is there any Guide to a N00b Lvl 90
GnomeWizardd
Member 4 LifeAkron, PA Icrontian
I just got a lvl 90 Monk / Windwalker From Buying Warlords. I am not jumping in Until I have some reading on exactly what I am to do Without making everyone around me Go " Omg Someone just kick him off a cliff "
Any Tips or Guides you guys know of will be greatly appriciated
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The links Tushon posted in the previous thread should cover you're class combat specific stuff. Here they are again for ya.
IcyVeins and Noxxic
I recommend Wowhead if you need help finding places, items, or NPCs.
If you want to practice a role in-game, I suggest you head to the Proving Grounds. Proving grounds are an instanced solo scenario in which you can practice tanking, DPS, and Healing in realistic situation but without fear of tripping any jerk players nerves. A pandaren in the Temple of the White Tiger will set that up for you. before that though, you should spawn at a place called the Shrine of Seven Stars. This is the Alliance capitol in Pandaria. In the main antechamber of the Shrine should be a pandaren with a quest that directs you exactly where the Proving Grounds are and who to talk to.
Once you feel comfortable with how to punch and kick, you're next goals are to
1) Get Gear
2) Get Valor
There are many ways to get both. Don't feel like you NEED to do everything all at once or you'll burn yourself out. You have a week to do both, before raid lockouts and timers reset.
Gear
·Get started on your legendary cape.
Right over the mountains to the east of the Shrine you'll find a small zone called the Veiled Stair. There are 3 main points of interest here. A raid entrance, the Black Market Auction House, and the Inn. inside the Inn you'll find Wrathion. Talk to him to get started on your legendary questline. It will take you anyway between a month or 2 months depending on how lucky you are to get this whole thing done. With the boosts that Blizz has been throwing out it should take you about a month. It's a nice, relatively longterm, goal for you to work on, that is very rewarding.
·Warforged Seals and other Bonus Roll Tokens
There is a weekly quest at the Shrine that will grant you 3 Warforged Seals upon turn in. All you need to do is grab 50 Lesser Marks of Good Fortune. These have a relatively high chance to drop off of lvl 90 mobs, almost guaranteed to drop from rarespawns, and many other ways to be acquired. These Warforged Seals are important as they allow you another chance at loot from Siege of Orgrimmar, and Timeless Isle raids. When you have at least one of these seals on hand and defeat one of these raid bosses, no matter the difficulty, you'll get a popup in the bottom center of your screen that asks you if you want to spend a seal for another roll. Should you choose to roll, the icon will spin slot machine style and land on either gold coins or will appear blank. If it lands on coins you get a loot bag with a fair sum of gold in it and possibly gear or other valuable items. Should it land on a "blank" you get random piece of gear from the boss' loot table appropriate to you current loot specialzation. By default this is set to your currently active spec. You can adjust this at will, even when the bonus roll popup is up. You can only get 3 seals per week and can only use them on the Celestials, Ordos, or the Siege of Ogrimmar. I recommend you start off by using 1 seal on the Celestials until you've gotten the tier gloves and pants from them. For the previous raid tiers in Mists of Pandaria, there are other sets of bonus roll tokens like the Warforged Seals they can be acquired by other means but you don't need to worry about them as much since you'll quickly move past that gear.
·Timeless Isle
This island off the coast of the Jade Forest is filled to the brim with many lvl 90 plus mobs, with the majority being Elite. There are also a ton of Rarespawns on the isle. All the mobs here hit hard and get stronger the higher up the island you venture. They all have varying chances to drop a timeless armor token. Should then token be an armor class you can use, you can activate the token to change it into a wearable piece of armor at ilvl 496 (I don't remember the exact number off hand). ilvl 496 puts you at about LFR level Siege of Orgrimmar. Then there is an item called the Burden of Eternity that when used with an armor token, will make the new piece of armor "Timeless" ilevel gear which is 535. Which puts you past LFR SoO and well into Flex SoO. Recommend you go with a partner your first few times here so that teh mobs don't kill you as often and to help protect against "coiners" who are players who have joined a "third" faction on the island and hunt down other players on the isle.
