Earn exclusive mounts and pets with this World of Warcraft: Radiant Echoes guide

At last, the pre-patch is in full swing, and the Radiant Echoes event is live in World of Warcraft. It’s time for the standard pre-patch limited time event. It’s a great way to catch up your characters in gear, but also earn some exclusive pets and mounts. This guide will teach you how everything works and how best to approach it.

Start things off with an introductory quest

When you first log in after the patch, you’re treated to a “Previously on World of Warcraft” video. It recaps everything that’s happened since Sargeras stabbed the planet. You’ll then have a quest to go meet up with Thrall, Anduin, and Jaina at the legendary stab wound in Silithus. They’ll help you get back into the Heart of Azeroth chamber from Battle for Azeroth, to talk to Magni.

It appears he needs some help communicating with the planet. Help him out by activating some nearby consoles and then talk to him to activate the next scene. Things won’t quite work the way you want, and so you’ll have to take a nearby portal to take Magni to Dalaran. Once you’re there, you’ll talk to Khadgar to get the low-down.

Speak to Moira to learn more about her relationship with Magni, and to go gather the rest of the family. They’re in the Dalaran Visitor’s Center, which is in the southern corner of the central buildings. Speak to Brann and bring the family back to Moira. Once you’re done, talk to Khadgar to start the Radiant Echo events.

What is a Radiant Echo event and how does it work?

Radiant Echoes are large encounters that rotate between three places on Azeroth. It goes from Dustwallow Marsh to Dragonblight, and then to Searing Gorge. The rotation currently takes 60 minutes. Which zone is currently active will be marked by a timer above the portal in Dalaran. The portals have been conveniently placed in the chamber behind Khadgar.

During the 60 minutes a zone is active, the event will shift between two phases. The first phase is one where memories are popping up all over the place and need to be beaten. These are indicated on your map by round, Azerite-colored icons. Simply fly to that location and find out what’s going on. A large “Memories Remaining” meter at the top of your screen is slowly being emptied as you complete each memory. Most of them are “solved” by beating up a bunch of enemies, but some have specific requirements. For example, the event in the green dragonflight glade in Northrend requires you to click on Remembered Frogs and type “/kiss” to find a princess. If you’ve been a long time WoW fan, you’ll realize these are all based on previous fights and quests.

Players will continue to beat these memories and fly to other ones until the bar at the top of your screen is emptied. Below is an example of Searing Gorge during the first phase, showing some of the active locations. Where the player icon is, in The Cauldron, is where the event eventually ends with a boss fight.

After the memories bar is empty, you’ll have a central location to gather around. Keep an eye on your map, it’ll tell you where you need to be if you can’t find the group. Each boss is a familiar blast from the past depending on where you are. Remembered Onyxia is the boss of Dustwallow Marsh, Remembered Firelord is in the Searing Gorge, and the Remembered Lich King is in Dragonblight. Once they’re defeated, you’ll receive your rewards! The other memories will start spawning again, and another cycle will begin.

Don’t forget to turn in your initial quest to Khadgar. Otherwise, don’t forget to turn in daily quests for each zone! More on that below.

Daily Quests and their rewards

Several rewards are tied to daily quests. Every day, one of your characters can defeat one of the Remembered bosses to earn a Token of the Remembrancers. It converts into a piece of 493 Item Level gear that can be upgraded to ilvl515 at upgrade vendors in Valdraken.

On top of that, each of the three zones has a daily quest available for an extra 3,000 Residual Memories. These dailies are one per account, so alternate characters won’t be able to claim them.

How can I earn Residual Memories, and what are they for?

Residual Memories is the primary currency for this event. It’ll disappear when the pre-patch event ends, so spend it while you can. I recommend you focus on the Lifeless Stone Ring, Mounts, Pets, Bags if you need them, and then worry about the rest of the gear. While collecting the gear for the unique transmog is cool, a lot of it will drop throughout the event. While there are quartermasters in each event zone, Remembrancer Amuul in Dalaran is the only one who has all the items available. The daily quest giver in each zone is also a vendor, but will only have items related to that specific zone.

Earning Radiant Echoes is easy enough. Your best sources are the daily quests mentioned earlier, which give 3,000 from each quest, with 3 available every day. Killing a Remembered Boss earns you 1,400 Residual Memories every time, so it’s the best way to grind it out. Otherwise, completing the smaller memory events earns you 200, and beating enemies gives you between 1-20, depending on the enemy’s rarity.

How to create the Band of Radiant Echoes

One of the best rewards from the event is a new Heirloom Ring, the Band of Radiant Echoes. This haste/mastery ring requires a few items to forget it. First, you must purchase it from Remembrancer Amuul in Dalaran for 25 Residual Memories. This is fairly easy, and should only require beating on any Remembered enemies for a few minutes.

Once you have that, you’ll need 3 essences. One from Kalimdor, one from the Eastern Kingdoms, and one from Northrend. Each one of these is obtained by combining 20 memory fragments from each region, all of which drop from objectives during an event. I was able to claim 6 Memories of the Eastern Kingdoms from my first run at the Dustwallow Radiant Echo event, so you should only need a few of these events each.

How to get the achievement “This Takes Me Back”

There is a Feat of Strength achievement (meaning it’s only available for the event) involved with the Radiant Echoes event. It’s pretty easy to get, all you have to do is beat each of the three Remembered bosses once.