Icecrown Pre-Patch Event

I am currently going through a period with an overwhelming number of options for me to spend my time with. Right now I have the following things competing for my time…

  • Watch Dogs Legion
  • World of Warcraft Shadowlands Prepatch Event
  • Genshin Impact 1.1
  • Assassin’s Creed Valhalla
  • Destiny 2 Beyond Light
  • PlayStation 5 (soonish hopefully)

I’ve been trying to prioritize the things that are going to go away or the things that have a specific timer to them. That means that Watch Dogs and Valhalla are probably low on the priority scale since I can at any point play them. Shadowlands Prepatch lasts until the 23rd so I am absolutely wanting to spend some time with it. Destiny 2 has weekly event timers so I am also wanting to spend some time there. Genshin Impact… at a minimum I spend enough time to do my dailies and slowly progress my adventure rank.

Yesterday I spent a good chunk of time in Icecrown farming the cycle of world bosses that spawn roughly every 15 minutes. If you are going to do this thing then I highly suggest installing RareScanner. Once you have seen a single spawn, it will begin working its way through the sequence of possible spawns and not only indicate which one is currently active but point you towards the next one in sequence. You have a shot at loot off each boss once per day and from the moment it spawns there seems to be a 2 minute timer before it actually becomes active. Depending on the size of your server you may or may not have sufficient time to fly to it and get a tag in before it dies.

As a result my pattern tended to be to fly to the location the next boss spawns, and then alt tab and do something else for awhile. RareScanner will give you an audible alert when the encounter spawns in and you have roughly two minutes to flip back over and prepare to fight. Each encounter has a chance of dropping some 110 gear and also drops a 25-40 of a currency that can be turned in to a repeatable quest vendor for the Argent Seals that are used as the main currency of the event. This means on average of every 5 bosses you can get enough to purchase a piece of ilvl 100 gear that costs 15 of the Argent currency. I think it would have been better were there not the need to exchange currencies, but this fits with Blizzards design ethic that we can’t have anything nice without it also being somewhat awful in the process.

I’ve been using the event to gear up my Paladin, which I plan on maining for Shadowlands. I hit a string of luck and managed to pull a one handed mace and shield which is awesome given that I tend to level as prot, as well as a random ring. I am not really sure how much more I will farm these bosses once I have gained enough currency to finish buying a set of the ilvl 100 gear. I wish there were items available for every slot, but once again… that would be universally good and there has to be something awful about everything released. I could in theory luck out and get jewelry off the World Bosses but I feel like hoping for specific drops is a dark path of madness. There are several 2handers available, and I would love to have one of those as well just to be able to Ret if I so choose.

If you are seeking information about the event as a whole, then I highly suggest you check out the WoWHead for the Death Rising event in specific. The drop tables seem to be a little off because yesterday my friend Stargrace managed to pull an item that was not showing up as the available options. However it was on the loot table of the ORIGINAL encounter that these bosses are patterned off of. Basically they took the bosses from Icecrown and the 3 dungeons that released along side it and scattered them throughout the zone. In theory I am guessing that means anything that they could drop previously has a ilevel 110 version available. I think everyone is chasing the 34 slot bag, which I am guessing is what is going to be craftable as the high end bag for Shadowlands.

As far as Destiny… I feel like I didn’t get far enough into it last night to really write a proper post about it. So expect to see my commentary on it tomorrow.