5 Things You Should Do RIGHT NOW To Prepare for Cataclysm

[@somguy5035]

Other ideas: Stack 25 completed quests Stack mats to advance professions (some current crafts will give points beyond 450) Research rep factions & plan optimal leveling route for the most pre-raid gear If you have beta access, get your bars / keybinds / macros etc set up

[@WalaVeioMala]

Regarding the alchemy specialization. You don't need to use those absurdly expensive mats. Do the cheap specializations, like potion master, then talk to the NPC to drop it, and pay the 150g fee on the transmute specialization trainer to get it, without needing to do the quest.

[@mhubi2968]

Do you need to skill to 450 for herb?

[@R3ar3ntry]

Been chain watching your videos! Loved the profession one and the teir list for classes, tanks and healers, lookomt forward to the dps, if you ever make a class by class in depth look for them i cant wait

[@Riyaniwow]

Glad to hear, bud! Will be going over briefly each spec in the ranking videos, but other than that I'll only be making guide videos on the classes where I have a deep understanding.

[@ThomasHaag-qe4oo]

Good video, keep em` coming! I subbed

[@Riyaniwow]

Thanks, friend!

[@noxswe]

What about stocking gems for sockets on gear upgrades? Will there be a lot of socket on the gear from leveling, or not really until 85 when we want the new gems?

[@Riyaniwow]

None of the leveling gear will have sockets-- only once you reach 85 at which point you might as well use the new gems

[@noxswe]

@@Riyaniwow Thanks for letting me know. I guess only for belts (using a buckle) but that is a very small stat gain.

[@maui_wowie_]

Get bank alts and stuff them with craftig goods from tbc/wotlk or even classic. On my server most prices drop so much right now.

[@My2Cents1]

That very last part was a hint at going to Zul Gurub and get your Swift Zulian Tiger and Swift Zulian Raptor. They will be made permanently unavailable, starting in the Cata prepatch. Start farming now.

[@Riyaniwow]

This. Won’t improve your player power, but will improve your standing on Orgrimmar bank power!

[@danmoore1427]

Already have both of em done and done

[@BREAKocean]

i have such bad RNG never setting foot in there again.

[@danmoore1427]

@@BREAKocean took me 3 years of farming multiple toons every 3 days to get em at the end I was doing it on 4 toons every 3 days then I got two tigers in a week

[@edwdishuge2401]

How should I go about getting ready when I have no foot in classic already? Just hit 80, get basic dungeon gear, then just farm gold? My paladin is only lv54 atm xd and I plan on leveling up a hunter/mage too for cata.

[@Riyaniwow]

Depends on how hard you're gonna go for Cata, unless you're going into heroic raiding the first week, I'd just get all characters leveled up and some gold so that basic stuff like professions doesn't feel impossible. There's a lot of time until Cata, so you'll have time to do some gearing in Wrath so that the Cata leveling doesn't feel so bad.

[@somguy5035]

Could pay for a boost now if you have the $ Otherwise yea, get done leveling, get some basic gear, farm gold, etc The greens from the first few cata quest lines will be as good as ICC 25 man raid gear so I wouldn't focus on gear too much

[@edwdishuge2401]

@@somguy5035 basically what i have been doing but i feel to find a guild i need to get some form of parses. I doubt people will care about my 3 bfa CEs and 3k io LUL

[@Riyaniwow]

@@edwdishuge2401 You'd be surprised-- joined my classic guild in TBC with nothing but my raider.io (was rank 2-5 prot pally in the world though).

[@Sembred]

@@edwdishuge2401 If you aren't hardcore just chill, level, do some heroic dungeons, do some gammas, if you plan on leveling another char, buy heirlooms for the marks and just enjoy the expansion. Parses for old content won't likely matter since classes change. But finding a guild makes raiding much easier, then you dont have to show curve on first week along with 2m gs and 100 parses. :^)

[@peexee752]

How much of Wrath Honor do you need to cap out on Cata Honor?

[@jaystinthunder3689]

Get 75k honor cap then also get your WG commendations since those will stick around in your bags and you’ll be able to turn those into honor after you buy your honor gear at 85

[@peexee752]

@@jaystinthunder3689 So, that doesn't really answer the question. At all. However, I have found out the answer. 75k of Wrath honor = 1.8k of Cata Honor. The rest 1.2k needs to come from all other PvP currencies in the game, including Venture coins, Spirit Shards and even Stone Keeper shards. With WG marks, specifically 30 Shards = 49 honor. In OG Cata at release, WG marks gave 50 Honor, but later it was changed to 150. So if we are going to get the later patch for everything, it's better to blow all SKSs on marks before prepatch.

[@Apotheosis1113]

Yo im a little confused on which servers to prepare for Cata Classic on. is it lich king era servers? i dont play much classic wow.

[@Riyaniwow]

That’s right!

[@Xephhirotunyi]

Less than 200000 gold lol. Seems I wont play Cata, thats way too much for someone who doesnt gdkp.

[@Riyaniwow]

200,000 is if you want to be ahead of the curve doing HC progression. If you're not looking to min-max everything and are willing to wait for things to calm down a bit 50,000-100,000 should be plenty sufficient.

