Larias’ Raider’s Guide for 11.2
Table of Contents
- What’s new for Raiders in 11.2?
- Weekly Checklist and Gearing Guide
- Week 1 - August 5th - Patch Week, No Raid
- Missable Items (Added Aug 9)
- Week 2 - August 12th - Mythic Plus and All Raids
- Week 3 - August 19th - First Mythic Vault
- Weeks 4+ - August 26th Onwards
- Season 3 Item Levels and Crests by @dburnnzz on Discord
- Frequently Asked Questions
- Changelog
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What’s new for Raiders in 11.2?
If you don’t care about any of this, you can skip to Weekly Checklist and Gearing Guide.
Due to the increased item level from +10s being available from the first week in season
3, Runed Crests will be phased out by the second week of raid for people spamming
keys and by the third week for everyone else. 2 crafted items, cloak, and delve belt
mean you will have to upgrade at most 12 slots and that's exactly how many upgrades
you get in the first two weeks even without one-time rewards. This means that
upgrading is very very simple this season and as long as you don't waste your Gilded
Crests you'll be safe.
Some classes may not want to craft a weapon first as is normal for most Mythic
raiders. The first 3 bosses are front loaded with weapons. The first boss has an agi
polearm, 1h str mace, and 1h int mace. The second boss has an agi dagger, bow, and
shield. The third boss has an agi fist weapon and the int cantrip set staff mentioned
below. Depending on how easy the bosses are and the speed at which your guild enters
mythic, you may not want to craft a weapon if you can use these items. As always, you
should check with your respective class discords on what is best to craft.
11.2 introduces two new types of augment runes. The first comes from renown level
9 from the new raid reputation. This will cause the optional boss, the Soul Hunters, to
drop 3 Bind On Pickup augment runes that last for 1 hour and persist through death with
a chance to drop 3 more. This can be useful for raiders who are just looking for a boost
for their weekly raid but you are only guaranteed 3 hours a week with these. The other
way is to farm the new K'aresh Trust open world faction to reach Renown 18 and
purchase the normal endless augment rune from them for 100,000g.
Three minor changes with item levels. First, Hero and Myth track items are once
again capped at 6 upgrades. Second, this season does not have any Rare items and
therefore there will be no Crest saver items. Finally, raid loot now starts at 2/6 on the
first boss. If you want to see an updated list of item levels and Crests, check out this
great breakdown of item levels courtesy of @dburnnzz on Discord!
11.2 also brings a new artifact cloak with a unique proc! This item will increase in
item level each week similar to other time gated items in the past and can be modified in
different ways. You can choose the secondary stats on it via some items made by
tailors, you can get a ring that causes your cloak to reduce Cosmic damage by 50% up
until a certain absorb amount, and you can get boots that increase the procs per minute
of the cloak effect. A full guide on the cloak can be found here.
There are a new set of boots that are BIS for all DPS and probably for healers and
tanks as well. They come in the cloth, leather, mail, and plate variety and drop from the
“optional” Soul Hunters boss in the raid. They are listed as bonus loot in the dungeon
journal and during PTR testing, they dropped similar to Curios from the final boss. You
were guaranteed 1 set of boots per 10 people in the raid and duplicates of the boots
could not drop. That means with a raid size of 30 people, you would be guaranteed to
get 3 different boots on every kill in normal and heroic. For raid leaders, you should
consider this when planning out your raids as every DPS will want one but you don’t
want people taking them from their vaults because they won’t be mythic slot.
Caster DPS and Healers should be aware that there are new powerful cantrip effect
weapons from the raid. The weapons come in 3 varieties - a staff from the 3rd
boss(Soulbinder Naazindhri), a dagger from the 6th boss(Fractillus), and a 1h sword
from the 7th boss(Nexus-King Salad Bar). These powerful weapons have a proc that
does damage to enemies and puts an absorb shield on allies. The power of the
weapons can be further enhanced by the Diamantine Voidcore trinket from the 6th
boss(Fractillus). Luckily, we all know that healers and Augmentation Evokers don't
deserve loot so they should go to DPS casters first.
Table of Contents (continued in content)
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Weekly Checklist and Gearing Guide
Do not spend any Restored Coffer Keys, Sparks,
or Crests until told to do so.
I have made a basic checklist for each suggested weekly
item here.
Week 1 - August 5th - Patch Week, No Raid
-Grab the Darkmoon Faire reputation buff and do the new storyline and get your
legendary cloak.
-Doing the content below should get you the strands required to upgrade your cloak to
707. Make sure to go back to Hashim to upgrade your cloak.
-With the Darkmoon Faire buff, do the large weekly reputation quests for K’aresh Trust.
