We enjoyed an exclusive interview with Graham Berger, Senior Game Designer of World of Warcraftfor information on the new Mega-dungeon of wow. One of the key elements of Patch 10.1.5 on WoW is none other than the arrival of a new Mega-dungeon: the Dawn of Infinity. This new instance composed of 8 Bosses will be available in Mythic version only, offering a real challenge for players upon its release. As a reminder, Patch 10.1.5 is coming to Dragonflight Wednesday, July 12.
The Dawn of Infinity at the heart of the Dragonflight story
While Mechagon (BfA) and Tazavesh (shadowlands) weren’t really central to the current expansion’s story, Infinity Dawn is a true extension of the Dragonflight storyline. Thus, you will have to face Iridikron and the Infinite Dragonflight which seeks to appropriate the power of the Bronze Dragonflight and in particular Nozdormu.
As World of Warcraft Senior Game Designer Graham Berger mentioned during our interview, the Dungeon will be a challenge for HM/MM players upon release. However, in order to bring the story of the instance to more casual players, a Heroic version of Dawn of Infinity will be made available for Patch 10.1.7.
As you will have understood, the Dawn of Infinity is a major element of the content of the extension since it will create a bridge between the story of Season 2 and that of Season 3.
Achievements and Hard Mode in Dawn of Infinity
As mentioned above, Dawn of Infinite will be a challenge for HM and MM players, primarily for the purpose of Hard Mode. Indeed, as in the previous Mega-dungeons, it is possible to complicate the task a little in order to obtain a specific Achievement: HF Dawn. The latter requires a complete run in Mythic version, without any member of your group dying. The achievement will reward players with a unique transmog related to the mood of the instance.
Another interesting Achievement is Defender, which will be easier to obtain since it only requires you to complete a full run in Mythic version. However, it is limited in time since you will only have a few weeks before the arrival of the next content, which will remove access to this HF and the title granted by it.
The Mega-dungeon, a good source of equipment?
Although it has quite a lot of items to loot (about 45 unique items), the Dawn of Infinity will be, at the time of its release, a relatively difficult instance if you don’t have a good ilvl. Thus, the majority of the objects will not be interesting for the players.
On the other hand, the instance offers unique jewelry and weapons with many effects. These could be of interest from Patch 10.1.5 but will undoubtedly be BIS objects when the dungeon is present in the MM+ rotation.
Dawn of the Infinite, soon in MM+ content?
During our interview with Graham Berger, we asked him if Infinite Dawn would be offered as a Mythic Plus version in a future season. The latter confirmed to us that the dungeon would be well cut into two parts in order to make it available to players in MM+ content.
This could be expected since the model of the Mega-dungeons has followed the same operation for a few extensions: a release about a year after the arrival of the extension, a large fairly complex dungeon at its launch and a split into two parts a few months later for Mythic Mode+.
However, the novelty here lies in the design of the Mega-dungeon, which takes into account this problem of MM+ from its initial creation phase.
As a reminder, Patch 10.1.5 will be available on WoW from Wednesday, July 12. The Dawn of Infinity is just one of the many new features in this Patch, we recommend our summary of 10.1.5 so you don’t miss anything on this subject. While waiting for the release of the Patch, you can find all of our information and guides on our World of Warcraft portal.
