Patch 8.3 for Alts: Preparing Your 120 Alt Characters for Shadowlands

Von RenataKane Letztes Update: 16.08.2020 Änderungsprotokoll Patch: 8.3.0

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Farming transmogs, mounts, and pets from lower-level content. (And if you're going to farm transmogs and you have a lot of characters, you'll need four farmers -- one for each armor type!)

Having a full stable of manufacturing professions, as well as dedicated farmers for profession mats (druids are AWESOME farmers!)

Seeing the world from both the Horde and Alliance perspectives

Trying out new builds of your favorite classes

Going after the mounts and heritage armor for some or all of the races and allied races

Maintaining different roles to be able to play with a wide variety of friends and be able to fill different roles

Because they're all such fun, choosing one is impossible!

Fear not: this guide is for you.The Challenges for 120 Alts in 8.3 Visions of N'Zoth

How do you gear them up?

How do you navigate the 8.3 quests to getting the legendary cloak and opening Horrific Visions?

What parts are important to do, and what is safely ignored for a character who isn't going to be a high-end raider?

Why bother gearing? Gear reset debate

There isn't a dramatic gear reset in Shadowlands. Unlike some past expansions, there just isn't a dramatic gear reset. Gear also doesn't drop that much and seems to be a fairly unusual quest reward, usually given out near the end of campaign chapters. You can't get into your first dungeon until level 51, and there's the Maw to get through first.

Having decent gear makes the first levels go much easier. Goes without saying, right? But I've done it both ways/ A starter character in Beta, with what is considered "adequate" gear to do Maw content without getting squished, starts out with iLevel 75. My copied character was a rogue with a BFA iLevel of 443, which translated to iLevel 98 in Shadowlands. Believe me, it's far less painful getting through the Maw with nearly a 25% better iLevel.

Even modest BfA gear lasts a long, long time before replacing. My iLevel 443 rogue went in with item levels ranging from 420 (a trinket) to 476 (a level 4 legendary cloak). Most items were 430 or 445. I was 52 before I replaced my first item. As of this writing, my character is 56 and the best item iLevels are in the 115-120 range. I have five items still from my old set, including the cloak, which clocks in with an iLevel of 131.

The "Cloak & Park" Advancement Method

an iLevel of around 420

Ashjra'kamas, Tuch der Entschlossenheit, at least rank 1

Gain the ability to remove Corruption from armor, jewelry, or weapons

Generate the currency to remove Corruption

Herz von AzerothAshjra'kamas, Tuch der EntschlossenheitTest CasesEasy Ways to Gear Alts Quickly in 8.3Excellent Fast Gearing: Increasing iLevel through World Quests and EmissariesWorld Quests are your first gearing friend. Resist the urge to finish cache emissaries too quickly.Excellent Gearing: Increasing iLevel through PvP Incursions/ConquestsEroberung

Zone

Alliance

Horde

Drustvar

Stormsong Valley

Tiragarde Sound

Nazmir

Vol'dun

Zuldazar

EroberungConquest Point Overview guideEroberungEroberungPlease note that just doing the Incursions while not in War Mode will not earn Conquest rewards.Debatable: Benthic Gear and Black Empire GearPrismatische ManaperleDebatable: Corrupted GearUnbeschreibliche WahrheitYou can find out your best class corruption effects hereAuge der VerderbnisAshjra'kamas, Tuch der EntschlossenheitTitanische LäuterungVerderbtes AndenkenTrue story: before I understood the Corruption system, I started a timewalking dungeon on my healer, not realizing I was running with a corruption level of 90. I It was a memorable experience but not a fun one, since I kept getting killed by the effects of my own gear, and I couldn't even blame the healer for it, since I was the healer!What Not to Worry About: Azerite Traits and EssencesAccount Wide Essences GuideAzeritePowerWeightsThe 8.3 Cloak Quest Line, with All the Skips and ShortcutsAshjra'kamas, Tuch der Entschlossenheit

Skip: Skips are places that allow you to leave out long scenarios entirely. Skips are NOT in plain sight, so you need to understand where to look for them so you don't miss out on the ability to skip lengthy scenarios. All Skips will be coded in blue, like this section.

Shortcut: Shortcuts are places where you don't have to do as much as you might think you need to to do complete a requirement. There are more shortcuts than you might think, and finding them took careful observation on how the quests are worded and actually work. All Shortcuts will be coded in pink, like this section.

