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Raid Gear Upgrades in Patch 9.2.5 (Shadowlands Season 4)

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Shadowlands Season 4 offers deterministic loot upgrades. Find out more about the system coming in Patch 9.2.5. 

  • Shadowlands Season 4 is adding Grimrail Depot and Iron Docks to the dungeon rotation.
  • All 3 Shadowlands raids will be relevant for Season 4 gearing. 
  • Every week in Shadowlands Season 4, the Fated raid will change. They are on a weekly rotation, providing better loot from the remaining raids. It means your guild should focus on clearing raids that are currently labeled as "Fated". You will find a full schedule by bringing up the in-game calendar.
  • Fated raids come with an affix and the loot drops at a higher item level.
  • Blizzard has developed a new deterministic way to get loot in Season 4. You can buy raid trinkets and weapons from vendors near the Great Vault for 1 Puzzling Cartel Dinar Puzzling Cartel Dinar.
  • You can only obtain 3 Puzzling Cartel Dinar Puzzling Cartel Dinar throughout the entire season, which means you can only buy 3 items. The loot sold by the vendors has 278-285 item level. You will find more details about how to get them here.
  • Heroic and Mythic Fated raid bosses will drop Confounding Antique Cypher Confounding Antique Cyphers and Confounding Ancient Cypher Confounding Ancient Cypher. Combining 20 of them lets you upgrade Fated raid items to Heroic / Mythic quality.
    • Let's say you buy an item from the 3 vendors at Normal difficulty, defeat Fated raid bosses and upgrade it to Heroic quality.
    • You can upgrade any loot from Fated raids this way. 

You can find a recap of the system in MrGM's latest video.

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Big problem with this:

While if you're a caster with a staff or a melee with a 2H weapon, you'll be able to get 2 trinkets and your weapon...what about classes that dual wield weapons (or use a weapon and a shield?).      Seems like they need to either combo the purchases or give everyone 4 tokens.

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33 minutes ago, Migol said:

Big problem with this:

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While if you're a caster with a staff or a melee with a 2H weapon, you'll be able to get 2 trinkets and your weapon...what about classes that dual wield weapons (or use a weapon and a shield?).      Seems like they need to either combo the purchases or give everyone 4 tokens.

Probably just offhand / shields don't count. And for duel wielders it will be 2 of the same weapon.

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1 hour ago, Migol said:

Big problem with this:

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While if you're a caster with a staff or a melee with a 2H weapon, you'll be able to get 2 trinkets and your weapon...what about classes that dual wield weapons (or use a weapon and a shield?).      Seems like they need to either combo the purchases or give everyone 4 tokens.

They solved this decade old issue in Legion. Before and after that it was similar with rolling your extra coin for both weapons or weekly chests etc. Gone were those issues with Legion. Ah well. They're back now.

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idk but i find this "new" system most problematic than before, doing old content to upgrade gear or even to start gering yourself is always a problem for people that doesn belong to a guild, or people that dont have the time to pug, maybe is time to bring back the token system like in BC.

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