Mythic+

Classic raids rebuilt as a challenge for a team of up to five. The bosses are the ones you know, with a couple of fights adjusted so that a small team can do them. +0, the first tier, aims to be a little harder than Icecrown Citadel 25 Heroic is for the same five characters, and every tier above it is harder again.

How to start a run

1. Form a group of one to five level 80 characters. Everyone must be online, alive, out of combat and standing near the Mythic Raid Pathfinder outside the raid portal.
2. Talk to the Pathfinder. The leader picks a tier that every member has unlocked.
3. Walk through the raid portal within 5 minutes. Your team is taken to its own Mythic copy.
4. Gather the whole team at the entrance. After a 10 second countdown the run begins.

Every boss

2 pieces of item level 284 epic gear and up to 2 companion pets: none, one or two, each equally likely. The team members inside the raid roll for them, like normal boss loot.

Final boss

A chance at one of 972 mounts: 10%, plus 10% for each extra real player inside the raid when the boss dies, plus 10% if one of them has completed the Hardmode Challenge. Up to 60%. If it drops, the team rolls for it like the other loot. The final bosses are Lady Vashj, Archimonde, Kil'jaeden and C'Thun.

Finishing the raid

Demon Hearts and Emblems of Frost by mail once every boss is dead: 8 of each at +0 and 4 more of each per tier, up to 28 of each at +5.

Best team of the week, in each raid

A mount by mail to every member who was inside the raid when the winning clear was finished. It is always one your account does not have yet, or 25 Demon Hearts if your account has them all.

• Each boss pays your team once per week, whatever the tier. Clearing a higher tier later in the same week tops up your Demon Hearts and Emblems of Frost to that tier's amount.
• The weekly mount is one per character per week. If your team is the best in more than one raid, each further win pays 20 Demon Hearts.
• Normal raid loot, gold, reputation, quest credit and achievements are switched off inside a Mythic copy.

Every raid starts at +0. Each tier makes enemies tougher and pays more Demon Hearts and Emblems of Frost. Gear, pets and the mount chance are the same on every tier.

How teams are ranked

1. The highest tier cleared wins.
2. On the same tier, the higher score wins. Each death costs 3 points, up to 45.
3. Still tied? The faster clear wins.

The best team of the week in each raid wins the weekly mount, so climbing tiers is how you win it.

• Your team is locked for the week once it kills its first boss in a raid. Each raid has its own lock.
• A team of five can come back later that week with any three, four or five of the same characters. A smaller team must return complete. Nobody new can join.
• Stay inside during boss fights. A member who is outside the raid when a boss dies gets no roll on its loot, and a member who is outside when the raid is finished gets no completion reward and no tier unlock.
• Nobody can enter while a boss fight is in progress, just like a normal raid. If you die between fights, walk back in through the raid portal and you are revived at the entrance of your team's copy.