How to get and upgrade the Seal of the Dawn and Sanctified gear to conquer Naxxramas in Season of Discovery

In WoW Classic Season of Discovery Phase 7, Sanctified is a new bonus system attached to different endgame pieces of armor and jewelry designed to work within the Naxxramas raid — and they’ll be needed to take on Naxxramas’ Empowered hard mode. Seal of the Dawn is the integral piece to Sanctified gear because it provides bonuses based on the level of the item and how many pieces of Sanctified gear you have equipped.

Seal of the Dawn can be upgraded to buff the effects of Sanctified gear and increase player power overall but will be capped based on the number of Empowered pylons in Naxxramas. By activating more pylons, which increases the raid’s difficulty, the Seal of the Dawn’s full power will become available to players.

If you’re interested in running Naxxramas’ hard mode, and are up for a particularly tedious grind, here’s where to get Seal of the Dawn and how to upgrade your Sanctified items.

Where to get Sanctified gear

Blizzard has stated that most Phase 7 epic items will be Sanctified and the max amount of Sanctified items a player can have equipped is 8. Sanctified gear for all classes can acquired as drops from Scourge Invasions, Karazhan Crypts, and Naxxramas itself. Quartermaster Miranda Breechlock in the Eastern Plaguelands will also give out Sanctified items as quest rewards for turning in Insignia’s of the Dawn and Crusade.

The Sanctified gear from the Scourge Invasion is a three-piece set (Chest, Gloves, and Legs) and wearing all three gives a set bonus that makes the Seal of the Dawn item count as two equipped Sanctified items instead of one. Karazhan Crypts will drop individual Sanctified pieces of Head, Hands, Boots, Legs, and jewelry as well as individual Scourge Invasion set items.

How to get and upgrade the Seal of the Dawn

The Seal of the Dawn item is acquired by completing Hope Begins in the Dark, a simple pick-up and immediate turn in quest, from Kug Softjaw in Naxxramas. You can choose one of three Seal of the Dawn types, with each one corresponding to a raid role. Each Seal will boost your health and your healing power, damage, or threat caused based on the type you choose:

• Healer — Increases your healing and your health for each Sanctified item equipped
• Tank — Increases your threat, damage, and health for each Sanctified item equipped
• Damage — Increases damage and health for each Sanctified item equipped

To upgrade the item, you’ll need to spend a certain amount of the Remnant Valor, a currency that’s dropped by Naxxramas bosses while Empowered. Upgrading the Seal of the Dawn will be time-gated to start in Phase 7, with players able to upgrade one rank per week:

• Aspirant (Rank 1): +1.25% health/damage/healing/threat
• Initiate (Rank 2): +4.38% health/damage/threat, +3.13% healing
  • Upgrade Cost — 150 Remnant Valor
• Squire (Rank 3): +6.25% health/damage, +5.00% threat, +4.38% healing
  • Upgrade Cost — Unknown
• Knight (Rank 4): +10.00% health/damage, +5.63% threat, +7.50% healing
  • Upgrade Cost — Unknown
• Templar (Rank 5): +12.50% health/damage, +6.25% threat, +8.75% healing
  • Upgrade Cost — Unknown
• Champion (Rank 6): +18.13% health/damage, +7.50% threat, +13.13% healing
  • Upgrade Cost — Unknown
• Vanguard (Rank 7): +21.25% health/damage, +8.13% threat, +15.00% healing
  • Upgrade Cost — Unknown
• Crusader (Rank 8): +28.13% health/damage, +9.38% threat, +19.39% healing
  • Upgrade Cost — Unknown
• Commander (Rank 9): +32.5% health/damage, +10.00% threat, +21.88% healing
  • Upgrade Cost — Unknown
• Highlord (Rank 10): +37.5% health/damage, +10.63% threat, +25.00% healing
  • Upgrade Cost — Unknown