I’ve only been playing for a few months on and off very casually but I’m wondering if anyone has any tips on where and when I should start soloing Vanilla content in Retail for mounts, old gear, achievements, etc. Thanks in advance! 
You could probably solo them now, but id wait until max tbh.
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notes: Molten core and Blackwing Lair all just have normal drops, the bug raids though most of the tier gear unlocks come from quests at the beginning of the raid (after first boss)
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I think the only mount in vanilla content is in Stratholme. I did that on 2 110 druids in a weekend. A long, grindy weekend.
That’s what I was thinking as I’m leveling pretty steady despite not putting in casual levels of hours into it. I do know about the whole 11+ levels over the content buff too. Mainly I was looking on where I should start. Haven’t done any Vanilla dungeons other than like DM one time.
The easiest way to do any of that content now that there’s level scaling is to be much higher level. That way you can one shot the trash or walk past it without it aggroing on you.
Alright looks like I should just wait until max so I can just steam roll through the old stuff for those sweet, useless achievement points lol
If you want a challenge, try doing a vanilla dungeon now. If you can’t. wait a few levels. Raids will be harder because there’s more trash.
For mount farming you definitely want to be able to get the fastest runs in possible.
You might be able to pull it off now. Although I think they max out at 80 now? I could be wrong. I been doing them but I am maxed level.
Well I’m not too far off from 80. I might just grind to 91 just in case.
Molten core has 2 legendaries, they both give a feat of strength when you make them + you can transmog them, AQ gives some mounts but they can only be used inside AQ, Stratholme has a mount from baron rivendare, 1% drop rate or something if you feel like smashing your head against that for a while.
As for level, I assume 80 would be fine? Just go in and have a look, if you die then come back a bit later.
Haha I’ve already embraced the grind when it comes to WoW. Thanks I’ll give it a try.
I would wait until you hit 120 and get some gear. Not because you couldn’t do them now, but once you hit 120 and get some equipment you should be able to solo anything up to Legion.
I just had a go at Molten Core on a 78 shadow priest and it’s easy, with the damage buff I do about 10-15k dps single target and bosses only have around 170k hp, you don’t take much damage either, they could barely break my shields.
You should have no problem doing them now, if you have any abilities that heal based on the damage you deal take those too, given your damage is amplified so much it amplifies the healing by loads too.
I use an addon called ‘wardrobe helper’ to help me see which transmog items I still need from various instances. If you want to collect those too, it might be a good help!
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It’ll go a lot faster once you’re capped but my general rule of thumb is once you out level the content by at least 10 levels is generally safe.
You could probably do it earlier, though.