Shards of Domination Effects and 3-Set Raid Bonuses in 9.1 PTR Build 38709

PTR Posted 2021/05/19 at 2:35 AM by Squishei

Hello person from the future! This article was published during the Patch 9.1 PTR cycle. For current values, please visit our Shards of Domination Guide
Shards of Domination Guide

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Shards of Domination – Select gear that is dropped in Sanctum of Domination can be enhanced by Shards of Domination, which can be found from defeating bosses in Sanctum of Domination. The system is still in development and will be updated ina forthcoming build of the 9.1 PTR.

There are 9 Shards of Domination that exist and can be upgraded to Rank 5 with Stygian Embers, a new currency earned by defeating Sanctum of Domination bosses.
Select gear that drops from Sanctum of Domination bosses have Domination Sockets. A maximum of 5 shards can be socketed at one time.

Shards of Domination Datamined EffectsStygian EmberBlood - Offensive

Shard of Bek - Shard of Bek: Your damage is increased by 2% when you have 50% or more health than your target.
Ominous Shard of Bek - Ominous Shard of Bek: Your damage is increased by 2.25% when you have 50% or more health than your target.
Desolate Shard of Bek - Desolate Shard of Bek: Your damage is increased by 2.5% when you have 50% or more health than your target.
Foreboding Shard of Bek - Foreboding Shard of Bek: Your damage is increased by 2.75% when you have 50% or more health than your target.
Portentous Shard of Bek - Portentous Shard of Bek: Your damage is increased by 3% when you have 50% or more health than your target.

Blood - Healing

Blood - Tertiary

Shard of Rev - Shard of Rev: Your Leech is increased by 0.
Ominous Shard of Rev - Ominous Shard of Rev: Your Leech is increased by 0.
Desolate Shard of Rev - Desolate Shard of Rev: Your Leech is increased by 0.
Foreboding Shard of Rev - Foreboding Shard of Rev: Your Leech is increased by 0.
Portentous Shard of Rev - Portentous Shard of Rev: Your Leech is increased by 0.

Frost - Offensive

Shard of Cor - Shard of Cor: Your damage is increased by 3% for 20 sec after attacking an enemy you have not yet damaged.
Ominous Shard of Cor - Ominous Shard of Cor: Your damage is increased by 3.38% for 20 sec after attacking an enemy you have not yet damaged.
Desolate Shard of Cor - Desolate Shard of Cor: Your damage is increased by 3.75% for 20 sec after attacking an enemy you have not yet damaged.
Foreboding Shard of Cor - Foreboding Shard of Cor: Your damage is increased by 4.13% for 20 sec after attacking an enemy you have not yet damaged.
Portentous Shard of Cor - Portentous Shard of Cor: Your damage is increased by 4.5% for 20 sec after attacking an enemy you have not yet damaged.

Frost - Healing

Shard of Tel - Shard of Tel: Your critical heals cause their target to absorb the next 228 damage dealt to them within 6 sec.
Ominous Shard of Tel - Ominous Shard of Tel: Your critical heals cause their target to absorb the next 257 damage dealt to them within 6 sec.
Desolate Shard of Tel - Desolate Shard of Tel: Your critical heals cause their target to absorb the next 285 damage dealt to them within 6 sec.
Foreboding Shard of Tel - Foreboding Shard of Tel: Your critical heals cause their target to absorb the next 314 damage dealt to them within 6 sec.
Portentous Shard of Tel - Portentous Shard of Tel: Your critical heals cause their target to absorb the next 342 damage dealt to them within 6 sec.

Frost - Defensive

Shard of Kyr - Shard of Kyr: While standing still, gain 880 Absorb every 5 sec, up to a cap of 4400.
Ominous Shard of Kyr - Ominous Shard of Kyr: While standing still, gain 990 Absorb every 5 sec, up to a cap of 4950.
Desolate Shard of Kyr - Desolate Shard of Kyr: While standing still, gain 1100 Absorb every 5 sec, up to a cap of 5500.
Foreboding Shard of Kyr - Foreboding Shard of Kyr: While standing still, gain 1210 Absorb every 5 sec, up to a cap of 6050.
Portentous Shard of Kyr - Portentous Shard of Kyr: While standing still, gain 1320 Absorb every 5 sec, up to a cap of 6600.

Unholy - Offensive

Shard of Dyz - Shard of Dyz: Damaging a target increases your damage done to that target by 0.33% for 4 sec, stacking up to 3 times.
Ominous Shard of Dyz - Ominous Shard of Dyz: Damaging a target increases your damage done to that target by 0.37% for 4 sec, stacking up to 3 times.
Desolate Shard of Dyz - Desolate Shard of Dyz: Damaging a target increases your damage done to that target by 0.42% for 4 sec, stacking up to 3 times.
Foreboding Shard of Dyz - Foreboding Shard of Dyz: Damaging a target increases your damage done to that target by 0.46% for 4 sec, stacking up to 3 times.
Portentous Shard of Dyz - Portentous Shard of Dyz: Damaging a target increases your damage done to that target by 0.5% for 4 sec, stacking up to 3 times.

