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Infinite HoA Trait Removed from 8.3, New Legendary Cloak Addition

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We have some much welcomed changes to Patch 8.3 as the infinite Heart of Azeroth trait is no more! You will still be able to upgrade the item level on your Heart after Artifact Level 80, but the Corruption Resistance part has been removed. We're also getting a new addition to the Wrathion legendary cloak, with an upgrade that will get increased Corruption Resistance over time.

You can read more on the legendary cloak here, and the update it's recently gotten here. And you can also always check out all the info on 8.3: Visions of N'zoth in our content hub as well.

    Blizzard LogoInfinite Trait, Legendary Cloak (source)

    In the Visions of N’Zoth PTR, we’re removing what we called the “infinite” at Heart Level 85. It was intended to allowing for an open-ended increase to Corruption resistance.

    We’ve heard a lot of feedback from players, and we agree, that there’s value in being able to reach a point where you’re essentially done with Artifact Power.

    • Increasing the Artifact Level of the Heart after unlocking its final Stamina node will continue to increase the Heart of Azeroth’s item level by 2 per step, but otherwise, major progression will end at Artifact Level 80.

    To complement this, we’re adding an item in Visions of N’Zoth that players will earn once they’ve upgraded their legendary cloak to its maximum potential via Horrific Visions or from defeating N’Zoth on Normal, Heroic, or Mythic difficulty, or from fully completing a Horrific Vision with at least one Mask active. This item will fortify the cloak, adding additional Corruption Resistance and allowing players to earn the ability to wear more Corrupted armor pieces as time goes by.

    We see this as similar to the way that legendary upgrade items were awarded by Archimonde or Argus the Unmaker at the end of the last two expansions – it should provide players who prefer to not do organized raiding with a way to have an engaging option for pursuing this reward.

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    ok or they could just do it like we have in 8.2.5 and just... cap out the artifact level. I may be biased because I like getting gold instead of AP but isn't removing the infinite trait for an infinitely scaling heart anyways just... basically the same thing?

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    10 minutes ago, Aegrotat said:

    ok or they could just do it like we have in 8.2.5 and just... cap out the artifact level. I may be biased because I like getting gold instead of AP but isn't removing the infinite trait for an infinitely scaling heart anyways just... basically the same thing?

    Well the point is item levels aren't remotely as valuable to 99.99% of people so they won't feel the need to chase it. The crazy people/WF raider might still have to though.

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    6 minutes ago, Starym said:

    Well the point is item levels aren't remotely as valuable to 99.99% of people so they won't feel the need to chase it. The crazy people/WF raider might still have to though.

    I think that's my main problem. It's pretty dead for 99% of people. I'd honestly prefer we just kept a cap (even a raised one) and got gold like we currently do past it. instead of a whole 2 iLvls on one piece of gear, which barely grants anything anyways

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    19 minutes ago, Aegrotat said:

    I think that's my main problem. It's pretty dead for 99% of people. I'd honestly prefer we just kept a cap (even a raised one) and got gold like we currently do past it. instead of a whole 2 iLvls on one piece of gear, which barely grants anything anyways

    For WF raiders, they will have already cleared the content likely before they even hit 80 on their necks or very shortly after.. so even for them it’s mostly irrelevant..

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    Heart is one thing, but how long it's going to take for legendary cloak to reach maximum? Anyway, less grind is always welcome.

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    On 11/19/2019 at 10:37 PM, Arcling said:

    Heart is one thing, but how long it's going to take for legendary cloak to reach maximum? Anyway, less grind is always welcome.

    Eh they've merely changed what we're grinding from the current system to an older new system. 

     

    On 11/19/2019 at 9:05 PM, Starym said:

    it should provide players who prefer to not do organized raiding with a way to have an engaging option for pursuing this reward.

    I'm in two minds here, on one side, as I've given up raiding this expac, it means I can still get the upgrade, which is nice. However since someone who does raid can get it from Nzoth, I'll still be behind them for pushing M+. Thankfully they are increasing the ilvl gains from M+ to scale to +15 and thus mythic level in the weekly chest, but still 10 below for the dungeon. 

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