Well it’s a big time sink as alliance because you can just stop grinding and quest faster to get to westfall and do the quest that gives a wand.
I literally am lvl6 with 0 cloth so far…not sure drop rates. If you grind to 10 or 11 you could of just quested and been 15 not wasting anytime getting the Prof from SW or IF and quested.
There are low level wands and you’ll be able to get one cheap on the AH. When I leveled up mages, I’d always get one pretty early - either via drop or a cheap AH one.
True.
The other side is that you will have to eat more, buy more food, and most likely die a few more times due to spell pushback. Depending on how fast you want to level you will have a lot of competition for quests so that may slow you down considerably.
If you quest for 15 i would say put points into spirit tap. if you grind wand put it into wand talent. Once you get the wand there will be very little downtime or going OOM.
edit: not to mention just leveling your tailioring has benefits. You can actually equip the gear you make. Every profession feels really good because every little stat makes a difference
Go to menethil harbor and make that your home.
You’ll be going back and forth leveling anyway.
And menethil has FP and boat.
Oh yeah spirit tap is #1 then wand spec.
Then Respec at 40 to shadowform, then next 5 into wand again.
All the Youtube early wand guides are all pretty clickbaity if you’re on a fresh server gathering mats solo imo having tested it a few times.
An alternative you could try for an early wand is first training skinning/leatherworking. You can make early greens from leatherworking. Then you unlearn both profs and train tailoring and enchanting. Now you have more greens to DE and require fewer linen. Linen cloth is very rare and it would you a while to collect 60. Light Leather is much easier and reliable to farm than linen. Now you can DE both your tailoring and skinning greens.
The down side to this, is you waste a lot of gold and time training and retraining skills. Personally, I’m fine waiting until level 15
Pick up Enchanting and make them early on. They’re also great for disenchanting excess. Partial refund of materials and some skill ups.
Basically what I’m leaning towards, getting to 11 as a dwarf priest and running to westfall to quest there for the wands.
The soonest I was able to craft my own wand on stress test was level 9. And that was on an undead warlock with good cloth drops. Virtually impossible to craft it independently by level 6.
Yeah… took me to level 10 on a beta warlock… and also caused a bit of bottlenecking on those Scarlet quest mobs.
Come live I’ll just level my two melee through the first zones 1-12 before making my lock, and funnel it excess cloth to boost tailoring and craft wands with so that I can make it immediately at 6.
Thanks, this is very helpful!
I just tried this on a Priest with Tailoring and Enchanting. Farmed the Fargo mine, took me about an hour and 20 minutes to get the cloth. I was lvl 7 1/2 or so before I could make the wand.
Yea just doesn’t seem worth it, could of been like 11 already.
How to wand? Get to Nar’thalas Academy and start practicing your wanding skills.
Did Classic WoW mages have to learn and level up their magic circle skill?
No idea what you’re talking about
This is about getting an early wand.
Priests start out at 1/300 wand skill.
For Horde, there’s a guide out there for Orcs/Trolls in particular (Orc Warlocks, Troll Mages and Priests) that says to take Leatherworking/Skinning first and farm Kul Tirans and Quilboar. Durotar definitely has no shortage of Humanoid mobs. Plenty of beasts to as well to skin and make green leather goods out of.
Sure, it’ll be useful for likely 3-6 levels at most, but there’s definitely a certain satisfaction of going into a fresh server with a caster as your first character, and making your own Lesser Magic Wand (which does surprisingly good damage at no mana cost, so it’s strictly more efficient than your Class nukes, at least as a Warlock or Priest).
I’m definitely considering this for my Orc Warlock/Troll Mage.
Yea, I think horse have it a bit easier because as a dwarf literally no humanoids.
I just think I need to stick it out and get it at 15 via westfall quest.
When I get home from work though I will be testing LW and skinning to see if it yields better results. Make 10 or so items and get my enchanter skill ups from DE. Then make it…who knows how long that takes but we will see tonight.
As others have said have friends funnel linen to you. Last stress test i got lesser magic wand at level 7. DEing greens is rng tho for the right mats.
I seem to recall (in BC) there were some wands and things that dropped from elites. If people take the time to explore, they’ll probably find their first wand without going too crazy.
Yep. That’s what I did.