Legendary items in World of Warcraft become even more powerful. We reveal how and when this can happen.
Patch 7.1.5 of World of Warcraft brought a lot of improvements. One more or less “silent” change was the possibility to upgrade legendary items retroactively to item level 940. We will explain how this works in this article.
The bad news upfront: The upgrade of legendary items to item level 940 is only possible once the Night Hold opens its gates – that is, after maintenance on January 18.
Contrary to the rumors circulating on the internet, you don’t have to complete the “Illidan” questline.
As soon as the Night Hold opens, all players with at least one legendary item can take on a new quest in Dalaran, where they must collect essences from Aman’thul. These essences can be obtained from bosses in the Night Hold (all difficulty levels), the weekly cache for mythic key dungeons, emissary caches and weekly PvP quests.
Completing this quest rewards you with an item that upgrades a legendary item to item level 940. The quest can be repeated as often as necessary until you no longer have any legendaries from 910. So, if you want, you can fully upgrade all your orange items.
All legendary items that you obtain after January 18 are already at item level 940 – you don’t have to complete any quests for them. However, Blizzard points out that hoarding emissary caches is pointless – if a cache was obtained before January 18 and contains a legendary, it will still have item level 910.
You can find all opening dates for the Night Hold – including for the LFR – in this article.
