Shadowlands: Season 4

Hot goss… and some other less hot goss

Hypotenuse#2915 // <Civil Disobedience> // Alliance - Whisperwind

 Other events
● Complete 5 Timewalking
Event - 278 ilvl reward
● Complete 4 Mythic Dungeons
Event - 291 ilvl reward

Gear from new vendors

(purchased with Puzzling Cartel Dinar)

→ Same as Normal “fated” raid gear (278-285 ilvl) ←

● Raid options will be any Shadowlands raid: Castle Nathria, Sanctum, or SoFo
● Will have access to each raid on Normal / Heroic / Mythic difficulties
● Each week, one raid will be selected and buffed as the “Fated” raid
● When the raid is “Fated” you can still access it in any difficulty, but you CANNOT access the
Non-Fated version
● I.e.: It’s Sanctum’s week to be Fated. You can access:
○ LFR Nathria, Normal Nathria, Heroic Nathria, Mythic Nathria
○ Fated-LFR Sanctum, Fated-Normal Sanctum, Fated-Heroic Sanctum, Fated-Mythic Sanctum
○ LFR SoFo, Normal SoFo, Heroic SoFo, Mythic SoFo
● When you raid a “Fated” raid, there will be these changes:
○ The raid will overall be more difficult / hit harder / etc
○ Bosses will have an added Affix
○ There are four different Affixes that could apply (see Exhibit A: Affixes)
○ Loot drops in the Fated raid will have higher ilvl. If you choose to raid a non-Fated raid instead, the ilvl drops will be the same as
they were in the old raid
○ In other words, there is no point to raiding a Non-Fated raid - should always do whichever raid is Fated that week
○ Each boss kill (on any difficulty of a Fated raid) will go toward your Puzzling Dinar quests
○ Bosses drop Heroic and Mythic Fated Cyphers (shards) depending on difficulty of Fated raid you choose
○ TBD: Will skips still work? Will lockouts be the same / can you extend Fated raid lockouts?
● Three new vendors - one for each raid - all located in Hall of Holding in Oribos
● Items sold by the new vendors will be the Normal-Fated ilvl range of 278-285, depending on the item
● To buy an item from a vendor, you must use currency called Puzzling Cartel Dinar (“PCD”)
● 1 Puzzling Cartel Dinar = 1 Piece of Gear/weapon/trinket
● You can only get three PCD **the entire season**
● You get PCD from completing specific quests. There are three applicable quests, each awarding 1 PCD. These numbers
may be adjusted:
○ Quest one: Kill 30 bosses from Fated Raids
○ Quest two: Kill 20 bosses from Fated Raids
○ Quest three: Kill 10 bosses from Fated Raids
○ Yes, in that order!

Things to Note:
Due to this, the maximum number of kills toward a quest that you can get a week is set:
To get credit toward quest completion, the boss you kill must be
from a Fated raid ● Castle Nathria = Max of 10 Fated kills/wk
● Sanctum = Max of 10 Fated kills/wk
You can only get 1 kill counted from each boss per week toward ● SoFo = Max of 11 Fated kills/wk
your quest. Killing the same boss in different difficulties does not
reward extra kills toward your Quest objectives.
● Any gear dropped from a Fated raid will
have a <Fated> tag on it a la
<Indestructible>
● Any gear that is marked <Fated> can be
upgraded - but gear that is NOT <Fated>
CANNOT be upgraded
● As previously mentioned, Heroic-Fated
and Mythic-Fated difficulty raid bosses
ALSO drop Cyphers (shards)
● Fated-Heroic shards are called
Confounding Antique Cyphers
● Fated-Mythic shards are called
Confounding Ancient Cyphers
● Bosses in Fated raids have 100% drop
chance of dropping a shard for each raider
● If you get 20 of them, you can combine
them to upgrade <Fated> pieces
Things to Note:
Shards do NOT upgrade in a linear fashion - you can skip levels of difficulty to get
the best possible gear if you want to!
Example:
You finally collect 20 of the Confounding Ancient Cyphers from Fated-Mythic
raid by killing an aggregate of 20 Fated-Mythic raid bosses over time. You
combine them and now you can upgrade an item to Mythic ilvl (304/311).
Woohoo! Which item should you upgrade? You can upgrade a <Fated> piece from
LFR, Normal OR Heroic, and it’ll transform into Mythic. You choose to upgrade
your helm from LFR because it’s your biggest upgrade by far.
This means:
● You do NOT have to upgrade in sequence (i.e., doesn’t need to first be
Heroic lvl to be upgraded to Mythic)
● This means that people who are primarily Mythic raiders can choose to
ignore Heroic if they desire and ONLY clear Normal and Mythic to be able
to upgrade all normal <Fated> gear to Mythic ilvl!
 You kill 10 Heroic bosses in You now have 10 Antique Cyphers, and 10 boss kills toward your first
Week 1 Quest.
Fated-Nathria.

