What I WISH I Knew BEFORE Starting Cata Classic | Cataclysm Classic | Alt Leveling Tips

cataclysm classic is now over a week old since launch and in that time we've seen tons of players return to the game in fact given this games or Legacy as a whole it seems to be doing just fine right about now but of course we still are very early game there's going to be plenty more to come I've of course been working on my characters and have been especially interested in setting them up so I can craft cooldown profession items as well as of course getting raid ready for when tier 11 drops on May 30th today I want to share all the various bits and pieces which I've learned during the first week of the expansion that may just be of use to you there's going to be a whole variety of different stuff here so hopefully whether you're at the point where you're raid ready yourself or still leveling you'll be able to find something useful here but first a quick word from today's sponsor boot dodev boot dodev is a platform dedicated to teaching backend web development from start to finish in the python and go programming languages it keeps things fresh interesting by treating this learning experience as though it's an RPG where you're in charge of the pace that the action happens it has things such as achievements leaderboards daily goals and much more boot dodev believes in Hands-On learning and getting a solid understanding of the fundamentals and taking your time is absolutely key on this journey they also want to get you writing tons of your own code so you can get a direct understanding of exactly what works and why but even if you just want to check out boot dodev before committing fully it really is risk-free all the content is free to read and watch in guest mode and there is a 30 days no question ask refund policy as well as a free demo of every course and its interactive features so if codings ever seemed interesting to you why not start here you can click the link in the description box and use my code will e to get 25% off your first payment for boot dodev that's 25% your first month or your first year depending on subscription you choose as always many thanks to boot. Dev for the continued support on the channel let's get on back to wow let's start off from and beginning with the more basic stuff questing and the zones you pick and how much you progress through them is kind of a big deal in C and this is especially true early game once the first major content patch with the revamp Zar Robin all the man happens this will be less of the case because they'll drop tons of item level 353 gear but at the moment a lot of those epics from EX Ed with various reputations are pretty nice to go after because every reputation at the moment has good items they'll have item level 333 gear at revered as well as a head enchant and a normal mode equivalent raid item level 359 item at exalted however not all zones are made equal you get way more reputation from completing certain zones compared to other ones for example if you do everything that there is in hydol at the moment you'll get well into revered the same goes for deep home if you complete the Zone into a round of therazane daily quests you'll be just about into revered which is amazing on the flip side AUM for ramahan and your Twilight Highlands rep are nowhere near as generous you can do the zone and you'll be somewhere in honored and just to mention the head enchants are binded on account so once you get revered with one character you can go to that reputation buy the enchant and send it to an ALT so if you don't want to do that W again on an ALT you don't need to also we've just had an update on the shoulder enchant available from exalted with thezan now back in the day I believe this was never made bind on account I can remember doing this rep grind more than one time across different characters but it seems as though blizzard are going to be following what they did with the sons of hodia rap in Wrath classic and are planning to make the shoulder enchant bind on account the change to make these shoulders bind on account is now already active in the game as well so if you have exalted go and grab them for your alss also another Zone which people either love or hate tends to be vasher if you've ski F year and you really just don't want to Quest there I just want to say if you do the introductory quest to it and it takes you about 30 minutes you'll unlock the seahorse Mount and of course mounts are all bind on count now so you don't have to go and do that again on your alts you'll just have the mount the reputation vendor is also located at silver tide Hollow and you can just fly there over the seas if you want to on your Mount you don't need to set up a flight path Network and then fly to the point where you're above the cave get on your seahorse swim down and then buy the tabard or whatever it is you're there to buy and you can leave at the very least I get to friendly with each faction and buy the tabard from them this means when you're in level 85 dungeons or heroics you can just change which reputation you need to the relevant tabard and start working towards those rewards if you're spamming dungeons as part of a guild group there's an item you probably have unlocked called the standard of unity and when you put that down you'll get 10% extra reputation this is pretty good to rotate between if you're spamming dungeons with guildies and can get you to your rep goals a bit faster there's one more rep to mention and that is the tol barad one with the battle for tol Brad of course happening every 3 hours and you do want to make sure you're winning this once per week for the quest at the moment though it seems to be pretty heavily skewed towards attackers we can win the round in about 3 to 5 minutes as opposed to defending where you need to see the full timer out I managed to win on my first defense and thought wow that was easy but apparently that was a miracle and attackers nearly always win and since I've started queuing Tober and after that I've only ever seen attackers win I guess it's typical for how gaming is nowadays people want the easy route and attacking is so much easier and faster so people go towards that and if they get defended they just go do something else for a bit I'm sure you've noticed but there are also a lot of dailies in tolber rad so you'll see the ones on the mainland when you teleport in from your Capital but if you go over the bridge to where the main battle usually takes place assuming the event is not on there will also be a further 11 more dailies I believe there's 17 total in tol barad which can be done each day this sounds pretty excessive but they're all quite clumped up so it doesn't take that long to do and in any event if you're going for a trinket or exalted you can be done with this within about the space of a week or so in fact if you do all the therazane dailies and all the tol barad dailies you're capped at your 25 daily quests I can't remember the last expansion where I was actually doing 25 daily quests a day still again it doesn't really take that long to do and at least it's some passive go because professions sure are expensive this expansion moving on though let's talk heroic dungeons so they are most definitely post Nerf and I was against this originally I did want to see pre Nerf but I have to say as much as I wanted to put