I just hit 70 for the first time in DF and i believe i have grossly underestimated how much there is. IS there like, a set list of priority of things i should be doing in some sort of order? When I played Wrath, it was like ok, buy this set of gear, get this ILVL, go do heroics until you gear up enough to do Gammas, then you get your ILVL up to raid, etc.
I have no idea what to do first here, any help would be greatly appreciated, esp since S4 just dropped and im clearly behind the curve.
Hi, welcome to retail DF friend.
So if you head on over to Warcraft logs you can use archon feature to find your BiS gear (if thats your style)
However if you want to gear for s4 depending on your ilvl i would do the following
If your ilvl is below 450 do emerald dream quests and dream surges
Heroic dungeons drop 476 ilvl vault 489
M0s 493 vault 506 drake crests
Keys
+2 496 vault 509
+3 499 vault 509
+4 499 vault 512
+5 502 vault 512
+6 502 vault 515
+7 506 vault 515
+8 506 vault 519
+9 509 vault 519
+10 509 vault 522
Vault: doing activities such as raid, M+/dungeons and PvP unlock slots aim to fill these all as to get the highest ilvl you will need to get gear from the vault
crests and flightstones
Use these to upgrade gear You get welp from anything,
drake from dungeons, lfr, m0s
Wyrm, heroic and mid level keys +2-5
Aspect mythic and high keys 6+
Max ilvl for vault comes from mythic raid and +8 keys
Edit ( i forgot s4 DF changed how M+ works so a +10 is now as hard as a +15 so keep the key squish in mind and sorry for the edits)
I’m with you, thx for asking the question. I’ve been at 70 for awhile and am at Emerald Dream, but am woefully undergeared and clueless. I’m not even sure I should bother finishing. And don’t raid or dungeon.
It’s about the same now just with more options. If you’re a fresh 70 then run some normals, get gear, then run heroics, get more gear, then run LFR and Mythic 0. If you aren’t a fan of LFR then just go the keystone route and gear through there. I assume 0s and low keys will be plenty to get you ready for normal raids.
that sounds really slow.
wouldn’t emerald dream stuff be faster?
Probably the case. I kind of forgot about that and wasn’t sure it would be receiving updated gear. If that’s the case then definitely go that route. That is in fact what I did when I came back in S3.
From his post I figured he would want to go the dungeoning route as well.
I’d put running normals around the same level as doing Dreamsurge for some quick drops, Emerald Dream for around 3 decent level gear items first week. Use a few things at the same time to get a quick start.
After that, options open up a lot.
Here you go friend
Several older community events are going to be dropping season 4 gear starting today, so there be a huge number of options about how to get started.
Unless you have specific endgame goal like cutting edge raiding in mind, wandering around aimlessly just trying stuff, checking out what’s going on in the group-finder and seeing where it leads is not to be underestimated.
The first thing I’d do when the servers come back up is pick up the Aiding the Accord weekly quest from Therazul in Valdrakken. That will guide you to which world events are “Awakened” this week and will give updated gear.
If you’re on a high pop server and have gear under ilvl 400, it might be worth taking a peak at the AH. I’ve been able to get ilvl 415ish gear for a few hundred gold a piece. (Although on low and med pop servers, it’s usually in the thousands and less worth it.)
No. This is every late arrival’s or returning player’s experience. Blizzard really, really doesn’t care that you are confused by zero lack of guidance in which order to proceed. They have zero interest in the new player experience. They want you to regret not having played at that time. You are to accept that they do not want you to understand and live in fear that if you ever unsubscribe the game will return to a state of garbled nonsense you are currently finding.
I bought DF in the Black Friday sale and discovered what you are seeing. People were already complaining about being unable to complete content that was supposedly still current. You know what I did? None of it, went back to old content. If they don’t care about that, why should I? And clearly it’s intentionally pointless, or they’d care about the new player experience.
There are dramatically different price points on different servers. A friend may be able to save many thousands of gold by buying gear for you and trading it on a server where it is cheap. I found lowest prices on a new player server.
Why do that to them…
Because it’s easy and fast and especially this week has some drops that could last a while.
I don’t get the hate for LFR though. Most of the horror stories read like overblown reddit fictions.
Raz this week should see the return of some of them.
I don’t like running dungeons over and over, so I followed the tips from this guy and got to gear up enough to do what I wanted. No need for group content.
Search for this on youtube.
How To Gear Up ILVL 476 ALL BY YOURSELF - No Group Content Needed!
I was joking. And not joking… I just find it easier to do normals than lfr and sometimes it’s faster between the queues and everything…
I second this:
I rank norm and LFR about the same. LFR definitely comes with some…speed bumps from time to time.
I like that I never find myself being kicked in LFR just because I’m wearing the armor type the group leader is also wearing though.
But what if they never come up…
And we are stuck in this day forever
Maybe I’ll finally get around to cleaning off my desk…
Trying to figure out what’s worse