Hi Folks,
I am relatively new to WoW, coming from other MMO’s such as FFXI and FFXIV. I am really liking WoW, especially the open world and all the content!
I now have a level 70 warlock and a 70 mage. I have the dragonflight expansion, and love dragon riding. Took a bit to get used to it, but now I really like it. Reminds me of Aion.
Anyway, I’m not really sure what I should be doing now that I am 70, other than continuing to increase my ilvl gear. Right now I’m ilvl 417. Could I please get some suggestions on how to continue to increase this going forward. Any other suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!
I would look for world quests to upgrade your ilvl a bit and maybe do some dungeons. Prepatch event is right around the corner (the 30th) and that might have some ilvl catch up to get you ready for next expac?
Either way, try to do the world bosses as well for some drops and then hit up LFR and in general just have some fun. Also if you’re looking for stuff to do aside from upgrading your ilvl you could go start working on quests in other zones, get invested in the lore and in general just play the game. Orrrr you could farm some transmog that you like from old raids/dungeons as well.
PvP is a bit of a mess at the moment so I would maybe avoid that (always is during prepatch) but yeah, if you have any other questions feel free to ask. Good luck and welcome to WoW friendo.
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Sort of on the same boat, long time player but new to be back. The end of the expansion is kind of a weird time. Things I would suggest though are learning pvp, it’s fun but you’ll definitely be behind a gear curve. You can get pvp gear relatively easy though. The gear itself isn’t bad but when worn in battlegrounds it’ll shoot your item level up to be able to actually do something. You can always run transmogs to collect appearances.
On the map the blue circles are dungeons and the green ones are raids. You can right click your character portrait to change the difficulty and change the gear that drops.
Mount collecting of course, good guides on wowhead.
If you haven’t played the legion expansion you can do your classes campaign quest for a unique title, armors, weapons and a mount.
Tomarrow the new patch content drops so that’ll be a good time to have stuff to do as well as get rewards. The patch content are also great ways to level if your interested in that.
The pre-patch event starts tomorrow and you can get 480ilvl gear from that. That’ll get you plenty geared for leveling in TWW. If you’re looking for other things to do in the meantime, you could go do the dreamsurge event (it’s in Azure Span until tomorrow) and use the coalescence to buy 450-ish gear.
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Main thing is you’ll want to at least complete the harbinger questline, since that’s required for the pre-patch event tomorrow. Pre-patch event also has some 480 gear for you to gear up with iirc.
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Keeping this in mind 
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If you want to level up your ivl today, I would go ahead and accept the Last Hurrah Weekly in Valdrakken.
Do the Time Rift, Researchers on Fire and Suffusion Camp in Azure Span, also do the World Boss over in Waking Shores (Chance of gear, not guaranteed). Not only will each of these activities award you a piece of Gear (480+ if I recall correctly) you will get a big reward of gear up on handing it in. You will also be rewarded with 2 Bullions which you can turn in for either a piece of gear or 2 transmog pieces.
Doing this should get your ilvl up enough to start doing the Awakened Raids in LFR.
run the weekly superblooms in emerald dream, run lots of heroics to get 476 gear. once your ilevel is 424, run all the lfr you can. you will get bullion. use that to buy 493 trinkets (look at wowhead to see which you should pick - manic grieftorch is almost always a good pick). you will get 496 drops and sparks. if you have gold, you can craft 502 gear. I think world quests are dropping 480 gear.
focus on getting champion gear in the tier set slots and use the catalyst to get your 4 piece bonuses.
if that all seems like too much, then I suggest focusing on heroic dungeons and world quests. if you can get your ilevel at or near 476, you will be well geared to start tww.
everything gets replaced anyway 
happy hunting.
Gear progression is a large part of the end game. This is an odd time since we’re weeks away from a new expansion, so there’s less reason to progress. You should expect to change/upgrade all of your gear for every major patch (every season).
But you so asked about activities other than gearing.
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Every major and minor patch brings new story content. I also recommend checking out the side quests (which they are now calling “local stories” on the map legend) that you might have skipped while leveling. Some of the better storytelling/world buikding tends to be in the side stories.
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Check your travelers log for recommended monthly activities to gain currency for the Trading Post each month (cosmetic unlocks).
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As a newer player, there is tons of content you haven’t seen. Go check it out! You can farm old dungeons and raids for mounts and Transmog (Glamour).
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While you’re at it, open the Achievements window and work on anything that sounds fun to you.
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The calendar has a list of events, notably big holidays, micro holidays, the Darkmoon Faire, and the Trial of Style (which I believe is happening soon). These will all be new to you and are just fun side activities for achievements and cosmetics (Micro holidays tend to just be cute/memorable moments without rewards. Just world building).
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Roll another alt! Then try Chromie Time so you can visit an expansion you haven’t seen yet. Go exploring.
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Open the Adventure Guide and scroll through the recommended activities for your character.
