19 Quick Start Gearing Guide [BfA]

[necroaqua]

A consumable section wouldn't be a bad idea.

I personally tend not to use consumables, so I'm not familiar enough with them to include them in the guide. If someone wants to make a consumables guide/list - I'd be more than willing to link to that.

 

[notoriousthf]

I don't know them all but I can note a few notable consumables:

Mobility:
Goblin Glider Kit
Swiftness Potion

Party Buffs (only work within your party group):
Alliance/Horde Battle Standard ( +15%HP )

Raid Buffs:
Drums of the Mountain -- or other variants -- ( 25% Haste , !!Exhausted debuff!!)
Battle Flag: Phalanx Defense ( 15% damage reduction )
Battle Flag: Spirit of Freedom ( CC Reduction )
*Battle Flags do work in normal BGs, not sure if in wargames as well

* These scrolls count as battle/guardian elixirs depending on stats; therefore they cannot be used alongside the elixirs.
Scrolls are a cheaper alternative and can be used on other players.

Battle Elixir:
Elixir of Giant Growth ( 6 STR / Size growth )
Elixir of Minor Agility ( 5 AGI )
Elixir of Wisdom ( 5 INT )
Scroll of Strength II ( 4 STR )
Scroll of Agility II ( 4 AGI )
Scroll of Intellect II ( 4 INT )
Scroll of Versatility II ( 4 VRS )

Guardian Elixir:
Elixir of Minor Fortitude ( 48 HP )
Scroll of Stamina II ( 4 STA --36~ hp )

Food:
Curiously Tasty Omelet -- or any variant -- ( 5 STA . 5 VRS )
Fancy Darkmoon Feast -- feast -- ( 15 VRS )

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Other:
Organic Discombobulation Grenade
*Throw to create 5 sheep that will polymorph enemies that come in contact

F.R.I.E.D.
*Bomb that deals around 400~ damage

Target Dummies
*These will taunt hunter and warlock pets to attack it, as well as occasionally cause players to target the dummy when initially used.


I'll post more after work

 

[Monkeyflip]

A very useful guide, especially for my level 19 Druid.

 

[Infomerc]

Necro, I see you mention Glorious Stats for chest. I searched for other discussions on Peerless, but found nothing recent.For a long time Peerless, was anomalously better. From just looking at the AH, the Glorious has 1 more point than Peerless (and it's a higher level chant, right? So it should). This difference is the same for my 19 and also a high level char. Did that get corrected with BFA?

What's confusing as I checked 3 AH, and the Peerless is still often priced higher.

 

[notoriousthf]

Necro, I see you mention Glorious Stats for chest. I searched for other discussions on Peerless, but found nothing recent.For a long time Peerless, was anomalously better. From just looking at the AH, the Glorious has 1 more point than Peerless (and it's a higher level chant, right? So it should). This difference is the same for my 19 and also a high level char. Did that get corrected with BFA?

What's confusing as I checked 3 AH, and the Peerless is still often priced higher.

Glorious gives +7 over Peerless's +6.

 

[ShinyHero]

Might want to put https://www.wowhead.com/item=22995/sindorei-warblade&bonus=3718
Up there for warrior and pallies
If I can find anything else I’ll let you know but tbh best gearing list out there by far

 

[necroaqua]

Necro, I see you mention Glorious Stats for chest. I searched for other discussions on Peerless, but found nothing recent.For a long time Peerless, was anomalously better. From just looking at the AH, the Glorious has 1 more point than Peerless (and it's a higher level chant, right? So it should). This difference is the same for my 19 and also a high level char. Did that get corrected with BFA?

What's confusing as I checked 3 AH, and the Peerless is still often priced higher.

@notoriousthf is right with the current stats. Glorious is better. Peerless used to be better despite a tooltip error IIRC (you can check back to the WoD guide) - but its been tested with that tooltip error in mind so BfA has Glorious as better now. For the price difference, someone was probably leveling enchanting and not aiming at a twink market.