Step 1: Open Nazjatar (No Skip or Shortcut)Herz von Azeroth

The 8.3 questline will not unlock until you have opened Nazjatar and completed Magni's interlude quests (most fundamental).

If your Herz von Azeroth isn't yet level 50, this line will boost your Herz von Azeroth to level 50. This saves a lot of grinding for Azerite power.

Opening Nazjatar through these quests will also open the ability to use Essences, which you will pick up along the way (and your UI will incessantly remind you about if you don't have them installed yet).

Geballte MachtVersteinerte kohlschwarze SchuppeHerz von AzerothGeballte MachtNOTE:

Comprehensive Nazjatar Guide - Welcome to Nazjatar

Step 2: Begin 8.3: Halls of Origination (Shortcut and Skip)Ein unangenehmer BeraterRückkehr des Schwarzen PrinzenEin titanisches ProblemHallen des Ursprungs

Shortcut: The fastest way to travel from the Chamber of Heart to the Halls of Origination might not be what you think.

You can fly directly from just outside the Chamber of Heart, directly southeast, to the Halls of Origination; on a 420 mount, this trip takes about 2:40.

However, portals are faster -- and mages don't have that much of an advantage (it's only about about 5 seconds faster using mage Teleports or Portals rather than the built-in portals). Take the portal from Silithus to Boralus/Dazar'alor, and then take the portal to Stormwind/Orgrimmar. From there, go to the Cataclysm portal area and take the portal to Uldum, which will take you to Ramkahen. From there, fly southeast to the Halls of Origination. This method takes about 1:55 for the Horde and 2:10 for the Alliance (Horde have a slight advantage here because their Cata portals are closer to their city portal room).

Ein titanisches ProblemDie Hallen des Ursprungs

Skip: Talk to Magni. You will get a dialogue box, and a selection saying "I've heard this tale before... <Skip the Halls of Origination scenario>". Click this, which completes the quest and allows you to skip the entire scenario inside the Halls of Origination.

Nach RamkahenStep 3: Uldum Assault (Shortcut)Das Abkommen von UldumAuftretende BedrohungenHochkommandant KamsesAuftretende Bedrohungen

Shortcut: Depending on the week, you may see several optional objectives in Auftretende Bedrohungen, such as looting a chest and killing a rare. These do move the progress bar better than just killing mobs, so they're good to do, but you don't have to do them to complete the quest. The ONLY requirement is to complete the current assault.

You may also be offered 3-4 dailies and other quests around the area, none of which are required to do to advance your 8.3 quest line. Feel free to skip them. They offer small amounts of currency that can easily be gained later if you change your mind and decide to advance this character more later. I sometimes pick them up, and if I complete them in the course of repelling the assault, fine, but I don't go out of my way.

Step 4: Back to the Chamber (No Skip or Shortcut)Auftretende BedrohungenDie Zukunft schmiedenTruhe des Schwarzen ImperiumsVerdächtige VerderbnisVerdächtige VerderbnisTitanische LäuterungVerderbte AndenkenVerderbte AndenkenNOTE: Magni Bronzebart

Magni Bronzebart: Eine frische Wunde: Ignore. This was originally required to open up the second essence slot on your neck, but isn't required anymore. It rewards 1500 Azerite power.

Kalecgos: Mein Traum in der Finsternis: Optional; consider later. Leads to a quest line that gives you the Traumglanzdrachenschuppe, which gives you Rank 2 on your Crucible of Flame essence. though recommended if you plan to play your character at all beyond the Cloak & Park method.

Step 5: To Pandaria (No Skip or Shortcut)Die Zukunft schmiedenEinfach ist es nieDas geheimnisvolle SiegelLehrensucher ChoKlans der MoguAuf der Suche nach den RajaniSpäherbericht der MoguLehrensucher ChoZeitverlorene KriegerMagni BronzebartZeitverlorene KriegerStep 6: Pandaria Assault (Shortcut)Beweis der Hartnäckigkeit

Shortcut: Like the Uldum assault, you can safely ignore all the other optional objectives, dailies, and quests on offer. This is the only quest line you need to complete. Feel free to do the others if you wish, but they are not required.

