(Yet another) Call for Solo Quests to earn High-level gear

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Ok, now, before you flame this and say how much Blizz has added to the catch-up mechanics and all that, I agree. It’s been a nice change and has made the game far more accessible. There is, however, a moment around 450 where it all becomes the same old. Either do M+, do raids, or hope for the weekly vault to be kind.

Why is there no better solution for those of us who want another option? Look, the Azereoth Mystery event was actually pretty cool. Maybe it’s not exactly what we need for gear, but the interest from fans was pretty well-received. So why can’t we be allowed to do long solo quest grinds for gear? Maybe give us 1 or 2 to do per week and have that be an excellent alternative to M+, which, by all accounts, most people either love or hate.

Would it be so horrible if people were allowed to progress (partly) by themselves? Lore-wise, there are a TON of characters in the WoW universe who became powerful beings all by themselves, too. I know this is an MMO, and I’m not suggesting that we all live alone and never speak, but at the same time, I see a LOT of people doing the old “stand around in a capital city” while they wait for one of the two progression options to happen.

There has to be a better way. And it begins with us admitting that forced grouping sucks sometimes. If that’s your thing and you love playing with friends, awesome. I do too. But my friends also have lives, wives, and kids. We can’t always coordinate our schedules, and that shouldn’t be the only option for progression either.

Solo quests are fun. A lot of fun, actually. It’s an entirely different feeling knowing that it’s you against the world, and it’s about time that WoW started to see that and offer us some fun lore alternatives to the standard progression options. Hopefully, we will see some stuff like this added for those of us who want a change of pace.

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Good news.

Delves are coming next expansion, so really just hold on until then.

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They are adding Delves so there you go.

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Tell me you don’t know about the next expansion without telling me.

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I literally just came back last week, so yeah, I know nothing about it. I just watched the Delves video, and it does seem to somewhat fill this role. Thanks to you all for letting me know.

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I’d be cool with it, but it would need to be equally as challenging as group content. Choreghast could’ve been a good blueprint for a solo-progression system if it had actually been fun, or maybe something like the mage tower.

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100%. Definitely not easy and, personally, with them being solo, it might even be justified to make them longer. Solo stuff usually does take more time. There’s this massive world that WoW has developed, and 99% of us are all in one area all the time (the new capital) with the rest being forgotten as soon as we move on from it. I just think it might be cool to being back the old worlds in a way that aligned with quests, lore, and gear.

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seeing as gear is the power we go for in the game. Solo power can’t be all to powerful… you already can get to ilvl 476 without touching raid or M+… thats equal to gear ilvl droping for heroic end bosses (minus Fyrakk Trinkets)

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No matter what content you’re doing, you’re going to hit this point eventually. Even a mythic raider eventually says ‘I can’t get better gear anymore’. The difference is that players who mostly do content below that can still go higher and aren’t actually at the hard cap for gear progression.

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Ok, I’m listening.
How does one go about getting ilvl 476 gear for every slot without raids or M+ ?

edit: I’m assuming this is getting lucky drops from the ED world boss and crafting a piece every 2 weeks with the spark.

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Pretty much that yeah. Craft as much 476 as you can, get 454 pieces from weekly chests/heroic piece from mythic chest by spamming 0s, convert vault into coins for crests for enchanted crests for crafted gear. Slow but doable technically

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yes… sparks are able to go to 476… world events you can level up that gear to 463 ilvl which is the still as strong as drops from end of normal bosses (minus Fyrakk trinkets) also its able to be cataylsted so you still can get tier

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On the plus side, getting into that 450-463 window really makes the solo stuff super easy. I can understand wanting more content to challenge you, which is another discussion, but as it stands we’re pretty set for solo play.

Source: solo player with all characters in 450-463 window

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Can you get the higher crest to hit that without group content though?

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once you get to a point where you don’t need drakes anymore, so everything up to 463 ilvl you get the achievement for out growing them and you can then trade your drakes up to wyrm… will be slow but you can do it

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Ah forgot about the trade up

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It will take a long time to get full 476 pieces without raiding/M+. With the exception of the mythic dungeon weekly, getting 476 gear takes wyrm crests. And the only way to get those without raiding is vault tokens and 6:1 trade in. And you have to get champion track gear, again only from the weekly quests. Realistically that means 3-4 upgrades a week max so one item a week. As a casual i haven’t gotten my main to all 463 yet, so I can’t even trade for wym crests yet. I have one 476 from the dungeon weekly (got bracers both times) and 3 other champion track items so I’ll be lucky to get full 476 this season, and that’s if I ignore all my other alts.

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it would be terrible, yes.

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You also receive an enchanted wyrm’s crest when you reach max renown with wardens.

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So realistically it’s going to take 6 months or more to get to 476ilvl for the average open world player, with a bit of luck.

I can’t wait for TWW to get here with delves. Unless that gets monkey pawed.

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