Gearing Guide for Alts and Returning Players in Patch 10.2.5

0:00 Enchanted Whelpling's Crests
4:02 Emerald Dream Rewards
8:24 Weekly Events
10:30 Conclusion
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[@dratnos]

Update: Lindormi, in Valdrakken, now sells 441 BoA random dungeon items that are 1/8 on the veteran track for 350 flightstones if you have 1000 m+ score!

[@Moonwired]

Alternate title, Dratnos finds out there are other ways to gear alts then doing 20s.

[@MrPizzaboy19]

When does he do the 20s?

[@Moonwired]

@@MrPizzaboy19every week?

[@showmetheheaterz2998]

@@MrPizzaboy19Dratty doesn’t allow such trivial things like “item level” to hold him back. He just runs into a 20 as soon as he dings 70.

[@echoingchaos9659]

This could not have come at a better time. Logged in for the first time in a few months this morning and felt a little overwhelmed. Thanks Dratnos!

[@kfactor99]

welcome back :)

[@quintit]

was just gonna comment this lol

[@Orthus100]

Don't forget the 5 Deamseeds weekly, it also gives a Veteran piece. Can also run a Time Rift or two to get decent trinkets.

[@MastersOfTheWinds]

Best Tip for all alts and returning players: If you get offered your BIS trinket on Myth track from the Vault, it would be prudent TO TAKE IT!

[@laughingoctopus785]

u wanted to put prudent in a sentence xD Clap

[@gala5000]

We cant let him hear the end of this never forget midas 2024

[@vicsterX]

This is one of the best advice. I took a Myth tier piece instead of Hero brand trinket from Smolderon during the 2nd week - worst mistake of my WoW career because I never seen it drop ever since.

[@showmetheheaterz2998]

@@laughingoctopus785he just learned the word during his “hooked on phonics” lesson yesterday and he was eager to put it to use.

[@dembro27]

Dr. Atnos, this is gonna help me gear up my FotM Mage! Thanks!

[@kennethho8259]

The dream coalescence you get while farming whelpling crests can be used to exchange for 1 mount @1000, 2 toys @500 each, and 415 gears which is a good source for catalysing into season 2 lfr tiers for transmog.

[@ml9942]

Love your content dratnos!!!!! Keep it up. I put your podcasts on while driving, doing dishes or bedtime!

[@Rayvon69]

This was soooo helpful! Bit of time and alot of patience you can get some good stuff, cheers!! 👍👍

[@GreyGramarye]

The Emerald Dream world boss also drops Drake’s Crests. 10 of them I think.

[@HarryDoddema]

Thanks! I've played all of DF but still feel very overwhelmed by the whole crafting system and all the crafts/sparks/embellishments/things you need to know about.

[@raremih1008]

I recommend doing the time rift (near Valdrakken) once or twice a week. The first weekly gives a token for one gear piece from a vendor in the hub where you accept the weekly quest. The items are similar loot to the dream weeky which is explained in the video and you can also buy trinkets from time rift. You also get an use item which will guarantee a drop from the next time rift (it can be only cosmetic or real gear tho and the drops from the time rift boss itself is lower than the gear from the vendor for the weekly). For fresh alts, this can be a good boost of ilvl to get accepted in the LFR tool 😅

[@eatdapoopoo67]

helpful and straight forward video, thanks!

[@Phleshhh]

What i do is go to AH buy 424 gear for every slot. Then go into lfr for some gear. After go do world boss,superbloom and weekly rep quest from emerald dream. At that point you craft some gear to 460 . You would have got sparks from clearing lfr you might only have enough flightstones for 1 or 2 pieces tho. Then depending on ilvl either start M+ runs or try get into normal raid.

[@Rayvon69]

This is a great I will try this also thanks!!💪💪👍👍

[@marcelrodriguez2067]

What i do is once im at around 440 ill start a pug for normal amirdrasil and then head to start a heroic pug which most take you all the way to fyrakk now. I make sure i dont inv people with my class. If im a hunter then no other mail wearer will join that group to be safe :)

[@Irades]

Dratnos, you and your videos are wonderful!

[@brandont4259]

Perfect timing, thanks for this

[@Iowsbub]

Thank you, this helps a lot!

[@tylerlindsey4772]

The 0 gold route would be just doing the emerald dream campaign to get the gear and enough flightstones for a 463 set+. champion rep pieces and 2 478 crest. It also coincidentally generates just enough gold for 2 crafted pieces’ materials.

[@attinger117]

If you’re someone like me who enjoys both PvP and PvE you can get a lot of 454-463 gear just by capping conquest in order to buy body armor pieces to then convert into tier gear. You can also buy conquest gear for other slots and then throw them in the catalyst to change the stats on the pieces. Between that and crafted 463 gear using dream shards I have almost a full set of gear

[@ryanmonteith5890]

The goat back at it again Love to see it

[@jowe11eleven]

Thank you for this video! I’m a returning noob player and getting my ilvl up in order to raid and do mythic+ eventually.

[@nathanw4897]

Can also get caralyzable veteran gear from the weekly “plant 5 seeds” quest which is super fast.

