Legendary items will be important in WoW Shadowlands. Dataminers have now found the first effects that can be on items.
With World of Warcraft Shadowlands, “Player Agency” is back in focus. Players are supposed to be able to choose their goals themselves and have control over their progress. This will play a significant role, especially in the crafting of legendary items, which have been an important part of Shadowlands from the start.
Now dataminers from wowhead have found the first hints about the effects of legendary items – and these might be familiar to many players.
Who can craft legendary items? All players can do that, even without a crafting profession. However, it is necessary to buy certain materials from other players. Additionally, several visits to the Tower of Torghast are needed to obtain more components.
Legendary effects from Shadowlands
What effects have been discovered? The dataminers have discovered some effects that players may already be familiar with. These include old bonuses from Legion legendaries, T-set bonuses, artifact abilities from Legion, or powers from Torghast. Here are a few examples:
Blood Death Knight
- Brynador’s Might: Mortal Strike returns 15% of the runic power used if it heals more than 10% of your maximum health.
- Vampiric Aura: Your Vampiric Blood grants 50% of the effect to all party members.
- Purple Rune Weapon: When a charge of Bone Shield is consumed, the cooldown of Dancing Rune Blade is reduced by 30 seconds. Additionally, your rune regeneration is increased by 40% for 10 seconds when the Dancing Rune Blade fades.
Fire Mage
- Firestorm: When Combustion is activated, you have a small chance that all Pyroblasts and Flame Strikes have no cast time and critically strike for 5 seconds.
- Blessing of the Sun King: After consuming 6 Combustion charges, your next non-instant Pyroblast cast within 15 seconds will apply Incinerate for 6 seconds.
- Fevered Summoning: Each consecutive critical hit increases the damage you deal with critical hits by 2%.
Warrior
- Leaper: Heroic Leap has 2 additional charges.
- Unformed Mirror: Spell Reflection lasts 200% longer and affects the entire party.
- Seal of the Tormented Warrior: Activating Blade Storm, Avatar, or Recklessness randomly activates one of the other two abilities as well.
You can view the complete list of abilities that have been data mined so far on wowhead.
Please keep in mind with this information that it is extracted game data from the Alpha. Much about the systems can and will change before the release of Shadowlands.
Can multiple legendary items be crafted? That is said to be possible. Those who want to can craft countless Legendary items with different effects and thus build up a whole arsenal over time. However, there will, similar to Legion, be a strict cap on the legendary items that a player can equip. It was last planned that this cap would start at 1 at the beginning of the expansion. Players would then have to limit themselves to one legendary item at a time.
Will there be a lot of randomness? According to the latest statements from Blizzard, no. Players can decide in advance what legendary item they want to craft and then customize it with the corresponding abilities and stats. They want to avoid a situation where players have to hope for a specific Legendary, as was the case in Legion. Players should have full control over the crafting and effects of their legendary items from the start.
Do you think the system is good? Or how would you have designed the legendary items?
