Guide to the Dragonflight Pre-Patch Event - Primal Storms and Primalist Invasions

Par Neryssa Actualisé : 18/11/2022

DragonflightWhy Should I Participate in the Primal Storms Pre-Patch Event?

The event rewards ilvl252 gear, which is a decent catch-up for alts that have not actively played through Shadowlands Seasons 3 and 4. This gear will last halfway through Dragonflight leveling, where players will start to find replacement pieces around level 65 quests.

There are some time-limited rewards that will no longer become obtainable at Dragonflight launch:
The Contre les éléments Feat of Strength;

The Sac de vents furieux Toy;

The Tourmentin primordial Battle Pet;

The Bourse de composants battue par la tempête, a 20-slot Reagent Bag and the only bag players can obtain before Dragonflight;

The Confluence élémentaire instable Heirloom Trinket.

When is the Dragonflight Pre-Patch Event?

Phase Two: November 15

In-Game Events: Primal Storms: Ward off attacks from the Primalists with new quests and world events, setting the stage for Dragonflight’s launch.

Primalist InvasionsBadlandsNorthern BarrensUn'Goro CraterBadlands during a Primal Water Invasion.Essence primitivePrimal Storm Event RewardsContre les éléments Feat of StrengthEssence primitive ilvl 252 Catch-Up GearEssence primitive

Primalist mobs during the Primal Storm boss spawns can drop 3-5 Essence primitive each.

Primal Storm bosses drop 15-20 Essence primitive each.

Chasse-tempêtes WilliamChasse-tempêtes Suhrakka

Item

Cost

Bracers, Belt, Cloak, Rings, Necklaces, 1H Weapons

25 Essence primitive each

Boots, Gloves, Shoulders

35 Essence primitive each

Helm, Chest, Pants, Trinkets, 2H Weapons

45 Essence primitive each

For transmog pursuers, the invasion gear is a blue recolor of the Dragonflight Questing Gear and a previously undiscovered hue:

Cloth Set

Leather Set

Mail Set

Note: Gloves are showing a glitch in the Dressing Room, but they're currently glitching like that in-game as well.

Plate Set

Sac de vents furieux ToyEssence primitiveTourmentin primordial Battle PetMenace primordialeMenace primordialeEssence primitiveBourse de composants battue par la tempête Reagent BagBourse de composants battue par la tempêteConfluence élémentaire instable Heirloom Trinket

Terre primitive affaiblie from Seigneur de la terre grondant during Earth Invasions;

Feu primitif affaibli from Seigneur du feu déchaîné during Fire Invasions;

Tempête primitive affaiblie from Seigneur des tempêtes débridé during Storm Invasions;

Eau primitive affaiblie from Seigneur des glaces algide during Water Invasions.

Commentaires

Commentaire de minka25

So you need 315 Essences for full mog set.

Commentaire de Xlsfd

I really hope the Heirloom parts will be Bind-to-Account...

Commentaire de Qualanthar

So 13 days to get the FOS, toy and trinket. Are these invasions going to be up constantly in all four zones so you can farm the "rare" parts?

Commentaire de tristantaylor

I'm sorry, didn't see it anywhere, is it only for max level, or are you able to level in the pre-patch events?

Commentaire de orca2017

the leather set looks good.. the helm on the mail sets look aliitle kooky

Commentaire de JoeAlder

Well, at least these are more sensibly priced than last prepatch's gear, and the currency can actually be farmed. The Scourgestone grind from SL prepatch was ridiculous, and to top it off you didn't unlock the other faction's equivalent after getting each of your own faction's mog. Still mad over that.

Commentaire de agentrock

DEAR WOWHEAD:

Please state that trinkets are also available for 45 primal essences. Some dude on reddit think there's not.

Thanks!

Commentaire de NoRegret

Very comfortable invasion zones for horde players. But for alliance u need to spent a lot of time to travel between these locations.

