What Should You Do At Max Level In Cataclysm? | WoW Classic

[Applause] you're right folks and welcome back cataclysm is ever approaching and as such there will be some of you out there like a certain special chat with who I am most unfortunately guilded hi mappa who have no idea where to start when it comes to this expansion once you're at max level so I thought I would share with you the to-do list that I've been putting together over the last little while for once cataclysm hits so let's dive in reputations very important and much like wrath and TBC before it reps are just required content for this expansion but like its predecessors it's something you will be working towards whilst you level and it's where you will get your enchants for your head and shoulder slots and depending on your class and roll it might even influence what zone you start the expansion in and what ones you opt to leave as soon as you can in order to move on to one that is perhaps more beneficial for you once you hit max level so I'll touch on what enchants you can get where quickly here here and light wrath all of the head enchants will require revered and will probably be awide from the very beginning so you do them once and you're done no need to rearm them on each and every alt you make and the shoulder enchants operate as they do in Wrath with a powered down version honored with the big beef count wide one coming at exalted first up is the Arcanum of hydro this is the Caster healer enchant available from the Guardians of hydel there should be no issue getting hold of this one as I have no doubt hydel will be the more popular of the two starting zones 60 in 35 crit standard stuff and pretty much what the rest are like as well then there's the Arcanum of the other ring this is the tank enchant 90 Stam 25 Dodge and as the text suggests it's acquired from the earth and ring faction this is arguably the easiest faction to get reped with in my opinion because unlike almost every other one in cataclysm this one is not tied to a single zone and you will earn rep from doing quests in vasher deepal and the Twilight Highlands the Arcanum of ramen this is the agility enchant 65 agility and 35 haste now prior to C the physical DPS enchant was a single item but with attack power being removed as its own stat this expansion and instead being a side effect of primary stats like agility and strength there are now two versions and this is the one for your Rogues and hunters and what have you you earn your rep with these chaps by questing an a them they also have some neat camels so if they take you fancy go grab them as well and then last up we got the Arcanum of the wild hammer and dragon Moore different color of paint depending on your faction but it's the same thing as these are the respective reputations available in the Twilight Highlands 60 strength and 35 Mastery this is the second physical DPS Arcanum of the expansion Fe dks Warriors and so on then we have the inscriptions both lesser and gracer for your shoulder slot you get these from the thoan faction within deep now this is the only Zone that I would consider mandatory for everyone why is this well to unlock the thoan faction you need to complete a fair amount of the Zone itself before you can actually do anything with it thean and her cohorts are initially hostile to players this is the sons of hoder replacement for this expansion and much like them in Wrath you've got to prove yourself to the Earth mother before she deems you worthy of her attention so I would honestly recommend getting to deep Holm as soon as you can to crack on with this because they are going to be your best ins slot enchants for the entire expansion so the sooner you get this done the better unless you're an inscriber that is and like I said earlier much like the sons of Hod the Lesser blue quality enchants will be character bound but the greater epic enchants be an account wide thing you can send to alts so it is very much one and done in most cases these factions also have a slew of 346 blues and 359 epics associated with them and these will prove to be incredibly strong early on and be where you get a lot of your pre- ra Bas items now there are too many to go over here but you start getting access to 333 Blues from honored with more impactful care revered and the epics at exalted again if you've been playing wrath this is all standard fair and you'll be very familiar with this process and as in Wrath each of these factions have a tabard associated with them that you can pick up from friendly wearing these tab arts in level 85 dungeon content that being Halls origination lossi Sol and Grim Bal on either normal or heroic and every other cat dungeon on heroic only will grant you reputation and this will be the primary way you get your reps passed honored and revered and early on in the expansion you will be doing a lot of dungeons speaking of dungeons then you're going to be doing a metric crap load of them especially early on for that oh so precious pre- raade besin slot now cataclysm has some of the finest fiveman content ever put into the game and The Optimist Within Me hopes Beyond hope that blizzard Stands Tall and proud for once and give us the original more challenging incarnations of heroics because I really like my five mans to be something I can sink my teeth into that being said the realist Within Me is also violently smothering my inner Optimist and I reckon we'll get the nerfed versions especially if we to get a cat version of the Titan Rune system as seen in Wrath but by the way before tier 11 becomes available this will be the primary source of gear for everyone so do get used to five mans having the potential to actually kill you again because there are bosses that can and will flatten you without hesitation particularly onh heroic and even post Nerf there were just trash packs that required coordination and CC to tackle it all the vortex pinnacle stands out particular but this will also be a primary source of justice and Valor points early on and frankly throughout the entire expansion the primary way you'll interact with this content is most likely going to be via the dungeon finder implemented in phase four of Wrath but normal modes and leveling this means you can quite easily hop in and out at will but in order to access heroics via this system you need to hit a minimum eye level of about 330 which is pretty achievable via some early crafted items rep gear and normal mode drops however should you enter a dungeon the oldfashioned way you can bypass that requirement entirely so I would recommend early on getting a guild or friend group together and just cracking them out it may even be more entertaining if you're