wow Essence of the Focusing Iris - Heart of Azeroth Essence Spotlight

[Stan 5,240]

Essence of the Focusing Iris is a DPS Essence from Mythic Dungeons and its active ability deals damage in a frontal cone. In this spotlight, we're looking at effects and ranks of the Essence.

Essence Effects & Sources

Note:  Some tooltips may be inaccurate before Patch 8.2 goes live. We only had the chance to play around with Rank 3 of the Essence. With increasing ranks, the active ability's cast time decreases and it can be cast while moving and deals more Fire damage. The minor passive grants more Haste and Rank 3 will generate 3 stacks from your first damaging spell or ability.

Rank 1 (Converging Lens of the Focusing Iris)

The initial rank of the Essence can be obtained from Mythic 4+ End-of-Dungeon Challenger's Cache in Season 3 or later.

• Major Power: Focused Azerite Beam - Focus excess Azerite energy into the Heart of Azeroth, then expel that energy outward, dealing 4,300 Fire damage to all enemies in front of you over 3 sec. (3 sec cast, 1.5 min cooldown)
• Minor Power: Focused Energy - Your damaging spells and abilities grant you 0 Haste for 4 sec, stacking up to 10 times. This Haste is lost if you stop using spells or abilities against the initial target.

Rank 2 (Magnifying Lens of the Focusing Iris)

The first upgrade is obtained from Mythic 7+ End-of-Dungeon Challenger's Cache in Season 3 or later.

1. Major Power: Focused Azerite Beam - Focus excess Azerite energy into the Heart of Azeroth, then expel that energy outward, dealing 4,300 Fire damage to all enemies in front of you over 3 sec. (3 sec cast, 1.5 min cooldown)
2. Minor Power: Focused Energy - Your damaging spells and abilities grant you 0 Haste for 4 sec, stacking up to 10 times. This Haste is lost if you stop using spells or abilities against the initial target.

Rank 3 (Stabilizing Lens of the Focusing Iris)

Combine 15 Focused Life Anima from Grand Challenger's Bounty (weekly Mythic chest) in Season 3 or later.

• Major Power: Focused Azerite Beam - Focus excess Azerite energy into the Heart of Azeroth, then expel that energy outward, dealing 87,470 Fire damage to all enemies in front of you over 3 2.6 sec. Castable while moving. (3 1.2 sec cast, 1.5 min cooldown)
• Minor Power: Focused Energy - Your damaging spells and abilities grant you 31 Haste for 4 sec, stacking up to 10 times. This Haste is lost if you stop using spells or abilities against the initial target. When you have no stacks of Focused Energy, generate 3 stacks from your first damaging spell or ability.

Rank 4 (Biconcavic Lens of the Focusing Iris)

Complete the Battle for Azeroth Keystone Master: Season Three achievement in Season 3 or later to get the final cosmetic upgrade for the Essence. Effects will be the same as on the previous rank.

[Imarai 17]

You say in the first paragraph how the essence comes from islands, but the rest of the article is about obtaining it from mythic plus content.

[Hokdhan 1]

You say here that it is from islands, though in this article 
https://www.icy-veins.com/wow/essences-guide-for-heart-of-azeroth

it comes from mm+ donjons

so which one is true? ?

 

[Seksi 208]

Its from mythic+ dungeons ? just a small typo from Stan it will be fixed ASAP!

[Stan 5,240]

46 minutes ago, Hokdhan said:

You say here that it is from islands, though in this article 
https://www.icy-veins.com/wow/essences-guide-for-heart-of-azeroth

it comes from mm+ donjons

so which one is true? ?

 

Thanks for your report. I fixed the description.

[dsc 18]

great, YaY more cramming M+ down our throats.  I despise the lootbox system, I flat out don't do them.

I LOVED vanilla and heroic TBC dungeons, and to an extent CAT.  since somewhere in MOP I quit the BS, now its even worse.

before someone says "get good baddie" I'm a former Realm First raider /retired ( look up armory.)

so....  easy mode M+ gives dps increase and furthers the M+ tiny team adventure, of pugtards with gearscore or raider io whatever they call the BS now.  

how about attunments and keys? a mission to go on? instead of group with some jerkoff tools who know nothing of dungeon strat.

Edited June 21, 2019 by dsc
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[PatrickHenry 293]

33 minutes ago, dsc said:

how about attunments and keys? a mission to go on? instead of group with some jerkoff tools who know nothing of dungeon strat.

If youre worried about M+ keys and dont remember the pain of struggling through raid-level content im not sure what to tell you.