[BfA] Fresh Level 120 Guide (8.0.1)

[Sam]

So, you have finally reached level 120, and do not know what to do. No problem. This guide is for you.

A. The Artifact Neck

If you did not get the artifact neck, go get it now.

https://www.wowhead.com/item=158075/heart-of-azeroth

You can acquire the neck by completing the following quest chain:

Alliance: https://www.wowhead.com/quest=53370/hour-of-reckoning

Horde: https://www.wowhead.com/quest=53372/hour-of-reckoning

After acquiring the neck, you will need to level it. You can get Azerite (to level your neck) from many sources. You can get some from random dungeon finders, raid finders, battlegrounds, arenas, and from elites. There is also the weekly quests that spawn once per two weeks (around the ship that takes you to the crossfaction maps). Those quests ask you for donations (several items/mats), and reward you with lots of Azerite.

B. Arathi Highlands Warfront

You will find a portal to Arathi Highlands in your main BfA city. For alliance, it is near the ship that takes you to the horde BfA maps. This new reworked Arathi Highlands map, has plenty of elites, that you can kill for Azerite, 340-360 ilvl gear, mounts, pets, and toys. You can kill all Arathi elites once a week (reset is on Wednesday). Download and install both of the following addons, that will allow you to see those elites on map:

https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/handynotes

https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/handynotes-warfrontrares

You need to download the versions for the Firestorm client (currently it is 8.0.1, but that will change soon). Follow this guide (by Alan), to download the right versions of those addons:

http://us.forum.firestorm-servers.com/index.php?/topic/39122-how-to-download-addons/

To farm efficiently, you may:

1. Pay for a carry. You need to ask players of the same cloth type for a carry. If you are a warlock, for example, ask for a cloth carry. In that manner, the geared guy, would acquire items and trade them to you, so you have double chances for loot. If you are in a guild, you can ask them to carry you for free. Currently, a full carry (on reset), will cost you around 5k gold. Make sure you do not pay the players upfront, since there are plenty of scammers. If they ask you for gold upfront, do not join them. Remember people are doing the runs on reset, so you are just tagging along with them. If they go out of their way to help you, they will ask for 10k gold.

2. If you are poor and/or do not have a guild, look for people who are fresh to Arathi (like you), and do a run with them. Make sure they have the same cloth type. In that manner, you can help each other gear up with duplicate items, that you do not need.

3. If you cannot find anyone to do this with, go ahead and solo. If you are fresh level 120, you will want to wait for other people to attack the elite you want to kill, and when they start, you can engage the elite. There are elites that hit really hard. So, you may want to tag them, run away, and keep your distance until the boss dies (making sure you are still in combat). You will also need this trick for world bosses, since those bosses hit for a lot, and you may die before you are able to loot.

Note: Arathi elites drop everything but rings and trinkets.

You will also see a world boss in Arathi Highlands. This boss drops ilvl370-395 gear (including awesome trinkets), and it alternates between alliance and horde (one week for alliance and another week for horde). If you cannot attack the boss and it looks friendly to you, that means it is not your turn. I believe the boss resets on Wednesday 1PM server time.

Alliance: https://www.wowhead.com/quest=52847/dooms-howl

Horde: https://www.wowhead.com/quest=52848/the-lions-roar

C. Emissary of War

Emissary of War is a weekly quest. This quest rewards you with a 370+ ilvl item.

https://www.wowhead.com/quest=53037/emissary-of-war

Basically, you need to complete four mythic dungeons. The best way to do this, is to queue Freehold on RDF HC. Then, go out and change it to Mythic. After that, move to the final boss (skipping all other bosses), and kill it. You do this four times, and you are done with the quest. If you are a lowbie (<335), nobody would invite you to their groups. So, you need to make the group yourself. That is the only way you can do it, at a low ilvl.

If you are new to Freehold, what you need to do is follow the tank. The tank will lead the way to the last boss, and he will pull all adds along the way. Once you reach the last boss, go and hide until the tank dies. The healer will revive him, and then you can start the boss. If you have pulled any adds along the way, you would have to go and die with the tank. Then, wait for the healer to revive you. That is unless you are a night elf (Shadowmeld) or have a way to get out of combat (like mages etc.)

Once you kill the boss, follow the players. You will see them going for an NPC. Interact with that NPC, so it takes you out of the dungeon. Then, reset and redo.

Note: There is an old bug with setting dungeons to Mythic, when you queue for RDF HC. So, what you need to do is right click your avatar (if you are the leader), then Convert to Raid and back to group. Then, you will able to change the dungeon difficulty to Mythic.

D. World Bosses

There are plenty of world bosses, that you can do once a week. Those bosses drop 355+ ilvl gear. So, watch out for people doing those bosses on world chat. People tend to advertise a lot for them.

E. Weekly Chests

Make sure you do at least one MM+ per week, for the weekly chest, which rewards you with Azerite and gear.

F. Craft/Buy Items

There are some items you can buy from the Auction House, that you really need. I am referring to the rings and trinkets. You should buy ilvl300-310 rings from AH for 1-2k gold each, or craft them yourself using Jewelcrafting. Just make sure you do not buy two rings of the same type. You can also buy a Darkmoon ilvl355 trinket for around 10-30k gold, depending on the trinket. You can buy the trinkets cheaper, if you ask in world chat. Here is a list of the trinkets:

RDPS: https://www.wowhead.com/item=159126/darkmoon-deck-squalls

MDPS/Hunters: https://www.wowhead.com/item=159125/darkmoon-deck-fathoms

Heal: https://www.wowhead.com/item=159127/darkmoon-deck-tides

Tank: https://www.wowhead.com/item=159128/darkmoon-deck-blockades

Note: The MDPS trinket is always expensive, so you may need to haggle.

If you are rich, you can buy other items from AH for 50k-3m gold.

I hope you liked the guide.

P.S. All the information above, is from my personal experience.

Edited October 11, 2019 by Sam

[andyblast]

Thanks a bunch alt.

Now here is my grief: " You will find a portal to Arathi Highlands in your main BfA city. "....

What business do you have helping the horde, traitor

 

JK always super helpful guides.

[zonunaralte]

This thread is quite old. Please consider starting a new thread rather than reviving this one it says... but i hope its not that old to follow and i am new on BFA.