Beweis der HartnäckigkeitRa-denDie Maschine von Nalak'shaStep 7: Mogu'shan Palace (Skip)

Skip: When you pick up Die Maschine von Nalak'sha from Ra-den, do NOT start heading for Mogu'shan Palace. Instead, talk to Ra-den, Like with Magni before in Halls of Origination, you will get a dialogue box, and a selection saying "I've heard this tale before... <Skip the Mogu'shan Palace scenario>"..

Beweis der HartnäckigkeitWiederhergestellte HoffnungBeweis der HartnäckigkeitStep 8: Chamber of Heart (No Skip or Shortcut)Magnis ErkenntnisseEinleitung des EnergieprotokollsNeuerschaffungDie Hallen untersuchenBeginn des AbstiegsStep 9: Blackwing Descent/Wrathion (No Skip or Shortcut)Beginn des AbstiegsVerderbte schwarze DrachenschuppenFehlgeschlagenes ExperimentBeginn des AbstiegsAshjra'kamas, Tuch der EntschlossenheitStep 10: Opening Horrific Visions (Shortcut)Tiefer in die FinsternisYsedra die VerdunklerinAbstieg in den WahnsinnAbstieg in den Wahnsinn

Shortcut: All you have to do to complete Abstieg in den Wahnsinn is to zone into the Vision; you don't have to do another thing. Just leave and return to the Chamber of Heart.

Step 11: Your First Horrific Vision (Shortcut)Öffnung des TorsDie dunkelsten AbgründeGefäß der verstörenden VisionenManifestierte VisionenGefäß der verstörenden VisionenDie dunkelsten Abgründe

Shortcut: End the Horrific Vision as quickly as possible without fighting a thing, collect your reward, and profit.

Ostensibly, the goal of this first Horrific Vision is to get inside the main building and kill either the corrupted Thrall (in a Vision of Orgrimmar) or corrupted Alleria Windläufer (Vision of Stormwind), before dying or losing your sanity. While I do know a few people who have managed this on their first try, most people (myself included) have never managed to do it on this first run. As you run more Visions, you will get better tools and sanity management, but this first one is very difficult to win.

If you just stay in and kill trash til your sanity runs out, you'll only earn an extra 12-15 Verderbtes Andenken, which isn't very useful. Win or lose, you will be rewarded a total of 150 Verderbtes Andenken -- 50 from a loot box at the end, 100 for completing the quest. It's a far better use of time to throw the first Horrific Vision entirely. When you log into the Vision, simply turn around and run back a bit, and you'll see a couple blackened doorways that look like you shouldn't go in there (one from Vision of Orgimmar is pictured below). Go in, die in just a few seconds, which ends the Horrific Vision and allows you to collect your 150 Verderbtes Andenken with far less time and effort. (You can also just stand still and wait for your sanity to run out, but dying is much faster).

Certain doom through the scary death portal, but efficient.Step 12: Piercing the Heart Scenario (No Skip or Shortcut)Die dunkelsten AbgründeMUTTERStimmen in der DunkelheitVerderbtes AndenkensTitanische LäuterungArchivzugriffVerderbtes AndenkenVerderbtes AndenkenKugelbetriebsanleitungTricks for Multiple Alt ManagementThe Alt SpreadsheetAltoholic"Alt of the Week"I think she needs a bit of work.Burning CrusadeWorld of WarcastFor the Horde!

Kommentare

Kommentar von KoleBigEars

Well hello there fellow altoholic! I am currently sitting at 41, plus 1 level 80 parked for helping with Herald of the Titans runs. I also need to use a spreadsheet to keep track of my toons, along with Altoholic. Thanks for this guide and the great idea of making a tab to track how far along they are! I usually try to have all of my army ready to go before a new expac hits, and this cloak questline really puts an annoying wrench in the works since you can't skip it all. But it's great to see the points you can skip, and really how little you actually have to do to get them to the point where you can just pick them up if SL looks to ruin your main and you need to pick up an alt to focus on.

Kommentar von CambrianLegion

Under 8.3 cloak quest line step 6:
"Pick up 'Proof of Tenacity'... Complete the assault to 100% and kill the final boss."

I've never had to complete the assault. I just kill final boss for the Conquerors Trophy and turn it in to Ra-den and move on to next step. Done this on 5 different characters since between mid January and last week.

edit 3/30:
Also for armor crafting profs don't forget the new 8.3 BoP gear. Took me a little bit of a grind to finish Rezept: Leerenfokus and Etwas geht Euch durch den Kopf. But, after finishing those you're in position to craft a couple pieces of 440 iLvl gear

Kommentar von edwallols

You do NOT need to complete the Vale assault. The quest can be completed and turned in just by killing the final boss -- you will see that the goal isn't finishing the assault but getting a drop -- a Conquerer's Trophy -- from that final boss.