Might want to put https://www.wowhead.com/item=22995/sindorei-warblade&bonus=3718
Up there for warrior and pallies
If I can find anything else I’ll let you know but tbh best gearing list out there by far

While decent, the Sindorei Warblade falls short of https://www.wowhead.com/item=4818/executioners-sword - which is more str, higher weapon damage, and easy to get for everyone. https://www.wowhead.com/item=22982/farstriders-longbow&bonus=3718 is also fairly interesting from that questline with 2 more agility than the standard ranged weps - but it can't get the higher level enchants, so its never really useful =(

 

[dANNN]

Great list.

This is extraordinarily minor but for Priest's the Heirloom is listed as on par with the green BoE for legs. However, the green's can actually be +5/+4 instead of +4/+4. Does this make it BiS? Or does the spellpower enchant for BoA make it better? Thanks.

 

[kkaabb]

i think BIS call for 19s with currently obtainable gear get's low chance of be'in true
gfed and felforged gear is way OP for 19s

 

[necroaqua]

Great list.

This is extraordinarily minor but for Priest's the Heirloom is listed as on par with the green BoE for legs. However, the green's can actually be +5/+4 instead of +4/+4. Does this make it BiS? Or does the spellpower enchant for BoA make it better? Thanks.

Its the spellpower enchant. The BoA can get one of the spellpower enchants with 2int or 2 sp. The BoE is good because it could be "of the aurora" (verse/haste for better secondaries) and 5/4 - but you can't put the spellpower leg enchant on it, only the MoP stam/dodge leg enchant. Due to how many things can be "BiS" depending on how you play and want to gear, they are both viable options.

i think BIS call for 19s with currently obtainable gear get's low chance of be'in true
gfed and felforged gear is way OP for 19s

I can't quite make out what you're trying to say.

 

[kkaabb]

Its the spellpower enchant. The BoA can get one of the spellpower enchants with 2int or 2 sp. The BoE is good because it could be "of the aurora" (verse/haste for better secondaries) and 5/4 - but you can't put the spellpower leg enchant on it, only the MoP stam/dodge leg enchant. Due to how many things can be "BiS" depending on how ou play and want to gear, they are both viable options.
I can't quite make out what you're trying to say.

i'll try to explain my post lol
i agree with ur point of view on many "BIS" items available right now , but i think some of them aren't the top best items on the bracket. The "sad" point is that these top best items are gf'ed (felforged, inferno robe, deadman's).
when i started searchin these forums in wotlk and cata for twinking hints and guides, ppl considered only one item per slot for each class as the best, aka BiS.

 

[necroaqua]

i'll try to explain my post lol
i agree with ur point of view on many "BIS" items available right now , but i think some of them aren't the top best items on the bracket. The "sad" point is that these top best items are gf'ed (felforged, inferno robe, deadman's).
when i started searchin these forums in wotlk and cata for twinking hints and guides, ppl considered only one item per slot for each class as the best, aka BiS.

Ahhhhh ok, I got it now. Theres a few things going on here.

Grandfathered items aren't part of this guide, as its aimed towards new twinks. Theres also a TON of grandfathered items and several grandfathered enchants as well, so its really hard to figure out what the true BiS including grandfathered items is - and its really rare that any twinks will have ALL the BiS items. So those with grandfathered gear will need to compare and figure out their gear on their own. The good news for new twinks is that most GFd gear isn't that much better than regular gear. Inferno robe is a lot of int, but leather/mail wearers get more int from the fang/slitherscale set. Clothies can use it to go full glass cannon, but still probably want a non-glass cannon set. The felforged gear has set secondaries, which 2/3 of the time aren't the ideal for a given class. So while a wf/tf piece might give an extra int and stam and total secondaries, maybe its haste/crit instead of verse. So a normal verse piece will actually be pretty close if not even with it. Even the ones with the right stats aren't game-breakingly good.

And then before scaling was introduced (legion IIRC) - there was a much more limited set of items, and they did NOT usually follow a lot of the common gearing patterns we see today. So there would be a quest item that has only int and then another one might have very little int and a lot of other stats. Then a dungeon chest piece might have some other amount of int and a lot of stam. It was pretty straightforward to look on wowhead, filter for gear that required less than 19, and find gear that had ideal and unique stat combos. Nowadays with scaling, EVERY quest item and dungeon item scale to the proper level. So no odd-one-out quests that give ilvl 32 gear (emil's brand, argus rings, etc). Things are also much more standardized now as well. So MOST items in a given slot have the same X int, Y stam, and Z total secondaries give or take a few. So you can have many items that are extremely similar.