Commentaire de lildip

Can anyone confirm if these transmog sets are still obtainable in dragonflight? Or are these versions only from the prepatch?

Commentaire de TinyFred

As the question has been asked multiple times here - this event is accessible by low level characters (and the XP is actually not bad)! Unless it was changed for the live release (as you could on PTR).

Commentaire de echo808

Will the bosses be killable multiple times while the zone event is up? and if so will you be able to loot the boss multiple times or will it be once per day?

Commentaire de 0Squillium0

hi everyone! You CAN farm these for the Dimmed elements. I was doing the Earth invasion in Un'Goro and killed the large boss once, did not get the item. I waited ~30 minutes for him to respawn and got the item on my second kill of the same invasion. Hope this helps :D

Commentaire de Anistole

Just want to point out - gear pieces do drop from the boss events. I received a cloak on my warrior.

Commentaire de Hiyame

So, is this not the Primal Elements set? It also says Primal Storms but I can't see any way to the get set? I can only see the set listed on WoWhead, but the other set also says its available from Primal Storms in the blue color. Anyone know what this is about and how to get this set?

Commentaire de Ranma11788

Do we know why there doesn't seem to be an Invasion spawning in Tirisfal Glades? I'm only seeing Barrens, Un'Gorog and Badlands. And have only seen Fire and Earth so far.

Commentaire de Karadine

its the last slot on the last vendor page, but the first available reagent bag Bourse de composants battue par la tempête is only 5 Primeval Essence each.

Also the Essence primitive as well as the 4 component pieces for the heirloom are BOA. The armor is BoP, though, but that just means you can farm on your main and gear up alts (or collect the transmogs) by sending them currency. The events are giving good experience for levels 50-60, so that's something that may help.

Commentaire de Wyldclaw

If you forget which elemental lords you have defeated you can check your progress on Contre les éléments by using the following macro:
/run local a=16431 print(format("\124cffFFFF00TODO for %s\124r",GetAchievementLink(a)))for i=1,GetAchievementNumCriteria(a)do local d,_,c,x,y=GetAchievementCriteriaInfo(a,i)if not c then print(format("%s %d/%d",d,x,y))end end

Commentaire de Dwyistraz

So it currently appears that the Tirisfal locations are not showing up for both Pre and Post BFA instances of the map...

Commentaire de Comocosono

It's so great that blizzard removed honor gear and conquest gear so that I would be forced to gear my alts through this crappy even rather than PvP like I wanted.
Item level 252 catch up gear when honor gear starts at 265 in warmode, come on get real.
Horrible prepatch event already.
Now we have to do the event to gear our alts because it is better than nothing, so the metric looks good for investors.

Commentaire de 1902144

What about the dungeon? Does it have any unique rewards?

Commentaire de Drelnar

The quests that give Primeval Essences are "per character" so you can get HUNDREDS quickly if you have alts.
Since they are Account Bound, you can then send them to the character you want to gear up or on which you want to collect the transmog !

Commentaire de FrostDrop

Tips and Tricks for those wanting to collect the transmog and/or want to collect a lot of Primeval Essense.

Premade Groups - Custom (Use and abuse it.)

make/join groups to allow phasing directly into the Elemental Lords.
if no Elemental Lords are up, rotate locations to possibly find another Elemental lord.
keep doing this until you get one of the Dimmed Primevals for each elemental.

Gear pieces do drop from the Elemental Lords so this will cut your need for Primeval Essences.

For those not level 60 yet and wanting a quick and dirty to leveling. (You need to be lvl 60 to buy the transmogs at the vendor.)

Simply tag the group of monsters once, and run into other players so they can take aggro. Focus on tagging. Not killing for maximum profit.
There will always be one small elemental that you will always be able to tag regardless. Make sure you do. He is about about 2x the exp of two of the smaller non-elementals mobs.
Run across to the other side of the area (to avoid taking damage) and tag the newly respawned enemies on the other side.
Rinse and repeat.

