Author's note: the post was updated on November 19 as a guide during pre-patch events. In Shadowlands realities, you may buy headstart leveling gear in sale house for a relatively small price, and/or continue with leveling as major storyline and side questlines provide scaling rewards adequate to your current level.

It's been a while since I wrote my first guide about gearing up before Shadowlands. Since then, pre-patch hit the realms, and at that place were some significant changes to leveling, questing and item levels. I'll sum up my experience in hot pursuit of my very own fresh alt: one solar day since hitting current level cap.

I've leveled through Pandaria, so the guide will address those characters that didn't enter BfA content before level 50. If yous did, there will be a little less carp, still general approach stays the aforementioned. Let's whorl!

Preparation

Every bit you hit level 50, y'all volition become a Dying Globe quest from Magni – this starts your adventure. Whether you used heirlooms or not during leveling, you will have your item level at approximately ilvl 50-54 – that'southward our first checkpoint.

  • Follow the quest to Silithus and acquire Middle of Azeroth necklace.
  • Go to Stormwind/Orgrimmar and complete the introduction questline to Kul Tiras/Zandalar, upwardly to and through a minor homebase city tour with Taelia/Talanji. You should finish with the inspection of continent map quest/cinematic: this unlocks travel and farther questing.
  • Talk to Halford/Nathanos on your faction ship in Dazar'alor/Boralus harbor to unlock world quests. Then accept a war campaign quest which will send yous to enemy continent to establish your start base. In one case yous pop up in enemy continent, y'all may skip any further questlines, as yous just got the access to the enemy continent and all available world quests.
  • Visit an sale house if you have any spare cash: pay attention to trinkets, rings, weapons and highest ilvl gear you can afford. Or send crafted items if your other toons have something to share.
  • Utilise any Benthic tokens from Nazjatar / tokens from Vale/Uldum if your alts have them.

Going Out

Now we start gearing up for reals!

  • Clear available earth quests and emissaries for gear upgrades – just non the 3k azerite award yet.
  • Talk to Genn/Nathanos on your faction ship and go on through the Nazjatar campaign. Y'all will go a weapon of selection ilvl 60 on the way.
  • Quit Nazjatar when you found a portal back to Boralus/Dazar'alor, and Magni will come to you with further job – follow his quest.
  • This questline will rocket your Eye of Azeroth necklace to level fifty and ilvl 105. Now y'all can do emissary for 3k azerite if bachelor.
  • Immediately later you volition get a lengthy questline of 8.three. campaign – which ends with acquiring the cloak of ilvl 125.
  • During this questline yous will get a solid number of gear – most 3-v pieces 85-ninety ilvl.
  • Don't forget to become an extra drib token from an ethereal vendor in your city harbor and kill Shek'zara/Vuk'laz earth boss on the way. They drop rings and gear of ilvl 100, and then you want to utilize token whether something dropped or not.
  • Past the time yous finish these steps: ilvl 85.

Nya'lotha particular level requirements is currently ilvl 76, then at this indicate you lot can already queue for LFR. Chore done!

Gearing Upwardly Further

If you're geared as much as Nya'lotha Normal raid, your average item level in pre-patch will be about ilvl 100.

As the 2-week Scourge event went live, the best selection now is gaining ilvl 75-85 (less is not impossible, only would exist painful) and continue with the event story. In twenty minutes you'll go a quest to kill Nathanos for weapon 115 and proceed to Icecrown for story, dailies and bosses kill.

A piece of 100 ilvl armor by pick costs xv argent commendations currency. Here's how you earn them:

  • 25 pitch black scourgestones = iii silver tokens. Pitch blackness scourgestones drib in the range of 23-47 from every adjacent boss/rare in the Icecrown open earth.
  • Daily quest = 3 argent tokens (electric current second week: 4 quests available per day)
  • Daily quest well-nigh collecting scourgestones (10 minutes grind max) = 5 argent tokens.
  • A solid corporeality of argent tokens likewise comes from completing the yellow questline.