So you can skip everything but the final boss of the Vale assault and move on.

Kommentar von dokeefe1986

good guide. thanks.

Kommentar von w3maniak

I'm not sure if taking three portals is reliably faster than just flying from Silithus to Uldum. 2min10s is oddly specific, considering this will depend on every individual player's computer. For those having the game on an SSD, it may likely be faster. For players on a HDD, especially if with a lot of mods, I doubt it.

Kommentar von Incandio

Good guide, thanks. One small point - if you are farming old raids for transmog you'll need one of each class, not one of each armor type, so all the more reason to have a complete line up.

Another tip - have a warrior for running old raids. You'll never have a weapon drop you can't learn an appearance from.

Kommentar von Amrash

Thanks for the guide.

I copied this, but don't remember where from. My apologies to the originator, but I found it so usefull.

A fast way to get to Blackrock Mountain (if not the fastest) is to:

1. Take the portal to Mount Hyjal, fly to the coordinates 42 28 and accept the quest This Can Only Mean One Thing....

2. Click the mole machine right next to the ruins, a small distance south of the quest giver. This will teleport you directly to Blackrock Mountain, to the entrance of Blackrock Caverns.

3. Fly the incredibly short distance to the Blackrock Decent entrance after exiting the inside of the mountain to almost at the top of the mountain, the place will look exactly like the hall in which you fight Nefarian in the Blackwing Lair raid.

Good luck everyone

Kommentar von Ziboo

Nice write up.

As more the merrier type, I've cloaked 20/26 so far. But most are the park and wait for Shadowlands or run old content, but not interested in the grinding of essences even with the jump to lvl 3 for the majority of them. (And if someone can manage their alt army without a spreadsheet - omg how! One addon I like is SavedInstances. It tracks world boss, dailies, etc.

I still don't understand how Blizz chose to change the heart level, as older alts are still in their 40s and new ones start at 50. Why not boost them all?

Good write up for those with an army!

BTW - love the names on the spreadsheet.....started hearing theme songs from shows....

Kommentar von Kaerfemagsh

i constantly change my mind about who i want to play, right now just working on 2 guys having them gather gold from dailies & wq's/paragon caches til shadowlands, i only do gathering profs (mining, skinning, herbalism)

Kommentar von dakyras

Mage has faster way than that. From Heart Chamber you cast portal: Tol Barad, then from TB you step through the permanent portal back to town, as TB is a Cata zone you just landed at the Cata portals, and now you step through to Uldum. Total time taken maybe 10-15 seconds. Don't need to fly across town from the portals room to the Cata portals this way.

Kommentar von Evilblades

Excellent Fast Gearing: Increasing iLevel through World Quests and Emissaries - well maybe thats how it used to be!
I haven't seen an emissary reward for a weapon or ring/trinket in months and these need to be upgraded too.
Blizzard will tell you the rewards are random but even random will show up at some time and these haven't - they appear to have been removed from the game for some reason.

Kommentar von Firebyrd

There's a lot of wrong and missing information in regards to gearing here. World quest rewards scale based on your character's max ilevel. Since much of this seems to be focused on efficiency, there are a number of things to make the process much faster. If money is no object for you, there's crafted 400 gear for back, bracers, gloves, belt, legs, boots, trinkets, and most weapons (sorry demon hunters). Even if you're not going to buy much, try to get at least one 400 trinket (and you can actually get the tank trinket for str/agi classes and the healer one for int classes if you really want, you just won't see benefit from anything but the primary stats on it). Aside from trinkets being one of the harder slots to fill, the caster highborne trinket is still one of the best ones in the game. Instant no-gold-cost 385 gear for everything but weapon, trinkets, and jewelry is huge. And for people who are altoholics, I just don't see how they don't have at least one character sitting around with mana pearls. If somehow that is true, just watch for the next time there's an emissary for Naz that grants 35 mana pearls as a reward and do that. Make sure the world boss is one of the wqs you do, as those always drop mana pearls. One emissary like that will have you walking away with, at minimum, 45 pearls. That's nine pieces of benthic gear even if you don't have any sitting around (and keep in mind that unlocking Naz also gives a 370 weapon and one 385 azerite piece of your choice).