Celestials: in the western center of the Isle is the Celestial Court in which 4 great spirits of Pandaria can be challenged by a raid group of at least 10 players. These world bosses are "free tag" which means that you don't have to be in the same raid group or faction as the initial attacker, to be counted for loot at the end of the fight. This also applies to the rarespawns on the Isle.
Ordos: this is another world boss at the top of the Timeless Isle. He can only be challenged by players that have completed the Legendary Cloak on at least one of their characters. Don't bother attempting to fight him until you do have the cloak, otherwise you'll just be ported away.
(No "proper" formating for these since it caused a yellow scroll box to appear around them.)
·Looking For Raid (LFR)
In Cataclysm Blizz added a tool that pairs up 25 people to fight through simplified version of the current raids. The fights have less health pools and damage, and usually lack 1 or two key and powerful abilities for the boss. Accordingly, the loot you get from these raids is not as good as the actual raid. They have their own lockouts and can also give legendary questline loot. The raids are broken up into wings and you'll face either 3 or 4 bosses ina row and should the raid wipe, the entire raid will get 1 stack of a buff that increases the raids health, dmg, and healing by 5% per stack per wipe. For a boosted 90 you can start at the Throne of Thunder LFR and work your way up and work you way up.
·Heroic Scenarios
Scenarios are 3 man instances that can be completed by any kind of group, whether it be full of healers or full of DPS. Heroic Scenarios are tougher versions of a few regular scenarios and upon completion grant a fair amount of Valor and a chest that may contain a high ilvl purple item appropriate to your loot specialization at the time of opening.
Valor
Daily quests will give you small amounts of Valor. Scenarios and heroic SCenarios will give you Valor, heroic dungeons will give you Valor upon completion. Kill a raid boss and completing an LFR wing will give you Valor. 3000 timeless coins can be turned in for Valor on the Timeless Isle. You can only get 1000 Valor per week and hold onto a max of 3000. You don't HAVE to worry about Valor as much as at first as it's main use now is to upgrade your gear. I'd recommend you earn it then hold onto it until you get some notable gear. Namely "Timeless" gear, SoO LFR gear or higher.
This is a pretty straightforward way to start gearing up for raiding. There is much more to do in WoW as I'm sure you know. This should help you get you started. Do jump into Icrontic's mumble and chat with whoever else is on. You'll learn quicker and have a bit more fun at it.
Wow this made ALOT more sense than any other sites Ive read, You should publish some of your Knowledge for IC. Good news is My video card is due in today, So tonight Ill hop on and get stuff set up and start heading over the Mountains to start my questing.
Great stuff, Rah! Mind if I re-format this and publish it?
GW, one thing I can recommend is doing some of the regular Pandaria quests. You'll need to do a few to unlock certain areas that you'll be doing for your cloak quest anyway, and the quests are solo so there's no pressure from other players to perform. It will help you learn your class.
At the bare minimum, definitely do Meet The Scout. You're going to have to anyway for the legendary cloak questline.
Yea I plan on questing for a week or so before I hop on a raid. WoW is sooooo much more in depth then when I last played years ago. My head is spinning But I am starting to grasp some of it now. I know I can only learn so much from reading and I gotta hop on when I get the new Video card today. Also Who Do i get an Invite to the Guild from?
When you're online one of the officers will send you an invite. Probably me.
I would like to note the time sensitivity of this information. Rah has brilliant info there, but a lot of it may not be very pertinent to your situation.
You have 11 weeks before that legendary cloak becomes obsolete (next expansion is dropping soon). With a damn-near 100% perfect drop rate and enough diligence to run every raid every week, it takes 6 weeks to get... and lockout inefficiencies (like getting only 40 valor toward your cap one week and finding out that puts you 40 valor off schedule for the 3000 valor quest) will only increase that number. Besides, nobody has ever had a 100% perfect drop rate. I would estimate by the time you get the cloak, WoD will drop. Thus... only work on the cloak if you want it for posterity, at this point. It IS pretty cool!
