WoW Dragonflight Researchers Under Fire Event Guide: Quests, Rewards, Bosses, Mounts & Achievements

Dragonflight Season 2 finally begins this week, fully unleashing the Embers of Neltharion patch! There're new activities available, season content, and questions that still need answers! Zaralek Cavern will be the brand new Researchers Under Fire event in Dragonflight 10.1, this is a weekly event that you want to do at least once a week for some of the really great rewards. Today, we are going to talk about the quests, rewards, bosses, and tips about the Dragonflight 10.1 Researchers Under Fire event.

Dragonflight Season 2 Researchers Under Fire Event Guide: Quests, Rewards, Bosses, Mounts & Achievements

Side events are pretty light this week with Arena Skirmishes and classic Ashwin on the first rotation of season 2. Still though this is the moment that you've been waiting for the game truly begins with the start of a new season and there's more world content opening up which we'll talk about first. Fyrakk Assaults will open up a quest down in loom and will lead you to where the assault is. It's not super required to pick it up, you're going to see it well enough on your map. It's meant to feel like an assault that goes on all week but it also includes additional quests to get some decent gear crests and more which I'll talk about a little later down on our WOW Dragonflight season 2 Reseachers Under Fire event guide.

WOW Dragonflight 10.1 Researchers Under Fire Event Quests

In Zaralek Cavern towards the middle of the zone, the Dragonscale Expedition needs your help in an event that happens roughly every hour. The long and short of it is that you're going to kill a lot of elites, it's a pretty long event that seems to reward you better if you're there at the start. As you're asked to complete a number of tasks and the more that you complete, the better the prize. Given that it's smack in the middle of the zone and close to the hub, you can expect a lot of traffic going through here early on.  The way that the Dragonflight Researchers Under Fire works you have to complete 12 tasks. You get rewards for each three tasks that you complete so if you don't complete up to three tasks you get no reward. But you do get a reward once you complete 3, 6, 9, and 9.

WOW Dragonflight 10.1 Researchers Under Fire Event Rewards

The world boss will also appear this week along with its very limited loot table. It drops a champion gear, it's basically heroic raid gear if you can upgrade it that far. But the loot table is limited to two pieces including one which can be later used in the Revival Catalyst.

-All cloth users will have legs and feet for their loot table.

-Leather users get a chest and a wrist.

-Mail users will see helmets and feets

- Plate users will see shoulders and belts on their loot tables.

Two more chapters of the zone campaign should be available this week. Leaving one more chapter which is probably supposed to be like the epilogue of the raid that will start sliding us into what's going to happen in patch 10.1.5. By the end of these two chapters though, we can expect to pick up a quest to complete the raid which will award a heroic-level enchanted crest for crafting.

WOW Dragonflight 10.1 Researchers Under Fire Raids & Bosses

As for the raid itself, it's going to open on normal, heroic, and Mythic difficulty, and on top of that, the first three bosses will be available on rage finder difficulty which is more significant than you may first think. It means a chance at getting tier gloves. These bosses have a chance to drop season 1 recipes as well as specific season 2 recipes including a blacksmithing shield, a tailoring cloak, and an alchemy file cauldron. Meaning it might be a good idea to take as many of your eligible alts as possible into raid finder for if nothing else to sell these recipes. Keep in mind that you also need to have those professions in order to be eligible to roll for those recipes. Entering the raid on raid finder has an item level requirement of 390. So check your gear, use your flight stones, and good luck.

WOW Dragonflight 10.1 Researchers Under Fire Event Mount

There is a chance of amount dropping from the very lowest tier of reward and upwards which is the Cataloged Shalewing which is one of the new manta ray mounts in Zaralek Cavern. The first instance of a flaming shalewing ever discovered!

WOW Dragonflight 10.1 Researchers Under Fire Event Achievements

There are also a bunch of achievements as well attached to this event including a meta-achievement which rewards the Field Researcher title. Complete the following achievements during the WOW Dragonflight 10.1 Researchers Under Fire event season 2 located in Zaralek Cavern.

1. Nothing Stops the Research

2. Lockdown Mystery

3. Research Mishap

4. Rockin Research

5. A Research Sampler

6. A Pillar of the Research Community

7. A Djaradin Puzzle

8. Hot Research Zone

9. The Small Disruptions

WOW Dragonflight 10.1 Researchers Under Fire Event Gear

Between the availability of a raid finder for Fyrakk Assaults and new zone events. We’re going to make a guess and say that somewhere in here we're going to be able to farm Shadowflame Essence. It's a required reagent for some higher-end recipes and crafting high-end gear. So far it hasn't been seen, we have practically no information on this item. It might be like a limited drop per character, it might require lots of these Fyrakk Assaults in an effort to open like a special chest in the affected area. But this is a reagent that will be an instant seller on the region auction house. So once it's discovered, take advantage of the world's first hustle and sell these for really big gold games.

WOW Dragonflight 10.1 Researchers Under Fire Event Tips

What you can expect whatever key you have before season 2 starts is going to get knocked down by about 10 levels. Once the season does start, there are new milestones to consider fortified and tyrannical have not changed. But you're not going to see your first to fix until Level 7 and the second to fix isn't going to come around until key Level 14. This gives plenty of space for players to warm up or to enjoy maybe a lower-level career in a dungeon end game. Here's the super TLDR for Mythic plus you want to work your way up to nines and then run those for the purpose of getting gear then run 11s for crests and then switch between 9s and 11s to gear up and get these crests, so you can work your way to an item level of 437. Or at least until you can handle running 16s, then start running those to get what you need to make the best-crafted gear. Once you feel ready start pushing for Keystone Hero that ought to cover most everything going on this week but on the horizon is some big news patch 10.1.5 is going to hit the PTR sometime.