Let other people do the killing while you just tag all the mobs. Do this as well when the the Elemental spawns in and before the meter drops to 0 so other players can kill the mobs even faster.(Being in a raid reduces exp gains about by half. but kills faster)

Almost forgot:

Buy the Dagger and the Bow using a Warrior class.
You need to make sure to filter by "All" when at vendor to see them.

And Primeval Essences are tradeable to ALTs if you want to do it on one character.

Commentaire de Manniala

This "transmog" gear is so ugly, it should be categorized as an insult to any wow players out there, putting stuff like this in the game, i scream Blizzard hates its players!

Commentaire de strickn

Some observations on the Primalist Invasions as-of 2022-11-18:

Invasion Timings

Invasions last for 2-hours and 55-minutes before ending (the map timers will show 2-hours and 53-minutes, but Primal Storms and Primalist mobs take approximately 25-30 seconds to spawn and appear for a new invasion, followed by a good minute-or-so to fully de-spawn them when the invasion ends)
New invasions start on-the-hour, 5-minutes after the prior ones end (e.g. if current invasions end at 1:55pm, new ones will start at 2:00pm)
Elemental Lords respawn 20-minutes after being killed
The average time to down an Elemental Lord's shield seems to be around 2 to 3-minutes with a decent amount of players participating (expect 10 to 15-minutes if it's off-hours or a low population realm)
The average time to kill an Elemental Lord (after its shield is down) seems to be anywhere from 75-seconds to 3 1/2-minutes

Invasion Details

Multiple invasion zones can have the same invasion type occurring at once

Had two Seigneur de la terre grondant being summoned in Un'Goro Crater and Northern Barrens at the same time
Had three Seigneur des glaces algide being summoned in Un'Goro Crater, Northern Barrens, and Badlands at the same time

A full 252-iLvl set from the Event Quartermaster costs 525-530 x Essence primitive (varies based-on whether you pick a single Two-hand weapon vs. Main + Off-hand)
Primalist mobs and Elemental Lords can drop the same 252-iLvl Blue gear that the Event Quartermaster sells. These drops are tradeable to party members
Primal Storms are the invasion 'portals', be careful not to confuse seeing them on the map with the summoning of an Seigneur des tempêtes débridé. Always look at the color of the Primal Storm icons on the map; or hover over the main one in each invasion zone to see the description text explaining which type of Elemental Lord is being summoned.
The Primal Storms close approximately 45 to 60-seconds after the map timers expire; so you can still get some kills in if you need a few more Essence primitive before everything vanishes
Have yet to see any invasions in Tirisfal Glades thus far, regardless of Phase (seems folks in other posts on here are experiencing the same)

Elemental Lords

Usually spawn immediately (with shield) when new invasions start (have had one invasion start where one didn't spawn immediately, but appeared 6-mins after)
Had to kill an average of three of each type, in order to get all four types of Dimmed Primeval drops for the Heirloom Trinket (it really depends on how RNG is feeling though, had a friend get each of theirs on first kill of each type)
Start at 1,423K HP and max-out at 26,401K HP (depending on the number of people that have tagged it)
Seigneur du feu déchaîné is easier to kill if you kite it to the edge of the area, so that everyone can easily avoid the giant spinning-fire attack that stays throughout the entire fight
When present in an invasion zone, it will show a giant skull on the map where they are located (shows while shields are up too)
Locations:

/way Northern Barrens 35.14 40.20 Elemental Lord (slightly west of The Forgotten Pools)

/way Un'Goro Crater 48.85 28.52 Elemental Lord (slightly west of Lakkari Tar Pits)

/way Badlands 33.07 42.23 Elemental Lord (east of New Kargath)