[@user-tw3es7gc7u]

Whelp crest tip is by far the best. Farming green clouds is a bit weak in Azure Span from my experience but when Thaldraszus is active you can easily get enough to craft 447 item in every available slot in like 30-45 min and it's not even as expensive as you say. All mats on my server are like 400g and I put a 100g tip on public order and it still gets completed instantly so that's like 6k gold for 447 in all possible slots but realistically less since you can easily get 3 447 items from Dream weeklies and maybe items from world boss and lfr as well.

[@litebkt]

Thanks!

[@fernandogomez8317]

Congratz on 100k

[@danielschultz96]

the quest for planting 5 seeds thats weekly also gives you catalyzable gear

[@birdwatchingfrog]

Worth mentioning that Drake's crests come from planting seeds - just two a pop, but if you're allergic to grouping, it's a good source.

[@darkcursse2709]

If gold isn't a problem and your just looking for some quick pieces to get into LFR or another ground finder your to low an Ilvl for you can purchase explorer level gear from the AH. This gear can be upgraded to 437 ilvl. Again it's not great, but you can fill your whole toon out trinkets aswell for fairly cheap.

[@TehHolyCrown]

wow, that whelping trick was absoutly crazy good, full 447 in 1/2 hours THANKS

[@jeCktHeReal]

only really works if Thaldraszus has the dreamsurge. I found this trick a few weeks ago and I thought i was doing some mad exploit lul

[@showmetheheaterz2998]

@@jeCktHeRealhe’s a hacker.

[@Nalaarya]

Hi, what is the addon that you use to display all your available gems to put into sockets ? Thanks :)

[@HanserEU]

Can someone tell me please what am I missing on the "just the to renown 20" part? I've been playing since release of 10.2 and doing the weekly with the walking tree and did all the campaign stuff and I am renown 13. Is there any other way to get more rep I am missing out on majorly here? Seems so slow :(

[@fycfyc1]

Yes these people grind to renown 20 on week 1 of the patch lol. If you just play the game normally and do not deliberately grind any content you will be around 10-15. I did weekly quests in Emerald Dream and only heroic raids and am at renown 11.

[@FoundDeath]

Great content. 🙂🙃

[@Emraz]

Great tips for a returning player. These prices though, 1k for mats, offering 3k. Where I am (EU) mats for the exact same thing were 300g. I gave 750g and it was filled in 5 seconds :-). Thanks

[@celticsone_]

This is great information for new players and gearing alts, however, I feel like it still takes around 2 to 4 weeks to get a character around 455ish ready for low mythic+ solo pugging. Pvpers have it easier, they can get to the arena within 1 day

[@ygorth]

Hi there! Enjoyed your video. Can you share the name of the addon that displays item levels in the character window? Thanks!

[@Tbot26]

not sure exactly what he’s using but a good one is “simpleitemlevel”

[@Beko3981]

Which WA or Addon shows the number of crests on the bottom right of his bags ?

[@zallo2858]

This guide was all over the place. I feel like I’d you had some sort of structure it would be easier for people to understand rather than “go here and do this quest and kill this person”

[@Kroamar]

This is perfect, I've just returned!

[@lilshaff07]

I haven't played since 2010 & had 2 mains (one pve, one pvp) and 2 alts, 2 twinks - should I do the gear upgrade? NO clue on what to do as a returning player. They are on dead servers (shadowmoon) & not sure whether I should transfer, transfer w/upgrade, forget, etc. Anyone have any advice? The two mains and one of the alts were very geared back in the day. Full pvp sets and full raid top tier set. IDK WHAT TO DO lol please any advice is appreciated!

[@HaremKinq]

Emerald Dream Bounty is also great way to get more drake crests

[@duetobe]

Dratnos:releases gear catch up video. Blizzard:guess we should release flightstone catch up. Lindormi the panda by the dungeon portal sells 441 flightstone catch up gear for the fresh alts.

[@armandoferiya8551]

hello whats the name of addons that add this info left on your map ? i need that

[@DictatorJayy]

What is that little pop up box that shows when you pick something up? I neeed that. The little box with the picture of the item.

[@Xxmilo-auckermanxX]

think its ls:toasts

[@nathanpurss4582]

Yo that Nascent crest part I had no idea about. You're a fuckin champion daddy Dratnos

[@finalbarrage7108]

Yo drathy, alot of good info in this video.. but i feel like this type of video would be best suited for returning, or new players. And for them i think you are going waay too quick Like how you showed how to get the 447 item from the crafting order, you blasted though that very quickly and didnt follow it though You fly toward the catalyser, and turn back. That bit could be cut out in post it seems like a heavy video for a new player to consume :( i love your content in general! i hope this dont feel harsh. A small miss is all. Vengance DH guide when :P

[@guffels]

the fact there is no way to farm 447 from a forbidden reach style zone was a huge miss this patch. getting from 424 to 447 is a huge friction point for dps

[@ProstagmaVolume]

Is the sorting bags part of bagnon ??

