This Week in WoW - March 31, 2020

[Lumy]

This Week in World of Warcraft

• Legion Instances Legacy Loot
• Grand Empress Shek'zara World Boss
• N'Zoth Assaults in Uldum and Vale of Eternal Blossoms
• Island Expeditions and Salvage Crates Rotation
• World Quest Bonus Event
• PvP Brawl: Comp Storm
• Darkmoon Faire
• March of the Tadpoles
• Call to Arms: Vale of Eternal Blossoms, Mechagon and Stormsong Valley

Legion Instances Legacy Loot

With scheduled weekly maintenance the week of March 31, we’re enabling Legacy loot rules in Legion raids and dungeons.

We’re reached that point in an expansion where the content from the previous expansion no longer requires a full group, and the rewards are primarily sought by transmog collectors. With this change, Legion raid and dungeon encounters will drop a fixed quantity of class-agnostic loot. Today, if you and one other player enter Emerald Nightmare on Mythic difficulty and kill Nythendra, it’s unlikely that you’ll receive any loot, since drop rates normally scale to the number of players. After this change, Nythendra will always drop 5 items from her loot table, regardless of your group size.

Dungeons and many of the lower-difficulty raid bosses in Legion are already soloable by well-equipped Battle for Azeroth characters, though some bosses, especially on Mythic difficulty, may still require you to bring a few friends. Nonetheless, this should amount to a great increase in the availability of Legion transmog gear.

See you there!

Grand Empress Shek'zara World Boss
Grand Empress Shek'zara is up in the Vale of Eternal Blossoms!

Grand Empress Shek'zara
With the awakening of N'Zoth, Shek'zara, empress of the mantid, pledged her swarm to the old god's will. In service of her dark master, she unleashed her forces upon the Vale of Eternal Blossoms to claim Pandaria in N'Zoth's name.

• Overview - Grand Empress Shek'zara uses her powerful voice and Zara'thik Swarmguard to overwhelm enemies.
  
  • Healers -
    • Seek protection inside of a Sound Barrier during Force and Verve.
    • Avoid sound waves emitted during Song of the Empress.
  • Tanks -
    • Protect allies from Mantid summoned by Summon Swarmguard.
    • Seek protection inside of a Sound Barrier during Force and Verve.
    • Avoid sound waves emitted during Song of the Empress.
  • Damage Dealers -
    • Defeat waves of Mantid summoned by Summon Swarmguard.
    • Seek protection inside of a Sound Barrier during Force and Verve.
    • Avoid sound waves emitted during Song of the Empress.
• Song of the Empress - Shek'zara chants the Song of the Empress, emitting sound waves that travel outwards from her.
  Players that come into contact with Song of the Empress are Silenced and suffer 4 Nature damage every 0.5 sec for 3 sec.
• Force and Verve - Shek'zara shouts, inflicting 33 Nature damage every 1 sec for 6 sec.
  Players standing in a Sound Barrier take 70% reduced damage from Force and Verve.
  
  • Sound Barrier - Reduces damage dealt by Force and Verve by 70%.
    
• Summon Swarmguard - Shek'zara summons her Zara'thik Swarmguard to aid her in battle.
  
  • Zara'thik Swarmguard -
    
    • Bladestorm - Charges to a player's location and spins a blade around the caster, inflicting 33 Physical damage to all nearby enemies every 1 sec.
  • Zara'thik Ambershaper -
    
    • Amber Bolt Volley - Fires bolts of hardened amber at all nearby enemies, inflicting 25 Nature damage.

Level	Type	Slot	Name	Model Viewer
445	Finger	Finger	Loop of Abhorrent Celerity
445	Cloth	Head	Maniacal Speaker's Cover	Modelviewer
445	Leather	Head	Guise of the Voracious Prowler	Modelviewer
445	Mail	Legs	Greaves of Shattered Thoughts	Modelviewer
445	Plate	Legs	Chitinous Conqueror's Legplates	Modelviewer

N'Zoth Assaults in Uldum and Vale of Eternal Blossoms

Assault: The Black Empire

• The Black Empire Assault has started in Uldum. This major assault resets on Tuesday at 8am PT in NA (Wednesday at 9am CET in EU).
• Completing this assault rewards you with 1500 Uldum Accord reputation, 750 Artifact Power, and a Cache of the Black Empire.
• Cache of the Black Empire contains 12500 Coalescing Visions, Corrupted Mementos, 2000 Gold or 200 War Resources, and a chance for a corrupted item.

Assault: Mantid

• The Mantid Assault has started in the Vale of Eternal Blossoms. This minor assault resets on Friday at 8pm PT in NA (Saturday at 9pm CET in EU).
• Completing this assault rewards you with 500 Rajani reputation, 500 Artifact Power, and a Cache of the Mantid Swarm.
• Cache of the Mantid Swarm contains 6500 Coalescing Visions, Corrupted Mementos, 2000 Gold or 200 War Resources, and a chance for a corrupted item.

To learn more about the N'Zoth Assaults in Uldum and Vale of Eternal Blossoms, click the banner below for an in depth guide.

Island Expeditions for the Week of March 31, 2020
The Island Expeditions for the week are:

• Un'gol Ruins with Hozen
• Jorundall with Vargul
• Whispering Reef with Murlocs

The Salvage Crates available for purchase this week are:

• Crestfall Salvage
• Rotting Mire Salvage
• Skittering Hollow Salvage
• Elemental Salvage

Click the banner below to learn more about Island Expedition Rewards and Loot Tables.