Secondaries have also standardized a bunch. So these quickblade/aurora/fireflash combos didn't exist. A lot of the old gear was "of the monkey" or "of the bear" where it would have agi/stam or str/stam.

I'm sure theres other possible reasons, including how talents/specs used to work that made choosing secendary stats much more obvious. But I hope that helps you understand why theres often a number of listed "BiS" items and why the grandfathered gear isn't included (and isnt as amazingly OP as most people think).

 

[Tonkks]

i'll try to explain my post lol
i agree with ur point of view on many "BIS" items available right now , but i think some of them aren't the top best items on the bracket. The "sad" point is that these top best items are gf'ed (felforged, inferno robe, deadman's).
when i started searchin these forums in wotlk and cata for twinking hints and guides, ppl considered only one item per slot for each class as the best, aka BiS.

Back then, very few items were GFd. Now, there are so many combinations of GFd gear/enchants that multiple GFd items are better than what is currently available. A great example of that is the +13 SP enchant to bracers. Chances are, if you have that on anything, it’s better than anything currently available. But here’s the thing- many people got that enchant on green wrists that were only +spellpower. Technically, that enchant would be BiS on a pair of mindthrust (I think?) but almost no one got those enchanted with 13 SP because they had like -5 stam on them, so they got a 9 stam enchant.

There are just too many combinations of once available gear to put out a “BiS” list- and it would be pointless even if you did because i don’t know if anyone truly has a full “BiS” set.

 

[Swiftstab]

I’m curious as to why you listed the rouge spec’s as Assasination, Sub, and Combat?
Combat has been replaced with Outlaw.
Idk, mabye im just totally wrong here.

 

[necroaqua]

I’m curious as to why you listed the rouge spec’s as Assasination, Sub, and Combat?
Combat has been replaced with Outlaw.
Idk, mabye im just totally wrong here.

Good catch lol. My brain still thinks of it as combat even though it changed years ago...

 

[Swiftstab]

I was running The Deadmines for the back piece last night and a level 19 scaled “Thief’s Blade” dropped for me from the last boss, stats seem superior to other BiS options (BoA etc.)
Shadowfang is obviously still superior but I was wondering if the stats really are ready better than the other options.
Scaled versions, stats:
6-11 dmg
3.27 dmg per second
+ 3 agility
+ 5 stamina
+ 2 critical strike
+ 3 versatility
2.60 speed

It’s a
- 2 haste
+ 3 versatility upgrade over the BoA Dal’Rend’s Sacred Charge

(For a level 19 rogue, outlaw twink)

 

[necroaqua]

I was running The Deadmines for the back piece last night and a level 19 scaled “Thief’s Blade” dropped for me from the last boss, stats seem superior to other BiS options (BoA etc.)
Shadowfang is obviously still superior but I was wondering if the stats really are ready better than the other options.
Scaled versions, stats:
6-11 dmg
3.27 dmg per second
+ 3 agility
+ 5 stamina
+ 2 critical strike
+ 3 versatility

(For a level 19 rogue, outlaw twink)

All of the weapons that scale to 19 have the same weapon damage and speed as far as I know. So any dungeon drop or heirloom are going to have the same weapon damage. For (outlaw) rogues, generally we want a lot of damage output over survivability. Which means agility is top priority. Shadowfang and bronze shortsword have 6 agility, making them really good options (with shadowfang's proc making it slightly better). Cruel Barb (5agi/3crit) is another solid option. Theres a number of options like "Thief's Blade" that are basically of the quickblade - which are solid stats.

For mainhand though, weapon damage is king. And the blue BG crate weapon is higher ilvl and has higher weapon damage than any (non-grandfathered) weapon, making it BiS. Ideally you also get verse/crit as secondaries. Until then, all of the 19 scaled weapons have the same weapon damage, so it would then be stats that we care about - so we can basically use the same logic as we would use in choosing an offhand, which is...

