Ulduar 10 hard modes getting better rewards

It’s already been quite a while since Ulduar came out so some of the novelty of the dungeon has probably worn off for some people. Whether such is the case for you or not, the fact is that some guilds have already mowed their way through the content. I guess I’m not saying that it’s too easy but the fact is hard mode encounters for bosses in Ulduar are already being attempted and accomplished with at least some success.

ulduar entrance stairs

The nerf that Ulduar got last week was probably something done to get more people get some success in their progression but I assume that hard modes are exactly that. Instead of making hard modes a lot easier, Blizzard decided to give better rewards for those who have successfully done it, at least that’s the case for Ulduar 10 as reported by CM Zarhym in his forum post.

In order to better reward players for completing hard mode encounters in 10-player Ulduar, we will be updating weapon rewards from these hard mode encounters to an item level of 232 in the next minor patch. Players already with these items should see an increase in the power of these items to better reflect the new item level. source

Zarhym also mentioned that because of this change they will be raising the requirement for the Herald of the Titans achievement from item level 226 to item level 232. Now this makes me wonder why they didn’t buff the weapons you get from Ulduar 25 hard modes too. Because of this change, the Ulduar 25 hard mode weapons are still an upgrade but now less of such.

Below are examples of the changes they made, courtesy of MMO Champion.

Aesir’s Edge (from XT-022 Deconstuctor 10 man hard mode) current | new
Serilas, Blood Blade of Invar One Arm (from Freya 10 man hard mode) current | new
Combatant’s Bootblade (from Thorim 10 man hard mode) current | new
Icecore Staff (from Hodir 10 man hard mode) current | new