Blackwing Lair Dragonflight Trials and Loot Chests Explained - Season of Discovery
With the release of Phase 5 of Season of Discovery, Blackwing Lair received a new difficulty via the Dragonflight Trials — these trials allow players to increase the difficulty of the raid, either by enabling hard mode boss fights or adding zone-wide mechanics that force players to change the way they tackle bosses.
Blackwing Lair Trials and Hard Modes Overview
There are five different trials in total, each corresponding to a different color Dragonflight:
Based on the trials you choose to activate, you'll be able to earn up to three bonus loot chests at the end of the raid, each of which can award loot from any boss in the raid, including tier tokens. Each chest has a different requirement, but the maximum difficulty that increases the loot you receive is having three trials active. Activating all five trials awards no extra loot that you wouldn't receive from a 3-trial run.
- You will receive a bonus chest for completing the «trial of the week», which for the release week was the Blue trial.
- You will receive a bonus chest based on the number of trials you completed the raid with, with different rewards for one, two, or three active trials.
- You will receive a bonus chest for completing the raid with three trials and the weekly trial. This does not mean you need to do four trial runs — in the example of week one, doing a raid with Blue + 2 other affixes is enough for this chest.
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