Hold onto those benthic azerite pieces even if you happen to get some of the BoA drops from the new content, as the new pieces are blue, which for the azerite gear means they only have three rings of traits, not five. Even though the base benthic azerite pieces are 30 ilevels lower, they are much, much more powerful due to the two extra rings. Just keep the 415 blue azerite piece in your bag to bump your overall ilevel. The goal here is to get your ilevel up as far as possible so that you can get decent ilevel rings (and trinkets if you're not buying the highborne ones and/or to replace the one that doesn't actually benefit you). The highest ring you can get outside of actually doing content is 310, so those drag your ilevel down a ton. To put it into perspective, one average ilevel is about 15 ilevels on an item, so if you're wearing a 284 heirloom ring and the rest of your stuff is 400, your avg ilevel is getting dragged down over 7 points from that ring. That in turn drags down the ilevel reward from everything else you do, particularly emissary caches, by at least 5 ilevels.

Pay attention to timewalking weeks. The ilevel of the pieces you can buy from the vendor is 410. Some weeks are more useful than others, but they all have vendor gear (and sometimes it includes weapons and rings and frequently includes trinkets). Remember to pick up heads, chests, and shoulders even though you won't wear them if your azerite pieces aren't at least 410 for the ilevel boost. BC timewalking is the best one and has weapons for every class. It happened pretty recently, so the next one isn't until something like July, but if you're just getting your cloak and parking an alt, it's not going to hurt them to wait for a better weapon and it will help them a great deal when it comes to leveling again.

But seriously, if efficient gearing is your goal so you can do the cloak quest and then park an alt, ignoring the benthic gear is just not very wise. It's an on-demand and low cost huge instant ilevel buff, which not only increases the ilevel of the wqs with gear rewards, but also makes it significantly easier to actually complete the wqs to get the higher ilevel gear or the emissary cache. You're going to struggle a lot to even complete the wqs on an alt at ilevel 300 even if the reward is much higher than that. You're going to absolutely breeze through it even on a class you don't know how to play when you're in mostly 385 gear.

Kommentar von Volardelis

"You will see the Vision on the map; it's located either at 56, 31 in Uldum, just east of Ramkahen, or around 85,51 in the Vale of Eternal Blossoms north of the Shrine of Two Moons. "

Shrine of the Two Moons is the horde base which is in the north side of the Vale (thereby making your little tip to say that the mini vision is in Kai-Lai Summit). Shrine of the seven Stars is the one that in the southern area of the Vale, thereby making the mini vision entrance north of the Shrine.

Kommentar von Ttazi92

Great guide but Im just curious why you want do do all of this work to get ~420 ilvl and the legendary cloak to be "ready for Shadowlands"?

Is the cloak still going to be relevant in Shadowlands? And are they not just going to hand us a bunch of upgrades (after they scale us back down to whatever ilvl they want to start the expansion at) in the first few quest chains in Shadowlands? History shows that this is usually what happens when they release an expansion, no?

Wouldnt just getting to 120 be enough to be "ready for Shadowlands"?

Kommentar von ballistic714

Thank you so much for the in-depth guide! The different strategies/shortcuts you've provided are some things I've never considered or even knew about. As a long time alt-focused person myself, its great to see others like me and the interesting things you're doing! While this will probably get down voted for not contributing anything, I wanted to personally express my gratitude for the great write-up so I hope you get to see my message.

Thanks again!

PS: Love the podcast!

Kommentar von Lostelf

Timewalking is your friend. Plenty of easy 410 gear from the vendors.

Kommentar von jjanchan

First off, thank you so much for this guide! Despite the skips, it is certainly a decent time investment to get this done, but I found it important because of all the 430-440 gear I was getting that had large amounts of corruption on it, that I just wanted to cleanse!

For Step 10, it may be worthwhile to explicitly mention that you can speak to MOTHER to teleport back to Halls of Origination; up until that point you had to hoof it the old fashioned way!

Kommentar von jaghead

Not sure if this is worth it or not but, in step 5 on Klans der Mogu you can click the books in order right away. You don't have to wait for Lorewalker Cho to finish his spiel on each book.

Kommentar von Fugazi

TLDR for people that missed for example "do 15min quest to get neck to level 50"...