-Grab the weekly dungeon quest so you can select K’aresh Trust as your renown
reward and claim it with your DMF buff.
-In order to reach Renown 18 as quickly as possible to purchase the endless
augment rune, degenerately do the following with the Darkmoon Faire reputation
buff:
-Complete all available story quests with DMF buff.
-Purchase and use a K’aresh Trust contract and do every World quest in Khaz Algar
with DMF buff.
-Read all ten lore books in K’aresh for a one time boost in Renown with DMF buff.
These provide 2750 total Reputation (1 full renown + 10%) if used with the DMF buff.
Special thanks to Neryssa from Wowhead for this info.
-Kill all rares weekly that give reputation with DMF buff.
-If you are looking for any reputation information, I can not recommend Neryssa’s guide
enough. This is an excellent resource!
-If available, do the introduction quest to obtain a crafting spark. Do not use it. DO NOT
USE IT.
-Kill the world boss for a chance at a 688 item level piece, including a haste heavy ring.
-Delves are reset to rank 3. Level them back up to 8 and then do 8 rank 8 Delves to fill
out your vault with Hero track items. Special Note: You do need to do t8 delves. The
in game delve tooltip is slightly bugged. Do t8 delves.
-Optional: go ahead and unlock rank 11 Delves if you think you’ll want the Gilded
Crests from them later in the season.
-Optional: If available, do weekly quests to obtain 6 Restored Coffer Keys. Can use
these to do t11 solo next week to get gilded crests if no group available to do stuff.
-Optional: While you can farm Undercoins to purchase a Shrieking Quartz to summon
Ky’veza to guarantee a map, the item itself isn’t purchasable until Rank 2 of the Delver’s
Seasonal Journey. Unless you enjoy doing delves or have a BIS trinket from Delves,
you do not need to do this as you will be farming +10’s the next week for hero track
gear.
-Do each of the available 6 mythic 0 dungeons available - Ara-Kara, Priory of the
Sacred Flame, Eco-Dome Al’dani, Halls of Atonement, The Dawnbreaker, and
Operation: Floodgate. They drop 681 ilvl gear that you can upgrade to 691 ilvl using
Carved Crests. This can be very useful for important items like trinkets to give you a
head start on your raid the next week.
-Run two more of any of the above dungeons on mythic zero difficulty to fill out your
vault. You will not be eligible for loot but it will ensure the best vault you can get.
-Make sure you end the week at 2000 valorstones. Don’t use any one time use
valorstone items.
-You can freely use any Weathered or Carved Crests to upgrade items.
Some Minor Missable Items(Added Aug 9)
Special thanks to Fawnstalker-Illidan for the suggestion to make this section!
-Upgrade your fiber in your cloak to the tailoring version of the item. These fibers are
permanent items that you can replace at will so you need to only craft the upgraded
versions one time. They are created by sending in Tailoring work orders. A list of the
available sockets and required materials can be found here.
-Doing content should get you the strands required to upgrade your cloak to 707. Make
sure to go back to Hashim to upgrade your cloak.
-You can get 2 fragments of Sparks the first week. You get the first half spark from any
typical catchup and the other half from the weekly event quest (complete 3 delves, get
disc fragments etc.).
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-A 5mask Horrific Visions gives you access to a vendor that lets you purchase a
weapon that can be upgraded freely to 691. This can provide a significant boost to
Tuesday raiders or early keys if you did not get a weapon from M0. Obviously sim to
see if it’s an upgrade but for many people the 7 ilvl increase will be quite powerful.
-You can obtain at least 2 pieces of Veteran gear that can be upgraded to 691 from
doing the Nightfall Event for the Flame’s Radiance. I have seen reports of people saying
that killing Anub'Ranax, the boss at the end of the Event, will continue to have a chance
to drop Veteran pieces. This is a fantastic way to gear up a new character but I have not
personally confirmed that it does.
-If you are looking for any reputation information, I can not recommend Neryssa’s guide
enough. This is an excellent resource!
-Added August 12: portal trick hotfixed.
Vault Selection Order for August 12th vault:
1) From the delve line, BIS hero track delve trinket or a tier piece.
2) From the mythic 0 line, a champion track tier piece.
3) You can consider another item such as a champion track trinket or a heroic generic
armor piece. However, if you're capable of farming +8's week 1, you might replace this
quickly.
4) If your only options from the vault are options you think you’ll replace in a week, you
can take a socket. Make sure not to waste this on an item you’ll be replacing.
