or Thrall) doesn't need to be killed as long as you complete the objective of the bonus area.
  • Rank 7 - 11: Torn Page of "Fear and Flesh" - Found by completing Corrupted or Lost areas of Horrific Visions and looting the chest at the end. These can be seen on the map before starting a Vision by talking to Wrathion before using your vessel. They drain your sanity more and contain harder enemies. Corrupted are less difficult than Lost areas, which are the hardest. Each rank will require more pages. The final boss of the Horrific Vision (Alleria or Thrall) doesn't need to be killed as long as you complete the objective of the bonus area.
• Ranks 12 - 15
  
  • Rank 12: The Final Truth - Found by completing Lost areas of Horrific Visions and looting the chest at the end. These can be seen on the map before starting a Vision by talking to Wrathion before using your vessel. They drain your sanity the most out of all areas and have the hardest enemies. The final boss of the Horrific Vision (Alleria or Thrall) doesn't need to be killed as long as you complete the objective of the bonus area.
  • Ranks 13 - 15: Torn Page of "The Final Truth" - Found by completing Lost areas of Horrific Visions and looting the chest at the end. These can be seen on the map before starting a Vision by talking to Wrathion before using your vessel. They drain your sanity the most out of all areas and have the hardest enemies. Each rank will require more pages. The final boss of the Horrific Vision (Alleria or Thrall) doesn't need to be killed as long as you complete the objective of the bonus area.
• Infinite Progression
  
  • Your cloak stops ranking up at 15, but you can continue running Horrific Visions with masks active (unlocked in visions to create modifiers you can activate to increase the difficulty further) or by killing N'Zoth on normal or above once a week to receive Malefic Core to further your corruption resistance.

[Jin84]

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[Isheria]

Might wanna correct in the article that the progression after rank 15 is not infinite. At rank 15 the cloak will have 50 corruption resistance, malefic cores can boost it to 125 maximum which is 25 weeks since each malefic core gives 3 extra corruption resistance.

[Sanguinerd]

Does the cloak do anything like the MoP ones? Maybe some animation when Draconic Empowerment procs or something?

And can engineers really not put glider on it?

[Kanegasi]

I've never liked the look of WoW cloaks. I hope we can hide it with transmog.

[Beet]

That’s... wow. This is the most boring legendary they’ve ever added I would say. Even Hand of Rag was badass and stood out for it’s time despite not being entirely special. This is just... why make it legendary?

[iosdeveloper]

awesome patch, imo

[Jin84]

I've never liked the look of WoW cloaks. I hope we can hide it with transmog.

We have been able to hide cloaks at the xmogger. Maybe you've missed that

[Kanegasi]

We have been able to hide cloaks at the xmogger. Maybe you've missed that

It's a legendary cloak. Unless I missed something, we've never been able to transmog them, others to legendary or legendary to others.

[Magicon]

legendaries will be able to be transmogged this patch. You can even have 2 one handed swords transmogged to Thunderfury.

[Jin84]

It's a legendary cloak. Unless I missed something, we've never been able to transmog them, others to legendary or legendary to others.

Hmm, during Legion the armor legendaries (there's even a cloak) were able to be changed AFAIK.. so maybe it might be the same here. Well we can only wait for Jan 14 or if someone on the PTR can confirm it.

[Magicon]

https://imgur.com/wh32cpB

[Kanegasi]

legendaries will be able to be transmogged this patch. You can even have 2 one handed swords transmogged to Thunderfury.

Thanks is fantastic news! Thanks.

[Lurker1]

awesome patch, imo

for sure im happy its finally coming off ptr after playing it for to long wanted live version already !

[WraithKingOstarion]

horrific visions sounded interesting but the whole upgrading of the cloak system is not making me feel very interested in this patch

[Alayea]

Note: Engineers cannot enchant this cloak with Goblin Glider.

What's up with that? It's not like it's a stat enchant nor are people precluded from using the Goblin Glider Kit. This makes no sense.

[mber341]

What's up with that? It's not like it's a stat enchant nor are people precluded from using the Goblin Glider Kit. This makes no sense.

It has an On Use effect. That's why. Cant have 2 On Use effects for one item. I don't like it either.

[Zandalarian Paladin]

Finally some kind of solo progression. You got my attention, Blizzard.

Hopefully you can keep it longer than 8.2 did.

[Thelxi]

"Completing the bi-weekly.."

Just pushing the envelope an inch more.

[Florida Man]

It's a legendary cloak. Unless I missed something, we've never been able to transmog them, others to legendary or legendary to others.

You’ve always been able to transmog over an equipped legendary.