Ding 120.
Equip all 385 and 410 BoA you can, you can also use AH for more ilvls.
Do Uldum/Vale world boss, buy bonus roll before. No need to do 8.3 questline for them!
Check and do WQs for ilvl gear, warning your 385 gear is probably better for azerite - see raidbots.com
In case of emissary cache - wait until almost expire for highest ilvl (it scales in real time with your gear).
Start Nazjatar quest line up to magni show up:
takes 10-15 min
370 weapon at start
385 azerite
some mana pearls
Go to magni, do short quest instance:
takes 5-10 min
get level 50 neck (remember thats ilvl) and first essence
Start doing invasions (in WM) and 10/25 kills quests for 500 conquest:
You will get 445 weapon
You can keep doing conquest (just turn in every 500 in wont overcap!) for free 445 and after 5000 free 460 gear
Do 8.3 questline:
It is longer, probably will take 2 hours with invasions
430 ilvl azerite, some other gear from cache may drop too
If you see somebody killing rare - kill for 410 gear
You will get 2 essences.
You will get currency for visions
You should start doing visions asap, its free gear and a lot of echoes of nyloha for essences
Finish up 8.2 to unclock WQ and emissary:
One simple questline for follower
Two days of follower dailies (for level 3, WQ after 1 day)

Kommentar von Valherjar

Okay but like, how do I actually access the quests for Nazjatar and Magni after ding? They're nowhere to be found, I feel like some steps are missing and taken for granted here.

Kommentar von coldwinter18

Great article! Keep up the good work !

Kommentar von Bolthamos

This is great! I had no idea you could skip some parts of the cloak quest, this article was so helpful I feel like getting some alts up now lol

Kommentar von Wowzir

Renata, thank you very much for writing this wonderful guide! I also thoroughly enjoyed the comments from OP (especially Firebyrd).

I currently actively play 21 level 120 characters and one level 29 Alliance bank alt. I found a lot in common and a lot of differences in our experiences and approaches.

I only started playing WoW at the tail end of Cataclysm and was well through MoP before I actually had more than a few characters. I have found that each expansion and often the individual patch has greatly changed my approach to the game.

My first great epiphany as a WoW player was when I found myself voicing
"I LOVE this game! I HATE this game! I LOVE this game! I HATE this game!
I LOVE this game! I HATE this game! I LOVE this game! I HATE this game!... "

Sometimes I have suffered through a LOVE becoming a Hate, or vce-versa, and know from experience how often one player will be in close sync on many issues with another player while being starkly different on OTHER issues of playstyle and/or content preferences.

I LOVE playing many alts... I HATE not playing most of them really well
I LOVE PVE... I HATE PVP
I LOVE Questing... I HATE interrupting questing to do a "research project" in order to finish.
I LOVE doing dungeons and raids... I HATE needing to do "research projects" to avoid scorn
blah, blah, blah, yada, yada, yada, ad infinitum...

My current approach is heavy on CLASSES, SPECS, and PROFESSIONS and light on dungeons and raids (Let's not even discuss Island Expeditions). This is because I felt more general happiness with my gameplay when I finally got my Alliance team working together with synergy. I have all classes and (max level) professions among 15 Alliance incarnations, but only MOST races due to the recent offerings of abundant (overwhelming?) allied races. My Horde side consists of a mere 7 characters and bank alt is a "shared duty". I do maintain ALL professions for Horde but classes and specs are obviously very limited.

My personal preference is to roll separate characters for additional specs in a class since
I LOVE playing different specs... but, I HATE changing specs in-game!
My Horde characters are virtually all a different spec from their class opposite number in the Alliance.

On both factions, I include ALL armor types, having recently added a Horde "clothie" in order to LEARN the constant flow of cloth armor apperances flowing thru the rest of the team.

As I built up the teams, I strove to allow for early characters to craft armor for the later characters and for the most useful professions to be levelled up first. OFC as anyone with many alts over several patches and expansions knows, the prorities OFTEN need to change on the fly.

I have experimented with doubling up on a couple of the profession pairings. I found that having TWO alchemists with herbalism is a good thing while having a SECOND leathercrafter with skinning was not much help except for levelling the second and his repeat profession with not much benefit to the rest of the team.

I have not yet read all of the comments regarding this guide, but was surprised not to have read anything yet on the value of having large bags for your characters.