Week 2 - August 12th - Mythic Plus and All Raids
(the week you should take off work)
-Open your vault. Check the Vault Selection advice above for what to pick. Updated
Aug 9: You may want to delay opening this vault until after your normal/heroic raid if
you have multiple interesting slots or you might be able to take a socket.
-Grab the quest to increase your cloak’s ilvl. Complete it while doing the following
content.
-Kill the world boss for a 688 item level piece.
-You may now spend your Restored Coffer Keys. Use your Shrieking Quartz to
guarantee a map and do a T8 Delve to get a hero track item (This may require Rank 2
Delver’s Journey - we won’t know until reset). If you are a class that has a BIS trinket
from Delve, do 8x Tier 8 Delves and spend all your Restored Coffer Keys to fill out your
vault again.
-Do timewalking dungeons for a chance at a good raid trinket and join a final boss skip
for yogg saron for a random heroic track piece.
-Grab the weekly dungeon quest so you can select K’aresh Trust as your renown
reward.
-Updated August 9: Tazavesh hard mode drops a +2 at the end of it. Do not try to
cheese a high key. If you don’t know what this means, don’t worry about it.
-Updated August 8: CONFIRMED - Complete a deathless run of Hard Mode
Tazavesh for a guaranteed mythic item for the entire group. This is a weekly mythic
item. Even if you die, for the first week it will be worth it to a full clear as every boss
drops 1/6 heroic pieces.
-Farm +10’s for 701 item level pieces, vault slots and all your various Crests. If +10’s
are too much of a struggle, do at least +8’s to get 2/6 hero track gear. Check below for
Crest upgrade information.
-Do the large weekly reputation quests for K’aresh Trust. Check Neryssa’s guide for
information about the new Ecological Success quest!
-Do every single world quest in Khaz Algar with a K’aresh Trust contract buff.
-Kill all rares weekly that give reputation.
-Spend 60 Gilded Crests and your first Spark to craft an item at 720 item level if your
class discord recommends it. Do not craft in the boots slot as you likely want the cantrip
boots from raid. While weapons are usually an easy first choice, that may be different
this season. You should always always always check with your respective class
discords on what is best to craft.
-Clear Normal, Heroic, and as much of Mythic raid as you can.
-At this point, we are going to start tracking Crests and upgrades for maximum profit.
For simplicity's sake, we are going to assume you’re upgrading pieces from 701. If you
choose to upgrade multiple items below 701 item level, it will take at least one additional
week to finish with Runed Crests.
-Upgrade 701 -> 704 in 6 slots. This will take 90 Runed Crests.
-Upgrade Myth Track 710 -> 717. This will take 30 Gilded Crests. If you do not have a
mythic track item, you can hold these until your vault next week. If you have a very
powerful hero track trinket that you will not replace for a very long time such as an end
heroic boss trinket, you may consider upgrading it from 704 -> 710 instead.
Total Crests spent so far:
All your Weathered and Carved
90/90 Runed
90/90 Gilded
Ending item level: 1x 714 item level artifact cloak, 6x 704 slots, 6x 701 slots, 1x
717 slot, 1x 720 crafted slot. Average item level is 704.5. Mythic raiders who received loot
will be slightly higher.
Week 3 - August 19th - First Mythic Vault
-Open your vault for a 707+ mythic track item.
-Grab the quest to increase your cloak’s ilvl. Complete it while doing the following
content.
-Kill the world boss for a 688 item level piece if you need it.
-If you are a class that has a BIS trinket from Delve, do 8x Tier 8 Delves to fill out your
vault again. If you are not a class with insane trinkets from Delve, you can skip this.
-Grab the weekly dungeon quest so you can select K’aresh Trust as your renown
reward.
-Do your weekly +10’s to get Crests and vault slots. If you do 8x +12’s you will cap your
Gilded and most of your Runed.
-Complete a deathless run of Hard Mode Tazavesh for a guaranteed mythic item for the
entire group.
-Do the large weekly reputation quests for K’aresh Trust.
-Do every single world quest in Khaz Algar with a K’aresh Trust contract buff.
-Kill all rares weekly that give reputation.
-Spend your Free Enchanted Runed Crest from the Dimensius kill quest and second
Spark from the new quest line to craft embellished bracers at 704 item level. Check
FAQ at the bottom for more info. 2h crafters disregard. You should always always
always check with your respective class discords on what is best to craft.
-Clear Normal, Heroic, and as much of Mythic raid as you can.
-Upgrade 701 -> 704 in all remaining slots. You are now done with Runed Crests.
-Upgrade Myth Track 717 -> 723 in 1 slot. This will take 30 Gilded Crests.