For lower-level characters

Make sure you check your Mailbox, read the WoW Dev Team mail, open your Anniversary Gift, and use the Paquet cadeau festif for an 18% XP Boost until Dragonflight releases
You can tag Primalist mobs and Elemental Lords and still get credit when higher-level players in the invasion zone assist you in killing them (regardless of being in a party or not)
Leveling via invasions is an awesome way to accumulate additional Essence primitive that you can send to alts
If a Primalist mob, or Elemental Lord drops Blue gear, its iLvl will be relative to your character's level (e.g. Level 48 = iLvl 83, Level 49 = iLvl 88)
XP Samplings

Level 48 w/ Rested XP and No XP boost token

Seigneur des glaces algide - 2,931 XP (1,954 + 977 rested)
Elémentaire de neige - 3,387 XP (2,258 + 1,129 rested)
Elémentaire d'eau - 4,782 XP (3,188 + 1,594 rested)

Level 48 w/ Rested XP and XP boost token

Elémentaire d'eau - 6,768 XP (4,512 + 2,256 rested)

Level 49 w/ Rested XP and XP boost token

Seigneur des glaces algide - 4,452 XP (2,968 + 1,484 rested)
Elémentaire de neige - 3,483 XP (2,322 + 1,161 rested)

Commentaire de Hunnypii

Is here a way to quickly go from area to area if not a mage? I seem to be spending a long time flying.

Commentaire de Pixelfox

There seems to be a (daily?) limit on how many Essence you can get from the regular Eliete and normal mobs when the boss is not up. After doing the daily for 30 and killing a bunch of regular/elite (Revenant) mobs and doing one boss, I stopped getting any (non gray junk) drops off those. I'm still getting plenty from the boss event shield-breaking big guys and the boss itself (29 on the last boss kill, 44 total for the boss event).

You definitely get the regular 252 purchasable pieces off the bosses almost every time, so for efficiency don't buy anything until say you've gotten all for boss drops for the Heirloom Trinket, then you'll probably have enough Essence to fill in the pieces you didn't get as drops and probably a few more to mail to other characters (the Essence is BtoA.

Currently very easy to get all this because everyone is still doing them. In fact it's so many, that after a boss kill that doesn't give you what you want, you can try switching to a different character and back and you may log into a different phase/shard that will repop the boss sooner as they all appear to be independent when there are multiples up due to the zone population.

Commentaire de Deemer276

I would also like to add. Every piece of gear, i've obtained so far at lvl 60... turns into 278 once equipped. I have not yet tested this with gear from the Vendor. but even items from the Tyr Dungeon.

Commentaire de agentrock

This is what keeps happening during these:

Group A: Boss spawns every 30 mins
Group B: Boss spawns every 20 mins
Boss: Spawns after 20 mins
Group A: "Oh, what a pleasant surprise!"
Me: (Rolls eyes) (Is incredulous)
Boss: Is killed
Group A: Okay, next one is <30 mins later>
Group A: Is annoying af because you keep insisting on 30 mins, yet it keeps being 20 mins.

Commentaire de Mypciscraze

Hi all

I present You Storyline L’expédition du Dracaret, achievement Contre les éléments and how to get Confluence élémentaire instable released at 15/11/2022.

See Video for Confluence élémentaire instable - https://youtu.be/-sVEFLrU5LQ
See Video for Achievement Contre les éléments - https://youtu.be/WJPdG2qfkRI
See Video with Quest chain + Extra Quests + Tourmentin primordial if need it part 1 - https://youtu.be/Mh4zj_2v_VY

Storyline L’expédition du Dracaret + Extra Quests:

