Twilight Ascension Pre-Patch Event Guide

Midnight is fast approaching! Come January 27th Xal'atath's forces start gathering in the twilight highlands to take us out in this pre-patch event, Twilight Ascension. Join together with Magister Umbric and Grand Magister Rommath to push them back and level up, get catch up gear, decor, and other sweet rewards before Midnight launches on March 3rd. Important note is that this event much like previous ones, can be done at any level starting at level 10! If you are looking for other things to do before midnight check out our Pre-Patch Hub to see everything else available!

Once you log in while the event is live, a quest will pop up for you from Magister Umbric for the Alliance and Grand Magister Rommath for the horde. You must meet up with your faction representive in each respective main capital city of Stormwind or Orgrimmar. Following along with this short questline will quickly get you to the Twilight Highlands unlocking the hub for this event. Once you complete the quest chain you can participate in other activities this event offers to gain currency.

Once you completed the introductionary questline, you will have access to a few options of what to do to gain a new currency for this pre-patch Twilight's Blade Insignia.

At the event hub area you can pick up two weekly quests that are account bound. One quest named Disrupt the Call is to kill 3 rares from the event. The other named Twilight's Dawn has you do a combination of 8 world quests in the area and/or kill rares. Completeting each of these weekly quests will give you a hefty chunk of 40 Twilight's Blade Insignia to purchase the many goodies available. Make sure to pick up each of them before starting the other activities!

Located within the Twilight Highlands are a handful of world quests. The first time you complete any of these world quest on your account you will recieve 10 Twilight's Blade Insignia as a reward. If you do the same world quest on any alts, you will instead recieve 20 Resonance Crystals as your reward. These quests rotate pretty regularly and are up for about 3 days, so make sure not to miss out on any of these for their lucrative first time rewards!

Finally we have the most repeatable source of the pre-patch currency, rare spawn events. Rotating every 10 minutes and indicated by a silver dragon border star on your minimap, you can join other players in doing these. Arriving at the location you will have a fill the bar objective to stop the ritual. Killing cultists and interacting with objects in the area will fill up this bar to 100%, at which point the rare for the area will spawn. Rares will drop some Resonance Crystals , 1 Twilight's Blade Insignia, as well as a chance at some champion level gear. These rare spawns are very high health elites that deal lots of damage so make sure to take them on with fellow players for an easier time.

Each rare spawn location will have ephemeral void orbs in the area that are interactable. Clicking enough of those will fill a secondary bar at a specified location and then spawn an additional rare called the Voice of the Eclipse. This rare has the exact same drops as the other rare spawns for the area. With enough people interacting with the void orbs, each rare spawn location will offer 2 rares instead of just one so make sure to do your part and help the cause!

There are two feat of strength achievements related to this event, and notably attached to one of them is a mount reward and a title. Killing every rare spawn possible will award you with the Two Minutes to Midnight achievment which gives you the Thorn of Twilight title and Light-Forged Mechsuit mount. With rare spawns on a 10 minute timer and 19 rare spawns to kill, this achievement will take a bit of time but should be no problem for those dedicated over the course of the month.

The other feat of strength only awards the achievement Crunching for Cultists and requires you to win 50 times at the Twilight's Blade Stratagem Game. This game can be played at the event hub in Twilights Highlands on either side of the camp by interacting with the Stolen Twilight's Blade Stratagem, or using the toy that can be purchased from the rewards vendor. The game is the classic game of Tic Tac Toe, pick your faction and ready up for a long session of strategy to earn this feat of strength.

Using your Twilight's Blade Insignia currency you can pick up a plethora of rewards. These rewards are on two different vendors located at the event hub in Twilight Highlands, Materialist Ophinell and Armorer Kalinovan. All rewards are listed in the tables below, notable rewards are champion level catch up gear, new transmog armor and weapons, a mount, pets, decor, and a toy! Additonally there is a title and mount reward related to an achievment for killing every rare spawn which is shown below. It is expected that these items will not return after the event ends, so make sure to pick up everything you want before it goes away!

