With the first Firelands testing completed, we want to examine one of the new raid's hot topics: the acquisition rate of Dragonwrath, Tarecgosa's Rest.
We will look at historical data from the original Cataclysm and what Blizzard could change, or not, for Cataclysm Classic. An In-depth Guide to Dragonwrath, Tarecgosa's Rest Original Dragonwrath Acquisition Time The Dragonwrath questline has three main quest «checkpoints.» Each checkpoint requires a different number of objectives obtained inside Firelands.
The drop rate of these items changes based on raid size and difficulty. You can see the table for them below. Thanks, Vrokar for helping compile the data from 2010. QuestRequirementSize and Difficulty 10N10H25N25H All-Seeing Eye25x Eternal Ember0-10-11-31-3 Time Grows Short1000x Seething Cinder18-2323-2648-5555-66 Heart of Flame250x Smouldering Essences3-57-97-99-11 With those drop rates, assuming a player plays only in one given raid size and difficulty, this is how long each quest will take to complete, plus the total time to obtain the legendary staff. QuestSize and Difficulty 10N10H25N25H All-Seeing Eye5.6 weeks5.6 weeks1.8 weeks1.8 weeks Time Grows Short7 weeks5.8 weeks2.8 weeks2.4 weeks Heart of Flame8.4 weeks4.6 weeks4.5 weeks3.5 weeks Average Time21 weeks16 weeks9.1 weeks7.7 weeks 4.9 months3.7 months2.1 months1.8 months Fitting the Original Timeline into Cataclysm Classic Unlike Wrath or other Classic expansions, we already know the Blizzard planned timeline for the content updates.
In their announcement, they revealed that Firelands would arrive in October 2024 and Hour of Twilight January 2025. Plugging the amount of time that it takes for a group to complete a legendary staff, and assuming Firelands comes out on the first week of October 2024 (most optimistic estimate), here is when the average group would obtain their first Dragonwrath, Tarecgosa's Rest: 25H group would finish by November 26th, 2024 25N group would finish by December