-Upgrade Myth Track 707 -> 720 in 1 slot. This will take 60 Gilded Crests.
Total Crests spent so far:
All your Weathered, Runed, and Carved.
180/180 Gilded
Ending item level: 1x 721 item level artifact cloak, 1x 704 crafted slot, 10x 704 slots, 1x
720 slot, 1x 720 crafted slot, 1x 723 slot. Average item level is 707.5. Mythic raiders
who received loot will be slightly higher.
Weeks 4+ - August 26th Onwards
-Open your vault for a 707+ mythic track item.
-Grab the quest to increase your cloak’s ilvl. Complete it while doing the following
content.
-Do your weekly +10’s to get Crests and vault slots.
-Craft Spark items each week at 720 item level as they become available. They are
Crest efficient and there’s no need to cheese past the bracers.
-If you are a class that has a BIS trinket from Delve, do 8x Tier 8 Delves.
-Clear Heroic and as much of Mythic raid as you can.
-Upgrade your highest item level pieces first with Gilded Crests. This is to prevent
awkward situations where you upgrade a 707 item from your vault and then get a 710+
from raid.
“But Larias, I’m an Havoc Demon Hunter and the wall of text
hurts my brain! Can you please help me?”
Sorry, Outlaw Rogues, I was legally obligated to change to DH because
Rogues have no sense of humor!
Special thanks to Dragonmommy-Hyjal and Stepbuns-Hyjal for the beautiful flowchart!
Season 3 Item Levels and Crests by @dburnnzz on
Discord
Shareable link
Frequently Asked Questions
Q: Why do I use a free Enchanted Runed Crest on my second spark to make bracers?
A: You can’t craft a cloak, you are still using the delve belt, and you want to save your
boots slot for the raid boots. This leaves a necklace, rings, or one of your tier armor
slots. It’s not typically a good idea to craft necklace or tier armor slots this early because
you permanently lock that slot and what if your vault has bad trinkets and a necklace or
a tier piece in the slot you crafted in it? You could make a ring but you have a free
enchanted Runed Crest that lets you upgrade an embellishment for free. This saves
your Gilded Crests to upgrade much higher item level items with primary stats, such as
weapons or mythic tier pieces, and if you get a shitty vault you can throw a socket on
the bracers because you know it’ll be there the entire season.
Q: What if I’m a class that wants to craft a two-hander, like fury warriors or hunters?
A: You should always always always check with your respective class discords on what
is best to craft.
Changelog
August 10 11:45 PM - Added optional shrieking quartz farm.
August 9 5:45 PM - Added 2 more things to the Missable item section.
August 9 3:00PM - Additional note about opening a vault. Added a link to Neryssa’s reputation
guide on wowhead. Updated wording for some Delve items. Updated wording with Augment
Rune. Updated wording with the new cantrip weapons from raid. Remove 11.1.7 advice. Added
a link to the WA in the checklist sheet. Entire Missable item section; Special thanks to
Fawnstalker-Illidan for the suggestion to make this section!
August 9 1:30AM - Tazavesh hard mode drops a +2 at the end of it. Do not try to cheese a high
key.
August 8 3:30PM - WoWhead confirmed the reward.
August 7 6:00PM - Unconfirmed reports that the Mega-Dungeon will drop a Mythic piece from
the final boss if the run is deathless, similar to Dawn of the Infinites.
August 6 2:00PM - Rares weekly, not daily.
August 5 6:30PM - Special Note: You do need to do t8 delves. The in game delve
tooltip is slightly bugged. Do t8 delves.
August 4 9:30PM - I have made a basic checklist for each suggested weekly item here.
August 2 11:45PM - Added books to renown grind. Special thanks to Neryssa from Wowhead.
Slightly updated Delve advice for Week 2.
July 29 11:30AM - Added small note about first week Delves on PTR. Separated out boots in the
changes.
July 25 9:30PM - Corrected wording on rare items, adjusted reputation advice due to no endless
farm, added link to loot sheet.
July 21 2:30PM - Updated the wording for the August 12th Vault choice.
July 17 10:00 PM - Added item level and Crests image courtesy of @dburnnzz on Discord!
Made some minor adjustments to order of information but no information changed.
July 15 1:00 PM - Small valorstone addition now that they carry over season to season.
July 12 12:00 PM - Re-added world boss to week 1 as blizzard updated their post again. Thanks
@kt1214 for the heads up!
July 11 1:30 PM - Clarified that only Hero and Myth tracks are returning to 6/6. Added a blurb
about how many weapons are from the first 3 bosses and to consider not crafting a weapon.
