Welcome to the Overgear guide on Dragonflight Tier Sets. Here you will find all the information about the upcoming World of Warcraft expansion. We will try to cover every single aspect of the changes to provide you with the most up-to-date information. It’s time to grab some snacks as our guide starts here.
Dragonflight Tier Sets Overview
Like in past expansions, tier sets are powerful armor sets that give your character a significant boost for DPS, HPS, or tanking abilities. Once you get 2 tier set pieces, you unlock the first bonus, which changes or upgrades one of your spec key abilities. When you get 4 pieces, you’ll get another powerful bonus.
In most cases, the item level of the tier set is not as important as the bonuses it gives you. So if you plan to play in Dragonflight high-end content, no matter if it is PvP or PvE, you can’t make it without a set.
If to talk about things in general there aren’t a lot of changes. Primalist Class Tier Sets are composed of 5 pieces of armor and can be acquired through the tokens dropped from The Vault of the Incarnates raid bosses. There are four types of tokens and their item level varies between 389 and 398 for Normal, from 402 to 411 for Heroic, and from 415 to 424 for Mythic mode. Bosses drop various ilvl loot and tokens drop starting with 4th boss. Check out the list of them:
Zenith Tokens — shared between Evoker, Monks, Rogues, and Warriors
Dreadful Tokens — shared between Death Knights, Demon Hunters, and Warlocks
Mystic Tokens — shared between Druids, Hunters, and Mages
Venerated Tokens — shared between Paladins, Priest, and Shamans
There is also another way to get the set. In 9.2 there was the Creation Catalyst that allowed players to reforge their gear into set pieces. This feature will be met in Dragonflight with another name: the Inspiration Catalyst. That means players don’t have to raid to get the set. Note, that The Inspiration Catalyst will be available in six weeks after the Mythic Vault of the Incarnates opens. That is approximately January 23, 2023. There is no more information at this time.
Also, Tier Sets can be acquired with a low chance through the Great Vault. The item level of rewards depends on raid difficulty. To unlock all three item choices, one must:
Defeat 2 Vault of the Incarnates bosses
Defeat 4 Vault of the Incarnates bosses
Defeat 6 Vault of the Incarnates bosses.
All in all, Dragonflight Season 1 Class Sets have a pretty interesting proto-dragons-style appearance. A combination of different elements makes set designs look spectacular. Each element represents a particular class.
Tier Set Crafting
There is also another way to get the set. Starting January 24 (January 25 for EU), Revival Catalyst will become available. You are familiar with the mechanics of how it works if you have played Shadowlands. In a separate Revival Catalyst guide, we described in detail the mechanics of its work, however, here, we will describe the general points.
On January 24th (January 25th for EU), you will receive an account-wide quest, for which you will receive 6 charges. These charges are personal for each character on the account. Having any non-crafted gear (preferably from Mythic+), you can turn it into part of a tier set. If you transform a Mythic+ gear into a tier set, then like any other Mythic+ gear, you can increase its ilvl for Valor.
Dragonflight Class Tier Set Bonuses
Granting two and four pieces of the set unlocks bonuses that increase the power of your character drastically. There is no way players will want to skip them. Below you can find some information about a particular class and role bonuses.
Death Knight
Number of pieces
Blood
Frost
Unholy
2-set
When a Bone Shield charge is consumed you have a 20% chance to generate one rune.
Increases Empower spells’ chance to critically strike by 5% and Empower spells to increase your chance to critically strike by 5% for 6 seconds.
Empower spells increase Reversion’s chance to critically heal by 25% for 6 seconds.
4-set
Empower spells to have a 25% chance to grant you 6 seconds of Fury of the Aspects without causing Sated.
Reversion healing has a chance to cause your next Living Flame to cast instantly and deal 20% increased damage or healing. Stacks up to 2 times.
Hunter
Number of pieces
Beast Mastery
Marksmanship
Survival
2-set
Kill Command damage increased by 10% and it has a 10% chance to reset the cooldown on Barbed Shot.
Arcane Shot & Multi-Shot critical hits cause your next Aimed Shot to cast 50% faster and cause the target to bleed for 20% of damage dealt over 6 seconds.
When Arcane Blast or Arcane Explosion critically strikes at least one target, the critical strike chance of your next Arcane Barrage is increased by 10%, up to 4 stacks.
Consuming Fingers of Frost increases spell damage by 8% for 6 seconds.
Monk
Number of pieces
Brewmaster
Mistweaver
Windwalker
2-set
Hitting an enemy with Tiger Palm or Spinning Crane Kick grants Brewmaster’s Rhythm, increasing damage dealt and reducing damage taken by 1% for 10 seconds, stacking up to 4 times.
When your direct healing spells critically strike, your next Holy Shock deals 30% increased damage or healing.
Casting Hammer of the Righteous / Blessed Hammer increases your Parry by 4% for 10 seconds and extends the duration of Versatility of Light by 1.0 seconds.
When you consume Crusader’s Strength, the damage of your next Blade of Justice is increased by 50% for each stack of Crusader’s Strength consumed.
Priest
Number of pieces
Discipline
Holy
Shadow
2-set
Casting Power Word: Shield increases the effectiveness of your next direct damage or healing spell by 10%.
Casting Prayer of Mending reduces the cast time of your next Heal or Prayer of Healing by 1.0 seconds and increases their Holy Word cooldown reduction effect by 2.0 seconds.
When your weapon poisons deal direct damage, you have a 50% chance to gain Septic Wounds, increasing your Bleed damage by 2% for 8 seconds, stacking up to 5 times.
Consuming Soul Shards has a chance to grant you Chaos Maelstrom, increasing your critical strike chance by 10% for 10 seconds.
4-set
Cruel Inspiration also grants 2 charges of Cruel Epiphany, up to 5 charges. Each charge of Cruel Epiphany increases the damage of your next Malefic Rapture or Seed of Corruption by 40%.
During Chaos Maelstrom, your Chaos Bolt, Conflagrate, and Incinerate critical strikes explode on the target, dealing 2-10% of damage dealt to enemies within 8 yds. Damage reduced beyond 5 targets.
Warrior
Number of pieces
Arms
Fury
Protection
2-set
Mortal Strike and Cleave damage and the chance to critically strike increased by 10%.
Execute chance to critically strike increased by 10%.
Revenge grants you Vanguard’s Determination, increasing your damage done and reducing the damage you take by 4% for 5 seconds.
4-set
Mortal Strike and Cleave, & Execute critical strikes increase your damage and critical strike chance by 5% for 6 seconds.
Sudden Death’s chance to reset the cooldown of Execute and make it usable on any target, regardless of health, is greatly increased.
During Vanguard’s Determination, gain Ignore Pain equal to 10% of the damage you deal.
That is the information we have for now. We will adjust this guide as new information appears. Hope it was helpful, don’t forget to rate this guide, it is very important to us! Good luck in getting the set, traveler, see you in Dragonflight!