[@painfullyavarage4316]

I’ve been only doing my 2 embellishment crafts per character just because crafting is absurdly expensive right now. A 486 one handed weapon on my dh cost me about 20,000 in materials alone, and even though it’s probably more efficient aspect crest wise, it’s not really worth it gold wise.

[@ulrik03]

Nobody else can say how much gold is worth to you, it varies extremely. Players who've been gathering gold during the expac can drop a couple of hundred k without noticing it, returning players with no gold will feel 20k extremely hard, while others will buy a token to spend on gold to gear up their char and be fine.

[@SerGlushko]

You can craft rings and a necklace for under 2k for ALL THREE in terms of mats. Embellishments and crafter tips may cost you another 10-15k based on your desired item level, but in general these slots are a lot cheaper than the others. Also cloth gear is extremely cheap if you're one of those classes (excluding the friendship wrists ofc)

[@JustASpider980]

Arent materials regionwide?

[@skew8451]

Hey, great vid for newer players, one thing to note on the dream weeklys, the seedbloom weekly bag can also award a catalyzable piece, and doing the 5 seedblooms is a great source of Dream rep at the same time.

[@reidom1994]

I paid just 1-3k or less on public order to get my 486, not instant but done in 1h usually

[@JSIguess]

I found it much easier to farm 428 that's upgradable to 450 from time walking and just jumping into LFR/Normal/M+ and saving all the crafting mats for later.

[@guffels]

dang dratnos quiet today

[@TheVoiTube]

Fom 0 to 70 it takes very little time under 10hours for raid ready boost character so why pay 60$? You get basic gear from quest chain or 4 weekly (world boss has low chance) Superbloom has 100% and planting 5 seeds has 100% and getting 1500 rep has 100%.These alone and quest gear or auction house under 500g gear gets LFR ready item level day 1. Then up to you finding normal/heroic raids or mythic+ runs.

[@HOBOTw1tcH]

4x Ruby Life pools is not just for rats - I do it on my main - can knock out that quest in like 10 min

[@azereth555]

Don’t forget timewalking raid it gives normal raid ilvl gear and there are 2 quests that give you an additional normal piece and an additional heroic ilvl piece

[@Horeeification]

Time walking raid gives champion track gear? Dang

[@azereth555]

@@Horeeification yes and you can catalyze it too

[@ZIMdb]

My man, word vomit confusion is what this video is lol..

[@darthenx2585]

One main point. Flightstones are a pain point for alts if we dont really want to do the campaign again.

[@dratnos]

yeah I've been looking for a way around the flightstone bottleneck - best i can say is do the loam niffen intro to the campaign, get a few hundred pretty early on into that, but tbh nothing feels good

[@Cyber-Rain]

Doing TW ulduar bosses on hardmode gives hero gear.

[@MrOPD]

Basically, spend 10 hours running through the most current zone doing mindless quest and then spend like 100k gold and you'll be at like 450-460. After that, look forward to the dreadfully slow grind that is 1 item per 4 m+ and having to farm like 900 wyrm / aspect frags.

[@MRPC5]

I think the Coalescence bonanza is a random bonus not just a single node. I just got it from 2 in a row.

[@rogerioalves8863]

why blizz need to complcaite things so much?

[@Kmaitland89]

You can get 2 set pretty easily by just doing the weekly quests and catalyzing the gear you get. You need to get a little lucky but, I've managed to get 2 set on almost all my characters by just doing weekly quests. On top of that if you have gold you can buy a BOE off the AH and catalyze it.

[@JackDanielWOW]

wow is too headache for new player, I don't really understand where to build craft it so a lot to learn

[@EternalPayne666]

Even easier you just make a normal raid on your own. Dont take anyone whos not 9/9, dont take anyone on your tier token. If you can help it avoid ppl with your armor class or only take them if they outgear the place. Easy 4pc Nobody complains youre undergeared, its your raid. And its normal which is a joke Then smash 17s for hero gear. Alta to 470 in a single day if youre not terrible at the gane

[@gwilly4744]

How to gear your alts… do raids and mythic. Got it.

[@MiroKrotky]

Its fyrakk not fireakk

[@Kammithekiller]

sir please link me that tshirt :O

[@balzisharez]

WOW is so Sh!t now. It's all about dragging you, the player, along to stay on line more, you have to get this to upgrade this how many times?????? 1-8 times??? For each item of gear??? Over and over again???? How many "Apexis Crystals*" do I have to get now???? For each item x how many???? F that, just give me the damn upgraded gear without all the BS damn it..... (*insert what ever they change the name to over the years here here)

[@47ravenlord]

I will never understand why people play this game for long periods of time. If you diligently and obsessively do a ton of random time consuming things, you MIGHT be able to get a handful of characters to high ilvl by the time they release a new patch or DLC that will render all of your gear inferior to starting greens in the new content, lol. I pop back in every few years and love seeing people that worked so hard to gear swap out their uber gear for the same quest rewards i do on my freshly boosted character that was included in the DLC price, lmao.

[@kingsuds]

Honestly, compared to classic, this is so convoluted and annoying to follow.

[@laughingoctopus785]

dude all of these were methods already in 10.2 nothing new in 10.2.5 ...