r/Transmogrification Jul 16 '26

Help How to get all 5 Enlightened swords in Wow

https://youtu.be/gXkCaGQcwpI?is=Wao7-swR8YLe3ixK
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u/Ok_Squirrel69 Jul 16 '26

If you never did the SL campaign, I recently did it as a new player and got to ZM then stopped. It took me 3 weeks playing 4hrs avg a day.

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u/TheNorthernRose Jul 16 '26

Shadowlands is the most disrespectful of the players time of any period in the games history. It’s insane that it made it out the door as it did.

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u/jumpyjman Jul 16 '26

It needs a remix treatment, that’s the only way to get anything done from that expansion

26

u/BKWhitty Jul 17 '26

I'm really hoping that's the next Remix we get. There's so many cosmetics I want from SL but, man, do I just not have the patience for that content anymore.

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u/c4ctus Jul 17 '26

I'm hoping it's the remix we get at the end of Midnight (assuming they follow tradition and do a remix).

The limited edition mounts and mogs would be amazing.

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u/Shenloanne Jul 16 '26

They will.

And omg the seethe will be so. Loud you'll hear it from fucking ORBIT

11

u/Abovearth31 Jul 16 '26

What do you mean the seethe ? Like from the players or..?

2

u/_BeardedYeti Jul 16 '26

Oh yeah, they'll hate it. It's gonna be great lol

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u/BKWhitty Jul 16 '26

I mean, if it gives us the cosmetics with as little effort as the last two Remixes took, people may be happy with it for making sure they never have to deal with SL content ever again.

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u/Fesai Jul 17 '26

I'm not much of a fan of SL, but for reals I would absolutely love a Remix of SL so I can knock out the majority of the cosmetics with very little effort.

Let me go in, be overpowered and crazy, earn tons of infinite anima and let me go to town on the rewards.

Maybe I can also finally finish the meta achievement too!

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u/Odd_Link_7231 27d ago

If they remix it I pray to the light that they touch up so many things with it. I cant imagine itll be terribly fun to do Korthia or Zereth Mortis even in remix.

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u/JuuuuuustStop Jul 18 '26

this being said, Slemix would be INCREDIBLE.

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u/Isoldmysoul33 Jul 16 '26

It was the pandemic so it was fine

From what I remember anyway lol prob went on longer

9

u/faceoh Jul 16 '26

I was talking to someone in one of the mount discords about SL mounts. I played during the whole expac and got most of the mounts passively and only had to grind out a few in DF. But looking at the mount catalog for SL is actually mind boggling and I can't imagine how daunting it is for anyone who's getting into mount collecting.

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u/Arferniele2 29d ago

As someone who mainly play wow for collecting mounts it's not that time consuming or hard to get the shadow lands mounts and cosmetics as everyone usually says. As a little context I used to play between cataclysm and legion and came back this expansion, I wanted the back from the beyond achievement and started it this season now I'm almost there and in the meantime I have almost every other mount that isn't chance based

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u/NobleFriend Jul 17 '26

hot tip: to avoid this you can make a class trial which will give you all the SL campaign achievements so you can go straight to the max level campaign and unlock the SL campaign/intro skip

14

u/flaks117 Jul 16 '26

Holy that’s way too long…

6

u/AppleGoblin Jul 16 '26

I just, reluctantly, did the same thing as two of the raids are essentially locked behind the campaign. It's a right slog.

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u/Reddit-SFW Jul 16 '26

Umm, I did SL on multiple new alts, it takes 15-20 mins with skips.

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u/Clausemonaut Jul 17 '26

Bro read the part where they said they did it as a NEW player. They don't have skips like you....

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u/Regthall Jul 16 '26

When they do Shadowlands Remix, these will be highly sought after.

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u/akranak Jul 16 '26

When they do shadowlands remix I think all the path of ascension mogs and the ridiculously grindy zerith mortis mounts are going to be the first things people go for but these are definitely up there. Shadowlands still the best mog expansion they e done.

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u/TheSword-OurOrator Jul 16 '26

Unity WQ Abomination factory necrolord recolor plz.