Unholy - Healing

Shard of Zed - Shard of Zed: Your helpful spells and abilities have a chance to grant your target an Unholy Aura, draining 221 health from nearby enemies every 2 sec for 10 sec.
Ominous Shard of Zed - Ominous Shard of Zed: Your helpful spells and abilities have a chance to grant your target an Unholy Aura, draining 249 health from nearby enemies every 2 sec for 10 sec.
Desolate Shard of Zed - Desolate Shard of Zed: Your helpful spells and abilities have a chance to grant your target an Unholy Aura, draining 277 health from nearby enemies every 2 sec for 10 sec.
Foreboding Shard of Zed - Foreboding Shard of Zed: Your helpful spells and abilities have a chance to grant your target an Unholy Aura, draining 306 health from nearby enemies every 2 sec for 10 sec.
Portentous Shard of Zed - Portentous Shard of Zed: Your helpful spells and abilities have a chance to grant your target an Unholy Aura, draining 334 health from nearby enemies every 2 sec for 10 sec.

Unholy - Tertiary

Shard of Oth - Shard of Oth: Your Speed is increased by 0
Ominous Shard of Oth - Ominous Shard of Oth: Your Speed is increased by 0
Desolate Shard of Oth - Desolate Shard of Oth: Your Speed is increased by 0
Foreboding Shard of Oth - Foreboding Shard of Oth: Your Speed is increased by 0
Portentous Shard of Oth - Portentous Shard of Oth: Your Speed is increased by 0

Shard of Domination Set BonusesPupperDogoDogoPupperfound the probableRunic DominionBlood 3-Set Bonus

Blood Link - While inside the Maw or Torghast, damaging an enemy establishes a Blood Link. Blood Link pulses every 3 sec, dealing 0 Shadow damage and healing you for 100% of damage dealt. If your Blood Link would overheal you, it instead heals a nearby ally. Limit 1.

Frost 3-Set Bonus

Winds of Winter - While inside the Maw or Torghast, each time you deal a critical strike, the Winds accumulate 6% of that effect, up to a cap of 0 per critical strike. Every 20 sec, the Winds unleash, dealing Frost damage equal to the total accumulation and and surrounding you in the Winds for 20 sec, absorbing 100% of damage dealt by the Winds.

Unholy 3-Set Bonus

Chaos Bane - While inside the Maw or Torghast, your spells and abilities have a chance to drain a Soul Fragment from your target, granting you 10 Primary stat for 30 sec and stacking up to 15 times. When you reach 15 stacks, unleash Chaos Bane, dealing 0 Shadow damage split between nearby enemies and granting you 300 Primary stat for 15 sec.
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Comment by DreadfuryDKThese are honestly super cool and creative and I hope they don't become a total balancing nightmare.Comment by CarthacI'm in love with the idea of these gems. Fantastic idea Blizzard devs.

The three gem bonuses only being active inside the Maw and Torghast is a pretty big bummer though. Would love to see them active in new raid, but the effects may be too strong to use on progression contentComment by CualChaos bane one? Shadowmourne hello.Comment by ParnassI like how Blizzard states that they won't put systems on top of systems on top of systems for this expansion.
And yet, here we are.

I know it's just for raids but that's super unnecessary. We have yet another currency, a new set of collectibles to upgrade with very minimal throughput increase stacking on top of each other.

Can we just have a healthy foundation and keep that ?

The current legendaries and covenant abilities are awfully balanced, some specs have been dead for years (hi Mistweaver how are you doing in your hole?). These looks really bland and uninspired and it's another gimmick that we won't care about as soon as the next patch.

Why Blizzard can't start making features that survive more than a patch ? Their design philosophy isn't working it's been clear ever since Legion was over and we lost all of our Legion's stuff. It's getting worse with each expansion and most specs are performing only thanks to gimmicky borrowed power (hello Mistweaver, how is your 30% throughput from your legendary doing?).

It's even more frustrating when players have been wanting raid sets back pretty much since we all saw how boring raid sets have become since BFA's Uldir raid.

Bad design, yet again.Comment by shashafooy
The three gem bonuses only being active inside the Maw and Torghast is a pretty big bummer though. Would love to see them active in new raid, but the effects may be too strong to use on progression contentComment by NzallI'm in love with the idea of these gems. Fantastic idea Blizzard devs.

The three gem bonuses only being active inside the Maw and Torghast is a pretty big bummer though. Would love to see them active in new raid, but the effects may be too strong to use on progression contentComment by freakerinoI'm in love with the idea of these gems. Fantastic idea Blizzard devs.

