A new player with some questions

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So I just started playing wow, slowly leveling through the zone quests and some dungeons here and there through the dungeon finder. I’m not a big MMO player so some simple stuff can go straight over my head.

1 - I don’t feel I am geared very well and have no idea where to get gear, I walked around Stormwind for a few hours looking at the shops but all the gear seems useless, where would I go to get lvl correct gear so I’m not more of a burden than necessary on my dungeon teammates?

2 - I’ve gone through most of the dungeons in the “classic” tab so far and got to Blackrock Depths. on this one there are many bosses listed and a good few quests when entering the dungeon but my group killed 2 and dipped leaving the quests still uncompleted, is there a way to do this dungeon’s content completely or are those days over and I just missed the boat? (also I see some threads online saying you can solo it after a certain point, but it seems the enemy’s lvl up with me so I’m thinking this is no longer the case?)

3 - I want eventually do some of the old raids at some point, but the community can be…intimidating. how should I approach this? Or is this also one of those “missed your shot” kinda things and I’m just out of luck here?

Any info on any of my questions would be greatly appreciated :slight_smile:

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Quests, dungeons, crafting, world content

Some dungeons were a lot bigger in the old days and were shortened on the requirements in recent times. Once people kill what’s required they’re done and leaving.

You can always go back at higher level to do old dungeons and raids

Solo old raids at high level or go into group finder for legacy raids and apply to groups.

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Thank you! That helps a lot :+1:

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I’ve got more info, but it’s going to take some time to type it on my iPad because I’m in a nice hot :bathtub: so stand by.

Questions:

  1. Are you only playing that lvl 55 Rogue, yes?

  2. If so, are you enjoying it?

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  1. Don’t worry about gear while leveling. If you do quests and dungeons to level, you’ll get gear. Don’t worry about being a burden on your group. Just try to learn your class and stab all of the things.

  2. Just keep queuing for dungeons. It’ll come up again. If you out level it and it stops coming up on the list before completing the quests, no worries.

  3. There may be folks running old raids at level on your server. Make a post on your server’s forum to see if someone’s interested in forming up a group or if there’s already a group doing the activity. WoW has a lot of people, so that means that WoW also has a lot of decent, friendly people. You just have to find them.

Welcome to the game, and good luck!

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Welcome!

I would look through the guild listings in the social tab and look for social/levelling guilds to join. A good guild is great for guidance, and a place to find friends to do those raids with. It’s much less intimidating that way.

Best of luck! :slightly_smiling_face:

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First off, WELCOME!

Supak and Simplyred are right, don’t worry too much about gear, and the in town vendors just sell trash, (that you can actually transmog now, so they’re not as useless as they used to be.)

If you’re enjoying your Rogue, you’ve only got five levels before you can access The Dragon Isles, where you’ll get much better gear, but because everything scales to you, it’s not going to get easier any time soon.

You will, however get Dragonriding within the first few hours of leveling once you’re there. You won’t be able to use regular flying until you unlock Dragon Isles Pathfinder, but once you master Dragonriding, (as long as you don’t have any physical issues that prevent you from accessing it fully), you’ll likely only use regular flying in specific situations, if then.

At first it’s very limited because you have no glyphs that give you more skills as you spend them on your talents. Once you’ve got them, it’s spectacular and insanely fun!

For now, just keep questing in between running dungeons unless you’re making better progress questing, then concentrate on that.

Once you’ve finally got Dragonriding and your first Dragonriding dragon, (which happens early in the first questline in Waking Shores, the intro zone for the Dragon
Isles), put your questing on hold, download an addon that shows you on your map where all the Dragonriding glyphs are, then go get every last one. (See the guide I linked below, and go watch a few YouTube videos on where they are and how to collect and spend them.) These are essential to being a successful Dragonrider.

You should be able to solo all of the Kalimdor, Eastern Kingdom’s, Outland, Northrend, Pandaria, and Draenor dungeons and raids content now at level 55, even if you were naked.

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ok wow I followed the link and have fallen down the wowhead rabbit hole and its a deeeep one. First of all; Thank you everyone for your help, really, I would be so lost right now without anyone stepping in and lending a hand. I appreciate it.