The end game is whatever you make of it. It’s a big world to explore with lots of things to do, and it’s easy to get overwhelmed or have decision fatigue. If you’re really unsure, find some guides or videos with suggestions, but you’ll have better luck with those if you first decide on a major goal (e.g. mount collecting).
Good luck. 
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develop and maintain low expectations…
that said…it’s an awesome world…
cartoony…but nonetheless beloved to those
of us who have been around.
Do the end of expansion events, especially the pre launch events July 30. Every so often, they bring content that can’t be replayed or done again. They are designed to catch people up while having something new and time sensitive to do, so lots of people are doing them.
The gear updates won’t be very productive right now. Something like a legendary axe won’t drop soon, and gear that you do get will be upgraded soon in the new expansion.
Do something, ANYTHING, you haven’t done yet and think might be fun. When I came back from 13 years off, I targetted allied races and pathfinderers. Personally, I targetted Legion and BFA factions because I was squashed to level 28 and had no choice and no access to Chromie time. Chromie time may be a good one to target, but I think you just got that.
The remaining Awakened weeklies should get nearly free gear. You should have twenty or thirty redundant cloaks in no time.
But overall, you are lucky. Just have fun. When TWW starts, everybody will be excited and levelling again. A week into that, they’ll start the inevitable grind in Mythics and gearing up for raids. No matter what you do now, you’ll be able to do that once TWW launches.
If you’re looking for ilvl, my recomendation is to try to get to 424 ilvl and que for LFR (Looking for Raid). This ques you in for fairly easy raid content at the lowest difficulty level and automatically puts you in the raid with 25 people which is usually a faceroll. The important thing here is the Bullion catch up. These are tokens bossess drop.
LFR will let you get multiple of these bullion tokens per boss and you exchange 2 tokens for a piece of ilvl 493 gear that you may upgrade all the way to ilvl 528. I believe you’d be able to get 12-16 of these Bullions by now with the catch up, hence 6-8 pieces of gear you could buy.
FYI also, Looking for Raid is a weekly lockout and you may only loot each boss once. It resets every Tuesday, so if you can get LFR done tonight before the reset tomorrow, you can have 2 stabs at it.
The prepatch event also will give 480 gear too
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Sit in Valdrakken and que for instanced content.
But really, new xpac is just around the corner! Maybe zoom around the older zones and try collecting stuff?
I’ll tell you right now, increasing your character’s items level IS WoW’s entire focus and endgame loop. Pretty much has been since the game’s inception, in one form or another. It’s rather free-form with how you approach it, but it always seems to come back to that.
You can shift your focus to collecting appearances or exploration, but it will pretty much always come back to that focus on power progression eventually. The story can be serviceable, provided you don’t look at it too closely (plot holes and retcons are everywhere), but there’s generally not a whole heck of a lot to see… not to mention it’s more or less impossible to see everything (critical moments have a tendency to be patched out or be a part of time-limited events, or are all but inaccessible as they’re part of abandoned old raid content). Doing stuff in order is also extremely difficult.
So really… just do what you enjoy, enjoy it while it lasts, and be ready to move on once you’ve had your fill of it. Don’t grow too attached to the game.
Some good advice here, kudos to the forums. I’d say, if you have time, to plan some for the next expansion too. Maybe learn the profession system, it is complicated and requires guides and so on.
As a new player, especially this close to the end of the expansion, anything you do is something to do. Just have fun with it.
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Weird, on the last Alt I just got to 70 yesterday, I wasn’t offered that questline. Did they change something about it having to be on all alts?
Warbands may have tweaked the push quest system, but the unlock was planned to be account wide (given that the event is supposed to be available to players at level 10)
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The pre-patch event is your most efficient path to gear.
It’ll be boring (they’re almost always boring), but really efficient. If gear is what you’re after, I wouldn’t bother much with the normal content.
Note, there’s better gear in the normal content, but in a few weeks that will all be moot.
By 73-74, the vast majority of your gear will be swapped out for quest greens and blues. Leveling to 80 is the Great Gear Reset for everyone so we all start the endgame at roughly the same level. And the content will start scaled for folks in roughly 350 gear, so there’s no worries about being underpowered.
If you haven’t finished all of the campaigns, go out and do that. There’s some good moments, some good (in game) cinematics, watch the World Tree grow.
Just quest that out and let the game do some storytelling, as imperfect as it is.
Finally, if you have ANY gumption about wanting another 70, Remix is still going. There’s still time to play that and not just level, but power up a character and play an absurdly fast and powerful toon. It’s zany fun, but it’s not WoW. There’s a bit of a correction coming back to your slow, “weak” toons in Retail. It’s still fun though.
Just be advised you better enjoy holding down your W key, because that’s essentially what Remix is – trying to keep up with toons twice as fast as you while they kill things.
Queue for normal and heroic dungeons as well as doing LFR and now prepatch events. WQs can be helpful if you’re lucky, but a lot of the gearing/increasing power level comes from group content
try heroics.
it’s the next step in the flow chart.
LFR awakened raids are a hoot.