The three gem bonuses only being active inside the Maw and Torghast is a pretty big bummer though. Would love to see them active in new raid, but the effects may be too strong to use on progression contentComment by otrewi hate this as a guild who only raid 2 nights at week, this make us reclear heroic more just for farm currency, we are not a CE guild but still is anoying having systems over systemsComment by CarthacI want to post this early in hopes of Blizzard potentially resolving this issue if it's currently unaddressed while in it's development.

If you do not make items that allow raiders to socket legendaries with these new types of slots, you are going to force high end raiders to re-grind their legendaries if they are currently in slots that not capable of having a venari gem socket put on them.

This means if your legendary is currently in a shoulder, cloak, chest, gloves, leg, or boots slot and you can only obtain these new raid sockets from dropped gear in the new Sanctum raid, you will be forced to grind a new legendary that falls into the helm/neck/bracers/belt/rings slot to avoid missing out on a raid gem slot.Comment by TorralightI want to post this early in hopes of Blizzard potentially resolving this issue if it's currently unaddressed while in it's development.

If you do not make items that allow raiders to socket legendaries with these new types of slots, you are going to force high end raiders to re-grind their legendaries if they are currently in slots that not capable of having a venari gem socket put on them.

This means if your legendary is currently in a shoulder, cloak, chest, gloves, leg, or boots slot and you can only obtain these new raid sockets from dropped gear in the new Sanctum raid, you will be forced to grind a new legendary that falls into the helm/neck/bracers/belt/rings slot to avoid missing out on a raid gem slot.Comment by TorralightI like how Blizzard states that they won't put systems on top of systems on top of systems for this expansion.
And yet, here we are.

I know it's just for raids but that's super unnecessary. We have yet another currency, a new set of collectibles to upgrade with very minimal throughput increase stacking on top of each other.

Can we just have a healthy foundation and keep that ?

The current legendaries and covenant abilities are awfully balanced, some specs have been dead for years (hi Mistweaver how are you doing in your hole?). These looks really bland and uninspired and it's another gimmick that we won't care about as soon as the next patch.

Why Blizzard can't start making features that survive more than a patch ? Their design philosophy isn't working it's been clear ever since Legion was over and we lost all of our Legion's stuff. It's getting worse with each expansion and most specs are performing only thanks to gimmicky borrowed power (hello Mistweaver, how is your 30% throughput from your legendary doing?).

It's even more frustrating when players have been wanting raid sets back pretty much since we all saw how boring raid sets have become since BFA's Uldir raid.

Bad design, yet again.Comment by Shivenai think that at this point the high end raiders are capped out on soul ash, and therefor can already be buying the alternate slot.Also, this game isnt for the 1% high end raiders so if they loose out 1 gem, so be it.. just my opinionComment by GloraisonI want to post this early in hopes of Blizzard potentially resolving this issue if it's currently unaddressed while in it's development.

If you do not make items that allow raiders to socket legendaries with these new types of slots, you are going to force high end raiders to re-grind their legendaries if they are currently in slots that not capable of having a venari gem socket put on them.

This means if your legendary is currently in a shoulder, cloak, chest, gloves, leg, or boots slot and you can only obtain these new raid sockets from dropped gear, you will be forced to grind a new legendary that falls into the helm/neck/bracers/belt/rings slot to avoid missing out on a raid gem slot.Comment by polksc33This game should rename to World of many borrowed powers.Comment by Lautner"Systems upon systems upon.."

It's gems...

We're socketing gems with unique raid effects.

I love it when raids offer unique buffs to raiders while inside the raid. Just so happens that this iteration allows us to use it in the Maw and Torghast.Comment by KabiorI admit that it can be a nice idea to add such a system even though it makes me kinda sad that this (since the gems work everywhere) kinda "forces" certain people to raid.

Personally I dont enjoy raiding and here I am only playing Mythic+ - those gems working everywhere in PvE situations makes raiding feel like a must if you want to have optimal gear, just not a fan of the idea forcing people in certain content to get the optimal stuff for your desired content.Comment by VorishgoPlease disable this in any form of PvP.
Thanks.Comment by PrideLoLi think that at this point the high end raiders are capped out on soul ash, and therefor can already be buying the alternate slot.Also, this game isnt for the 1% high end raiders so if they loose out 1 gem, so be it.. just my opinionComment by WarderDragonI still don't know if this'll work in PvP or not - not one fansite seems to be able to answer that question. It seems like it will, since they've iterated that the individual gems will work anywhere, and that makes me worried.Comment by PeesneezeUnholy 3-Set Bonus is literally just shadowmourne's effect.
And shadowmourne was op.. can't see anyone taking anything besides that one.

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