The Fated Raid is now SoD. You kill 10 You now have 20 Antique Cyphers, 5 Ancient Cyphers, and a total of 20 boss kills toward
Week 2 Heroic bosses in Fated-SoD, leave your first Quest (since the 5 Mythic kills doesn’t count as extra kills toward Quest). You
instance, reset, and kill 5 Mythic bosses. redeem your 20 Antique Cyphers and upgrade an item you got in LFR.

The Fated Raid is now SoFo. You You now have 11 new Antique Cyphers, 8 total Ancient Cyphers, and 31 total boss kills. You
Week 3 kill 11 Heroic bosses, leave instance, turn in your first Quest, get one PCD and cash it in at the vendor for a <Fated> Helm ilvl 278.
You pick up your new Quest for 20 boss kills.
reset, and kill 3 Mythic bosses.

The Fated Raid is back to Nathria. You kill 10 You now have 21 Antique Cyphers, still have 8 Ancient Cyphers, and now have 10 boss kills
Week 4 Heroic bosses in Fated-Nathria. toward Quest #2. You combine 20 Antique Cyphers and upgrade the <Fated> helm you got
from the Vendor last week from ilvl 278 to Heroic ilvl 291.

The Fated Raid is SoD again. You kill 10 You now have 11 Antique Cyphers and 18 Ancient Cyphers. You now have a total of 20 boss
Week 5 Heroic bosses and 10 Mythic bosses. kills (NOT 30, since you can’t double up on difficulty toward Quest objectives) and turn in
Quest #2. You get a PCD but decide to hold it rather than spend it so you can see what you get
from raid next week, first. You pick up Quest #3.

The Fated Raid is back to SoFo. You now have 22 Antique Cyphers and 20 Ancient Cyphers, and now have 11 more boss
Week 6 kills. You turn in your last quest and get your final PCD. You use the PCD from last week and
You kill 11 Heroic bosses and 2 the PCD from this week to buy two new <Fated> pieces ilvl 278 from the vendor: a chest
Mythic bosses. piece and boots. You combine your Antique Cyphers and then upgrade your new 278
<Fated> boots to Heroic ilvl 291. You combine your Ancient Cyphers and choose to upgrade
your new <Fated> chest piece from ilvl 278 to Mythic ilvl 304.

You have now cashed in all three PCDs, so the vendors disappear. Your quests are done. You
can keep killing Mythic bosses to get Cyphers and keep upgrading your gear.
● The drop rate for the Mythic Jailer and Mythic Sylvanas mounts will be unchanged in season 4
● We could choose to farm Jailer and Sylvanas for the mounts during Season 4

