How to progress gear in this new world?

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Hello!
I’m sort of back (temporarily) from middle of Shadowlands, but I cant get the great idea of this new ilvl ranges and how to cope:

  • normal dungeon gives ilvl 554
  • BUT heroic dungeon entry min is 567
  • timewalking entry is similar to normal dungeon, and it gives ilvl 567 - enough to enter heroics and LFR, but hard as heroic
  • heroics give ilvl 580

So the question is, if I spam normal dungeons as we always did, max ilvl I will get is 554 - NOT enough to start doing heroics and LFR.
How do I get enough ilvl past normal dungeons?
Thanks in advance.
PS. Yes I watched some videos of Kenali and Hazel and such, but those explaine not much. I want simple clear system like before: normal > heroic > lfr > normal raid, but cannot do it seems.

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Is crafted gear @567?
As in Dungeons → Crafted Gear → Heroic?

Dunno, just an idea, have no clue about gearing.

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Currently the best way is to go to Siren’s Isle (don’t worry, it will scale with your gear) and do all the quests there. It won’t take too long. You should have enough of the currency there to simply buy yourself a full set of 584 ilvl gear.

I don’t really bother beyond that and just upgrade it, so I’ll leave others to chime in on that.

The link should take you to the relevent section.

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Also the Isle gear can be converted to tier aswell.

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This NPC Dawn doesnt give any quests, and the zeppeling just stands still.
I’m 78, is it too early or too late? ilvl 438

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Need to be 80

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You are missing world quests and delves.
I dont do any dungeon before lvl 80, only delves and quests for gearing. At 80, you go to Siren Isle.

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You can also upgrade your gear with stones (dont know the current name since i am not playing the expansion)

But if the tier is similar to DF by upgrading it should cap 6 itlv higher than Heroic dungeon.

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Okay, if Siren Island gear relatively easy to obtaine and is ilvl 593 and only requirement is level 80, then what is the point of existence of heroic dungeons with ilvl 580 and requirement of ilvl 567 just to queue?

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It’s because Siren Isle is 11.0.7 patch that only came out a few weeks ago. It’s catch-up gear for 11.1.

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The gear treadmill goes pretty fast in WoW these days. Although gearing outside of M+ tends to be quite slow to acquire and upgrade. By the time you’ve geared up as well you can then a new patch will land and you basically start all over again.
Wait around a few months and 11.1.5 will have WQs that give 625 or something. Then 11.2 will be giving out 650s or something.