I popped into BoD normal for the first time ever in a pug. Only took about 45 minutes to down 5 bosses. Doing that each week doesn’t seem like much of a committment.
I understand your point but that’s not entirely true. I am 388 and it’s all from Emissaries, weekly bosses, WQ’s, and warfronts. Any PvP gear I received worth wearing came from the weekly quest or honorbound cache. I haven’t done the math but I think 390 or even 395 is possible. It may take longer but you don’t HAVE to do the M+ or raids unless you’re trying to compete for high ilvl.
EDIT: I did buy some ah upgrades, too.
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It actually doesn’t i have an alt thats around 395 just from warfronts/emissaries/weekly event quests.
Well, I was just in a BG that had a tank druid with 526K health. This item level BS needs to stop. There’s almost more disparity between a high ilevel 120 character and a low-ilevel 120, than between a level 10 and low-ilevel 120.
The bigger problem is what happens when most of your gear is between 410 & 415 and your waiting for those warforge/titanforge pieces to start upgrading you to the 420-425 level. My opinion, don’t wait. Take a break, work on an alt, or work on whatever content makes sense. Only content I really do on my main now is m+ (mostly for the weekly chest) and raids. Everything else became frivolous…
Agreed. I know it’s an MMO, but that doesn’t mean there shouldn’t be solo progression that can ultimately aid in finding more appropriately geared people to push group content later.
Mage Tower and Brawlers stuff were fun and all but they were for cosmetic rewards only. Plus you had to be geared to even beat them. There has never been an alternate path for a solo player to prove themselves on their own merits.
Such a path might even make it a much better way than raiderio to prove someone’s personal merit to a group invitation. We make up rules like raiderio and ilvl scores, or achievements because there’s no other way to judge an unknown player to see if they are worth an invite.
Which is exactly why proper solo progression is important for an MMO. So groups can finally form without all these unknown variables.
409 100% pugs
3 415 pieces and all else is 400+
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The darkshore warfront, for a 400.
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The daily emissaries, which are now 395 (but you have to be somewhere in that ballpark, for them to be that high.)
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Ivus, when up with the Darkshore rares; Seriously, you should ALWAYS hit this guy. He has “400’d” me several times. Always have a seal, too (a couple of the things I’m wearing were from the seal, from Ivus.) Even if he doesn’t have a WQ up, with that “LFR” icon by it, you can look in find group/custom and there is always an “Ivus” up.
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Not entirely true.
I have been at 390 for at least a month now and the only raid i have done was the LFG Jaina run so I could continue the war campaign. Got a whooping 6 gold and two of those red gems that I sell on the AH for my troubles.
All of my gear comes from WFs, emissaries, invasions and WQs.
I could probably get better gear if I put more effort in, but it isn’t that important to me.
My hunters need leveling so I can finally finish the Glory of Thundering Raider meta and get that sweet pterodactyl.
iLVL 380 is pretty much the end of the current game content. All content beyond that is just recycled at higher difficulty.
Once you hit 380, you’ve completed the base-level BFA content until they release the next content drop.
396 here and all of it from solo.
If the solo content was as or more difficult than than the Mage Tower was I don’t see what the issue would be.
Well OP, im 395 bag ilvl. Just keep running on that world quest, world boss, and warfront treadmill.
My main’s at 395 without ever stepping foot into an instance other than once per Warfront cycle.
You are no where near the wall yet, I have 9 alts in the 390’s that haven’t done any group content beyond world bosses and warfronts.
this is how it should be, IMO.
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If you’re only going to restrict yourself to solo play, you should hit an ilvl wall.
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The game is not a solo wow RPG that just happens to have more sporadically moving NPCs. It’s an MMO.