Highlights

  • World of Warcraft Classic players may be able to share raid attunement between characters in Season of Discovery Phase 4.
  • A datamined item suggests fans won't have to complete attunement quests multiple times for Molten Core and Onyxia's Lair.
  • The Chipped Drakefire Amulet can be shared with alts, saving time and effort in the attunement process for raids.

World of Warcraft Classic players may be able to share raid attunement between characters in Season of Discovery Phase 4. While the exact method is not yet known, a datamined World of Warcraft item from Season of Discovery Phase 4 suggests fans won’t have to complete the attunement quests multiple times.

Recently, World of Warcraft Classic gave players a first look at Season of Discovery Phase 4. As the first endgame phase of the experimental realms, Season of Discovery Phase 4 is remixing several iconic WoW Classic instances, including Molten Core and Onyxia’s Lair. As before, this means World of Warcraft fans will need to attune to these instances by completing their associated questlines.

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However, it seems like the attunement process for these raids will be a little more forgiving in Season of Discovery Phase 4. Wowhead recently datamined an item called the Chipped Drakefire Amulet. Strikingly similar to the Drakefire Amulet – the necklace players must obtain in order to enter Onyxia’s Lair – this chipped counterpart differs in two ways: it Binds to Account, and it can be sold to a vendor. This implies the item can be shared with subsequent WoW characters to bypass the attunement quest, saving a great deal of time and effort in the process.

What is Raid Attunement in World of Warcraft?

  • In Classic WoW, raids like Molten Core, Onyxia’s Lair, Blackwing Lair, and Naxxramas require attunement in order to enter.
  • Doing so usually involves lengthy quests, expensive materials, abundant reputation grinding, or some combination of the three.
  • All attunement quests for raids in modern World of Warcraft were removed by Mists of Pandaria, though some dungeons required it until as late as Battle for Azeroth.

The exact method for getting the Chipped Drakefire Amulet is currently unknown. That said, because it has a sale price, it may be purchasable from a special vendor once a character completes the attunement quest once. If this is the case, fans will be able to get their alts into the raid for a small fee of gold simply by mailing copies of this item over to their other characters. Players can expect to learn exactly how this new process works when Season of Discovery Phase 4 comes out, if not when World of Warcraft gives the official reveal of the events coming in the update over the next few weeks.

Fans are already excited about the prospect of these new raid attunement items. While the attunement process is a staple of the raid experience in WoW Classic, few players will want to waste time doing these quests on multiple characters again – especially for lengthy questlines like the one for the Drakefire Amulet. Hopefully, this new attunement process continues World of Warcraft’s recent trend towards alt-friendliness, both in Season of Discovery and in modern WoW with its Warbands feature.