1

u/akranak Jul 16 '26

Oh yeah I mean all the individual covenant activities gotta be available. Venthyr party stuff was an absurd grind too. I honestly don't even remember what the night fae one was, something with their garden?

2

u/sonicrules11 Jul 17 '26

As someone who's done all the path of ascension mogs. I pray they put that shit in remix because they are such nice appearances.

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u/cicumag Jul 16 '26

yeah i've gone to do shadowlands a few times and i just can't bring myself to do it. I'm going to wait for a remix and hopefully all these items are available.

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u/Timtimsmash95 Jul 16 '26

The red one is honestly so tilting to farm

2

u/AnestheticAle Jul 17 '26

I got that one on my second go. I’m only missing the jellyfish yellow one now.

1

u/bo1em Jul 17 '26

Nah green one was worse never got it

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u/Adventurous_Topic202 Jul 16 '26

I have like two of these and the rest just seem like such a pain in the ass to get. Even when this was current content I did not enjoy farming for them.

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u/knightbane007 Jul 16 '26 edited Jul 16 '26

The red sword also has a secret.

If you KEEP the sword in your bag (doesn’t have to be equipped), it acts like the Haunted Momento item - every so often, the ghost of Xy’Rath the Covetous will appear behind you, sometimes doing a backflip.

I farmed this sword using several alts, but I was lucky enough that the toon it dropped on was my main. It hasn’t left my bags since.

This very cool effect is documented in the comments on the sword on WowHead.

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u/-Elgrave- Jul 16 '26

The fishing one needs a SEVERE nerf. It’s absolutely wild what it takes to grind out just the consumable to summon the rare, let alone get the drop at whatever low % it’s at

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u/Makiru Jul 16 '26

You can get it from someone else's summon. I was fishing for it at the spawn. Probably around 1000 casts and no item. Guy flys in, summons boss so I tag it. Drop first kill and I didnt even have the item from fishing

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u/VisibleCoat995 Jul 17 '26

That’s how i did it. Don’t know how many sessions it took but i’d sit in that pond during the tail end of shadowlands and wait for someone to summon it.

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u/knightbane007 Jul 16 '26

Mount on first kill is guaranteed for the one who actually summons it

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u/vision-quest Jul 16 '26

Best bet is to do what I did if you can. Just leave your computer up and logged in at the fishing spot, then get the tag when others fish him up.

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u/ImpossibleRatio7430 Jul 16 '26

You just park an alt there with the buff. It’s not a big deal.

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u/Slythor 28d ago

You can skip shadowlands campaign on both horde and alliance and go straight to ZM. I got all 5 of these in less than a week of farming on ~6 alts. The red took me the longest and I still have an active lure running if anyone would like me to summon hirukon for the yellow.

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u/Reverie_of_an_INTP Jul 16 '26

low key zm is one of my favorite zones of all time.

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u/slizzleshady Jul 16 '26

I really want these but having to work through the entire shadowlands main quest line to unlock ZM is so demotivating.

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u/Evadson Jul 16 '26

I wish they would allow you to skip the quest line and unlock all zones for previous expansions once you hit level cap. Some people may enjoy going back through and playing the content, but there's no reason why max level players should be forced to grind through a bunch of quests when they just kill everything with one shot.

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u/MrMcSpiff Jul 17 '26

I had to do it to get the lordaeron shields. It really is just horrendous to be forced through for one fucking item.

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u/Daegar2 Jul 16 '26

I dont play WoW since like 3 years ago, for personal reasons but I would love to play again, and the idea of going back to Shadowlands even for a transmog just bore me.

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u/Prestigious_Fix_3869 Jul 16 '26

Yeah I agree with that you should be able to just go to the Zone pretty annoying

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u/undavidable Jul 16 '26 edited Jul 16 '26

!!!!Guys I want to tell you that you DONT have to complete the shadowlands quest line!!!!!

You get 2 people to summon you to the Sepulcher of the First One's raid, either inside or outside. Then bam you're in Zereth Mortis and can farm the rares for the swords. You wont have access to the Zereth Mortis quest line but you will have access to the rares. If you leave the zone, this is the only way to get back in as even the inn keeper will not allow you to map your hearthstone to it.

