What are you doing to prepare?
I’m currently hoarding gold as is standard when waiting for a new xpac, getting all my classes to 70 and getting profession kits for inscription ready.
What’s the essentials for preparing for wotlk?
For me personally, I’m still deciding just how many characters I’m going to bring to wrath. I had something like 8 in og wotlk set up as profession bots… I’ve got 6 at 58+, but even leveling them on rested I’m getting far too bored to cap even a second toon yet, let alone prep to push them past 70 in the future. If I only end up playing my future dk with no alts, it will probably dramatically impact my profession choices as well, since I’ll then need the character as my farming toon.
That said current prep list is :
-consumes to level with 58-70, then a stockpile to go 70+
-some twink gear… But honestly not much… There’s only a few things that will really make a difference… I’ll use blade of misfortune to 64 then a green axe before ring of blood axe @65… Then likely that to 68 or 70… Haven’t really seen any armor I care about buying and I won’t spend much on it…
-profession kits once I decide for sure what toons I’m bringing, and how quickly (I may wait on some toons for heirlooms)
-gold for bags
-gold for the dalaran teleport ring.
-gold for dmc: greatness
-gold for flying, epic flying, and cold weather flying
-scryer rep, coil fang rep mats (helm and shoulder enchants)
-run speed boot enchant mats (I’ll get a few vellums enchanted for future upgrades) …debating on getting glove and bracer str enchants to… Some cheap leg armors as well.
Somewhere in the 3-5k range total for prep gear, consumes, and items… Then something around 50k to be comfortable going into wrath itself (for just the dk… Adding between 2-6k for each additional toon depending on whether or not I cheap out on their flying speed) . The greatness card, teleport ring, and levels of flying being the main culprits…
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I expect the gold rise to drop. you can sell gold now, and buy back later at the end of the expansion.
Oh… I forgot about gold to buy dual spec… On every toon. I don’t remember off the top of my head what the cost was though. 1k, 2k, or 5k… Not enough morning coffee yet.
I don’t remember golds being an issue at all during Wrath.
Unless you were targeting the 16k golds mount, you don’t need to “farm” for golds anymore.
If you plan to “speedrun” and chain dungeon to reach level 80 then yeah you may have golds issue and need to prepare before Wrath. If you plan to level “the old way” then you won’t have golds issue.
Getting Sunwell gear will give you Wrath pre-raid gear. So it’s worth it.
i remember that wotlk is pretty alt friendly with no attunments and heirlooms to help level up
I’m hoarding gold, though unless you’re buying all these profession mats in WotLK you don’t need more than 4k for dual spec, flying and roughly 6k more for the Dalaran ring (more or less, price varies with rep)
Stocking up on herbs for Inscription. I bought them ages ago and are just keeping them in my mail/bank and just bouncing them back and forth. If I were to add all of them up I’d have over 10,000 herbs
Stocking up on Flame Caps as I’ve heard that they’re used in WotLK for Fire Mages, not sure how mana efficient Fire Mages are in WotLK so I don’t know at what point I use them if at all.
Also been doing achievements, I’ve done a fair bit of them already, well the ones that you can actually do now that is. Exploration, Mr. Pinchy, got 24 reputations to exalted so I think that’s 3 or 4 of the rep achievements there.
Apart from all that the only other item I’ve been going out of my way to get are Sharpened Fish Hooks. I make my gold through fishing and with them sharing the same skill increase as WotLK’s one (glow worm) I might as well stock up on them, though Glow Worms do last an hour over the SFH’s 10 minutes.
As I said I don’t think gold will be an issue in WotLK. There are massive gold sinks but those are through mount vendors like the 20k (repair/reagent) mount ( Reins of the Traveler’s Tundra Mammoth), Mekgineer’s Chopper (Alliance)/ Mechano-hog (Horde), Polymorph tomes, Dalaran Intellect (which is the same as Arcane Intellect but with a different spell effect), Kirin-Tor Ring and others I can’t think of.
Regarding the Chopper/Hog…
Like I said it entirely depends on how quick you want to get your professions to 450 as I believe that most of the gold early on will go towards those materials.
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Only need to do things two prepare for WOTLK
- Farm gold
- Level a bunch of alts so you’re prepared to run GDKP’s in wotlk because they’re going to be even more popular than they are in TBC.
Not sure that is needed as wrath might experience inflation so gold might not be best way to prepare, I would have just a rogue herb/mining alt so you can get some gems and potions. And that is it since gold will be inflated in wrath more than tbc, I wouldn’t bring all tbc gold to wrath.
Level a Paladin
Get tank gear fast, Sell tank services for gold
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Spend it all on Main for GDKPs or Professions.
It depends on how quickly we get DKs added. If I was just going to main my Druid I wouldn’t really be doing anything different than I am now since SWP gear is so freakishly strong that it carries a Feral well into lvl80 content and Heroics, especially if you have gems at the ready. Green quality gems in Wrath are superior to epic quality gems from TBC, so all those sockets in SWP gear can be readily updated and made to last.
As for professions, your best bet is to hoard gold and prep whatever you can with current cheaper materials to edge you above 375 as much as you can before relying on Wrath stuff. That being said, rushing up to 450 isn’t going to be critical as the first tier is pretty mild and prices won’t take long to plummet. Most folks will stop the moment they hit their profession bonuses.
That’s really it. I suppose if you haven’t gotten epic flying yet you should get on that ASAP and decide whether you want to start Howling Fjord or Borean Tundra, or if you’re going to dungeon spam your way up instead.
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Building up alts and professions to augment my main.
If I recall, it also depends on your character’s gear level going into wrath…and actual level… If you’re 68, for example, you’ll have to do both zones entirely. Borean has a blue weapon quest chain that can make it a priority for less geared players… Where Howling has the dungeon, so you may want to go there if you plan on dungeon spamming a bit, for any Dunbarton quest preqs.
Me personally, I go to Howling every time. One of my favorite zones in the game… And the undead quest line with the plague is way more interesting than anything in Borean
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It’ll be interesting to see whether Nexus or Utgarde Keep are superior for dungeon spamming until you can get to Azjol-Nerub. Utgarde is substantially faster to get to than Nexus so perhaps that’s the preferred until you can move on to the bug instances, and then later the troll instances.
Not gonna lie, I actually completely forgot about coldarra and all those blue dragon instances, when writing that post so both starting zones do have dungeons … Loot in each might impact where you want to go, but yeah, you’re correct about utgarde being more accessible.
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I would suggest you get to 70 first. But to answer the question, it’s in my own thread: (Wrath) Are You Prepared... For Death Knight?
gold because of the dailies and more gold per mob makes that stuff basically free.
Farm Enti’s Quenched Sword to see if it is bugged in WotLKC
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Leveling my Prot Warrior and making profession kits.