together a good group and sweat them out into do all the achievements and that stuff heroic dungeons are supposed to be entrylevel content to end game which is pable and if they were in their pre nerfed state that would have been quite problematic seeing how things have generally gone in this content so far I will say whilst they are a lot easier than they were back in the day and far fewer things will onshot you some trash packs in there and bosses still absolutely do hurt a lot when you're just running into them and people aren't pressing their defensives their interrupts or using their cooldowns enough if I could say one thing about heroic dungeons it's just don't be afraid to send off your cooldowns as they come back up you really don't need to save everything for bosses very few of the the bosses are realistically very dangerous but some trash packs with four or five mobs in them think some of the trash packs in the dead mines at the start of the halls of origination perhaps some of the ones in vortex pinnacle yeah they really hurt you should be pressing your cooldowns on those especially if you are a tank or a Healer just run into a pack and throw out all your cooldowns it's going to smooth things out significantly and at the end of the day if you're getting through the dungeon smoothly that's what the real goal is also I think Worth to mention is there's been a few stat Chang in catter to where certain classes or specs just don't need to roll on items with some stats anymore if you're a major or warlock you don't need to roll on Spirit Gear anymore it was good in Wrath it just doesn't do anything for you in cata now boonin Shadow priest and Elemental shamans can convert Spirit into hit so it can be useful but if something with Spirit on drops and it's an upgrade for the Healer I'd probably just pass it on for the Healer and let them get the item also worth a mention that feral and enhancement shamans don't need strength anymore that was a ra the Lich King thing where it could be a nice stat now in C it's agility all the way quick mention for a few add-on things now so if you've been manually installing Atlas loot because it didn't work at the start of K it's on curse Forge now so if you just want to go on there and update it as you usually would with any other add-on you can do that I just found out about that one the other day so that's really nice and reforging is one of the features of the expansion which has an add-on that can streamline it quite significantly so the add-on's called reforge light and I'm just going to show you an example of how it works here so you can go to your reforger guy ask a guard where they are if you don't know in orar or Stormwind then when you talk to them it's going to open this new UI here so you can click import preset from the top of the UI that opens here and you may need to change the values based off of what simming better for your class how much hit you need expertise anything you want to just change the values I'm just showing you you can import a preset here and maybe that does it just fine for your class for me my red spec on my Paladin is just going to be for daily so again I'm not worrying about this too much just for an example once you're happy with the stats that are shown you can hit calculate usually hit it a few times as it make come up with slightly different and hopefully better results and then go further down and click for it says show and then reforge and it will reforge all your items into the stat priorities which you have chosen this just speeds up the process of reforging a lot and makes it a bit easier to understand which stats are going wor and what you're choosing so would recommend getting this a quick mention to archaeology as well and yes I really am talking about archaeology after the expansion has launched don't think you're out the prison yet there's a 359 epic Caster ring from tovia which is going to be prebis for basically every Caster as far as I am aware now this is an item which is epic but it is nowhere near as rare as any of the weapons that you may have been farming in the pre patch such as the staff or the two-handed sword or anything like that I've seen so many cases where people get this within their first two r solves people often get the Scarab BR trinket and then the ring or vice versa myself I got it in about 15 solves or so though definitely the most annoying bit of this is getting tovia dig sites to spawn and I was doing this with nightelf and fossil cleared as well and it still took me a couple of hours but if you've done everything else and you wanted something to farm this really isn't too bad to get on average of course it's bind on account as all archaeology items are well the ones you can equip anyway way so if you have multiple characters that can use this I would definitely give it a try next for a quick mention on justice points and Valor points so with Justice points they're super easy to cap out when you start spamming heroics obviously you could spend them on stuff your offs speec there's a trade goods spend in near buy but prices for everything have gone down quite fast already alternatively you could buy her looms instead one way or another though do track your justice points and don't let them cap because otherwise you'll be wasting them once you're over 4,000 and for points the boots from the vendor are binded on AIP so for example if you have a main that doesn't have any boots from an exalted reputation and you farm the majority of your Valor cap last week you could finish it off with the reset by the boots and send them over to your main for pushing on heroic Ray progression alternatively if you don't care about your alt too much at this early stage you could just sell the boots I wouldn't go and buy a specific one I just type in general or trade chat that you're selling the valer boots and you're looking for X amount of gold i' try and base the gold based off what other bindon equip items are going for on the auction house on your server after that you can see what offers you get and go from there no other item from Justice points or Valor points are bind on equip so I just wanted to let you know that the boots are and they could be abuse to you last but not least is the Dark Moon fur and capping out your professions so as part of the Dark Moon fur there's a quest you can do once per fur that will give you five points in one of your professions this appears to give Five Points which ever stage you completed that so if you're getting near to capping out a profession I would save this quest for then because some of those final skill points can cost legitimately thousands of gold and that is just about everything I have for the opening week of Kata and what I've learned so far hopefully there was something useful there for you or you found something new that you can work towards I'm super looking forwards to getting into the raiding content and seeing how it goes as well as just playing more characters because for me the cataclysm class changes so far been pretty amazing anyways let me know what you thought whether there was anything else big which you would add to this and as always thank you all so much for watching and listening in and I'll see you on the next one very soon [Music] [Music]

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Length: 13min 43sec (823 seconds)

Published: Thu May 30 2024