The WoW community has picked up the trail. The secret about the new riddle mount Lucid Nightmare is being uncovered piece by piece.

With World of Warcraft: Legion, Blizzard has for the first time integrated some really long riddles into the game world, which players could ponder for days. Just think about the Cave of Consumption, the secret world boss Kosumoth, or the Thought Worm. All these things were hidden among really long riddles, where players had to travel halfway around the world to discover tiny hints.

With Patch 7.3 Shadows of Argus, there is again a new riddle mount – the Lucid Nightmare.

This black unicorn (actually “Monocorn”) is waiting again at the end of a long series of riddles.

The thousands of players from the “WoW Secret Finding” server of the chat program Discord have long since picked up the trail. Once again, the riddle begins with a small scroll in Dalaran, in the upper level of the shop “Curiosities and more.” As soon as you click on it, you see a purple “brain,” which represents the first hint. Along with it were the words

“It starts with 2104059.”

It doesn’t take long for the brain to lead the players to the next step – Ulduar. For the number combination, when you rearrange the digits, results in 15042009 – or rather the date 04/15/2009. That was the release of the Ulduar raid. At the second boss XT-OO2, there is a secret switch that leads into an underground passage … and reveals new riddles.

Once the riddle is fully solved and we know the solution to the last steps, we will publish a guide here so that you can obtain the mount yourself.

Are you participating in the riddle? Or are you just waiting for the resolution so you can hold the mount in your hands?

What else Patch 7.3 has brought with it can be learned in this article.

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The new animations of the wizards in World of Warcraft work wonders. Especially the Shadow Priest is now even darker.

Actually, one could say that the playstyle of the Shadow Priest in Patch 7.3 of World of Warcraft has absolutely not changed. The rotation is the same, the spells used are the same, and from pure “button pressing” one does nothing different than before.

And yet Blizzard has succeeded in making it feel completely different to play a Shadow Priest now. The reason for this is the new animations.

Priests received new animations, just like mages, druids, and elemental shamans.

And although they are basically just movements of the character, the feel of the class has changed drastically – and for the better. Every spell now conveys a real “feeling” of what the character is actually doing. When he transforms into Voidform, he lets the madness of the Void flow through him and lifts off the ground. The character “floats” or “glides” on a wave of madness until Voidform ends. During this, he even leans into the direction he wants to fly.

Especially cool are most instants like Shadow Word: Pain or Void Bolt. Here, the character no longer raises his hands theatrically, but instead, with a swift hand movement, hurls a quick curse towards the enemy. This looks much more fitting and logical. An instant spell should indeed “come off the hand easily” and not be unleashed like a long channelled spell.

The Whispers of Shadows

All the changes to the animations pale for me personally against another fact: The new sound effects. No matter what spell you cast as a Shadow Priest – Mind Blast, Shadowform, Void Eruption, Mind Spike – every spell has received new sounds. I do not mean the normal “spell sounds” of flying Void Bolts or the quiet “whoosh” when activating Shadowform, but whispers.

Whenever the Shadow Priest casts, you can hear quiet voices in the background, speaking just loud enough to be noticed, but never exactly what they are saying. They probably say nothing, yet I sat in front of the PC for several minutes trying to understand it. This exact balance between “quiet murmuring in the background” and the feeling that you can understand what is being said makes these sounds perfect.

I now feel as a Shadow Priest truly driven by powers that promise me power and at the same time repeatedly warn me that all others will betray me.

I firmly believe that there are already numerous threads in the official priest forums complaining that the whispers are annoying and disturbing.

It is absolutely amazing to me how such small changes have completely redefined the feel of a class. Hats off, Blizzard. Now I don’t feel like playing my twinks anymore.

How did you Shadow Priests experience the changes? Annoying or good? And what do the other casters say about their new animations and sounds? Let us know in the comments!

What we think of the new Patch 7.3 can be found in this article.

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The World of Warcraft Update 7.3 “Shadows of Argus” is finally playable. In addition to extensive changes to class balance and new content, the patch also offers many innovations. Some of these are particularly interesting for twinks and new or returning players.

Artifact Knowledge: Never Forget to Research Again!

The artifact knowledge that increases the artifact power gained from corresponding tokens automatically increases since 7.3. Each week, the knowledge increases by 1, without players having to do anything for it.

Additionally, the artifact knowledge is set to the current level upon reaching level 110. It is now a global property. Everyone now has the same level of knowledge, which they simply receive upon reaching the maximum level – regardless of whether they are a regular player, twink, or latecomer.

For those who were not familiar with the system: At the beginning of Legion, players could conduct artifact research that provided a research note every 5 days. This had to be picked up and used to increase knowledge. A maximum of two researches were possible at the same time.

With a later patch, compendiums could be purchased that became available after reaching 5 levels of knowledge (and later also roles for the intervening ones). The main character (or any character with corresponding knowledge) could buy the account-bound items in their order hall for resources and send them to the twinks. Any character that was behind the main’s progress could research faster. Nevertheless, reaching knowledge level 40 without compendiums took a long time.

Immaculate and Abandoned: New Gear to Catch Up

With the general increase in item level, the demands on players for Argus content also rise. For everyone who has taken a longer break or wants to quickly catch up with a new class due to the changes, Argus offers two new types of tokens, similar to the “undaunted” and “abandoned” tokens from 7.2.

The “immaculate” tokens produce an item of level 880. Presumably, these tokens can also create warforged or titanforged items and thus correctly raise the level to “880+”. Immortal tokens are obtained, similar to the undaunted at the coast, as loot from enemies in Argus or as a reward for the following weekly quests:

• Fragments of the Abyss
• Invasion of Space
• Out With The Inquisitor
• Targets of Opportunity

Thumaturg Vashreen is the vendor for the new “abandoned” tokens. He has packed his things and moved from the Broken Shore to the lower level of the Vindikaar to offer his goods in exchange for Veiled Argunite.

The tokens produce items of level 910. They can also create specific types of artifact relics, so that you no longer receive one of the possible for the specialization randomly.

Veiled Argunite can be obtained in various ways:

• 75 through the weekly invasion quest: “Invasion Point Offensive”.
• 300 for completing the new dungeon and the “Quest: Seat of the Triumvirate: The Crest of Knowledge”.
• 500 for completing the weekly quest to kill the rare enemies of Argus: “Fuel of a Doomed World”.
• By defeating rare enemies and opening chests.
• Through the “Boon of the Steadfast” shoulder enchant.
• As a reward for certain world quests on Argus.

There’s More!

In addition to the new tokens and the new system for artifact knowledge, there are further ways to quickly get involved at the top:

• Crafted items from Argus can be upgraded to item level 935 (more in our crafting article).
• A new heirloom for the neck slot is available: The Training Amulet of the Man’ari.
• The base item level of loot from dungeons has been increased by 20.
• The Dice of Discovery increases the chance to find artifact power by 10% for 2 hours after use. Only effective on characters below level 110.

Benedict says: As a regular player and twink, I find these changes mostly very good. Especially since I cannot play regularly for an extended period, the innovations allow me to still be able to jump back in when I have more time. I can also understand that the artifact knowledge could bother some people. However, considering that, the dice also seems rather pointless…

What do you think? Are the innovations good or bad? Will you perhaps start again and return to your old progression guilds, twink, or try new classes? Or will you rather distance yourself from the ever-faster system?

We also have an overview of the Argus content for the coming weeks for anyone who wants to know more about the start of patch 7.3.

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