For an offhand, we want the most agility/verse. Shadowfang is BiS offhand. Bronze shortsword is close behind. Since bronze shortsword is so easy to get, I haven't included a lot of the other "almost as good" options like Thief's Blade.

 

[Swiftstab]

All of the weapons that scale to 19 have the same weapon damage and speed as far as I know. So any dungeon drop or heirloom are going to have the same weapon damage. For (outlaw) rogues, generally we want a lot of damage output over survivability. Which means agility is top priority. Shadowfang and bronze shortsword have 6 agility, making them really good options (with shadowfang's proc making it slightly better). Cruel Barb (5agi/3crit) is another solid option. Theres a number of options like "Thief's Blade" that are basically of the quickblade - which are solid stats.

For mainhand though, weapon damage is king. And the blue BG crate weapon is higher ilvl and has higher weapon damage than any (non-grandfathered) weapon, making it BiS. Ideally you also get verse/crit as secondaries. Until then, all of the 19 scaled weapons have the same weapon damage, so it would then be stats that we care about - so we can basically use the same logic as we would use in choosing an offhand, which is...

For an offhand, we want the most agility/verse. Shadowfang is BiS offhand. Bronze shortsword is close behind. Since bronze shortsword is so easy to get, I haven't included a lot of the other "almost as good" options like Thief's Blade.

Thanks!
So would I be correct in saying that the ideal weps are the Battleground blue mainhand with versatility and crit as secondaries combined with a shadowfang on offhand?

 

[necroaqua]

Thanks!
So would I be correct in saying that the ideal weps are the Battleground blue mainhand with versatility and crit as secondaries combined with a shadowfang on offhand?

Yup, those would be BiS. You could also get an adaptability (only verse) weapon which may be better depending on what you want your crit % at.

 

[BlazeHN]

These are the important enchants for 19s in BfA, broken out by slot. Each enchant links to the various enchants that give the same results. Enchants that are the same for various secondaries (ex, Gift of Versatility/Haste/Crit) will link to the versatility version - you can figure it out from there if you want crit/haste. Heavily based on @Swoops enchant scaling spreadsheet.

AP = Attack Power. Str OR Agi usually gives 1 AP for classes that use those primary stats
SP = Spellpower. Int usually gives 1 AP for classes that use Int

Neck

Enchants

• Damage on proc (affected by SP/AP/verse) - Mark of the Hidden Satyr
• 18 armor on proc - Mark of Heavy Hide
• Heal on proc (affected by SP/verse?) - Mark of Ancient Priestess
• 1 Secondary - Gift, Breath, Mark

Shoulders (on BoAs only)

Enchants

• 2 Int + 1 Verse - Greater Inscription of the Oracle, Greater Inscription of Faith, Lesser Inscription of the Crag, Greater Inscription of the Crag
• 2 Int + 1 Haste - Lesser Inscription of Charged Lodestone, Greater Inscription of Charged Lodestone
• 2 Int + 1 Crit - Crane Wing Inscription, Greater Crane Wing Inscription
• 2 SP + 1 Crit - Greater Inscription of the Orb, Greater Inscription of Discipline, Lesser Inscription of the Storm, Greater Inscription of the Storm
• 2 Str + 1 Crt - Lesser Inscription of Jagged Stone, Greater Inscription of Jagged Stone, Tiger Fang Inscription, Greater Tiger Fang Inscription
• 2 Agi + 1 Crit - Tiger Claw Inscription, Greater Tiger Claw Inscription
• 2 AP + 1 Crit - Greater Inscription of the Blade, Greater Inscription of Vengeance, Lesser Inscription of the Axe, Greater Inscription of the Axe
• 2 Stamina + 1 Dodge - Lesser Inscription of Unbreakable Quartz, Greater Inscription of Unbreakable Quartz, Ox Horn Inscription, Greater Ox Horn Inscription
• 2 Dodge + 1 Parry - Greater Inscription of the Knight, Lesser Inscription of the Pinnacle
• 2 Dodge + 1 Stam - Greater Inscription of Warding, Greater Inscription of the Pinnacle
• 2 Stam (on BoEs too) - Heavy Knothide Armor Kit, Borean Armor Kit, Heavy Borean Armor Kit, Heavy Savage Armor Kit

