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Comment by Wyler

I got "Attack Beacon: Starsong Refuge" today from a Sentinax rare (Lady Venom or something like that). I'm posting this here because I assume they all work roughly the same way.

It had a 15 minute duration, so I immediately flew to Starsong Refuge and linked the item in general chat. Said I was using it in 5 minutes, got a ton of interest and formed a full raid.

Upon use one imp-mother spawned (there might've been another small mob or two, couldn't tell in the crowd). She died in seconds and dropped gray loot. After looting, I noticed the body still sparkling, and I actually interacted with the body and got 200 nethershards. I don't believe anyone else got any significant loot, or the shards.

Short version - it looks like this is meant to be solo'd?

Comment by Polygnom

This item can be looted from Sentinax Rares. The other attack beacons are:

All beacons have a 15 minutes duration, which means you need to get to the area and use them within 15 minutes. They spawn a couple of mobs (~3 for most of them) and can be soloed. They drop 300 Nethershards for the person that used the beacon.

Comment by shylee

If you get this item, you have 15 minutes to get to the Underbelly in Dalaran (Broken Isles) and summon a few demons, one of which would be an elite. From my experience, you can be in a group, but only the person who uses this item initially will be able to loot the 200~300 Nethershards (I got 300 shards twice) that are dropped when the summoned adds die. Note that the Nethershards are looted by clicking on a purple crystal that is dropped on the side of the corpses, not from the corpses themselves. If you can't see the crystal, it may be hidden by the adds' bodies, so just hover over the bodies until you find something that you can click/loot.
The item dropped for me several times from the summoned lieutenants under The Sentinax.
I will update this if I notice anything different.

Comment by Fenril7

Once again blizzard nerfs fun, didn't see it had a 15-minute timer, once I ported back to Dalaran it was gone. WTG Blizzard

Comment by Masterslander

if used in the underbelly while pvp is going on you can be killed and lose the shards you would have got from the large chunk that appears after you kill the elite mob :*(

Comment by alpanhell

Descriptions aren't the greatest. The way this works is you go into the undebelly (have to be far enough in to be in the combat area) and you use this and 3 demons get summoned immediately. One of the demons will be an elite, you kill this and a big shard will be on the grind that you can loot (I got 300 shards from it).

I waited till combat ended in the underbelly and did it with no issues (have to do it before 15 min timer expires). I can imagine you can do it with a guard too.

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Attack Beacon: Dalaran Underbelly

Item Level 45
Binds when picked up
Unique
Duration: 15 min (real time)

Use: Summons a demonic invasion force. Can only be used in the Dalaran Underbelly.

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