a little bit on the week aside the only real drawback to this is that you'll only be able to do the dungeons once whereas the lfd tool you can just Spam them out to your heart's content there's not really much more to say dungeons are fairly self-explanatory you do them for gear and points in order to be raid ready what dungeons you prioritize will depend on what you've already already had drop and what's best for your class and spec and so on let's move on to tol barad then this is the winter grasp of cataclysm same thing at its core a PVP event with the winning faction gaining control of the region and having access to a raid within which you can kill bosses that drop both Tier gear and PVP gear in this case it's bared in hold and I imagine the PVP event itself itself will end up much in the same state as winter grasp did in Wrath for example on my server we've had unilateral control of the Zone since launch and the battle itself is a 10-minute inconvenience but that's what you get for being on a very imbalanced server however unlike its wrath counterpart tol barad comes with its own reputation for each faction a currency and a spat of dailies in fact the Zone itself is sectioned off into two parts the Battleground and the questing area now you'll be able to access this questing area regardless of whether or not your faction controls the hold itself and you can work away on this faction each day as there are some rewards behind it even for PVE including some epic trinkets which may prove to be pretty good early on for a lot of classes as well as some Cosmetics like mounts the Drake of the West Wind and the spectral Steed or spectral wolf depending on your faction now here's the thing with t barad in its dailies you'll get five to six in the quest area the peninsula but if your faction controls the hold in one of the three prisons in the region there will be three more dailies that crop up should your faction maintain control of tol barad after every battle there is a solid chance that the quests in the other prison will spawn as it's random which one is active in theory should your faction dominate the region on your server you could in fact end up doing 12 dailies which is a lot of rep and will do wonders for your Commendation acquisition this is going to be the first big daily Hub of the expansion other factions do have some dailies there isan for example but they are generally factions you've been working towards via questing and they have a dungeon tabard in order to make rep gains easier so you're probably going to be the honored revered Mark before things even start to get grindy there's no such luck with the barad in wardens or Hell screams reach because you will just start from neutral and have to daily your way up to exalted by that point you should have more than enough badges to purchase the items you need and should you want to continue doing them for gold or whatnot you'll easily rack up enough to get your hands on the Cosmetic item offer as well because remember everything on these vendors can only be purchased for the Zone currency your gold is completely useless here and one thing I'd like to make clear before I move on is that the raid will not be available from launch just as Vault of aravon wasn't but I see no reason as to why the daily Zone would be time gated but blizzard might still for some unfathomable reason deem it that we aren't allowed to go and do dailies for a couple of weeks Al are also something that I would would recommend doing at the very start of this expansion you may wonder why I want to focus on my main well you can still do that but for the first couple of weeks there won't be a raid so the gap between alt and Main will be much smaller especially if like me you're planning on raiding on multiple characters it means you haven't got to Wade through several patches worth of content and gear in order to be viable in the current consent cataclysm also only offers five new levels instead of the previously standard 10 leveling as a whole is just generally a bit swifter in cataclysm for a number of reasons so it really shouldn't take you too long to get from 80 to 85 even on multiple characters and if you're someone who is not sold on what class they want to play it is going to be a fairly friendly period in which to test things out of course if you spend the entire grace period before the raid launches just leveling and not actually sorting out your reps and whatnot you well you'll end up in a well-known creek without a paddle but if you've got three characters and you're undecided on which one will be your baby for cataclysm you'll have plenty of time to get them up and still get the bells and whistles you need for that class before tier 11 drops I'd also recommend going back and completing the zones and polishing up quests you'd missed during leveling once you heit 85 why well rep is one that really can't be understated but also gold money Moola you get more gold for completing quests at max level so go and do them it's the start of an expansion things are generally a touch more expensive during this period so it's easy money you can fly around and Hoover up the life savings of every poor peasant Farmer in the land last thing I'd say go and do your damn professions Gathering skills early on are hugely profitable and if you're clever you'll make a mountain of gold but even if making a mint is not really your thing having your professions up to Snuff for the rage release is just good sense there's no point being the guild enchanter for Pat drops you're nowhere near being able to actually use it or go and get your cooking up so you can make feasts and feeds your friends or hell even it's just say you can scratch the OCD to have all the numbers at max level just get it done cuz at the end of the day there will be a reset or two where we haven't got the raid yet so outside of d engineering or rep farming you'll need something to do and professions are always a worthwhile time sync and even if it isn't your big ones like blacksmithing or engineering go do archaeology or something I've always really enjoyed that particular secondary profession I know it's not the most indepth but just spending a couple of hours flying around digging the world up and trying to get a fossil Raptor or kaj Mount is a pretty chill way to spend a Sunday afternoon in my opinion anyway that's that's me for now and the things I will be doing once cataclysm hits let me know your own thoughts and process down below if you'd be so kind as to like up share your Ps and so on that'll be grand have a good one folks bye for [Music] [Music] now [Music]

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Published: Tue Jan 16 2024