Its kinda hard to put together everything that I’m getting here but I am getting the sense I have been playing the game completely wrong haha :sweat_smile:. Ok so I figured start with the basic locations from the racial starting zone and move through Kalimdor and eventually get to the first expansion then the second and so on…apparently thats not how this works. I’m getting the feeling the game is not really set up to play without the current expansion. Is it a bad idea to play under just the normal subscription?

running raids and dungeons solo, do I have to physically walk to the location on the map? Or can I warp directly like when using the Dungeon finder in a group? up till now I’ve been running dungeons in the dungeon finder after selecting the correct chromie timeline so the dungeon I’m looking for will be available in the DF.

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A simple answer. Quest or dungeon in looking for dungeon. They both scale based on your level.

You don’t need to do much of anything else until max.

treat the capitals as a portal hub. There’s nothing to shop for. Save $. Dont buy gear in ah

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  1. Do quests. The game has 18 years of story. Take advantage of Chromie time. Youll gain gear as you go.

2 & 3. Relax on dungeons for now. Play the story. Once you hit level 60 youll be able to solo almost all dungeons from before Legion. Legion will only give you issues if you try to do the Mythic version of SOME of the dungeons. You should be able to solo all the way through Shadowlands normal dugeons, the raids my be difficult. If you own Dragonflight, you could level to 70 and have an easier time in them.

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  1. Yes. Wowhead is a rabbit warren. That’s because this game is 19 years old, and was based on three earlier games, Warcraft 1, 2, and 3. So there’s mind-boggling masses of info, that will hopefully keep you entertained.
  2. There’s no right or wrong way to play WoW. Play the way you personally have fun and enjoy.
  3. You’re not wrong if you want to just play through the story in order of release. It will just take a very long time due to the massive amount of content. The only issue you’ll have is you’ll probably need to turn back time in 4 Vanilla zones (2 in Kalimdor: Darkshore and Silithus, and 2 in Eastern Kingdoms: Blasted Lands and Arathi Highlands, by speaking to Zidormi who will change the zones for you (she’s in each zone, locations available at wowhead.) All 4 zones are different in the present due to events in past expansions.
  4. There’s nothing in the current expansion you don’t already have, other than access to the new zones and Dragonriding. However, Dragonriding (Dynamic Flight) is going global with the next patch, likely in January. And the only place to the glyphs that make it easier (and more complete) is in the Dragon Isles.
  5. I’m not sure what you mean by, “normal subscription.” If you mean pay monthly, I think if you’re having fun, and know you’re going to be playing for at least the next 6 months, it’s not only cheaper to pay for the 6 months at once, but you get free perks like mounts, etc, for free. This is the only game I play, so I’m on the yearly plan which, like the 6-month plan), works out to getting a month free annually.
  6. Yes, if you’re soling dungeons & raids you need to physically travel to the instance. But you should have regular flying by now, yes? And don’t bother with Chromie Time, otherwise you won’t be able to solo it. Example: If you decide you want to solo instances in Pandaria and you go choose Mists timeline, those instances will scale to you, and you’ll need a group. Without Chromie Time, they’ll be half your level, and easily soloable.

My advice would be to buy Dragonflight, get to 60, (or whatever level the Dragonflight intro quest start automatically popping up for you, might be as early as 58), accept them, come to the Dragon Isles get Dragonriding, level to 70 in the current content, and see if you want to do endgame content while it’s current. You can always go back and do legacy content whenever you please, either with your main, or making an alt of another race/class/spec entirely, and level through different zones than the first time.

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Welcome!

Enjoy the journey and as others have said, gear will come. Having leveled toons recently from low level it can feel a bit much, but you’ll get there.

Another site that’s useful is: https://www.icy-veins.com/wow/

They have some nice basic guides (though like wowhead, there’s a good many terms that are game-jargon. Feel free to ask on the forums, people here are pretty good at helping, when not griping.) and something I found helpful at times.

If you like professions or pets, there are great sites for that as well, which are whole other rabbit holes one can go down.

Good luck and have fun (and be sure to do the Anniversary quest, which will get you a nice mount and answering the daily question in the caverns of time gives a nice amount of XP for a quest.)

Tip for that: If you don’t know the answer, guess. You can keep trying until you guess right. :slight_smile:

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Run ( Okay I’m joking )

Wait til you’re fully leveled. Questing you ain’t gotta worry too much

Oh no you can totally ask folks if they got free time. I’m sure there’s someone here on the forums that would take you on a Raid Field Trip basically

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