PTR First Look at Shadowlands Level Squish

My 100 twink will now be the same combat as a 101 making a whole new ball game for me.
Missions in class hall.
Legendary this will be interesting.

My twink is : https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-gb/character/eu/sylvanas/calm

Looking it some of my bank from all 85-100 gear some of it will be best in slot.
If you are thinking of going 101 get instanced gear now before they mess the scaling up

the 101s are still bis with the epic forging world drops .. non of the dungeon gears comes close .. they are currently scaled up to ilvl224 .. but i dont have many of the 224s, but i have quite a number of 204 to 219s, some with socket, that can gem the BFA high end ilvl200 gems .. the lvl100 will be wasted when they are put together with 101

i see you are using mostly 5 int 4 versa gems .. why not get the 5 int 5 versa ones instead ?
 
the 101s are still bis with the epic forging world drops .. non of the dungeon gears comes close .. they are currently scaled up to ilvl224 .. but i dont have many of the 224s, but i have quite a number of 204 to 219s, some with socket, that can gem the BFA high end ilvl200 gems .. the lvl100 will be wasted when they are put together with 101

i see you are using mostly 5 int 4 versa gems .. why not get the 5 int 5 versa ones instead ?

wonder if they will still titanforge in sl :D
 
Looks like 10+ will have access to all leveling content? So probably 100% of current gear available will not be bis? Hard to know
This actually excites me. I'd love to do all Content (minus SL obviously) on a few of my current out-of-date 10's, well, after re-leveling them from w/e they get dropped to back up TO 10 I guess.

I won't lie, played Classic and enjoyed it but I have sooo much time/effort invested in my Live Twinks that it's hard to basically do it all over again and Live is currently cancer.
 
I like how 101s become 40. Nice flat level with access to BFA content. Might be time to dust off my old 101 :) maybe unlock 2 legion legendaries finally?

@Winterly @Dannymcbride you guys still got some 101s?

Yep, this my 101 https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/character/us/barthilas/bentazz
I want to see wat a live level 5 will scale into on alpha, learn profesions on live then when shadowlands hits ull have a GF toon. Would be cool if it scaled to 1, the new Gf lvl1's. Get a full party snyc gear set and see wat it scales too.
 
Are you able to get 5/5 gems at 100? I've been farming 5/4 and I was lead to believe they were best in slot. I do agree high titanforged and item level is the way to go however it does take time to acquire these items.

Not to forget that raid gear gives options for secondary stats too as veevchard has always been so informative about.

When the merge happens and shadowlands is live I will be acquiring all the 101 gear very excited to see what is in our future of 101 or should I say level 40 thinking.
What classes do you have at 101

they are dropped only in 1 heroic dungeon .. The Botanica .. its called Mysterious Tanzanite, random drop from the bosses .. i get about 20+ per month per character .. every lvl can get it, i run myself daily in groups of 4s and 5s, i turn on 4 or 5 accounts and use a hunter to lead the group, the rest are set on follow, and my hunters ended up getting tons of these Mysterious Tanzanite, useless for hunters, but i can send BOAs with sockets to them for gemming eg. Hellscream's War Staff and Headdress of the First Shaman, i run these groups using lvl100 and 101 or 109 hunters, the multi shots and barrage just clear each dungeons run under 5 mins. i have stop running the dungeons, cos i figured i have enough to last through the whole of SL and enough for each character class to lvl up till these gems are no longer useful for them. some of my toons hold over 80 gems that is useful to themselves, but my hunters are holding tons of useless gems, ran out of bank space. i suggest you keep ALL the gems thats dropped, including those 3/3 ones, eg. 3 int/3versa .. because some gems they have the exact same name, but they have different stats, maybe one day blizz decide to standardized all having the same name having the same stat, then these might become useful, i dont know, just a backup thought

raid gears are good for lvl100 because the best drop they can get are only lvl160, making raid gears with many sockets and additional gem stats even better than these lvl160s, i once tested on my lvl100 intel class, swapping Whitemend Hood and Whitemend Pants for that extra 10% spellpower, its actually beneficial, i tried further with spellfire set on top of whitemend, and its also beneficial, but someone said it really all depends on classes, i was just testing to see what was lost for the amount of spellpower gain, i was after spellpower and i socket with 5 int 6 stam gems, if you use whitemend and spellfire set, you lose a lot of health, so putting stamina in compensated for the loss of health, but the overall spellpower gain outweight the secondary stats lost, if you rely heavily on secondary stats then this is not for your character

perhaps you should start doing now, and not wait for SL, i watch a video that says titanforgings not happening in SL, maybe its not true as everyone is just speculating atm .. but if its true, these epic world drops will be ilvl164 .. which is low by 101-109 standard

i have most classes, except warrior and rogue, but i have not touch them since xpoff and xpon split bg .. they have been completely forgotten .. i will revisit them again when its time lolol
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i have a similar sham too lol https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/character/us/caelestrasz/sokkanh
 
