Simple question–I saw the videos on what to do for raiding and M+. That’s too competitive for my liking. Can I just stay at 50 or 60 and just farm out the old expansions (Minus Legion, BFA)? I don’t have to do the group stuff to do that right? I’d really rather skip the toxic group play and grind alone.
Yep, you can farm old raids without ever interacting with another human being.
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The way older stuff you absolutely do not need max level or better ilvl to farm.
Some of the last raid tiers, on heroic and Mythic difficulty, having a max level toon or higher ilvl is helpful.
BFA you probably will need other people to farm that stuff for transmog. But that’s just as far as the raids go, in my opinion.
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Scaling is terrible and off for Mythic Raids in Legion.
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Haha no you have no idea how BIS works. It’s BIS based upon the content you are doing. It’s not always the same BIS items from content to content.
You also don’t need current raid/dungeons BIS for old, non-current content. You already outscale it.
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I figured BFA and Legion you’d need someone.
I was worried because my Warrior I play on is 26 and soon will be 50 and I’m trying not to do SL.
Yeah there are some raid mechanics at the higher tiers you simply will not be able to cheese through.
Even if you aren’t interested in SL, if you already purchased the expansion, my recommendation is to get a toon to max level, and get some gear from Korthia. I am using all Korthia gear and don’t have it max upgraded but I do just fine for the stuff I’m working on. I just don’t farm Legion mythic raids or BFA content solo.
BFA content will probably be soloable halfway through the NEXT expansion. Or sooner. But most likely halfway through the expansion after a level cap increase and a higher ilvl.
You can definitely solo MoP raids at level 50, and I think WoD raids should be soloable or close to soloable at that level as well. I’ve never tried soloing Legion raids before level 60 but I figure it might be hard because even after the nerfs I can’t solo all of the bosses on mythic on my main characters.
You can pretty much farm all old raids easily solo. I didn’t try any bfa. The only one that gave me a problem was one of the orgrimar fights where you need to jump down and clear two sides using a mechanic that wasn’t really gear dependent and required speed. It was doable. You can get gear easily in shadowlands. World quests show the gear that will drop.
Vanilla through WoD raids you can do on like ilvl 100 chars no problem, everything is 1 shot once you get to level 51 and get the gear available to that level. Legion raids can be a little tricky pre-60, like KJ likes to reset if you don’t instantly kill him because he has really weird mechanics. BFA raids are still really difficult because a lot of the instant wipe mechanics haven’t been culled yet so you actually have to do them as designed and they’re a bit tanky like a shadowlands dungeon.
uhm wod raids are definitely soloable at 50.
Yes you can.
It’s mostly awful.
It’s the most boring, terrible thing you can do in WoW.
The only time it’s fun is if you are right on the edge of power to where the encounters are actually a bit of a challenge and interesting. Otherwise, imagine going to a famous golf course, say, Pebble Beach. You walk past the tee, straight to the hole. Put the ball down 2" from the cup and putt it in. “Hole in one” every time, with a long, tedious walk.
That’s what raid farming is like.
I was fortunate in BfA to level my DH. As a fresh 60, in junk gear, Tomb of Sargeras was JUST doable. Some of the bosses were a little tricky. It was great.
some people don’t care about difficulty.
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You can comfortably solo every non-mythic raid boss from legion at or before 220 ilvl. Mythic Eonar will still be a pain even at 278, same with KJ because you can’t out gear physics.
Sure, but that long walk (especially in raids where you can’t ride) gets old by the 3rd run. Pretty much all of the wonder of the zone is gone.
Hell, I solod NH normal at 50
All content prior to BFA can be done solo, I think.
Including all the Legion Mythic stuff.
Gear (plus your personal appetite for challenge) will basically define a comfort zone of what old content you will enjoy running. Better gear, whether it’s the current BiS or the next patch’s blues or the patch after that’s greens, will expand that comfort zone closer to current content.