Full 700 ilvl the second you hit lvl 100 via Invasion AFK leveling

[Muzza01]

As per the title, this exploit involves obtaining a full ilvl 700 set for any alt.

How it works
I was originally going to make a guide advising using the invasions as an afk-leveling strategy for alts, but there are other posts about it, so I'm leaving it or for example.

Now, to clarify, you can put an alt in any invasion zone, completely afk, and it will gain xp from the invasions per stage. However, what isn't stated in the other posts are two things:

1) Heirlooms and other xp scaling items, such as the Darkmoon Fair Whee~ buff (from the carousel), xp potions, or Recruit a Friend work for scaling. My RAF toons gain 2-3 levels per invasion, it's quite productive (and you can reproduce these results with the 300% xp potions).

2) And this is the 'exploit' part (though I was torn between it being a guide or not), is that the Small & Large Legion Chests you obtain from stages 2 and 4 award gear based on the time you OPEN the chest, rather than the time you RECEIVE it. Based on previous experience with loot awarding chests, this is not normal, such as the dungeon bonus bag. As such, it would seem to be unintended, i.e. an exploit.

I've used this method to level my last 3 90s to 100, hoarding all the chests, and instantly obtaining a full ilvl 700 set on them. Plus, you get passive shards for stages 1 & 3 in addition to the ones from the chests, resulting in more than enough shards to buy the items from the venders (which you can do at any invasion site, not just the SW/Org vender, regardless of completing the Broken Shore scenario).

[HunterHero]

It's not an exploit. The chests and the loot within scale accordingly to your level. It's intentional. Waiting to use a chest that scales with your level is not exploiting.

[TehVoyager]

Any other time something like this has been implemented (in a blizzard game) the chest loot level is determined at time of drop, not at time of opening. can you show me where its confirmed working as intended that the loot level be determined at time of opening instead?

[UnholyMisery]

Any other time something like this has been implemented (in a blizzard game) the chest loot level is determined at time of drop, not at time of opening. can you show me where its confirmed working as intended that the loot level be determined at time of opening instead?

Not sure if intended or not but the this also works with the PvP crates and I did that prior to DH and Invasion launch.

[skules]

If you are talking about saving chests and then opening them all at lvl 100 to get ilvl 700 gear.

This is confirmed to be intended by blizzard. You can google yourself but it is 110% intended.

[Muzza01]

Any other time something like this has been implemented (in a blizzard game) the chest loot level is determined at time of drop, not at time of opening. can you show me where its confirmed working as intended that the loot level be determined at time of opening instead?

This exactly. There's nothing that I can find that says it is intentional (as it would be very unusual), that it is this way.

If you are talking about saving chests and then opening them all at lvl 100 to get ilvl 700 gear.

This is confirmed to be intended by blizzard. You can google yourself but it is 110% intended.

I did, cannot find anything. If you have something confirming it is intentional for this method, please provide it. Otherwise, this is indeed an exploit.

[Fruitsplash]

http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/to...4759?page=2#33

It's intentional. Part of the new tech rolled out to do with scalable zones.

[Disphotic]

The big question is, are you able to keep the boxes until legion has launched, level to 110, open them and get 110 gear?

[kokofaser]

The big question is, are you able to keep the boxes until legion has launched, level to 110, open them and get 110 gear?

no its not possible, the original item from the box is ilvl700 and gets scaled down for lowerlevels, the same way as your gear gets lowered for timewalk dungeons, it will never surpass its original ilvl 700 and stats for a lvl 100 character

[bovidae]

The big question is, are you able to keep the boxes until legion has launched, level to 110, open them and get 110 gear?

tested it on beta now, 101 still gives 100 items, so no
still need to test pvp boxes

[Ifritone]

hi, thanks for the info , you can ignore all the silly comments about working as intended and so forth as most the time the people that say this spend more time writing the comment than actually thinking about anything.

[skules]

hi, thanks for the info , you can ignore all the silly comments about working as intended and so forth as most the time the people that say this spend more time writing the comment than actually thinking about anything.

Lol, clueless. It is intended, you should seriously do some reading yourself. If it was an exploit those boxes would give higher level gear once your 101+ but they don't.

IT IS NOT AN EXPLOIT, it is a guide!

[Ifritone]

Lol, clueless. It is intended, you should seriously do some reading yourself. If it was an exploit those boxes would give higher level gear once your 101+ but they don't.

IT IS NOT AN EXPLOIT, it is a guide!

Unless the cap scaling is level 100 which is 700 ilvl and is not intended to scale to 110.

[bovidae]

Lol, clueless. It is intended, you should seriously do some reading yourself. If it was an exploit those boxes would give higher level gear once your 101+ but they don't.

IT IS NOT AN EXPLOIT, it is a guide!

show me a source, else i think you are full of shit
when, in the history of wow, has blizzard ever encouraged people to not use new gear

the thread mentioned before talks about titanforged items. it doesn't even talk about scaling questrewards or rewards from other sources, that scale based on characterlvl, at all
http://us.battle.net/forums/en/wow/t...page=2#post-33
so pls somebody enlighten me, instead of redirecting me to google to find the unified field theory

sadly i can't contribute anything constructive, regarding pvp boxes, cause world servers are down every 10 seconds on beta

[bovidae]

small update, lootboxes can now roll warforged
Wowpedia on Twitter: "Hearing reports that Legion Invasion loot can now be Warforged... https://t.co/UkIdeXlgkO"