they are dropped only in 1 heroic dungeon .. The Botanica .. its called Mysterious Tanzanite, random drop from the bosses .. i get about 20+ per month per character .. every lvl can get it, i run myself daily in groups of 4s and 5s, i turn on 4 or 5 accounts and use a hunter to lead the group, the rest are set on follow, and my hunters ended up getting tons of these Mysterious Tanzanite, useless for hunters, but i can send BOAs with sockets to them for gemming eg. Hellscream's War Staff and Headdress of the First Shaman, i run these groups using lvl100 and 101 or 109 hunters, the multi shots and barrage just clear each dungeons run under 5 mins. i have stop running the dungeons, cos i figured i have enough to last through the whole of SL and enough for each character class to lvl up till these gems are no longer useful for them. some of my toons hold over 80 gems that is useful to themselves, but my hunters are holding tons of useless gems, ran out of bank space. i suggest you keep ALL the gems thats dropped, including those 3/3 ones, eg. 3 int/3versa .. because some gems they have the exact same name, but they have different stats, maybe one day blizz decide to standardized all having the same name having the same stat, then these might become useful, i dont know, just a backup thought

raid gears are good for lvl100 because the best drop they can get are only lvl160, making raid gears with many sockets and additional gem stats even better than these lvl160s, i once tested on my lvl100 intel class, swapping Whitemend Hood and Whitemend Pants for that extra 10% spellpower, its actually beneficial, i tried further with spellfire set on top of whitemend, and its also beneficial, but someone said it really all depends on classes, i was just testing to see what was lost for the amount of spellpower gain, i was after spellpower and i socket with 5 int 6 stam gems, if you use whitemend and spellfire set, you lose a lot of health, so putting stamina in compensated for the loss of health, but the overall spellpower gain outweight the secondary stats lost, if you rely heavily on secondary stats then this is not for your character

perhaps you should start doing now, and not wait for SL, i watch a video that says titanforgings not happening in SL, maybe its not true as everyone is just speculating atm .. but if its true, these epic world drops will be ilvl164 .. which is low by 101-109 standard

i have most classes, except warrior and rogue, but i have not touch them since xpoff and xpon split bg .. they have been completely forgotten .. i will revisit them again when its time lolol
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i have a similar sham too lol https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/character/us/caelestrasz/sokkanh
nice belt, nice twink.
 
fantastic .. Mastery: Sniper Training for mm hunter starts at lvl10 lol .. so mastery not gonna start at lvl78 anymore ?
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nice belt, nice twink.

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these belt would be nicer

and you compare this titanforged weapon with a 101's artifact weapon with +16 relic gems, note the huge difference in the primary stats between them, artif weapon used to have an advantage due to its special ability, now those abilities gone

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Could be a few busted epic items available? How do we know what sockets are becoming available to 19s?

You can level through any expansion, right? Even if dungeon items have level requirements, I'm assuming quest items should scale. I dont know for sure
 
I'm late to the party, and I've been digging through recent XP-off posts to find a thread like this. Assuming that SL keeps 10-level brackets, @Swoops ' list makes a lot of sense. Blizzard wanted to shrink 120 down to 50, and the key part is that leveling isn't linear i.e. it takes more XP to level up between higher levels than between lower levels.

Point being, there's a good chance that using the gear requirements list Swoops found as a rough guide, current 79s become the new 29s, current 99s become the new 39s, and current 119s become the new 49s. (44s as the new 19s feels awkward. Sorry 19s.)

I would expect that gear will scale the same way in SL i.e. dungeon drops, quests, and BoEs will all scale to a character, but crafted gear and raid gear will keep fixed level requirements. Because of that, there's a good chance that much of the BiS gear those characters wear now will remain the same unless Blizzard makes a significant nerf to gems or sockets.

I'm excited for SL 39s, because it was always unfortunate that mastery activated at 78 (should have been 80), and this is a good chance for mastery to activate at 40 when the squish happens.
 
https://www.wowhead.com/news=312121/shadowlands-early-level-progression-updates


not sure if this is in alpha yet


Blizzard
Item level progression has been updated. Item levels now increase faster in lower character levels, and low-level creatures are better tuned to account for this and other factors.

Additionally, Gold rewards have been increased at all character levels.

pepehands

I really hope this means that each high ilvl item you get after leveling up, you actually notice your damage increase like how it used to be in mop (and before). Now getting an upgrade while leveling, or even twinking, feels like a micro change, and it's not as rewarding. I remember hitting lvl 60 back in MoP and using my saved up honor from BGs to buy the pvp tier set, and noticed a significant stat boost per item equipped.

With less levels between I'm hoping upgrading from a BC item to a WOTLK item (for example) feels significant.
[doublepost=1589014371,1589013490][/doublepost]My prediction is that the new major twinking levels will be 1s (for vanity reasons; and new possible potential), 10s, 19s (will be different than modern 19 bracket, but people will do it for the sake of the number), 20s (maybe..), 30s, 46s (for bfa gear/gem benifits along with legion stuff), 49s, 50s, and 59s. That's my guess.
 

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