Cloak

Enchants

• 1 Secondary and 2% speed (speed stacks ONLY with Minor Speed) - Gift
• 3 Stam - Protection
• 2 Int - Greater Intellect, Intellect
• 3 Agi + 7 Armor - Shadow Armor
• 1 Str - Binding, Word

Chest

Enchants

• 7 Stats (agi/int/str/stam) - Glorious Stats
• 4 Verse - Mighty Versatility, Exceptional Versatility, Greater Versatility, Major Versatility

Bracers

Enchants

• 2 Stats (agi/int/str/stam) - Stats
• 3 Str - Brawn, Major Strength, Superior Strength
• 4 Stam - Major Stamina
• 3 AP - Greater Assault
• 3 SP - Superior Spellpower, Greater Spellpower

Gloves

Enchants

• 7 Stam (on BoE only) - Glove Reinforcements
• 4 Str - Super Strength, Mighty Strength, Exceptional Strength
• 4 Agi - Major Agility
• 3 SP - Major Healing, Major Spellpower

Legs

Enchants

• 3 Str + 2 Crit (on BoEs or BoAs) - Angerhide Leg Armor
• 3 Str + 2 Crit (on BoAs, LW Spell) - Draconic Leg Reinforcements
• 3 Agi + 2 Crit (on BoEs or BoAs) - Shadowleather Leg Armor
• 3 Agi + 2 Crit (on BoAs, LW Spell) - Primal Leg Reinforcements
• 4 Stam + 2 Dodge (on BoEs or BoAs) - Ironscale Leg Armor
• 4 Stam + 2 Dodge (on BoAs, LW Spell) - Heavy Leg Reinforcements
• 2 SP + 2 Verse (on BoAs) - Brilliant Spellthread
• 2 Int + 1 Verse (on BoAs) - Ghostly Spellthread, Powerful Ghostly Spellthread
• 2 Int + 2 Stam ( on BoAs) - Enchanted Spellthread, Powerful Enchanted Spellthread
• 2 SP + 2 Stam (on BoAs) - Silver Spellthread, Mystic Spellthread, Golden Spellthread, Runic Spellthread, Azure Spellthread, Sapphire Spellthread
• 1 Armor - Light Armor Kit, Medium Armor Kit

Boots

Enchants

• 8% Movespeed - Minor Speed (stacks with all other speed boosts)
• 2 Agi + 8% Movespeed - Blurred Speed, Assassin’s Step, Cat’s Swiftness
• 2 Stam + 8% Movespeed - Earthen Vitality, Tuskarr’s Vitality, Boar’s Speed
• 3 Stam - Fortitude, Greater Fortitude
• 1 Stam / 1 Verse - Vitality, Greater Vitality
• 2 AP - Assault, Greater Assault

Rings

Enchants

• 1 Secondary - Pact (BfA), Seal (BfA), Binding, Word, Gift, Breath

Weapon

Enchants

• (BfA) Coastal Surge
• (BfA) Versatility
• (BfA) Armor
• Elemental Force
• Crusader
• Landslide
• Heartsong
• 9 Spellpower - Spellpower, Major Spellpower, Healing Power

Ranged Weapon

Enchants

• (BfA) 300-350 damage on proc (BoA only) - Incendiary Ammunition
  
• 170-200 damage on proc and 71 agility (BoA only) - Flintlocke's Woodchucker
  
• 94 AP on proc (BoA only) - Gnomish Xray Scope
• +1 Weapon Damage (Any weapon) - Standard Scope

Shield

Enchants

• 3 Stam / 3 Verse - Vitality
• 4 Stam - Protection, Major Stamina
• 4 Int - Major Intellect
• ~16 Damage on Block (lol) - Thorium Shield Spike
• 2 Parry and 50% reduced Disarm (lol) - Titanium Plating

Offhand

Enchants

• 4 int - Major Intellect

Hey I think you are missing Mark of the Claw on the neck enchants, I have been testing between Mark of the Satyr and Mark of tge Claw on my Warrior and Satyr does around 130 damage while Claw gives me +9 Haste and +9 crit for 6 seconds, its almost like having a 3rd ring for a moment, I am more a into stacking as much stats as posible so I like that one better than a random weak bolt sometimes.