Patch 12.0.7 Overview
Naigtal is a fungal world now occupied by the ethereal Hal'hadar, while Val is an icy Legion world now inhabited by the Domanaar Imperator Pertinax.
Greatly expanded since we last visited them in Legion, these worlds are the source of the Void Assaults on Azeroth, which players can explore to find new rares, treasures, collectables, and even world bosses! Each features a short quest chain, leading to a showdown with their leaders: The Nexus-Captain Leth'ir in Naigtal and Imperator Pertinax on the world of Val. Defeating either one of them on normal awards the Heroic Tendencies achievement, unlocking the Heroic world tier.
Normal recommends only item level 217 while Heroic increases to 274, adding more elites and introducing enemy affixes!
Invasion World Bosses
While the worlds are interesting, the quests, rares, and bonus objectives are pretty standard and don't require elaboration, but the leaders are much more interesting. Described as world bosses, they aren't present in the dungeon journal, but their quests recommend 15-players, and the drops are slightly better than the existing world bosses at 3/6 Champion, which increases to Hero-track on Heroic world tier. Instead of dropping Warbound gear, the items are entirely Bind on Equip and convert to Warbound when used, allowing them to be bought and sold on the auction house.
Still lets you learn the appearance, even if you don't have a character who can use it.
With Naigtal in rotation this week, Nexus-Captain Leth'ir is the actual boss that needs to be defeated, but is joined by Adjutant Mertei and a whole host of ethereal Hal'hadar troops. While traditional world bosses start at around 50 million health, these two only have ~28 million on the Normal world tier, and although they hit non-tanks quite hard, well-geared players can defeat them with far less than the suggested 15 players. Definitely bring a tank and/or healer if you can though, because they hit pretty hard, especially the Adjutant's relentless Arcane Missiles that don't seem to respect aggro whatsoever.
This recording started a little late, but both bosses took around 11 minutes to duo as a Prot Paladin and Arms Warrior.
Don't worry though, the Heroic world tier version of the fight is considerably more intimidating, with both bosses sharing a 76 million health pool! Like many enemies throughout the zone, they also feature their own random affixes to make the fight even more challenging, but now drop Hero-track gear to make up for it.
Think this is going to need more than just two players.
