I think Blizzard forgot about new/returning players when they nerfed the first levels

Starting level 70 in WW with a 300 item level is rough yo!

The world does scale down to you, which is some degree of compensation. On the flip side, when you’re i590 everything has like 3mil health and melees for 500,000. So that’s not great.

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Not enough!

I sit there minutes killing ONE kobold. Others then just hit it once and it’s dead. I have been tagging and dragging enemies to others for help. Thats gotten me to 73 at least! I did a follower dungeon as healer, I thought my spells were broken cause bars woukdnt move!

At any rate, 384 now and loving that any gear I get is over 100 item levels higher! Lol

No it isn’t.

Hit the AH and grab some starter gear in the 400+ ilvl

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I have so been thinking to do this as even the green bind on equipped is an upgrade for me. Hoping it wont be too expensive.

I had the same problem with dragonflight and some alts who were fresh 60. The problem goes away as soon as you hit level 61, or in your case 71. Get a craft that makes your armor type and problem fixed for quite a few slots. Find a friend to make your weapon, or make an alt to craft that for yourself as well. Same for jewelry.

Also if your AH is to expensive to fill out slots you need, instead pick up mining and herbalism. Make a few rounds a day picking up nodes. Sell on AH, make 100k easy, buy gear.

Only you limit yourself in a video game.

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I did it for a character and it was worth it. Dont worry about the stats just get whatever is cheapest, you’ll replace it fast.

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Did they tune since I leveled a pally over the weekend? She had about 280 something when she started TWW.

Now don’t rush me you’ll say “well because that’s a paladin”

To which I was going to say it’s class dependent. As it always is. The paladin experience as recent as last weekend (Labor Day weekend- for when this post ages) was absolutely fine.

I’m sure my mage will make me whine a bit more . But right now I’m all in leveling my earthen shaman. He’s 25. So probably won’t be until Sunday when he’s in TWW content (I can’t play everyday between now and then).

Sounds like you dont know how to press your buttons correctly… or more likely… are lying.

I boosted my Earthen, and started TWW at 68, he was at around 323. It was rough. Thankfully I remembered I was going to create that character and had a full set of prepatch event gear. A 150 ilvl jump is quite the QOL improvement.

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As Ret or Holy?

I have two pallies. It’s probably my favorite class.

I’m TRYING holy on the one I just leveled but itching to go back to ret.

My other pally is mostly a weird symbolic thing (my first character in wow created back in 2005) he is ret but dabbles in Prot. I suck at tanking but I can handle lower dungeons.

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Yeah, I’ve been trying to do this as holy and it’s been kinda brutal. Dropping my shield for a big two hand upgrade was also a mistake. Thinking to level as ret instead but I really want to get used to the holy ret rotation.

uhm…300 item level…how?
isnt it supposed to be 350?

Good idea. Craft a ton of starter gear and raise the price

I gotcha . Yeah I’d advise ret maybe to just get to 80. Then holy to do the side and WQs a bit (or delves) before dungeons?

Of course all up to your comfort level but ret is great for leveling.

You level up doing some DF quests, scaling makes it easy, enter WW with 310 item level I think.

Even funnier it was enough to que for normals. The magine your level 70 healer has a 300 item level lol

Heal yourself boys!

After starting a new character and leveling to 70 I had done zero dungeons or raids, my gear was trash quest gear. Level 70 doing TWW content was slightly more challenging than playing by face rolling the keyboard, slightly. This lasted for about 20 minutes until I got some new gear, it was actually the most fun leveling I’ve had in a while.

Maybe to help…go to dragon isles, find the area that is doing the dreamsurge event. Fly around and gather Dreamsurge Coalescense. Find the vender and buy I454 gear. Each item is 100 Dreamsurge Coalescense, trinket is unique so you can only get one. Might need a bit extra because the weapon is random for your class. You want a staff and it gives you a mace. You either need the offhand or try again for staff.

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