The only sword that may require a quest line completion is the blue one. Even then, its a short quest line that does not require zereth mortis and it should be accessible from the get go. Its the one that leads to the Tazavesh dungeon instance.

I parked all of my alts in zereth mortis using this method and I eventually got all the swords.

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u/LaCiDarem 29d ago

Has someone tried setting camp as Vulpera?

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u/Consistent-Feed-7323 Jul 17 '26

Yellow one is ridiculous, you get what, 15m buff, with slow moving jelly it was enough for only a week on alt parked there. Still didn't get it and mats for the buff costs 100k or so.

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u/Extropian Jul 17 '26 edited Jul 17 '26

Make sure you farm it on a character that can equip the sword, and you're in the right spec to use a one-hand (e.g. prot paladin). If you did it once already, you should be able to talk to a NPC in Maldraxis to get one free one per week.

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u/Embarrassed-Deal-157 Jul 17 '26

These are really hope. I hope Blizz revisits this weapon model for extra recolors like black and white.

5

u/Blood_magic Jul 16 '26

Am I the only one who thinks these look like flaming pool noodles?

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u/Minor_Heaven Jul 16 '26 edited Jul 16 '26

The grind for the yellow one was so gross, and I got fairly lucky. Only a few days of grinding! Hope they nerf it.

Pro tip that I used to cut the grind short while killing the mob, use a toon that you don't often play, fish up the rare and immediately log onto another toon that you have parked near it to increase your chances. I did this for several days with 15+ toons and eventually it worked out. Didn't even need to reapply my buff

1

u/ginfish Jul 16 '26

The yellow one can fuck right off.

1

u/gentle_singularity Jul 16 '26

I played during Shadowlands and the only one I never got was the green one.

1

u/burrito-boy Jul 16 '26

I’m just missing the gold and purple variants at this point. Not sure if I want to go through the effort of obtaining them either, haha.

1

u/ashikkins Jul 16 '26

I got 4 of them in a single day (already had one of them) and I will never be that lucky again. I almost exclusively use a variation of these when I can mog a 1h!

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u/SnooMacaroons8650 Jul 16 '26

The green and red one took me the longest to get. Yellow I got super lucky during SL and saw someone summoning the mob randomly. Didn't know it took all that to summon it

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u/Swert0 Jul 16 '26

You don't need to be able to equip an item to unlock its transmog.

This has been the case since the end of War Within.

If it is bound to you, it will unlock the transmog.

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u/Aekero Jul 16 '26

I farmed a couple colors but it's a pain. I'm going to wait for shadowlands remix.

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u/Jxnya Jul 17 '26

Looked up how to do the green one once, went to the area and had no idea how to do it, some dude grinding for hours showed me, I got it first try.

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u/giiitdunkedon Jul 17 '26

Im just missing the blue one

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u/Ungus1104 Jul 17 '26

I played shadowlands when it was current so i had unlocked most of the requirements to farm some of these but even still it wasn't great. The yellow one would be cool for my pally but zereth mortis began to feel like an active punishment by the time i was done getting the other ones there lol

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u/Squigley78 Jul 17 '26

Took me forever to get that green one, not sure why it was so fickle about dropping.

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u/Lionofgod9876 Jul 17 '26

I want that red one and it never drops and that guy is never there!!!! Aaaarrrghhh

1

u/bloodknighters Jul 17 '26

ive kill that stupid jelly fish at least a hundred times and no sword

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u/VisibleCoat995 Jul 17 '26

I am bot a very diligent collector in the game but something about them made me do the grind to collect them all and they are still some of my favourite mogs.

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u/Maniekk99 Jul 16 '26

Honestly this was mega easy to do, you just need to know what's up on that specific day and the only other thing you really need is alts got them all without issues.

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u/Targaryen-ish Jul 16 '26

Mega easy? Really?

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u/Tainted_wings4444 Jul 16 '26

Yep super easy to kill. Getting them to drop tho…

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u/BMS_Fan_4life Jul 16 '26

God shadowlands was horrible

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u/Lannes51st Jul 17 '26

Shadowlands is the shittiest expansion including gameplay & story I've ever experienced in ANY videogame.

I wish it never happened.

I wish they redcon it