So,
I have recently started back up into the game, and I am curious on some ideas to help with gearing.
One of the best things I have seen so far, at least for my gear level, is to just do regular dungeons for the 340 ilvl gear.
How does pvp, Island expeditions, and warfronts measure up to gearing?
Any tips on how to get caught up a bit faster than dungeons?
Island expeditions don’t award gear, only AP. Good place to grind AP, but not so good if your focus is gearing. Warfronts are very solid, with the Arathi one awarding 340 per run and a 370 once per cycle on your first completion, and the Darkshore one award 385 from the first completion and either 340 or 355 per run (I don’t honestly remember). Warfront rewards can include both weapons and Azerite, though the Azerite items are exclusively of the Honorbound variety (so the generic trait is generally more oriented towards PvP).
World quests also scale up to 360 or so now, with certain high value ones (usually instance quests, like the Underrot one that was up the last few days (and might still be)) awarding 370. Invasions also reward up to 370 gear and can award both weapons and azerite, and often include WQs with high amounts of AP or solid gear rewards, too. Heroics and regular mythics are also solid options, though getting into regular mythics through the group finder can be a chore unless you have a really well-geared buddy to help boost you for invites.
Edit: Oh, and check your emissaries regularly! There was an emissary a couple days ago that awarded up to 370 weapons, and one that expired this morning or maybe tomorrow that awards up to 355 trinkets/rings.
Lastly, the AH has gear for bracers, gloves, belt, legs, and boots at 340 itemlevel that’s usually not too expensive, since they added it in 8.1. Crafted rings are still 310, unfortunately, and Azerite items cannot be crafted at all (excepting BoP pieces like the Engineering helms). On the trinket front, most of them are hideously expensive, but if you have the moola (or the RL moola to buy a WoW token to get in-game moola), a Darkmoon Deck: Fathoms is an amazing trinket. It will last you until you start getting 385 or even 400 trinkets, as it easily trumps every single other trinket in the game at 370 or below.
Edit: just noticed you’re a tank on the armory. If that’s your primary focus, skip the Fathoms, as it’s a DPS trinket. You can get a Darkmoon Deck: Blockades if you want for tanking. It’s not as insanely powerful as Fathoms is, but it’s still a very solid trinket, and because it’s not as grotesquely overpowered, it’s also typically massively cheaper than Fathoms.
As for PvP, I’ve heard it’s solid for gearing up, but I have no experience with how the gear progression system works for it in BfA. I’ll have to let someone more PvP-oriented answer that one.
Edit: oh, also, don’t enchant your weapons with the same enchant. You get much better mileage by using different enchants because of the way that the Navigation enchants work. For tanking, I recommend either haste/armor or versatility/armor (with either one being on either hand, it doesn’t matter). For DPS, it depends on your stat weights, but it’ll be some pair of crit, haste, or versatility. For a good hybrid set that’s solid for both tanking and DPS, go haste/versatility.
Thank ya thank ya.
Yeah I looked into wowhead for a lot of different reasons and I guess you can get dubloons for the gear if you wanted them. However not that great of gear and yeah I was too lazy the other night for the emissary… I missed it. haha
If there’s a gear vendor for dubloons, I’ve not found it. As far as I know, the only use for dubloons is consumables during expeditions. And there may be a vanity transmog vendor for dubloons.
I think there is some gear that is like a set or something that you can get from the IE. Think mostly like MOP style armors and weapons.
However, yeah I’ll deff try to do some of the warfronts when they are available for me.
Gotta gears them up man.
pvp is by far the quickest way to gear that I have seen. regular bgs award items pretty regularly and since season 2 has hit you can get a 375 weapon (which is what any class needs first) for capping your conquest. you also will get awarded another piece just for capping your conquest. and since we are season 2 you will get also get a token for capping conquest. which once you get 10 tokens you can turn it in for a 400 piece of gear (maybe 415 im unsure). so yea a blend of warfronts and pvp will get you geared up in no time. I literally started progressing this guy less then 2 weeks ago and im 380 now
I will jump into pvp today. I just kind of take it slow since im returning. I mostly work all the time. however, i should have the chance today to have some fun there.
if youre gonna do pvp then head to mugamblia. its the lil pvp town right next to the harbor. there are 2 quests that will reward you some conquest to get you a boost to your first 500 conquest cap.
now youll have to do world pvp to complete. but its kill 1 alliance and the other quest is kill 10 so find a 5 man grp under the custom pvp grp tab. and you can get those 2 quests done in under an hour. Id understand if you didn’t want to do this step as not everyone likes to wpvp. its also BG week so there is a quest at the turtle guys for bgs. this will get you more conquest and I believe it rewards a 355 piece for winning 4 bgs (epic or regular)
sounds easy enough, i should be able to wreck it!
it really is. if there is an assault up (don’t think there is till later today) they award 15 conquest per assault wq. so that’s another way to get conquest. and technically its week 2 almost 3. so you can get a 385 azerite piece at 1000 conquest. the beauty of the pvp azerite gear is you get your choice of 4. so it gives you a lil more options esp when you are trying to get specific traits. then besides WQ mythic 0’s are a great way to gear up. they give azerite and a chance at loot each boss. plus as a DH you will always be welcome in a mythic 0 lol
Emissaries are dropping 385 loot these days. Had one for ring/trink and another for a weapon the other day. Definitely worth doing. Like Xaedys said you should milk the warfronts. I geared up almost exclusively through them and totally skipped heroic dungeons.
YUP, I did a warfront for the first time last night. Was alright and kind of fun. My emissaries are not dropping the 385 yet because they are scaling with my Ilvl i suppose. Heck but I am giving it all I got though. So far I am making progress, by tonight I should be at least Ilvl 360 if I put the effort into it!
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also do lfr once you get to 340 or whatever you need. that’s another way to get some decent gear
After I posted I remembered they might scale. Do all the lfr too. They can titanforge. Got a 370 trink outta there early on. They can be painful so try and do them early in the week when a lot of raiders are getting them in before their guild runs.
not gonna lie, i totally forgot that LFR was even a thing hahaha.
theres so many ways to gear it’s easy to forget some. Really the only thing that will hold you back is your neck. It’s imperative that you do everything related to do that. That means champions of Azeroth rep should always be first on your list if you’re not revered with them
Yeah my goals for today when I get home from work is to do my world quest, Island expeditions and then some pvp.
Hoping to jump a good few levels on the neck piece when I go home.
you gain 45 ilvls in your neck (and its account bound so all your alts will get it too) for getting to revered with champions of azeroth. so whenever you go up a rep level with them head to silithus and Magni the diamond dwarf will give you 15 item levels. you gain 2 item levels every artifact level you go up but the gains from the rep are the only real way to get it up 390 range. there should be an emissary quest for champions every couple of days and there usually is at least 1 WQ per zone for them
Thats great lol.