I’ve am rushing to level 70 on my new Paladin but never did TBC in my life, so I don’t really know how to get somewhat decent rare to epic gear, I don’t care for this expansion either because I started in early WOTLK.
I would like to make some preparations to make the WOTLK experience a little more fluid. I’m already working on maxing my professions and acquiring mounts / weapon skill levels.
Yeah, “better hurry up”, only 3 months to a beta which means atleast 4 months to a prepatch…
Whats the rush? The best thing you can do for the longevity of your Paladin is to not burn out on details like gear that will be rendered useless almost immediately or at best shave of 1-2 sec of early leveling mobs (which you might have to wait for anyway due to everybody being out questing at the same time) 4 months min. in advance.
Getting professions up wont take you 4 months. Enjoy summer, that will if anything boost your leveling once Wrath drops ^^
Farming honor is the easiest way for some epics. but yeah it will be replaced fast in wotlk so proffessions is most important i guess
The simplest answer would be gold. If you’re around the 10k mark you should be in the clear. Dual Spec, Dalaran Ring, Northrend flying are some of the big initial expenses.
Not what the op asked, stop dictating how others wanna play their game. If you don’t have anything useful to reply just shut up and go troll somewhere else.
OP try farming some gold, there are some really decent BOE items you can buy on ah. Also, next week season 4 starts, you can do weekly caps just to get some Arena points and at the end of the season you can buy a bunch of discounted gear that is really powerful. You can join some gdkps, depending on the server you play, most t5,t4,kara gear sells pretty cheap. After you have some gear, you can farm weekly raids that drop badges and you can hoard a bunch of them until the p5 BoJ vendor comes out and buy a bunch of good gear that is as good as t6 raids.
There’s a difference between investing time in something that you later along the path gain something on, or simply wasting time because you can’t wait for Wrath of the Lich King - right?
OP wants to make the “WOTLK” experience a little more fluid, and names professions (fine) and “acquiring mounts/weapons skills” as something that can’t be done in 2 hours whenever from the point of now untill we get a word on a release date coming 4-5 months. Hence I questioned why OP was “rushing”, as there is nothing but a red light ahead and most things - apart from profession - wont significantly “make the experience more fluid”.
My tip stands. A nice summer in the sun and putting the thoughts about WOTLK on the shelf for a few months will make anything from leveling to gearing once WOTLK comes more fluid. Specially as OP “doesn’t care for this expansion”.
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It’s a valid question TBH. The T3 raiding gear could carry you to 70 and was way beyond even high level normal dungeon gear. You wouldn’t replace it until you did professions and heroics/kara.
I honestly don’t know if this is the case in Wrath too. I know OP prolly won’t get Sunwell gear but it’s possible that he will get T5 items or the new badge gear.
Will the first zone in Wrath replace these items or will they carry all the way to 78+?
Not the T5 but Sunwell gear can clearly be use as pre-raid gear to clean Naxxramas.
A lot of Sunwell geared players will clear Naxxramas the first week in SWP gear + some Wrath blue (from questing/dungeon).
Any source on this? I’ve looked online but none of the pre raid bis guides have any Sunwell gear on them.
It’s not pre-raid BiS, it’s not best in slot. But, it’s enough to go straight into Naxxramas and skip most of the “pre-raid BiS farm” part
Since they don’t plan to release Naxxramas from start but only after 1-2 weeks. It won’t happen anyway.
Unless you go for Sunwell gear and maybe even some t6, I wouldn’t worry about it.
Gear from the normal dungeons and even some quests is better than t5, though it won’t be gemmed/enchanted, so there is that, but it won’t be that huge a difference.
With that said, unless you actually want to raid in TBC in these last few months, I’d focus on professions and gold. Maybe an alt too.
You don’t need pre-raid bis to do Naxx, same as you didn’t need pre-raid bis to do t4.
Having Sunwell gear allows you to jump straight into Naxx without having to farm that pre-bis. Plus that the set bonuses remain active and many classes have a flat 6% increase which is pretty good to put those Sunwell pieces on par with pre-raid bis.
The starting green rewards from Borean Tundra are around T5 level. Anybody worse than full T6 will replace the majority of their gear immediately. SWP gear fares a little better but dungeon drops start outclassing them as early as lvl 76-77. To put things in perspective:
Naxx items had an iLvl of 80-90, and were pushed in a way similar to ZA items, with little stamina on them. Lv 70 blue items are around iLvl 100 and have way worse itemization for the most part.
Meanwhile, SWP items have around iLvl 150 and have pretty much the same itemization style as WotLK (Stam, Str/Agi/Int, and 2-3 secondary stats). But lv 78 blues have iLv 187 and lv 80 have iLv 200.
Make of that what you will.
I was thinking of just joining a few Sunwell GDKP’s around the final month of TBC to snag a bis 2h to level as ret in Wrath. I’m switching my main from holy priest to holy pala, using ret to level. Naxx lvl 60 gear carried me to 70 in TBC so I was wondering if this time it would be the case too.
If that’s your concern, just getting Blade of the Harbingers for 150 BoJ or Shivering Felspine from SWP trash will suffice. 2h weps are very common in WotLK anyway.
Take some extra shifts to pay for the child labour known as boosts.
It is t4 lvl gear
Thats not true, there is SWP pieces on par or even better than 200ilvl epics
I find that hard to believe. All the pieces / class tier 6 sets I have compared with blue ilvl 200 pre raid bis from wrath are slightly worse. For example the pre raid bis blue ilvl 200 healer helmet has slightly more int and sp AND has more stamina.
If pre raid bis rare items are like this then epic item are even better.
This is a general theme with wrath items: they have way more stamina, which is important for survival.
Not saying Sunwell gear won’t be handy as pre- raid bis, but the items are not even close to ilvl 200 epics.
Wrath items isn’t some kind of mystery, you can see for yourself. For example i’ll change my rogue 2 t6 set (wrists/boots probably) only to 213 epics, 164 items will still be as strong as 200 blues - they will have meta sockets, gems, enchants, etc.
And there is plenty of stupidgood lower ilvl (159) items like leggins of the immortal nights that are so good you can wear them until t7.5 legs
https://imgur.com/a/mw5dlZu
So just don’t spread misinformation about “you will swap swp gear for quest items at 75 lvl” 
Getting SWP gear is necessary for easy leveling and to save time at lvl cap.
To that I agree 100%. Sunwell gear will help speed up the leveling by a lot, and it won’t be replaced by lvl 75 no, not by a long shot. I do stand by my point that most Sunwell gear won’t be on par with Wrath lvl 80 epics (ilvl 200). There will be a few exceptional items ofc, but the majority of Sunwell gear can be used as pre- raid bis, at the expense of less stamina.
Naxx is gonna be steamroll anyway so it might not matter.
I do hate the misconception that “green questing gear will replace your epics anyway”. That’s just not true, not even in retail. I remember questing in SL until 57 before I started replacing my heroic raid gear from BfA. In TBC I used my T3 until I dinged 70.