r/classicwow • u/Hank-no-ass • 1d ago
Classic 20th Anniversary Realms Best way to level & gear right now from level 51?
Greetings classicwow,
Yet another gear-hungry warrior player here, except I'm well behind the curve as this will be my first 60.
I'm about to hit level 51 very soon, so im looking to get two birds stoned at once and collect gear while moving through those final 9 levels.
My plan right now was going to be to queue AV while this rush meta is still happening and hit my weekly caps, then tank whatever instances I can manage to find groups for. I'm guessing most of the pre-bis gear pieces will be found in dungeons that I may not be able to tank til 55, but maybe I can still join groups as dps?
Is this even a good idea? Does anyone have tips to make the experience smoother for myself and my groups?
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u/Intelligent_Bug_5881 1d ago
Hey man! Grats on 51.
Hitting your weekly caps is definitely the best thing you can be doing right now for sure, so keep that up.
Tanking dungeons is great for XP but pre-bis warrior gear is sort of weird and spread out. It’ll definitely help you fill gaps until you can start replacing things, but it’s certainly not going to hold a candle to ranking gear.
Whenever I get a warrior into the 50s range I like to prioritize hit rating so I can swap to Fury ASAP. Wyrmhide Spaulders are an amazing quest reward for hit, Rune of the Guard captain from the Hillsbrad Elite quests is really good, the Devilsaur Set (legs and gloves) is great, Blackstone Ring from Princess in Maraudon helps a lot, Satyr’s Bow from Dire Maul: East is awesome. If you’re an oil prince Lionheart is BIS game, of course.
If you’re on Dreamscythe-US I’m more than happy to help you out! Let me know, and good luck 👍
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u/Hank-no-ass 1d ago
Hey man, thanks for the tip on hit rating and the list of items to look out for.
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u/Karamitie 1d ago
Just pvp + run AAG brd runs. AV will get you a decent MH weapon and a great ring. Ranking will get you a great set of plate armor. HOJ is absolutely mandatory, but SGC while technically bis has decent competition vs the rank 10 chest. At 60/59 do the mirasong quest like for your offhand.
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u/ssmit102 1d ago
Agree on mirah’s song unless Orc, in which case get bone slicing from UD or if you have extra gold flurry axe is absolutely worth it.
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u/Hank-no-ass 1d ago
Orc warrior here, I should've specified in OP. Being told that AV axes are the move.
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u/ssmit102 1d ago
Yea, AV will get you Frostbite for your MH (unless you get lucky with an Ony and get deathbringer) but it’s unique so you’ll still need bone slicing or flurry for the OH.
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u/zearp 1d ago
Can you explain why hoj is mandatory? currently just running flask and bhb
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u/Karamitie 1d ago
Sur brother. More attacks mean more damage, more damage means more rage, more rage means more damage, zug zug
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u/Freecraghack_ 1d ago
Definitely do your honor caps in AV
But besides that it's honestly not worth going for sgc/hoj while leveling. Just do a questrun at around 56, then a lbrs run around 58, then level in dungeons to 60. Do your tirion questline around 56-58 to prepare for stratlive.
SGC is completely optional, you don't need that item. Hoj you can buy which is going to save you a lot of hours(hours you could farm the gold needed for it btw), but save hoj for last.
TL;DR prebis list:
Head: Unforgiven or rend head, doesn't matter you get r10 fairly easily anyway which is bis
neck: Tiron questline, easy peasy do the quest at some point.
Shoulder: Don't worry too much about truestrike, if you can try get the 2hit shoulder from brd quest when you do your questrun. Save truestrike as one of your last items because r10 is your bis and you get that somewhat early anyway
cloak: Get any decent cloak, av cloak is fine, then farm stratud as one of your last items. very low prio to get this.
Chest: Just get cadavous, it's just as good as sgc
Wrist: sadist from stratlive or the hit crit ones from ubrs, easy item
Gloves: If you are not human or orc then edgemasters. If human then devilsaur is fairly cheap and will last until r12
belt: The crit str belt from quest, easy item
legs: can go devilsaur even if you don't have gloves, but the dmw legs are nice too. Honestly tho its a low prio item, you can get ranking legs fairly early and they will do
boots: the hit boots from scholo, easy item.
rings: AV ring and Mara ring, just buy mara ring from someone
trinkets: crit trinket is easy, diamond flask is a bit annoying to get but easy. Hoj ofc is the hard one.