Since all my Alliance (except the level 29) and 5 of 7 Horde characters have level 3 Draenor garrisons I craft hexweave bags frequently. Focus on maximum scavengers when you get weekly followers from any INNS you have. Do all the garrison resource missions that come up and the follower armor and weapon improvements. All the alts convert garrison resources to Sumptuous Fur on days when it is selling for the minimum of 16 gold per unit. The tailor additionally is constantly doing work orders (and converting primals) for hexweave cloth. The tailor will also be needing Gorgrond Flytrap and Sorcerous Earth, but I'm going to inflict that research project on you, reader!

OBTW, my characters are on linked realms, but that doesn't seem to be all that important since most of the things you can mail cross-faction turn out to be Bind on Account (BoA) or Battle Pet related.

As my characters add large bags, the replaced bags get moved to the bank and over time I typically add more hexweave bags to their banks. Max level items can sit in the bank and wait for them while they are levelling in the maximum possible Heirloom items.

In BfA, I found that after my first few alts, I always had nearly all the benthic pieces the follow-on alts needed, so that they were already wearing Benthic gear when they arrived in Nazjatar, and then, sending rewarded/dropped benthics downstream. This worked so well that I did not get a lot of utility out of the Black Empire gear obtained.

Regarding corrupted gear, I initially concluded that Mother had provided the ability to cleanse corrupted items so, having no corruption resistance at that time I cleansed a couple or three pieces only to discover that when I had resistance, I no longer had any corrupted gear. That was when those large bags cxme in handy again, and I began saving ALL corrupted pieces with a mind to have several at different levels of corruption and then equip them only to match the available resistance I had at the time.

OFC this approach makes it necessary to also stockpile an uncorrpted item of the maximum ilevel you can for the slots of the corrupted pieces (Did I mention I LOVE having large bags?). Due to my immediate grasping onto the 100% Bonus Xp to finish levelling all alts to 120 as my highest priority, my cape levels are all verfy modest. So for me, the recent developments on cape level progression are most welcome.

For those of you yet to start out on the Path of the Altoholic, a word of CAUTION but also ENCOURAGEMENT: There is a phenomenon I have dubbed "Altitis" which results in you being minutes (or possibly more than that) along in your gameplay and suddenly realizing that this NPC is NOT terribly overpowered, you are merely playing as if your clothie caster was the plate melee toon you had been playing a few minutes (or worse, oh, YES) ago. The struggle to overcome altitis could be fatal if you can't manage to have an occaisional chuckle at yourself. In all cases with which I personally am familiar, occurences became less frequent, and of briefer duration, with time.

However, as with ALL THINGS in World of Warcraft, YMMV!

:)

Kommentar von facelesssoul

On the Pandaria assault part of the legendary cloak, Ra-Den actually asks just for a 'Conqueror's Trophy' from the final boss at the end of the invasion. You DO NOT HAVE TO FINISH THE ASSAULT to obtain it and move along the quest chain. This saves a large chunk of time and it's also advised so you can raise you're item level for better rewards.
Also do not open any of the caches until you have the cloak or you will not get any Echos from them.

Kommentar von XardasOficial

It's been 2 months since I've come back to BFA since 2018 and it's just now that I'm aware that invasions reward conquest points in WM on... And it's been like that with every feature WoW has... How to upgrade the cloak (I still don't know how to do it). How to get the essences for the neck... It's really annoying that all this informations is not hinted by the game, it makes us waste a lot of time...

Kommentar von Impirion

A quick note where you can skip few minutes:

Step 5: To Pandaria (No Skip or Shortcut) - When you do The Mysterious Sigil quest you observe RP action from lorewalker Cho before he asks you to pick a book with further information. You don't actually have to wait for the RP part to finish, your next book is already available to click on. Once you click on the new book the next RP starts skipping the current one. You can complete this quest in 10 seconds no need to wait 2 minutes of RP.

Kommentar von Magenpie

This page is unbelievably useful. Have bookmarked, and will be referring to it frequently, no doubt. Thank you so much!

Kommentar von Gelphie

This guide is perfectly lovely, but it looks like one really wanted to park alts at ilvl 440 (100). The catch up quest gear will be 105 :/ . Also, for content, especially on a class | spec sent to the bottom of the charts - now ilvl 130, which was 470. The squish, really muffed somethings up, while OP others.

Kommentar von Shelldass

If you accidentally missed the "I've already heard this story before…" option; is there a way to get back to it and not have to do the whole questline?

Patch 8.3 for Alts: Preparing Your 120 Alt Characters for Shadowlands

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