Mythic Sylvanas mount
● Achievement runs
● More keys nights
● Take a break
● Some combo of above
(i.e., after the 6 week
mark when everyone has
completed their quests,
we swap to mount farm)
● Focus on ONLY Normal /
Heroic Fated Raids (no
Mythic)
● Note: If we do commit to
Mythic Jailer mount farming mounts, no
bailing once you have
yours!
 of Mythic Raiding in Season 4
● Raiding Mythic will get us the best
possible Cyphers to upgrade gear with,
and set us up for DF with mainly
304-311 gear from boss drops and
upgrades
● Continuing to raid at a competitive
Mythic level will ensure we don’t have
any “slump” in motivation before DF,
and creates consistency in being
prog-minded
● Keeps us competitive with other guilds
on the server/world so that if we have
to recruit to fill any spots before DF,
our guild still looks active and
desirable to new recruits
● Gear quickly becomes obsolete at the start of a new
xpac/tier, anyway, so having heroic level gear would still
be fine
● M+ keys will have good weekly chest rewards for +15s
run, so you will still have a shot at a 304 piece in your
weekly chest
● With the Fated Raid changing each week, for the first
three weeks of Season 4 there will need to be a lot of
prep done. Each week would be revisiting a Raid and
having to (quickly) reteach 10-11 fights each week.
● Repetitiveness of raiding old content we’ve already
seen/know (just harder/with new affixes)
● Mythic is harder, so fewer cyphers earned per week
● In terms of completing your three PCD Quests, you get
the same level <Fated> items from the vendor
regardless of difficulty - so to get your three Quests done
fastest, makes sense to raid them on Normal or Heroic
-> Survey asking you all to vote
on what content we will focus on
in Season 4 will go out Friday by
Noon CST.
-> Survey will be due Sunday,
7/24 by 11p CST.
-> Announcement of our plan for
Season 4 will be Wednesday,
7/27/22 at noon.
-> Season 4 starts Tuesday,
August 2
Survey will include MANY options - select all that sound
good to you! There will also be space for you to write in
add’l info, like other suggestions or to list your selections in
order of preference.
For example, we could:
● Raid Heroic until 6 weeks has passed and people can (theoretically)
complete all three Quests
● Swap to Mythic after that for the Cyphers without going TOO ham on
prog/destroying ourselves/morale in the process, and bring back
Heroic Sundays for those who still need Quests/missed other raid
nights
● Or rather than swap to Mythic, after six weeks we change Tues to
Mount Farming Sylvanas and Thurs to Mount Farming Jailer
 Exhibit A: Affixes
● Fated Power: Chaotic Essence
○ A Chaotic Essence begins casting Chaotic Destruction, which will essentially blow up the raid if it finishes.
○ Trying to stop it causes it to summon motes and every Chaotic Mote spawned by the Chaotic Essence channels damage into a nearby player. The goal
seems to be to kill as many motes as possible while working on the Chaotic Essence, getting a stacking buff of 2% increased damage done, 2% increased
healing done, and 2% absorbs done for 25 sec.
○ That buff stacks up for every Chaotic Mote killed before the end of the 15 seconds from the time the Chaotic Essence arrives to party. It feels like the
goal here is to get everybody as much of the Chaotic Essence buff as possible, essentially fighting hard to keep the Essence from casting Chaotic
Destruction and getting as many motes dead as can be arranged. Going into later stages of the fight with 20% or more bonus damage, healing and
absorbs for a 25 second period is like a defense and offensive cooldown use at the same time.
● Fated Power: Protoform Barrier
○ The boss summons a pulsing damage effect that, when removed, forms a barrier that shields pretty much everything trying to kill the players with a
shared 400 absorb shield. There will also be an NPC that spawns and they can be healed to bring down the shield. If the players don’t get the shield
down, it blows up and inflicts damage to the whole raid. But if you get it down first, it blows up and hurts the enemies. And also, the players get a 25%
buff to damage, healing and absorption for 40 seconds.
● Fated Power: Reconfiguration Emitter
○ Drops an incredibly annoying NPC emitter into a fight that constantly tries to cast spells which will deal a lot of Cosmic damage to the entire raid if
successful. The Emitter can’t be hurt until you hit it with an interrupt, which will deal a little damage to your raid but keep the whole of your raid from
taking a lot more damage. Once the Emitter is beaten, it gives the whole raid up to 10% Mastery, 10% Versatility, 10% Critical Strike Chance and 8
Avoidance.
● Fated Power: Replicating Essence
○ Charges a player, inflicting 3 Cosmic damage every 1 sec. for 30 sec. This effect stacks.
○ Upon removal this charge jettisons Creation Sparks to nearby locations, infusing players within 0 yards of the impact location, increasing the
flow of time by 15%, increasing casting, attack speed, cooldown recharge rate, and periodic tick rates and additionally increasing movement
speed by 45% for 20 sec. This effect stacks.
○ If a Creation Spark impacts the ground with no player present to infuse the Creation Spark explodes, inflicting 10 Cosmic damage every 2 sec for
20 sec. This effect stacks.