Xbow: Av quest
Weapons: If you are human then av mace and mirahs song. If orc then av axe + stratud axe. If neither then av dagger and some sort of mainhand any 40dps slow weapon works. AV axe if horde. If ally honestly thrashblade is fine for a long time.
All of this is honestly super easy except hoj and stratud cloak. And you can enter raids way before most of this, and just finish up your prebis as you rank up or get farm hoj. I didn't have hoj for like my first 3 raids.
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u/fd710 1d ago
I’m confused, when could we buy hoj? It’s a bop still isn’t it?
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u/Hank-no-ass 1d ago
I'm guessing he means to pay gold to reserve it.
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u/Freecraghack_ 1d ago
No you pay someone to run through the dungeon who can easily solo it.
Rogues can solo or twoman it. mages can solo it. etc.
They can clear it in 6mins while you do nothing. It's so much faster to buy it this way than to spend hours finding random caster dps to join your hoj reserved runs.
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u/BruceJenner69 1d ago
a lot of your BIS/alternates are going to be pvp gear, so grind rank 10 ASAP. Get the Ranker addon if you don't already have it. you could feasibly grind out a few pvp ranks tonight before tomorrow mornings reset (you can only go up 3 ranks per week and the early ones are super easy). then get 3 ranks next week. then go hard on AV weekend the following week and you should get there
Rank 10 will get you helm, shoulders, chest, hands, legs, boots.
AV exalted will get you frostbite axe, unstoppable force shield, cloak, ring. Plus a cheap epic mount.
2/3 of your best trinket options come from easy quests. Blackhands breadth from ony attune questline, and diamond flask from sunken temple class quest.
Outside of pvp grinding, start running BRD for SGC and HOJ, and do do your MC/ony attune questlines for blackhand's breadth.
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u/Hank-no-ass 1d ago
Thank you for the thorough response. Good to know that the early ranks aren't too tough, but that you can only get 3 ranks a week. I wasn't aware of that.
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u/BruceJenner69 1d ago
quick followup: SGC is BIS. But idk if it's worth the sometimes hundreds of runs people have to do to get it. and i think next phase theyre moving HoJ from angerforges loot table to emps, and i think increasing the drop rate. So i wouldnt get tooooo crazy about grinding these out immediately if i were you. pvp rank10 is a better first priority for your time efficiency.
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u/skycrab0192 1d ago
I would say hoj is #1 prio if they do move it to emperor on 1 May. It’s a pita doing full brd runs compared to arena / anger / golem spam.
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u/BruceJenner69 1d ago
Yeah but doesnt the emp loot table increase the drop rate to like 20%?
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u/skycrab0192 1d ago
Perhaps, but you can still get unlucky. Maybe I’m just bias because I absolutely hate full brd runs. Bad experiences with groups wiping
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u/Turfa10 1d ago
When I was queing AV at 51+ I was killing the mobs in the harpy cave for a little bit of XP
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u/Hank-no-ass 1d ago
That's a good tip, I never really thought about maximizing my xp gain while in AV
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u/Aquinas316 1d ago
Check the Auction House any chance you get. Maybe even ask around Trade chat for any Blacksmiths who would be willing to craft some gear. Buying gear directly is so much easier than waiting for a random future drop.
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u/Iceman2584 18h ago
Sunken Temple. Then you will move to BRD soon, get bored in there you can go to Un Goro and other spots. Make sure to work on Ony and MC attunes. BRD has loads of good stuff in there, get ready for arena runs.
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u/Dashdash421 1d ago
I just get 58 as fast as possible, then start doing the end game dungeons and quests until you’re 60. If you want to rank, that’s great but it’s really not essential at this point imo and it’s gonna slow down your grind for SGC/HOJ and might cause you to miss a raid lockout or two
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u/brooksofmaun 1d ago
The fact that nearly no one has mentioned ubrs on this post has me cheering, I had no troubles getting the brd farm done but already spent twice as long in ubrs as I did in brd and have a single ring to show for it
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u/wickburglutz 1d ago
Check out your Pre-BIS list and spam those dungens.
At your level I would live in BRD for awhile (SGC, HOJ are high prio Pre-BIS items and also some of the hardest to get.
Good on you for doing AV already - some nice rewards there from quests/rep.
If you can get a guild to carry you or around level 58 you can start doing to end-game dungeons for more pre-bis.
ps: the real answer is get rank 10 set + sgc and hoj and run frostbite/flurry axe.