Naxxramas has been opened for testing and Blizzard are sharing the changes to the difficulty system in today’s dev notes.
- Each quarter can be Empowered individually, adding new mechanics.
- When you Empower any quarter, the difficulty of the whole raid goes up.
- There’s two new trinkets that power up the new Sanctified gear and that can be improved.
Ahead of this weekend’s Naxxramas test, we’ve redesigned the difficulty system.
- Each Quarter of Naxxramas can be Empowered by using the orbs in the main lobby. Empowering a Quarter:
- Enables a new mechanic inside that Quarter, and
- Increases the difficulty across the entire instance, regardless of which Quarter is empowered.
- After interacting with the orbs, there is a 15 minute cooldown before enabling or disabling that orb again.
- To tackle this dangerous new content, you’ll want a new set of trinkets: “The Seal of the Dawn”.
- Players can get the Seal of the Dawn by talking to Kug Softjaw inside Naxxramas.
- The Seal of the Dawn empowers new “Sanctified” gear that can be discovered from Scourge Invasions or while inside Naxxramas.
- The Seal of the Dawn can be improved by collecting “Remnants of Valor” from Scourge Invasions or while inside Naxxramas.
- The power gain from the Seal of the Dawn is immense. Players are expected to obtain Sanctified Gear and improve their Seals of the Dawn to tackle higher difficulties of Naxxramas.
