The two new Tailoring recipes showcased in yesterday's hotfix notes are now live on NA Season of Discovery realms! Players can buy Pattern: Invoker's Cord and Pattern: Invoker's Mantle from Elynna in Darnassus and from Borya in Orgrimmar.
December 18 Class Balancing and Hotfixes
While both recipes may look like very strong end-game gearing options as they are, our Mage writer Foolipe chimed in to add more context how these newly introduced recipes will affect cloth wearers in Season of Discovery:
By introducing the new Invoker's Mantle shoulders, Blizzard is fixing a hole in Alliance gearing. In the cloth shoulder slot, Horde has the opportunity to get Frayed Chestnut Mantle from the Allegiance to the Old Gods quest, while Alliance players had to use gearing options with much lower power levels.
The Invoker's Cord will help both factions by adding a proper spell power option where before, most casters opted to use the Belt of Arugal because it has more Intellect than Ghamoo-ra's Cinch, which was mostly used as a PVP off-spec alternative.
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