Yeah this expansion is extremely alt friendly. Crafted gear means you can easily get your level 50 ilvl well above 85 which is what you need to queue for dungeons. Then you can buy crafted gear at 60 that lets you queue for heroic dungeons immediately upon hitting 60. Then you can either start M0 world tours after getting decent enough gear from heroics, or just gear through renown storyline. Once you have enough gear from heroics your character is more than strong enough to make the open world a fun experience.
I was thinking that some of my alts would be pretty bad to level through shadowlands but the 50 crafted gear has made it seamless. I got all crit/haste for my DK and had 40% haste and 30% crit at level 50 with bone shield up LOL. Very op feeling.
Yeah…I have a 207 cloak, 200 neck and feet that are higher than I can upgrade to, but a number of pieces are up to 184 now that were lower with what i had
Definitely worth knowing about
The different souls are linked to your specs. For example, you can set up the first one while you’re shadow spec, then swap to disc, and set up one for the second soul. When you swap back to shadow, it will activate the first soulbind as well, without having to go back to the soulforge.
So you can pretty easily manage different soulbinds for different specs (within one covenant, of course).
Edit: Also, yes, the upgrading Campaign gear rewards are fantastic, as I’m not a huge fan of running dungeons over and over and over and over for loot that never drops. It’s a very satisfying way to improve my gear, and makes me actually look forward to the next leg of the Campaign. Even gearing up an alt isn’t too painful thanks to this, though it does require a bit of anima-scrounging depending on how quickly you’re trying to catch up.
The gist of it is, soulbind and spec are linked. You can set up one for one spec, change spec, set up something entirely different, and the system will remember it when you change spec again.
For example, let’s say I’m out killing stuff solo in Ret spec on my pally, and have the Nightblade gal as my soulbind. Oh hey, guild needs a healer on a run, so I swap to Holy. Previously I’ve set up the Mad Duke fella as the soulbind for that spec, so bam, now that’s all set up and good to go, no trip back to the Soulforge necessary.
This is just a random example, but it means you can tune your different soulbinds to specific roles, so those spec-specific boosts won’t go to waste.
I play Shaman, and I have literally been running back to my convenant when I switch from doing world quests and Torghast vs. when I want to heal in dungeons.
lol, wow, you’ve obviously saved me a lot of time!!! lol
I think it has to be a different soulbind. I haven’t experimented with it much, but I feel like the idea is you’re setting things up for that NPC specifically. So I can’t doctor up miss Nightblade for both Ret and Holy, I’d have to pick one and use someone else for the other.
I think. Hopefully someone more knowledgeable than me can explain it better. I’m surprised no one’s yelled at me for how wrong I am yet, actually.
This thread was so needed. Its really strange how so much of this info hasnt filtered out to the playerbase. I think they just got so caught up on the ‘pull the ripcord’ or ‘the maw is empty’ criticisms that they just forgot to get this info out. It could be also that the early beta was too selective (and maybe even later beta). They really need idiots like me (who walk around in a fog completely missing the signposts in game) just to think ‘oh right! we probably need to be more clear in our directions here’.
Its really a bit of an indictment on how poorly theyve communicated with the playerbase.
I’ll be honest, I didn’t know this was a feature people were missing. I’m not trying to be snotty, I just tend to poke at every nook and cranny of every “hub” area and found the upgrade guys by accident. I suspect that the devs, like me, have just played so long they forget not everybody does this.
I’m reminded of the little gnome shoeshine guy in Dalaran. No real in-game function, but if you sat in his chair he’d shine your shoes. Even if you were a troll. Pedicure, I guess? Buff them big ol’ toenails!
Thats exactly it. They lack those perspectives. If you ever want to see how much even players like me take for granted, go watch Taliesin’s brother get super frustrated about clicking a bandage (or listen to that drama time story from a few months ago where some guy tries to go on a ‘lets play wow’ e-date with someone who ‘hadnt played the game since wrath’).
You can pick any soulbind for the spec. In the current spec, click the altar, choose the soulbind, and click activate for this spec.
However, the conduits enabled are fixed to the soulbind, and not switching based on spec. If you want different conduits enabled, need to change them like changing tenants, and it costs the Conduit Energy (another time gate thing).
