Hi guys, my boyfriend recently started playing wow because I like the game.
I tried playing with him recently and he boosted his char to 110 and recently just got to 120. My first priority was getting him gear, we did some m0 so he could get some gear. But he hated it because the dungeons were too complicated and I’m bad at explaining. Mind you I main a healer so I didn’t really know how to explain dps/tank mechanics. Sure I know some basics but I’m not the best for it. Anyways fast forward and he hates dungeons, I was thinking of doing world quests to help him gear, but is there any other thing I should try? Sure we could do the quest line but that’s long and boring. I need to help him get his cape too but I’m not really sure where to start, I feel like his ilvl might just be too low for it. I think he’s 200 something rn. Other than that I need advice on warriors, he plays a warrior I don’t know anything about them. I don’t know what traits they need, stats, trinks or anything. Sure I checked icy veins but I was just wanted some advice from actual players as well.
Sorry for the long read thanks guys!
I would just have him spec dps and queue up heroic dungeonsw ith him. Then once he a little hgiher ilvl help me do questline for cloak. He should be able to do it with ilvl 360 or so
Do you know how to start the intro to it? I totally forgot
Hmmm you need to clear the entry quests of nazjatar I think? Get the neck to lvl 50 from that, then move onto cloak quest line. I may be wrong tho
Just do the quests in the name of “black dragon soemthing”
Youtube, icy-veins class/spec guides are both very good starting points.
But honestly, he hamstringed himself (warrior puns!) by starting with a boosted character. You lose so much when you boost a class you’ve never played before. The leveling process is very quick these days, especially if you do it with him, and he’ll learn his rotation, how dungeon mechanics work, and a lot of other ways in which WoW operates through doing them instead of essentially starting behind the eight ball from the jump.
The first mistake was BOOSTING as a new player - you learn NOTHING and everything is overcomplicated. Questing lets you “ease” into things. And 200ilvl? That’s WOD Ilvl, hes WAYYYYY too low for BFA content. I can’t give advice on warriors cause I suck at it, but you should probably start at easing him into dungeons somehow, otherwise the gearing process will be very very very slow. Atlernatively, you have nazjatar’s 385 pieces of gear from manapearls.
And if he hates dungeons…he’s gonna hate raids and get overwhelmed.
Do you remember how to start the naz line? And dang does he have to have a min ilvl for his heart too?
Honestly I’m not sure what it is I just remember it was low
Get the quest “Set Sail” or something from Nathanos, do the intro in Nazjatar, then Magni shows up and you go to the Chamber. Once you do his stuff and leave, you’ll immediately get a quest to talk to Valeera in Zandalar. Talk to her, then go back to the Chamber, and you’re on the cloak questline.
You can start it as as long as your 120. I believe you get the quest from Nathanos on Horde or Genn for the Alliance
But next I would move to help him with the cloak quest. That gives you multiple pieces of 430+ gear as well as the cloak obviously
First thing you need to do is turn off trade chat. /leave trade If you look at it too long your head explodes.
Plus you get a 385 weapon in the Naz questline early on, which is really helpful.
Depending on whether he’s interested and whether you’re interested, you could consider doing faction assaults together. They’re a good activity that doesn’t require people to be near each other in ilvl or game knowledge.
https://wow.gameinfo.io/bfa-invasions
9 of those - or 5 if you get the chests - will get him a 440 weapon, which should be good for gearing.
Battlegrounds could work too. Running around in a battleground with a pocket healer can be lots of fun. It may not be as much fun for you as the healer, though.
Finally, you could queue for LFR together once he has the ilvl.
120 turns up the pain now if your iLevel isn’t 350+.
Do world quests to get it up; if he hasn’t yet, he may need honored with the BFA reps and the three war campaign starter quests finished to open up WQs. WQs drop up to 420 gear.
Then dont encourage him to run them. The game is a blast without group content and if it doesnt suit him he’ll likely quit over it.
Have him run some old Mists raids solo…or you both run them together for mogs and such. That might just be more intriguing for him like it is me.
This is a little off topic, but I’m sorry people attempted to grind at you during your blood elf post. It can be really disheartening to be new to the game and witness so much of the toxicity in forums. We are glad to have you!
Yes, to get the cloak quest started… he will need to:
- Unlock World Quests: this requires all primary bfa factions at Friendly.
- Set Sail for Nazjatar!: This should pop up immediately after unlocking World Quests, if not… relog.
- Finish Magni’s bit for the neck upgrade and essence. You can go back to Nazj and finish that up to having world quests out there too, but it isn’t necessary.
- Talk to Valeera right in Great Seal for Horde.
imo this tends to be a mistake for new players. because…
you learn a lot more from leveling.
you could try watching some Videos of the dungeons.
or do NORMAL versions of the current dungeons. (i think Heroic was like 300-380ish ilvl min requirement.) Dps roles should be safer to learn in as you don’t need to know all the mechanics at once. and even messing those up are less punishing as they are not tuned to be difficult.
boosting a player’s ilvl via mythic Dungeons is harder when they don’t know all the mechanics. they are tuned for ~415ilvl so a lot of the mechanics were probably one shooting them and giving the feeling that it was all the fault of not knowing things when its more of a gearing issue. 
About this…
- Dungeons in WoW are VERY poorly designed. I use to like them but after playing another MMO that has dungeons, I came to realize how WoW dungeons are 95% trash mobs, 5% boss fights. It’s a disgustingly bad design. Unless you’re in an M+ run where you’re FORCED to kill trash, everyone does their best to hug walls and jump off cliffs to skip all of it. If you pull a pack be warned, you will get yelled at and maybe kicked out.
- The layouts of some of the recent dungeons are over complicated. Yeah sure it’s cool to be running around in a manor but damn it’s easy to get lost. When you do get lost someone in the party screams at you and then they vote kick you for it even though it’s your first time.
As for gear, not sure how much gold you have but you can buy nearly a full ilvl 400 set (minus head, shoulders, chest and cloak slots) for 50k-75k. Careful with rings as most are unique-equip so just buy 1 of the 310 rings.
This is true. It used to be a pain leveling up as a new player because you’d end up doing it alone, but if Party Sync works like it’s supposed to, they could do his quests together. They could also use Party Sync to do his early BFA quests together.
People misuse this word. Plenty of other games use a similar design; and in the MMOs that preceded wow it was 99% trash, and occasionally zero bosses.
Wow is a 16 year old game, and won’t be getting any younger.