World Quest Bonus Event

Chart a course across Kul Tiras and Zandalar for this week’s Bonus Event – World Quests.

This Week

All week, open your map (default hotkey-"m") and select any of the Kul Tiras or Zandalar regions to view the World Quests available to you. To find out more about each World quest, simply hover your mouse over a World Quest on the map to see what tasks are needed to complete it, the rewards you’ll receive, and the time remaining that the quest is available to you.

Look for the following all week long:

• Chronicler Toopa in Boralus or Chronicler Shoopa in Zuldazar has a quest for you—The World Awaits. You can also start the quest from within the Adventure Guide (Shift-J).
  
  • Quest requirement: Complete 20 World Quests in Kul Tiras, Zandalar, Mechagon, or Nazjatar
    
  • Reward: 1,000 War Resources
    
• Passive buff: +50% to Reputation gains from World Quests

If you’ve been looking to impress some emissaries, this is the week to do it!

Every Week

The Bonus Events system consists of a rotating schedule of different activities, currently scheduled to run each week beginning on Tuesdays. Each Bonus Event grants a passive bonus to a particular game activity and offers a once-per-event quest with a noteworthy reward for accomplishing a related goal. The in-game calendar can serve as your one-stop reference for the event schedule. The Adventure Guide also offers a direct link to active Bonus Events, allowing you to easily accept any associated quests.

PvP Brawl: Comp Storm

Jump into Arathi Basin for a head-to-head battle against AI opponents during Comp Stomp— running March 31–April 7.

Darkmoon Faire
The Darkmoon Faire starts this weekend on April 5th. If you're grinding reputation with the new 8.3 factions, Uldum Accord and Rajani, pick up the Darkmoon Top Hat or the WHEE! buff to increase reputation gains by 10% for 60 minutes.

March of the Tadpoles
March of the Tadpoles starts this weekend on April 5th. March of the Tadpoles is a micro-holiday that sends you to Borean Tundra to an area with baby murlocs.

• Head to Winterfin Retreat and talk to King Mrgl-Mrgl
• The Adopt a Tadpole quest allows you to pick one of the nearby tadpoles to have follow you.
• A Tadpole's Request will send you to collect 10 x Winterfin Clams from the nearby water
• The tadpole gives you a gift, which contains a vendor trash item

Call to Arms: Vale of Eternal Blossoms, Mechagon and Stormsong Valley
This week's Call to Arms is Call to Arms: Vale of Eternal Blossoms, Call to Arms: Mechagon and Call to Arms: Stormsong Valley.

Head to the Vale of Eternal Blossoms, Mechagon and Stormsong Valley with warmode enabled to kill players of the opposing faction. This will reward you with Quartermaster's Note, Aspirant's Equipment Cache, Honor, Conquest and Reputation with either The Honorbound or 7th Legion.

[Maddoc]

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[Hero2Zer0]

Last week I cleared Tombs of Sarg(Heroic), this week I can't seem to get Gor down below 20% before dying. Not sure if something changed with the legacy loot or not. But I can't seem to clear it anymore.

[Bellamas]

Yeah! More dolly dress up.

It took me three expansions to see it, but this game is simply a digital collection simulation. Hoping I can break the habit. It is cheap, but such a waste of time.

[Azerate]

Legacy loot in legion - great news. Can't wait for the EU reset and more good weekly stuff in my fav game!

[Lurker1]

Yeah! More dolly dress up.

It took me three expansions to see it, but this game is simply a digital collection simulation. Hoping I can break the habit. It is cheap, but such a waste of time.

Just being alive is a waste of time but im not going to go take myself out i got alot of games to play to do that anyways.

[Liftinmammals]

Just being alive is a waste of time but im not going to go take myself out i got alot of games to play to do that anyways.

Being alive is a blessing, dude. You can grow in mind, body, and spirit. Achieve, create relationships, bask in creation, and truly live life as a free human...yet you want to just hangout and play video games. That is the actual waste my friend.

[Lurker1]

Being alive is a blessing, dude. You can grow in mind, body, and spirit. Achieve, create relationships, bask in creation, and truly live life as a free human...yet you want to just hangout and play video games. That is the actual waste my friend.

Your assumeing to much here i spend more time in real life and my friends more then i game but keep reaching here.

[Twdft]

Being alive is a blessing, dude. You can grow in mind, body, and spirit. Achieve, create relationships, bask in creation, and truly live life as a free human...yet you want to just hangout and play video games. That is the actual waste my friend.

... you say hanging out in a video game forum. Shouldn't you stop wasting your time here and grow your mind body and spirit?

[Liftinmammals]

I can only go off of what you say. If you want to sit down and chat person to person we can so I can know how you are. Otherwise every reply we muster to form on the internet is an assumption of each other only based off a the couple sentence replies we make.

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Solid reply. You are right

[MortyPlayer1]

Last week I cleared Tombs of Sarg(Heroic), this week I can't seem to get Gor down below 20% before dying. Not sure if something changed with the legacy loot or not. But I can't seem to clear it anymore.

I'm not 100% this is how it works, but I think it's something like this:

Heroic is flex, which scales from 10 to 30 players. When you entered solo last week, it scaled the bosses to 10 players. Due to legacy loot, you always get the loot as if you have max size raid, but it scales the bosses to that number as well. Again, not sure, but I think that's how it works.