[ForStarters]Gearing up.

[Rapt0R]

This guide is made for everyone that is bored, on the way to ding 80 or already 80 with crap gear D:


I. PVE

I'm assuming you leveled to 80 by questing.

If you do not have a starting capital of a few hundreds of golds (you should have that if you quested unless you wasted money on crappy blues on AH) you should do Argent Tournament dailies, Icecrown dailies, PVP dailie, WG dailies. Also when you are going WG (each 3 hours), remove the Insignia (by right-clicking) from each corpse. They usually wield ~1.2g. I once got 84 gold from a WG (took me like 13 mins).

Look up a cookiecutter PVE spec on official forums, repair up, look the rotation of that spec.

Download an Addon called AtlasLoot. Look up all the gear from Trial of the Champion (5man Normal) that you could use.

Make or join a group for Trial of the Champion (5man Normal). It's a 78+ instance and was made especially to farm gear for new 80s. If some other 80s telling "gg green gear" ignore the retards.

You can reset it 5 times a hour, but you won't be able to do it 5 times a hour usually. So farm it until you are really tired or got all the gear you needed.

Do not forget to do dailies and go WG in the process, you always need the gold, do that in the time you are bored of the ToC.

Once you farm up all the gear from ToC, ask some people you know/check up official forums how to enchant/socket your gear. You should have the gold to do that. Keep in mind that you should enchant/socket Epic gear, enchanting green/blue gear that you will replace soon is a big waste.

After you got some epics, start doing the usual HCs, ToC HC and dailies in Dalaran. They bring a lot of gold and emblems needed to buy badge gear. Don't forget to go in HCs only that you need to save time (select HCs you need in AtlasLoot (= )

You can visit badge vendors in Dalaran to buy some ilvl219 gear to replace the goddam blue you have been finding a replacement for a goddam long time. Or if you got all the gear, you can buy the 10 Badge Epic gems and sell them for a nice amount.

Near the Conquest emblem vendor, there is Triumph vendor. You can get Triumph badges from Daily HC/Koralon/ToC10-25, the Triumph gear is ilvl245 and is awesome (:


Also after you win WG, you could go to Vault of Archavon. Most people don't check gear there and it is pretty easy if you read up tactics on Koralon and Emalon.

After you get all stuff epiced, join a casual PvE guild. They usually do Ulduar 10 and sometimes Naxx 25, unsure. After you get all your gear in epics, you can start doing Onyxia once a week. The tactics are pretty easy.

The rest is pretty the same, upgrade gear, go better guild, go Ulduar 25, upgrade gear, go better guild, go ToC 10/25, upgrade gear (=

II. PVP

I'm assuming you leveled to 80 by questing.

If you do not have a starting capital of a few hundreds of golds (you should have that if you quested unless you wasted money on crappy blues on AH) you should do Argent Tournament dailies, Icecrown dailies, PVP dailie, WG dailies. Also when you are going WG (each 3 hours), remove the Insignia (by right-clicking) from each corpse. They usually wield ~1.2g. I once got 84 gold from a WG (took me like 13 mins).

Look up a cookiecutter PVP spec on official forums, repair up, look the rotation of that spec, maybe look videos of pros playing that spec in arenas/duels.

There are a few ways to get starter PVP Gear :

1. The usual 78 PVP set crafters can make.
2. Honor.
3. VoA
4. WG Marks.
5. Badges.


1. Look up AH for 78 gear. It is blue, 8 pieces set, each class got it's own, has resilience on it. Buy it or get mats for a crafter to make it.
2. Do BGs until your eyes bleed out (or you reach the 75k honor cap). Buy Deadly gear from the vendors in SW/Orgrimmar.
3. Do VoA 10/25 each week. The way I go is after we win WG, I immediately start: LFM VoA 10/25. Shift-click every player that whispers you, and don't get any of that class in your raid. This way you always get gear.
4. Do WG each 3 hours. You can buy trinkets, chest, legs, ring, feet, rings for these marks. Although it can take a lot to get a piece, it is worth the tiny effort each 3 hours.
5. While doing the daily HCs for gold or stuff to fill up a few slots, you get Conquest badges. You can buy the Deadly gear for that, although farming emblems is much slower than farming honor in BGs.

What I did is combined every of these 5 methods, but I didn't farm HCs, I just did the dailys and ToC HC to get weap and good trinket.

After you get a lvl 200+ PVP item in every slot, you can start doing arenas. Pick up the best spec, do some keybinding, pick up a good combo (I suggest 3v3) and start playing. You won't get any high and won't do good at the start, but you will get some arena points to buy gear and improve your skills.

After you get a lvl 213+ (Deadly and better) PVP item in every slot, you can stop farming BGs and focus on arena. Rest you will understand.

I hope this helped! Bye!

[blackfang500]

Very well put together, +2 from me.

[Rapt0R]

100 views 1 comment, I see some leeching ^^

[Democides]

Great guide, very useful for new players. +3 rep.

[~OddBall~]

Yep I liked it, I bot WoW a lot and therefore I'm an absolute noob when it comes to knowledge of the game, by the time I hit level 80 I had no idea what to do. Now I'm actually starting to gear up properly, but still got a few blues to replace and I completely forgot about being able to continuously reset ToC Norm so I think I'll get the best gear I can out of that and do the Heroic once a day.

thanks +Rep x2

[DarkStorm1982]

i have been doing HC & Normal Totc so all my equiptment is either lvl200 or 219, but one thing that really hasnt dropped once for my DK is Bracers, so just a waiting game for me now

[frutmestoofvlees]

Great guide, +4 rep from me

[Rapt0R]

Thanks, also added some info about selecting only needed HCs and badge vendors.

[Tegi]

Nice guide, I like that you took your time to properly format it.
+rep for you

[Rapt0R]

i have been doing HC & Normal Totc so all my equiptment is either lvl200 or 219, but one thing that really hasnt dropped once for my DK is Bracers, so just a waiting game for me now

You need these Bracers of Unholy Command, they drop in HC version iirc, got them on my DK.

[polarbear312]

Nice guide man.

[Skaven]

I like this guide. I suggest you add the new items from Emblem of Triumph, because if you start doing Daily Heroics they will soon add up. Very nice epics there.

Good guide. +2 rep from me.

[Rapt0R]

OK thanks, edited.

[five]

well done

[Rapt0R]

Also you could get some Achiev faker addon so people take you easier into PUGs... Will post a link soon.