Gavel of the First Arbiter - Send Souls to the Afterlife with Unique Sepulcher Raid Loot
Loot was finally added to the dungeon journal in this week's Patch 9.2 PTR build, giving us a first look at some of the items which will drop from the Sepulcher of the First Ones raid. In addition to brand new trinkets and tier sets, we've found a few unique items to highlight, such as the Jailer's own Gavel of the First Arbiter! Although not obtainable on the PTR, you can check it out in our dressing room! As its name implies, the Gavel of the First Arbiter is Zovaal's personal weapon, from a time before he was exiled to the Maw by the other Eternal Ones.
Thus far throughout the Shadowlands, we haven't been in any direct conflict with the Jailer yet to actually see him wield a weapon yet, but dungeon journal tips and various animations uncovered on the PTR indicate that he will use the weapon to club us around during his boss encounter in the Sepulcher. Your browser does not support the video tag.
The Gavel has a very cool animation used during the Jailer's boss encounter, though we don't know what it will look like in the hands of players. The player version of the mace is very interesting however, customarily trading away primary and secondary stats like Strength or Critical Strike in favor of a unique combat effect called Twisted Judgment.
As read, the effect dislodges the enemy's soul, presumably the same way that the Whispering Shard of Power spawns an Innocent Soul to be defeated in order to gain its strength buff, though killing this target grants a boon depending on which afterlife its sent to within the Shadowlands. Although we haven't discovered any of the Twisted Boon spells associated with that effect, and it's possible that they haven't even been added onto the PTR yet, we can reasonably presume that the
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