Here are the rewards available for purchase from Materialist Ophinell.

Item	Type	Cost ( Twilight's Blade Insignias)
Arsenal: Weathered Twilight's Hammer Armaments	Weapon Transmog	40
Ensemble: Well-Worn Twilight Cultist's Attire	Armor Transmog	40
Silvermoon Wooden Chair	Decor	50
Enchanted Blood Elven Candelabra	Decor	50
Sin'dorei Winged Chaise	Decor	75
Retrained Skyrazor	Mount	100
Scruff	Pet	30
Emerald Sporbit	Pet	30
Rhay'Dahr	Pet	30
Twilight's Blade Top Secret Strategy Training Guide	Toy	30

Here are the catch up gear items available for purchase from Armorer Kalinovan. All of these items are recolors of the dungeon gear from The War Within Dungeons, and are the same items that drop from the rare spawns during the event.

Item	Type	Cost ( Twilight's Blade Insignias)
Ascension Arrestor's Shawl	Back	40
Ascension Arrestor's Cowl	Back	40
Ascension Arrestor's Cape	Back	40
Ascension Arrestor's Cloak	Back	40
Ascension Arrestor's Choker	Neck	40
Ascension Arrestor's Pendant	Neck	40
Ascension Arrestor's Ring	Ring	40
Ascension Arrestor's Band	Ring	40
Ascension Arrestor's Robe	Cloth Chest	40
Ascension Arrestor's Soles	Cloth Boots	40
Ascension Arrestor's Mitts	Cloth Hands	40
Ascension Arrestor's Mitre	Cloth Head	40
Ascension Arrestor's Leggings	Cloth Legs	40
Ascension Arrestor's Amice	Cloth Shoulder	40
Ascension Arrestor's Cincture	Cloth Waist	40
Ascension Arrestor's Wraps	Cloth Wrist	40
Ascension Arrestor's Doublet	Leather Chest	40
Ascension Arrestor's Shoes	Leather Boots	40
Ascension Arrestor's Gloves	Leather Hands	40
Ascension Arrestor's Hood	Leather Head	40
Ascension Arrestor's Breeches	Leather Legs	40
Ascension Arrestor's Mantle	Leather Shoulder	40
Ascension Arrestor's Clasp	Leather Waist	40
Ascension Arrestor's Bindings	Leather Wrist	40
Ascension Arrestor's Hauberk	Mail Chest	40
Ascension Arrestor's Boots	Mail Boots	40
Ascension Arrestor's Grips	Mail Hands	40
Ascension Arrestor's Helmet	Mail Head	40
Ascension Arrestor's Petticoat	Mail Legs	40
Ascension Arrestor's Spaulders	Mail Shoulder	40
Ascension Arrestor's Girdle	Mail Waist	40
Ascension Arrestor's Mail Cuffs	Mail Wrist	40
Ascension Arrestor's Surcoat	Plate Chest	40
Ascension Arrestor's Sollerets	Plate Boots	40
Ascension Arrestor's Gauntlets	Plate Hands	40
Ascension Arrestor's Bascinet	Plate Head	40
Ascension Arrestor's Greaves	Plate Legs	40
Ascension Arrestor's Pauldrons	Plate Shoulder	40
Ascension Arrestor's Greatbelt	Plate Waist	40
Ascension Arrestor's Bracers	Plate Wrist	40
Ascension Arrestor's Axe	One Hand Axe	40
Ascension Arrestor's Mace	One Hand Mace	40
Ascension Arrestor's Cudgel	One Hand Mace	40
Ascension Arrestor's Spear	Polearm	40
Ascension Arrestor's Staff	Staff	40
Ascension Arrestor's Greatsword	Two Hand Sword	40
Ascension Arrestor's Censer	Off Hand	40
Ascension Arrestor's Shield	Shield	40
Ascension Arrestor's Warglaive	Warglaive	40
Ascension Arrestor's Dagger	Dagger	40