Scarlet set pieces go blue, with two new bonuses

The Chain of the Scarlet Crusade now drops on the beta of World of Warcraft: Forever. Three of the six pieces went from green to blue. The bonuses at 4 and 6 pieces are new: a Holy proc and a shield.

On 3 October the new bonuses were only known from the files of the beta, as described in the post on the Scarlet Monastery loot. Now the pieces drop in the dungeon, and their tooltips show the bonuses and the stats.

The set bonus

Pieces	Classic Era	Forever
2	+10 Armor	+10 Shadow Resistance
3	+1 Defense	+30 Attack Power against Undead
4	+5 Shadow Resistance	Enraging Light
5	+15 Attack Power against Undead	+1% chance to hit
6	+1% chance to hit	Scarlet Guardian

The Armor and the Defense are gone. Shadow Resistance and Attack Power against Undead are doubled, and the chance to hit moves from 6 to 5 pieces.

Enraging Light triggers when the wearer takes damage, with a chance of 15%. For 10 seconds, melee attacks then deal 20 extra Holy damage, three times as much against Undead. The tooltip lists a cooldown of 15 seconds between procs.

Scarlet Guardian triggers on damage at or below 20% health. It gives a shield that absorbs 480 damage for 10 seconds, once every 4 minutes.

The pieces

All six pieces are mail. The leggings bind when picked up, the other five when equipped.

Item	Level	Forever	Classic Era
Scarlet Belt	32	136 Armor, 12 Strength, 10 Stamina	green, 123 Armor, 8 Strength, 7 Stamina
Scarlet Gauntlets	33	153 Armor, 12 Strength, 10 Agility	green, 139 Armor, 8 Strength, 7 Agility
Scarlet Wristguards	31	104 Armor, 11 Stamina	green, 95 Armor, 8 Stamina
Scarlet Leggings	39	236 Armor, 21 Strength, 10 Stamina	level 38, 233 Armor, 20 Strength
Scarlet Chestpiece	34	250 Armor, 8 Strength, 19 Stamina	unchanged
Scarlet Boots	30	161 Armor, 5 Agility, 12 Stamina	unchanged

The belt, the gauntlets and the wristguards gain the most. The leggings get one level more, with slightly higher stats. The chest and the boots stay as they were.

Less experience in dungeons

Mail wearers such as Warriors, Paladins and Enhancement Shamans have long sought this set. In Classic, farming it also paid off in experience. On the beta that is less true: monsters in dungeons give less experience, and dungeon quests give 50% less bonus experience.

Blizzard wants players to level in the open world, and green monsters give less experience too. Several pieces of the set drop from trash in the Scarlet Monastery, so groups that skip monsters see fewer of them. Whether the experience values change before launch, is not known.