It’s your very last chance to collect mounts, pets, and transmog from the Radiant Echoes pre-patch event — ending today!

As is traditional in World of Warcraft, the pre-patch prior to The War Within expansion came with a limited-time event with gear and collectibles: Radiant Echoes. The event is just about to end, and you have up until the expansion  launch on August 26 to jump in and collect gear, earn some levels, pick up mounts, pets, and transmog — or just have fun fighting the ghostly memories of Azeroth.

The Radiant Echoes event will send players on a journey through Searing Gorge, Dragonblight, and Dustwallow Marsh to defeat Azeroth’s memories of previous encounters. Even as the event is winding down today, players are still participating and keeping things moving, so there’s still a chance to collect that transmog set you’ve been putting off or to gear up that last alt. Let’s take a look at what Radiant Echoes are and how they work.

Where are Radiant Echoes events?

The event begins with a quest to visit Khadgar in the Legion version of Dalaran (just use the Dalaran Hearthstone in your toy box to get there), and from there you’ll head to the zone that currently has a Radiant Echoes event: either Searing Gorge, Dragonblight, or Duskwallow Marsh.

Though these zones are far apart, they’re easy to get to: go to the Chamber of the Guardian in the center of Dalaran and there’s a portal to each one, with an indicator to show which one is currently active.

When are Radiant Echoes events?

A new event starts every hour, on the hour. Each event is a series of random, vignette-style activities, which reward you with loot (randomly) and Residual Memories (the currency for the event). Go to the portal room in the Chamber of the Guardian and you’ll see a timer above one of the portals there listing the remaining duration of the event. When the timer is up, the event will start in a new zone.

After Blizzard made significant revisions to the original event — which rotated every 90 minutes and only featured a single boss encounter (which was typically over within the first five minutes) — Radiant Echoes offers plenty to do even if you aren’t there right when they start. Once the event launches, you now complete Radiant Echoes events until a zone-wide progress bar reaches zero and then a boss will spawn. Once the boss is defeated, the cycle repeats.

That means any time you log in, you can head to Dalaran, go to the currently active event, and participate.

How do Radiant Echoes events work?

No matter where the current event is located, the event is more or less the same, with a series of random activities followed by a boss encounter in which you fight Onyxia, Ragnaros, or the Lich King, depending on the zone.

Here’s how the Radiant Echoes event progresses:

• Eliminate Memories until the progress bar reaches 100%. At the beginning of the event, vignettes will spawn randomly across the zone map. The requirements at each location are different — some may have you kill the memory of a powerful boss like Jaraxxus, others may have you collecting 100 pieces of lumber. Completing these rewards 200 Residual Memories, and can reward you with an item or a “zone memory” that’s used to craft an heirloom ring (see below).
• Defeat the zone’s “Remembered” boss. After enough events have been completed to get the progress bar to reach 100%, Azeroth’s memory version of a boss will spawn — Ragnaros in Searing Gorge, the Lich King in Dragonblight, or Onyxia in Dustwallow Marsh. Defeating the boss rewards 1400 Residual Memories, as well as Drake’s Crests and Flightstones needed to upgrade event gear. Like the events leading up to the boss fight, these can also reward gear and zone memories.

Once the boss is defeated, the event starts again, with a new progress bar at the top of the screen and new events across the zone. The cycle will continue until the event switches to a new zone on the hour.

Each event zone has a vendor selling gear and collectibles for Residual Memories (the event’s currency), who offers a daily quest — available once per day per account — to kill the boss for extra rewards.

Rewards for completing the Radiant Echoes event

As with other pre-patch events, Radiant Echoes provides a good number of collectibles for players to acquire while active — and if you want to know, we’ve done the math on how much it will cost for you to get every reward. In addition to unique looks for your main, the event will also be a great way to gear up new alts, since you can get ilevel 480 Warbound gear, and it’s even worth running for your freshly leveled WoW Remix characters, which will emerge from the event with lower level gear.

During the event, you can get random drop gear by completing any of the events, but there’s quite a bit to purchase with the Residual Memories currency you collect. (Note that you can transfer this currency between characters in your Warband, making it easy to swap between characters through the event.) Remembrancer Amuul in Dalaran (Legion version, found in the Chamber of the Guardian below the mage tower) is the main vendor, but there are also vendors located at the staging areas — where the portal back to Dalaran is — that also sell the items, although they are only up when the event is active in their zone.

The mounts and pets look like the other denizens of the event: transparent blue with gold bordering, making their appearances unique.

• Remembered Golden Gryphon (Alliance only)/Remembered Wind Rider (Horde only) — 20,000 Residual Memories. Purchasing one unlocks the other, so you’ll only need to acquire one.
• Remembered Construct, Remembered Riverpaw, Remembered Spawn — 10,000 Residual Memories apiece.

Armor and weapons of ilevel 480 can be purchased and sent to any of your characters or transferred via your Warbank, although they require level 70 to equip — however they are Veteran gear and can be upgraded. The armor appearances match the Argus questing ensembles, albeit with a Void flavor. Each of the four armor appearances have to be collected separately, but they can also drop during the event itself.

• Head, Chest, Legs: 5000 Residual Memories
• Shoulders, Hands, Waist, Feet:  3500 Residual Memories
• Back, Wrist: 2000 Residual Memories

Jewelry options are also available for every slot, including some modest trinkets. These pieces each cost 2000 Residual Memories, and like the armor can be upgraded.

Weapons are sold for Residual Memories as well. Transmog appearances vary, but they appear to all be unique looks with most of them having a Dalaran/Kirin Tor flavor.

• Two-handed weapons/ranged: 8000 Residual Memories
• Main hand caster weapons: 5000 Residual Memories
• One-handed melee weapons: 4000 Residual Memories
• Off-hand/shields: 3000 Residual Memories

Finally there are two bags available for purchase for 2000 Residual Memories apiece: a 32-slot bag called the Defender’s Hefty Satchel, and the Recruit’s Reagent Bag which is a 30-slot reagent bag.

How to get the Radiant Echoes heirloom ring

There is a new heirloom ring available from the event similar to the Unstable Elemental Confluence from the Dragonflight pre-patch event. The Band of Radiant Echoes is crafted with items from the event, which will require a few runs of the event in each zone. This is what you need to make the heirloom ring:

• Lifeless Stone Ring, bought from Remembrancer Amuul for 25 Residual Memories.
• Essence of the Eastern Kingdoms, created by combining 20 Memories of the Eastern Kingdom, which are dropped during the Searing Gorge event.
• Essence of Kalimdor, created by combining 20 Memories of Kalimdor, which are dropped during the Duskwallow Marsh event.
• Essence of Northrend, created by combining 20 Memories of Northrend, which are dropped during the Dragonblight event.

Once you have all of these items, simply click to combine them and create the ring. Memories can drop from the vignettes during the event or from the final boss, and the memories can be freely sent to other characters in your Warband.

Originally published June 20, 2024. Updated August 26, 2024.