New(ish) player, Getting Started

Hey Folks,

I'm a long-time WoW player, but have taken the better part of the last 2 expansions off. As a way of scratching the itch, I've found this and decided I may dip my toes in the water making a F2P account and seeing what's up with the process of making a character as good as the F2P experience can get!

Are there any tips, tricks, or easy-to-make mistakes that would make this process miserable? As well, is there one (or multiple) "getting started" style guides out there that are easy to digest and help me get going?

Any information or help is appreciated!

Thank you!

Turbomoist said:

As well, is there one (or multiple) "getting started" style guides out there that are easy to digest and help me get going?

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https://xpoff.com/threads/the-war-within-f2p-baseline-guide.100275/

Read this, in full. Twice. Its not really "easy to digest" because the nature of the game has created so many variables, it can often be difficult to wrap your head around some things.

But the basics are:

level to 20 and do as few/no quests as possible. Quest rewards have a chance to upgrade, after all, so youll want to be max level. Once 20 run a bunch of Timewalking dungeons till you got a full slate of ilvl 96 gear, just to make things easier, stack some gold, etc. Run various quests (usually in TBC) that offer quest rewards with sockets. The gearing meta is max sockets. Anything with sockets that upgrades to Blue or Purple is probably worth keeping. Then its up to you if you want to start trying to solo TBC dungeons for BIS or get a carry. But BIS is (mostly) TBC dungeon socket gear.

If you dont care about the added challenge that is hunting achievements/collections as a F2P, then start your F2P on your existing bnet account and youll have access to mounts, pets, xmogs, etc.

Godspeed.

It depends a little on what you want to get out of your F2P experience.

If you want to experience the most content then it's probably going to be rolling a level 20 tank and/or healing class. This gives you the most access to talents/dungeons/zones/storylines/mounts.

If you want to be the most 'powerful' then you'll probably be rolling a level 11 tank and/or healing class. This is simply due to how scaling works for most content, which gives lower levels more relative power.

Course I think most of the people here have multiple level 11s and 20s, so you can get the best of both worlds.

The only 'warning' of sorts is that there's certain pieces of gear that's a one and done deal, but also can upgrade to epic quality if you're lucky. Some people like to reroll over and over until that piece of gear upgrades to epic quality before fully committing to that character.