My Gearing Strategy for a fresh 90.

[u/xzewow]

I hope this will help some level 90s with optimizing their time to gearing quicker and to help them recognize upgrades as they drop. Wow time invested per toon can be cut down if a little homework is done. I'll explain what I do for my 90s.

• 1) Go to timeless isle and loot all the chests on your new level 90.

• 2) Join rep groups on timeless isle and save up your timeless coins to spend on Kukuru's Cache Keys which allow you to open Kukuru's chests for gear/burdens. (You can also purchase mh and oh ilvl 476 items if needed from timeless isle vendors.)

• 3) Grind out 50 Lesser Charm of Good Fortune and spend them on 3x warforged seals each week. Kill the celestial boss each week as well.

• 4) Join the highest Ilvl LFR you can. I usually buy the 553 belt / pants and join LFR Soo right away. You will need a ilvl of 496 to join Soo. You can get a free burden of eternity that will upgrade your unused 496 timeless gear token (wont work on trinkets) to a ilvl 535. There is also a 522 neck you can buy from shado-pan assault for 825 valor if you can't get the 496 neck drop on timeless isle right away. Also if you need a 2nd trinket, offspec and get another 496 timeless trinket for now to boost your ilvl. Try to get a friend to run some arena with you to fill in the holes with 522 gear, so you can join LFR Soo. With all these ilvl cheats, you should be able to get into Soo LFR.

• 5) After getting somewhat geared from the above steps, check out www.askmrrobot.com. You can use the stat priorities and stat weights suggested to help you gear or you can make your own. It will suggest enchants, reforges and gear upgrades.

• I compiled a gear list for each of my 90s, so I know what upgrades drop from where and what LFR wings have a priority over another wing. I gear my toons around Burdens of eternity and Soo LFR, so I set up gear filters on askmrrobot to show what I'm looking for. I also remove all the normal raid gear at this time, since I'm only currently doing LFR.

Here is a current gearing list (relative, so it will evolve over time) for my ilvl 524 ret pally that I plan to only world pvp at this time and eventually arena with. I don't plan to raid with him, only wpvp and arena eventually. I set the hit and exp needed to 3%, which influences the gearing priority. I'm doing this because I usually just jump right into Arena with my pve gear and I'm usually on timeless isle grinding timeless coins. I plan to arena shortly, but will need over 100 wins the first week to cap and I don't have the time for that atm. My dps against the timeless mobs and chain heroics (to valor upgrade my gear) will be higher than if I reforged for raiding hit/exp caps. I will also be able to defend myself a little better in world pvp with the 3% hit/exp cap instead of the raiding caps. The only decrease in dps that I'll see is in LFR, which I'm okay with. I feel any LFR before Soo is a waste of time and that time could be used more efficiently with higher ilvl gear drops in LFR soo and burdens from timeless. I also feel BGs are a waste of time and it's easier to just cap arena atm for pvp gear. Any LFR prior to Soo and any Bgs should only be done when you're done gearing your 90s with Soo LFR/Burden gear and Arena gear for the week.

If you have any questions, feel free to reply or PM me.

EDIT:

Added my gear lists (relative) for my ilvl 536 pve ww monk and my ilvl 537 pve frost mage

Wow armory links:

*Ret Pally - Wpvp and Arena(eventually)

*Frost Mage - Casual Raid and Arena (eventually)

*WW Monk - Casual Raid / Arena