July 10 12:00 PM - added flowchart for melee brains
July 9 1:00 PM - corrected week 1 dungeon advice and added healing potion information.
Added Tazavesh hard mode dungeon info to week two. Thanks u/theantig! Removed week 1
world boss as blizzard change their mind from interview to release
July 8 10:00 PM - Guide updated and first real iteration of guide completed.
June 20 10:30pm - guide created.
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Image Gallery
The flowchart above helps decide upgrade paths for gear, highlighting when to use Weathered Crests, Carved Crests, Runed Crests, and Gilded Crests, and whether to upgrade to item level 701, 704, or max upgrades based on your inventory and plans.
!Season 3 Item Levels and Crests by @dburnnzz on Discord
Season 3 Item Levels and Crests by @dburnnzz on Discord. Shareable link.
Season 3 Item Levels and Crests by @dburnnzz on Discord
This section provides a detailed breakdown of Season 3 item levels and crest costs across different gear paths, including Restored, Weathered, Carved, Runed, and Gilded Crests. It outlines the upgrade costs per slot, the total crests needed for each progression step, and the resulting average item level after each milestone. The image above, created by @dburnnzz, visualizes the upgrade paths and decisions for raiders.
Frequently Asked Questions (reiterated)
Q: Why do I use a free Enchanted Runed Crest on my second spark to make bracers?
A: You can’t craft a cloak, you are still using the delve belt, and you want to save your boots slot for the raid boots. This leaves a necklace, rings, or one of your tier armor slots. It’s not typically a good idea to craft necklace or tier armor slots this early because you permanently lock that slot and what if your vault has bad trinkets and a necklace or a tier piece in the slot you crafted in it? You could make a ring but you have a free enchanted Runed Crest that lets you upgrade an embellishment for free. This saves your Gilded Crests to upgrade much higher item level items with primary stats, such as weapons or mythic tier pieces, and if you get a shitty vault you can throw a socket on the bracers because you know it’ll be there the entire season.
Q: What if I’m a class that wants to craft a two-hander, like fury warriors or hunters?
A: You should always always always check with your respective class discords on what is best to craft.
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Changelog
August 10 11:45 PM - Added optional shrieking quartz farm.
August 9 5:45 PM - Added 2 more things to the Missable item section.
August 9 3:00PM - Additional note about opening a vault. Added a link to Neryssa’s reputation guide on wowhead. Updated wording for some Delve items. Updated wording with Augment Rune. Updated wording with the new cantrip weapons from raid. Remove 11.1.7 advice. Added a link to the WA in the checklist sheet. Entire Missable item section; Special thanks to Fawnstalker-Illidan for the suggestion to make this section!
August 9 1:30AM - Tazavesh hard mode drops a +2 at the end of it. Do not try to cheese a high key.
August 8 3:30PM - WoWhead confirmed the reward.
August 7 6:00PM - Unconfirmed reports that the Mega-Dungeon will drop a Mythic piece from the final boss if the run is deathless, similar to Dawn of the Infinites.
August 6 2:00PM - Rares weekly, not daily.
August 5 6:30PM - Special Note: You do need to do t8 delves. The in game delve tooltip is slightly bugged. Do t8 delves.
August 4 9:30PM - I have made a basic checklist for each suggested weekly item here.
August 2 11:45PM - Added books to renown grind. Special thanks to Neryssa from Wowhead.
Slightly updated Delve advice for Week 2.
July 29 11:30AM - Added small note about first week Delves on PTR. Separated out boots in the changes.
July 25 9:30PM - Corrected wording on rare items, adjusted reputation advice due to no endless farm, added link to loot sheet.
July 21 2:30PM - Updated the wording for the August 12th Vault choice.
July 17 10:00 PM - Added item level and Crests image courtesy of @dburnnzz on Discord!
Made some minor adjustments to order of information but no information changed.
July 15 1:00 PM - Small valorstone addition now that they carry over season to season.
July 12 12:00 PM - Re-added world boss to week 1 as blizzard updated their post again. Thanks @kt1214 for the heads up!
July 11 1:30 PM - Clarified that only Hero and Myth tracks are returning to 6/6. Added a blurb about how many weapons are from the first 3 bosses and to consider not crafting a weapon.
July 10 12:00 PM - added flowchart for melee brains
July 9 1:00 PM - corrected week 1 dungeon advice and added healing potion information.
Added Tazavesh hard mode dungeon info to week two. Thanks u/theantig! Removed week 1 world boss as blizzard change their mind from interview to release
July 8 10:00 PM - Guide updated and first real iteration of guide completed.
June 20 10:30pm - guide created.