wow New Cypher Equipment Weapons Coming in Patch 9.2.5

[Stan 4,719]

Blizzard is adding new Cypher Equipment weapons in the forthcoming Patch 9.2.5 update.

New Cypher Equipment weapons have been added to Zereth Mortis in Patch 9.2.5. The base item level of Cypher gear is 233 at rank 1. Cypher Equipment can be upgraded up to rank 6 and item level 252.

You will receive Cypher Equipment from doing Zereth Mortis world quests, daily quests, story quests, and other activities in the zone. Here are the new Cypher Equipment weapons that have been added:

• Ballad Shield
• Choral Staff
• Harmonium Lantern
• Meno Sword
• Lamenting Blade
• Legato Hammer
• Rhapsodic Cleaver
• Overture's Shiv
• Rhapsodic Pulverizer
• Senza Spellblade
• Scepter of Requiem
• Seranading Arbalest
• Waltzing Glaive
• Tempo Smasher

[Migol 407]

Cypher weapons would be a lot more fun if they could actually scale to the higher (272) ilevels with valor and whatnot.     But as implemented unfortunately they're catchup gear for alts at best.

[req0 9]

who's using this shi...?

[Nym85 72]

23 minutes ago, Migol said:

Cypher weapons would be a lot more fun if they could actually scale to the higher (272) ilevels with valor and whatnot.     But as implemented unfortunately they're catchup gear for alts at best.

Honestly with fated raids/dungeons in S4 perhaps they should try and also provide some progression for players whose main focus is world content. If Cypher level could go up to at least give another 13 ilvls (with weapons and trinkets included) that'd be fairly welcome

[Newbie 6]

Any idea what date this patch is going live exactly?

Also, since Blizz would be increasing iLvl of all pvp, raid & dungeon drops in 9.2.5, why not also increase the iLvl of catchup gear & rank 5-7 legendaries. That should be the obvious correct step right?

[Migol 407]

34 minutes ago, Newbie said:

Any idea what date this patch is going live exactly?

Also, since Blizz would be increasing iLvl of all pvp, raid & dungeon drops in 9.2.5, why not also increase the iLvl of catchup gear & rank 5-7 legendaries. That should be the obvious correct step right?

Well, it's pretty obvious Dragonflight will be 2023...hopefully early but who knows what their progress is.

With that in mind, this current tier and the "recycle tier" of 9.25 have to last at least 8 or so months.     So I wouldn't expect it till August or so.

[Talihawk 3]

No bow or gun???

[UlfricDungrove 3]

16 minutes ago, Talihawk said:

No bow or gun???

Not very surprising; there is no bow or gun from the 226 anima gear either IIRC, only a crossbow (the 'arbalest'). The same goes for some melee weapons as well, such as one-handed axes.

[SpilledStars 32]

"it should be obvious..." I don't think you and I are seeing the same thing as obvious, and then there's the devs, and aside from devs there's whoever commands them to work on a thing.

What is most certainly not obvious to Blizz is that some people who aren't hardcore raiders would LOVE to be part time raiders if only it were possible to use world content to gear enough to be safe being a sidekick player in a raid group, instead of carried into enough raids at squishy to gear up to raid,

...which I have the impression (hey, maybe it's just me) is why people are happy to ride-along World First raiders stomping hard and turning over high quality gear (gemmed/tertiary stats) 

There's no intermediate support.  We the community have to manage to do right by each other.

[Znifler 58]

16 hours ago, Nym85 said:

Honestly with fated raids/dungeons in S4 perhaps they should try and also provide some progression for players whose main focus is world content. If Cypher level could go up to at least give another 13 ilvls (with weapons and trinkets included) that'd be fairly welcome

My lord, then it would be so incredibly easy to gear up.

[Nym85 72]

5 hours ago, Znifler said:

My lord, then it would be so incredibly easy to gear up.

I mean it will be the last patch of the expansion and if they are going to the trouble to do an entire season, it will last long. Fated raids get +13 ilvls so it kind of makes sense to bump everything else up (fate LFR will drop 252, same as cypher gear).