For that matter, in 11 weeks, ALL gear will be obsolete. Don't push yourself super hard on the gear thing, or you'll really burn yourself out for little gain. Focus on enjoying Pandaria before it becomes a ghostland, lost to the annals of WoW history, a desolate wasteland experienced minimally and only by those grinding out five levels in a coffee-induced stupor in the dead of night.
Of (and in addition to) what Rah suggested, I would:
When WoD drops, you'll be exploring an entire new set of content with the rest of us. THAT will be very exciting! Only 11 more weeks!
Try the other aspects of the game. Achievement hunting, mount hunting, Title getting and pet battling.
Level an alt really see the old content there is stuff out there that is freaking amazing. Tons of lore too.
(even though I made them #9 and #10 to add to @Myrmidon's it keeps changing them back to 1&2)
Oh god how did I miss leveling an alt
DO THIS. The shit they did to make levels 1-60 interesting is preeeeeeetty neat if you like the lore.
If you haven't yet and want to understand what happened between Siege of Orgrimmar and Warlords of Draenor and don't feel like reading a book. I suggest this video for lore.
Also I have this weekend off, if you need a hunter to help ya I will be around.
Great suggestions! I think I'll wrap all this up into an article if you guys don't mind
I'll wrap you up into an article.
EDIT: Put that in the article.
Do eet!
Like I said at the end of mine little blurb, that was just straight for gearing for raiding. I did not touch on the PvP, mount/battlepet collecting, transmog collecting, Old raid content, the stories, challenge modes, etc. Ironic cause I much prefer all those activities over raiding. Find whatever strikes your fancy and do eet! Other then the challenge mode rewards and some SoO rewards, everything else will still be here when WoD hits.
I put some emphasis on the Legendary Cloak questline because you still have plenty of time to do it, and after WoD hits it may become pretty hard or just even more of a grind. It's a substantial reward given at the end of a large trek and there is more to it then just the "gear." Doing this questline is pretty much a concise summary of the entire Mists of Pandaria expansion. It has you go into every raid content, and LFR counts for it. It explains a lot about the Mogu and does some exploring on the Isle of Thunder. Same for the Timeless Isle. It makes you experience 2 of the 3 new PvP battlegrounds, and makes you do some interesting stuff regarding your faction's full arrival on Pandaria (The "Meet the Scout" quest Prime mentioned.)
Say you started it this weekend and regularly did all you could for it every week till you got it. I would bet money you would have it done by early or mid October, or at the latest right when WoD comes out, and you probably wouldn't feel burnt out from it since it limits how much you can do at once using the raid and valor lockouts.
But again, do whatever strikes your fancy, I have no idea what you're interested in doing so I threw out the general way to get started from a Boosted 90s standpoint. Feel free to hit me up if you have any monk related questions.
I won't be doing any PvP all raiding with friends
To confirm what @Myrmidon said, I love running old content, primarily because I'm new to WoW and want to experience all the old stuff. And cause it's a lot of fun, Lich King content in particular is a blast and is stunningly designed. And I also love @Celsh 's #1--achievement and mount hunting. I'm always up for working toward a mount...
I'm probably going to run ulduar 25/10 again on Tuesday after I get home from work (and run Ordos twice, and Karazhan...). I promised a couple people the achieves from the first five of 25 man, and I need the legs off of 10m Hodir. Plus, a run at mimiron's head would be cool.
I won't spend too much downtime waiting for folks, though, because I already spend WAY too much time fucking around with transmog old-raids on tuesdays as it is. I plan to try and post the time when I'll begin as soon as I know when I'll be home Tuesday.
EDIT: reread the post, and it seems to be unclear that I'm inviting you guys to this. Just to be clear, I'm inviting yo uguys to this. :P