I just started back again after quitting in phase 1, and it seems the catch up system is to do RDF for coins.
So I started doing RDF, there’s a 5-8min que and each dungeon gives 3-5 coins per… at the vendor you need 20-50 for one item. Basically have to do this for months?
All raids are gatekept with GS so I can’t even get into them to gear up… Any tips appreciated
Find yourself a guild/group of friends to play with and queue with to spam dungeons. Unfortunately, if you’re on a server that’s big on GS, you’re probably not going to get anywhere fast with “catch up” unless you swap to a healer or tank spec, or find people willing to help you out with it.
farm gold buy boe 232-245 you will be at 5100 easy equp furious 238 i lvl weps temp you can grind RDFS/do weekley voa/onyxai/totc/uld weekleies pretty easily
catch up is not hard, gold is not hard to make yourself and yeah there is the wow token if u dont want to farm gold (easy if ur a dk go farm kara for 800g a hour takes like no gear)
3-5 coins per dungeon? You get 2 for running a random heroic and each dungeon has 3-4 bosses. 5 or 6 emblems per 15 minute dungeon has you at 10-12 per hour, maybe up to 15. 4 hours to brute force a 245 piece (of your choice!) is not that bad. Pair that with getting a couple of 232s from the ICC dungeons and you’ll be fine. Once you get to gammas, you’ll get those 5-6 emblems plus 3-4 scourgestones. It nearly doubles in return.
If it takes you months to gear, you probably weren’t worried about getting into current content
I did the math, 4 245s, 3 232s, and a piece from TOC H (219) puts you at 220 ilvl. From there you’re geared enough to start running gammas and then it’s two pieces every 4 hours. Get grinding
This is the easiest time to gear up in the entire expansion.
Heroic dungeons, regular easy plain old heroics will allow you to purchase ilvl 232 ToC tier set items which is equal to ulduar 25 tier sets, at least as far as ilvl goes.
Gamma dungeons and their vendors are a classic only feature that allows people access to a wide variety of raid items that would’ve been harder to obtain otherwise.
All three ICC heroics will also drop gamma tokens despite being their original heroic difficulty.
Do FoS, PoS and HoR daily (heroic) whether you have to queue specifically for them or get them randomly, you can also go into these dungeons on normal and get 219 gear and do them as many times, you can also get 4 crafted items (stay away from the 264 stuff), and then just farm out emblems. That 3-5 is actually 5-7 emblems except for FoS which would give 4 only if you got them randomly. Its not that bad really.
Oh, and do the headless horseman… might get a weapon or helm, Ring of Ghoulish Glee (no strength but its something).
So what do you expect, to run one dungeon and get full bis? It takes time if you’re just starting the gear grind, but it doesn’t even take THAT much time. Queue for dungeons and get badges from those, they add up fast if you’re running lots of dungeons. Run the ICC dungeons every day, they drop 232 gear.
Not to sound too snarky but why did you quit the first time? If you think it takes months to farm currency for gear then you’re doing it wrong or you’re not doing enough per day. Only took me about 8 runs to get the 38 needed for my Deaths Verdict? That was done in 2 days of very casual running…