wow Double Legendary Requirements Moved From Reputation to Story Chapter

[Staff 1,489]

 

Update: we now also know when double legendaries will be coming - 5 weeks after launch. Read here for more information.

Blizzard have announced the second legendary slot will no longer be related to reputation, but instead linked both the belt and the legendary memory to completing Chapter 7 of the Zereth Mortis story! We're not quite sure how long it'll take to get to chapter 7 at the moment. Blizzard also explained why the delay is there in the first place:

Double Legendary (Source)

Hello all,

Thanks for everyone’s feedback on the Enlightened Legendary belts and memories, and on the issue of when you can obtain them and what activities they require. We have some changes coming to a future PTR build that I’d like to talk about a bit.

First, what are we doing? The Belt of Unity is moving from the Enlightened reputation and into the campaign quest for Zereth Mortis. You’ll be able to obtain it at the end of Chapter 7 of the Zereth Mortis campaign, which we hope will feel like a nice crowning accomplishment. The Memory of Unity is remaining on the Enlightened reputation vendor, and will remain an account-wide unlock like other Legendary Memories from Shadowlands, but will now additionally require that you’ve completed Chapter 7 in order to purchase it. This Memory means that when your second, third, or tenth character is ready to start Eternity’s End that they’ll be able to craft an Enlightened Legendary right away. The new questing requirement is being added to head off any feeling of needing to rush ahead to Revered for progression on your main character. We’re also still debating some other possible changes to the overall structure of Zereth Mortis rewards, but I don’t have concrete details to share on those yet.

Some folks have asked why there’s a delay in acquiring a second legendary at all. The answer there is that we have goals for your characters to grow over the course of the patch, allowing them to overcome challenges they couldn’t initially overcome. One specific example here is the difficulty of Sepulcher of the First Ones: by keeping the Enlightened Legendary a little bit in The Future from the raid’s launch, we can tune the raid at a difficulty that allows early progression to be bolstered by additional power once players start hitting stumbling blocks. If this power was instead available to your characters on the first day, tuning would have to take that into account for people who expect the first few weeks to be challenging, and that would in turn deprive many raids of what we think will be a fun and enjoyable boost in power after striving as far as they can without it.

It’s important to us that there’s a pretty level playing field with the Enlightened Legendary in terms of when different players obtain it. We want it to be an impactful moment of growth for your characters, getting to change the rules of how they play the game for the rest of Eternity’s End. Our initial plans of putting it on the Enlightened reputation had this intent, in that we were planning to distribute most of the reputation gains on campaign quests and on quests that players would do once or twice a week, but we hear you that this structure still felt unsatisfying for players whose free time lends itself more to periodic long sessions than for frequent shorter ones. We feel that moving the Enlightened Legendary into the quest campaign will be even more egalitarian while still providing a very satisfying growth moment.

As always, we’re still open to and listening to feedback here, so once the changes go up, please do continue to tell us how you feel about them.

[Dreamcatcher 66]

I mean ... Its OK if it is account wide so fair enough

[Swoell 0]

Sounds good 

[Pregrowth 46]

I upvote this, i think this is good.

[Mishmish 65]

They actually convinced me of their reasoning, which is rare nowadays. Even if there's other more cynical reasons like engagement metrics, the reasons they provided are good enough, and now you dont have to grind it even if you join later into the patch, you just do a bunch of quests. 

[Grumar 188]

Wow blizzard is so nice to allow me to spend hundreds of thousands of gold across all my toons to craft another legendary right away on alts, so epic. That also means more torghast,  YAY.

Edited January 26, 2022 by Grumar

[Teufel 331]

7 hours ago, Grumar said:

Wow blizzard is so nice to allow me to spend hundreds of thousands of gold across all my toons to craft another legendary right away on asks, so epic. That also means more torghast,  YAY.

...or you can just buy some now, while those are cheap enough and waut out till the prices drop to reasonable levels. Or be content with a belt that is handed over to you for doing some quests.

I swear, people finding all sorts of things to whine about...