Gearing up got way easier after Warlords of Draenor’s 6.2 patch added Apexis Crystals: If you collect enough crystals you can gear up your character without any effort in pretty strong item level 695 gear. But there’s a relatively easy way to push things to item level 700.
Bellular Gaming‘s beautifully edited short clip shows the trick. It’s not rocket science, more like something people might overlook easily. There’s also no need to queue up for raids, it only involves an item called Champion’s Honour, the Auction House and the Ask Mr. Robot add-on:
Basically, you’re looking for Champion’s Honour badges on the Auction House and using those will get you free PvP Conquest Points and Conquest gear. Since stats on PvP Conquest gear are not randomly generated, like in PvE, you can easily find the necessary upgrades with the Ask Mr. Robot add-on. On my realm Champion’s Honour goes for around 7-12k gold per item so they’re indeed really cheap (soloing one or two older Cataclysm raids will net you more) compared to other methods.
If you’re worried about PvP items, and wearing them for PvE, you don’t have to. There’s not much difference between PvE and PvP gear in Warlords of Draenor. You probably won’t be invited to serious raid groups but item level 700 gear is good enough to stomp through the current top raid Hellfire Citadel on at least Normal difficulty.
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12 responses to “A Handy Way To Gear Up Quickly In World Of Warcraft”
which have been in the game since 6.0 …
Next you’ll tell me that Zeratul was introduced before Heroes of the Storm and Legacy of the Void prologue campaign!
If you really want to be picky, Apexis Crystals were added in patch 2.1.0 way back in 2007. They don’t exactly do the same thing though 😉
Blizzard use American English spelling so it should read Champion’s Honor.
champions honour will be double the gold now.
Way to ruin a good thing asshat
how have they ruined anything? I’m really not sure.
Soloing Cata raids gets you more than 7-12k gold? No it fucking does not haha
It used to till 6.2, when Blizzard snuck around with the nerf bat and hammered anything that makes you gold into submission
does someone seriously have to spell it out for you?
SELL THE CRAP YOU LOOT, USE THE AH.
/facepalm
What, the half dozen BoE that sell for 50G, with one maaayyybe worth 500G if it’s a cool transmog?
Just did FL, made under 2K, then cleared DS 25H, a mere 3K INCLUDING items that I put on the AH (if they all sell)