WoW Patch 5.4 Gearing Guide - Fast Way to Gear your Character at 90 MoP

Hello, and welcome to my gearing guide. When you hit 90 quite a lot opens up to you. I know that after returning from a break I found it a bit confusing, so I decided to make this guide to help people out. There will be a summary of each section at the bottom incase walls of text scare you. They often scare me too =p Video Version http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgiaZs5_RSE As always there is a video to accompany this writeup. Honestly I think im better at videos than writing but doing both gives something for everyone. Bonuses of the video: - Map of panderia with all vendors - Numerous visual aids - You can easily drink tea at the same time Part 1 - Gearing Alts First Lets Talk about alt characters. If you are a new player I will talk about where to start later on in the video. So first of all you will want to go to the timeless isle. There you can get 496 items which are bind on account. These drop from elite mobs, chests and can be pushesed for 7500 timeless coins. See my full Timeless isle guide for details. This gear can be posted to your new alt. After getting the timeless isle stuff you can buy some gear. There are 522 legs and boots that can be purchased off the AH. This isnt a very money efficent way to do things so it is only reccommended if you buy if the price is right. After this you should start thinking about Heroic Scenarios and the "old seer" questline. The old seer quest rewards 516 boots and your first heroic scenario will reward a definite 516. Subscquent heroic scenarios have a chance of giving you a 516. There have also been alterations to currencies in patch 5.4. And 5.0 and 5.1 rep vendors now sell their epics (which range in item level from 476 to 496) for Justice Points. Justice points can be quickly obtained by doing LFD. This is a quick way to pad out your item level. Valor points will be best spent on the Shadowpan offensive. The shadowpan offensive rewards are 522 epics. Their VP cost has been reduced by 34% and the rep requirement is now friendly. A combination of the above steps will get you lots of gear without even having to step into LFR. Your gear level will be high enough to enter ToT LFR which rewards 502 epics and some Valor points. Depending on how things go it might even be enough to enter the Seige of Orgrimmar LFR, especially if you have been purchasing the 522 shadowpan assault gear. The SoO LFR rewards ilvl 528 gear. You can get further ilvl535s on the timeless isle by using a "burden of eterneity" This will turn one of the item level 496 tokens into a ilvl535. Burdens of eternity are quite hard to come by though. They cost either 50k timeless coins or you may get one from Kutmurus Grotto, though the chance is slim. After you have a full set of shadowpan assualt / better gear you will be using valor points to upgrade your best pieces. After all this (or perhaps even just towards the end of this) you will be able to start flex raiding at the very least. Perhaps even normal! Part 2 - New Characters As for new characters there are a few extra steps at the start. You will probably have rather poor gear from questing. Initially you will want to do the "Arena of Anhalliation" scenario. This will give you a ilvl450 weapon which is a very nice start. After running a few scenarios you will have enough justice points to buy either an epic or multiple ilvl458 blues, which have recently been discounted by 75%. These are purchasable from the various factions across panderia. I would reccommend searching for them on WoW Head, wowpedia or installing the Atlas Loot addon. After this you will be able to enter heroic dungeons via the looking for dungeon tool. You should visit the proving grounds in Kun Lai summit to make sure you know a bit about your class and read up on some guides. Once you can do looking for dungeon, simply follow the previous steps to gearing. Part 3 - TLDR Version Gearing an alt Timeless Isle to get 496's Heroic Scenarios and "Old Seer" quest for 516's You can pad out any bad bits of gear with either Shadow-Pan Assault or 5.0/5.1 vendor epics. After that you should be over ilvl496 and will be able to do SoO LFR After you start SoO only use your VP on item upgrades as you dont want to replace an upgraded piece quickly. If you are Over iLvl 510 you should give flex a shot. You are now ready for normal SoO. If you have a guild you may be able to get in sooner. Gearing a Fresh 90 Do the Arena of Annihilation scenario for a 450 weapon. Go to the Timeless Isle. The mobs here will probably be too strong for you, but you can still loot the chests. The chests will give you a few 496 epics. See my timeless isle guide for more. Run some normal scenarios for blues and justice points. You can use the justice points to buy either item level 458's or item level 476 - 496 epics, though the epics are more expensive. When possible start doing "looking for dungeon". This will get you valour points that you will want to save up for later. A mix of the previous steps will have you at about the same level as I assumed in part 1. You will be able to go to the isle on this character and have at least some success. Follow the above paragraph and you are good to go!