Turn Up the Heat in Season of Discovery: Molten Core

We agree, actually. We are sending a hotfix very soon to add a chance for Librams of Resilence to drop from certain Blackrock Depths and Blackrock Spire bosses, and increase the liklihood you get Burning Essence from the Dark Coffer in Blackrock Depths. This should help make these items a bit more available, but still require the same process and ceremony to complete the arcanum.

I want to also take this opportunity to also clarify that the fire resistance numbers listed in the blog post are fully buffed. So that ~100 fire resistance breakpoint for Blistering/Heat 2 only requires you to have ~40 unbuffed if you have a shaman or paladin in your group. For many classes that is a single item and the new +20 Fire Resist cloak enchant from Hydraxian Waterlords reputation. For Molten/Heat 3 you’ll need to do a bit more prep and that is intended, but as alluded in my previous post, Heat 2 should be very approachable for almost anyone.

This is not accurate. To be very very clear, the items in Molten Core never increase in quality or power level as the heat level increases. The only difference is that weapons that drop in Molten/Heat 3 will have an extra glow effect that is cosmetic only, and the stats and damage are identical and are, for all intents, the exact same items. You will never be gated in your access to the best quality/most powerful items by not killing bosses on Heat 3.

The “additional drops” simply means that due to the increased difficulty, preparation, and time investment required for Heat 3, we’ve redistributed some (not all) loot tables slightly so that some drops that normally only come in the later parts of the raid have a small chance to also drop from some earlier bosses. There are a scant handful of items and loot tables that have been changed in this way between Blistering and Molten heat and this won’t be very impactful to your overall rate of gear acquisition between Blistering and Molten.

We felt it was important to really spell out our expectations here. We fully expect most groups to be capable of Blistering/Heat 2 and that will be where we expect the majority of groups to spend most of their time. Molten/Heat 3 is meant to be something you do “to say you did it” for the most part. The “extra” rewards such as they are are not massively significant, by design.

The temperature rises with the release of Molten Core on July 25, 2024. Season of Discovery is presented with a unique challenge, as a new “Heat” mechanic is introduced in the Molten Core, which is not to be taken lightly.

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