1. Les îles aux Dragons vous attendent - start automaticly when login You need to go to Stormwind and speak with Irion 79.9 27.2
2. L’invitation des Aspects - speak with Irion conversation will start.
3a. Coordination expéditionnaire - Speak with 3 NPC: Thaelin Sombrenclume 64 37.4, Inventoriste Wulfred 63.2 70.1 and Guide Jeb 38.2 45.2
3b. Les gardes d’obsidienne - speak with Dervichane 51.1 67.5 on top of tower
5. Des murmures dans le vent - Speak with Archimage Khadgar He will come from teleport, Video will start.
6. Chasse aux tempêtes - Start from Toddy Bourbon 22.9 55.5 Speak with Chasse-tempêtes William 25 53.2
For Storyline probably the rest of the quests next week. But after 6 quests You can do extra quests:
- Héritage de Tyr : les secrets du passé - Do dungeon Uldaman located in 41.4 9.9, best way is to go LFG dungeons. Dont forget to put dungeon on normal dif.
- A Primal Threat - Kill mobs at Primal Elements and pick up from them 10 Particule d’énergie primordiale Reward is Tourmentin primordial.
After finishing quest 6 You will be able to buy items from Chasse-tempêtes William. All items 252ilvl + Sac de vents furieux and Bourse de composants battue par la tempête, to Buy all item you need Essence primitive you can get them from killing mobs at Primal Elements.

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Achievement Contre les éléments and how to get Confluence élémentaire instable Guide:

First think about Primal Elements. You have 4 elements bosses and they are spawn only in 3 location:
/way Badlands 32.9 42.1
/way Un'Goro Crater 48.4 27.8
/way Northern Barrens 35.2 40.4

Elements are spawn every 3 hours and is random elemental on each location ( can be 3 x ice or 1xfire 1xice 1x wind ).

To get Achi done You just need to kill all 4 bosses but to get Confluence élémentaire instable You need to get drop from them but is not 100% drop rate.
Elemental bosses and drop:
- Seigneur des tempêtes débridé drop Tempête primitive affaiblie i got it after 2nd kill :D,
- Seigneur de la terre grondant drop Terre primitive affaiblie i got it after 11 kills xD
- Seigneur des glaces algide drop Eau primitive affaiblie i got it after first kill :D
- Seigneur du feu déchaîné drop Feu primitif affaibli i got it after 2nd kill :D.

Now most important for drop, to get it easy use LFG ! in this way i get all Dimmed Primeval very fast. Only You need to be lucky with elemental spawn.

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I hope that help You if neew quest will come up i will drop update :)

Commentaire de essmene

There should be a guide to efficient AoE farming.

It is not spreading mobs around - or tanking stuff on the outer spawns.

interrupts can cause a mob to move towards its primary target
DK have death grip
pet classe have a MoveTo command
Mobs have a maximum aggro range and will reset - so you want to place the AoE within an area that intersects with as many as possible.

Commentaire de Lilyoptra

NOTE: Low level alts do get armor/weapon drops from mobs/bosses during the event, BUT the ilvl is really low. My 40-ish ilvl toon was getting drops that were almost half the ilvl of their heirloom gear. Something seems off.

Commentaire de madmurdock

I hope the people, who need to know this, will read this:

If you have MASSIVE performance issues (I sometimes had less than 1 frame, worst was 5 minutes frozen screen), pretend its 1999 again and reduce your resolution in the graphics options. Its the 3rd option and you can e.g. set it to 800x600. Sure, this su*x, but at least you will have enough frames to tag the boss and not to die. After the event you can revert it, but you maybe have to /reload, because the vendor menu wouldnt appear and other stuff. :)

GL. Hope this helps and GL farming your heirloom trinket. :) I really hope Blizz will reduce one layer to max 25 players or something. At least for those who want it.

Commentaire de Widz

The item level of blue drops from the primal storm prepatch event appears to be too low for lower level characters.
As an example at level 35 I have ilvl 97 heirloom gear but the random blue item drops are ilvl 40? this cannot be right and is detrimental to newer players without heirlooms.

Commentaire de ArticSkoll

seems the experience gain from this has been nerfed, after spending some hours on a lvl 12 alt stopped at 18 with hardly any looms equipped nor the 18% anniversary buff the bosses were giving < 500 xp at best. before today i would the experience mentioned in other comments- closer to 2500 ish or more depending the element. seems no longer the case as the smaller non elite enemies were only giving 21-250 ish per kill.

Guide to the Dragonflight Pre-Patch Event - Primal Storms and Primalist Invasions

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