[@jproveaux]

looking at my 15kg... @@Riyaniwow

[@Orly90]

@@Riyaniwowthat’s still an insane amount for the average player

[@OrcForge]

Consider the average player isnt racing other guilds on their server for the hardest content. Its a good mix for us who do like to be competitive and have the time in game. 200k might seem like a ton. But we have 3-4 months to get ready, sell your Primordial/mats and make some so there really is a bunch of time right now. ​@Orly90

[@OrcForge]

​@@Riyaniwow Yeah exactly new blue boes that are bis for the moment t will go for 20k+ for 1 item. If your guild helps everyone gear it might not be an issue but as an adult, time is money friend.

[@thrasharn]

What happens if i got over 800 emblem of frost. Do the rest just disappear when i get to justice points cap?

[@Riyaniwow]

The way it originally worked was that it got turned into justice points even over 4k, then like a week later, all justice points over 4k to turned into gold. It'll be during pre-patch, so you have no use for the additional justice points. The gold you get equates to 5.5g per emblem.

[@thrasharn]

​@@Riyaniwow thanks for the answer

[@bakerfx4968]

My cata prep has consisted of getting Loremaster for some reason? I dno lol I just have ~500 quests left in Kalimdor then I’m done and will get Seeker title on the way

[@Riyaniwow]

Got to pass the time somehow 🥲

[@Thrall966]

But why do that in classic server ? Do it in retail so it actually stays in your account . No one knows the future of classic if it will stop at a certain expansion or get fresh servers

[@bakerfx4968]

@@Thrall966 I haven’t had a retail version of the game installed since the end of legion and I couldn’t care less about my retail account lol It’s been a great way to enjoy the old world before cata comes and changes it all. Ive also gotten to do a lot of quests I’ve never done that I’ll probably never do again too

[@Thrall966]

@@bakerfx4968 it’s never too late to try retail . It’s pretty great !

[@hoppskunk83]

according to the currency calculator i need 1455 emblems to hit 4k JP...

[@conorf8091]

348 isn’t it? 11.5 Frost/triumph = 11.5 jp

[@sempl7]

thank you for the video I subscribed to the channel and put a like

[@Riyaniwow]

Thanks, friend!

[@cSimpIe]

Wait, is there no new servers coming for cata classic? lol

[@Riyaniwow]

I'd be very surprised if we got fresh Cata servers.

[@jaystinthunder3689]

Two hundred THOUSAND gold? Yeeesh

[@helleye4745]

what Riyani is saying in simple english!, buy more gold

[@BREAKocean]

oof i have 10,000 gold and don't feel like farming :( SOD is also a lot of fun RN

[@theashenverdict1629]

I remember back in the day when getting into cata 10,000 gold was considered a ton of money. So much so that it wasn't until firelands came out that I was able to get my travelers tundra mammoth due to getting a boe staff that sold for 19k.

[@ayelmao42069]

Does anyone actually want to do any of this 😂

[@Macncheesee]

the #1 thing im gonna do to prepare for catacalysm is not play it

[@Riyaniwow]

Fair call!

[@cornerstore_d]

Woah cool guy

[@TerraOblivion27]

Lol missing out on a great expansion. Why the hate?

[@jacoblavilla2320]

Best expansion known to wow. Your loss

[@alexsnow652]

best thing to prepare for cata is look for another game to play xD

[@Riyaniwow]

based take-- wow has a chokehold on me though

[@andipajeroking]

The problem is that after cata comes Pandaria, which is a must play.

[@scdogg444]

You couldn't pay me to play this. This sounds absolutely awful. I quit during cata the first time, this time looks even worse lmao.

[@TerraOblivion27]

How far in did you play? It was my first expansion and I had a blast

[@scdogg444]

@TerraOblivion27 killed first raids and quit wow entirely. I haven't played retail since cata. It sucked. ToC is when I started hating wow. ICC was good, but sadly I just saw where the game was heading and I wasn't wrong. Retail is just terrible.

[@katarinagamersgal]

Why would you even play that crap.

[@Riyaniwow]

I enjoyed the expansion the first time around-- we'll just have to see about the second time around

[@katarinagamersgal]

@@Riyaniwow I know there are all kinds of ppl out there but this is kinda creepy and disturbing tbh :|

[@nicolajluttinenscheel4509]

​@@katarinagamersgal why? People enjoy different things.

[@BREAKocean]

lol how is this disturbing@@katarinagamersgal

[@Junasbeast]

People are a little slow. If they don't like it, no one is allowed too. @@BREAKocean

[@Trance2400]

Pity that Cataclysm will be DoA, Blizzard hit it out of the park with SoD.

[@cipriancorneanu6120]

SoD playerbase currently is mainly bots, but keep lying to yourself ^^

[@Riyaniwow]

I think SoD is fun and will probably decrease the amount of people playing Cata. Personally, I'll probably sweat like hell on Cata release, get burned out, and then raid log while playing SoD on the side. I know myself.

[@TheTruDoc]

With the way PvP is going for SoD the game won’t last long. By far the worst PvP has ever been. Raiding 1 raid ever few months won’t save SoD. SoD is a lot about PvP and when you’re literally getting 1 shotted all the time I don’t see SoD lasting

[@Fadedsleepy]

​@@TheTruDocsod isn't about pvp xD it's purely who can do there pve rotation on players and who has the most consumes on. At least it's not competitive pvp. More for fun and messing around, nothing serious at all imo

[@bluburryyumyum1367]

Step 1. Uninstall