Hey all like the title said, left during early shadowlands and now returning last night. I made a dracthyr evoker since its the only class I never played before. Anyway, I was hoping for some advice, suggestions, some do’s and don’ts and “I wish I knew this” kinda of stuff. My hope is to level through dragonflight content then start 70-80 with war within. Can I do this? Thanks in advance for all the tips and tricks! Feels good to be back on Azeroth!
Unrelated, I feel like Blizzard has done a great job with a new UI, and the way the game welcomes back returning players, even though so much has obviously changed. I dont know if the community agrees or not on that point, they may largely hate it or be indifferent but I havent read any opinions on it yet to sway me one way or another.
Thanks kindly for the replies. I will defiitely take it under consideration. It doesn’t feel like Shadowlands so far lol but Im still leveling and having fun. We will see where it goes. Got War Within on sale, and it included dragonflight and 30 days so figured why not try it lol
You absolutely can, and that’s really what I would recommend. If you want to see the vast majority of the Dragonflight campaign story, do the campaign quests and ONLY the campaign quests. Don’t choose a zone. Just level in order and follow the campaign (shield quests). You will ding 70 at some point in the very last portion of the campaign story. It works out really well.
When you get into the War Within content and the Khaz Algar zones, go do each delve once. Each delve has a quest inside the first time you do it, and the xp is HUGE for each of them. There are several delves in every zone, and you can do them below level 80 at difficulty tiers 1-3.
Just like all leveling, you will get to choose what expansion to level in. And that means that’s, yes, you can level from 10 to 70 in the Dragonflight expansion. Keep in mind leveling is extremely fast and you probably won’t experience ALL of Dragonflight anymore as you level.
But once you hit level 68 you will get a quest and item (automatically) to go find Jaina and Thrall to begin TWW stuff. But you have a required min ilvl to reach by 71 to be able to do TWW dungeons (it’s easy enough to reach)
And final note, the one thing I wish I knew on release was that the campaign is not going to get you to 80. If you only do the TWW campaign after 70 then you will likely only make it to about 77 especially if it’s your first 80. But each 80 (up to 5) will grants alts a +5% stacking XP bonus (capping at 25) so for your first 80 you WILL have to do some dungeoning, delving, world questing.
Then, once you get to 80 do the Nightfall event every day. You will get Daily quests and the weekly quests gives an item that will let you buy a piece of season 2 Champion gear from the Nightfall vendors by quest pick ups
You picked a great time to come back. Event going on that helps with leveling (mysterious gear bags, potions, XP potions) plus rep bonuses in Dragonflight is 200% and War Within is 100%. (I think that is going on through May 20th?)
Some new stuff added to WoW include: Warbands and the Warband bank that all the alts on your account can share. Follower dungeons in DF and TWW. Great for if you just want to finish the quest chain off, or want to learn the dungeon “hands on” before grouping with others/pugs.
Yes.
Dragonflight is the new “current” leveling xpac. You’ll hit 70 before finishing questing through it. Then you’ll get a quest to start tww intro.
A lot of people here are negative nancies and think the new player experience is atrocious, but imo its probably in one of the best states ever.
A lot of us remember getting thrown and and doing everything with pretty much 0 guidance. Now there are tons of tooltips, popups and such to help. Especially if you’ve never played an mmo before.
Like jumping on classic and making a new character vs retail is completely night and day. There is plenty of room for improvement, but its definitely doing a decent job I’d say.