Level 60 Shadowlands Twink Preparation Guide (9.2.7)

zazzyfraz · Jul 5, 2022

Previously on "N-E-E-P-A" twinking:
https://xpoff.com/threads/are-you-prepping-a-120-for-level-50-sl-twinking-read.92949/ (120 twink prep thread)

Hello and welcome to a Shadowlands Zazzyfraz Thread. :PeepoGlad:

Patch 9.2.5 brings Fated Raids, increased ilvls, and new Mythic Keystone dungeon rotation. When I thought 9.2 S3 was the last season before 60 twinking, I made a guide here: https://xpoff.com/threads/level-60-shadowlands-9-2-guide.97306/

Things are almost coming to an end in this expansion, so it is time to begin preparing for level 60 to be the "non-expansion-enabled-paid-account" :Kapp:

Twinking Level Cap. This is generally a smaller, more in-game community oriented bracket. The bracket usually will end up small enough for 1-3 games at a time at peak times, and longer 5-20 min queues for off hours, and generally you'll face the same twinks and random queuers at 60 within 1 game. Many players have played the same class for years, and gear and skill are in a nice balance, usually compounding each-others value. Perfect fit for a lot of people who twink.

For PvP, it is an XP-On, account status level cap bracket. This means that we queue xpon, with 60 as our natural cap, and play with XP-On levelers who happen to be exactly 60, and other XP-On, 60 capped Shadowlands Account Players.

For PvE, it's possible to group up with no experience reduction for party members.

In BfA, PVE 50's were very strong, scaling well with their high ilvl from end game pve content, and full sockets. Certain classes could boost 4 others in leveling dungeons that scaled very low, such as Freehold starting at level 10. 50 was also the cap for the Party Sync system, so when a 50 twink used Party Sync to do nearly any legacy content, they remained unscaled and kept their relative power compared to the base template. Nothing at all is known yet about what will happen to shadowlands in 10.0. If it becomes the new Party Pync cap, and it's content is opened to more levels, the 60 twink becomes an attractive PvE level. But if its kept to just 10 levels of scaling, it would be disspointing compared to 50 syncing.

The Great Vault
In Shadowlands, there is a weekly loot cache of up to 9 items, based on your previous weeks' activities. This is the only source of 304 Dungeon Gear. The PVP vault loot is the only source of PVP items with Speed/Leech/Avoidance. Opening the Great Vault once is a criteria of a quest that rewards a Runecarver Legendary Memory, though you'll be able to obtain it via other source as well. https://www.wowhead.com/quest=62457/the-great-vault

In 9.2, items rewarded from the Great Vault have a chance to be a tier set item.

You may choose to obtain 2/4/6 https://www.wowhead.com/item=199202/attendants-token-of-merit instead of an item, depending on how many vault options were unlocked (1/2/3). This can be spent on various currency/rep/BoA renown from https://www.wowhead.com/npc=177829/kotul. More importantly, it can be used to buy
https://www.wowhead.com/item=199112/fated-matter-fractalizer, which is currently the ONLY way to manually add a socket to a season 4 shadowlands item. This costs 6 tokens, meaning you can obtain 2 sockets per week. This can be obtained with minimal effort in LFR raids.

Tier Sets:
https://www.wowhead.com/guides/2-4-set-bonuses-tier-gear-sepulcher-first-ones-tier-shadowlands
Class 4-pc tier sets are back. Tier pieces are obtained via a few ways.
The items drop from Sepulcher of the First Ones raid.

Any Great Vault item reward has a chance to be a Tier set item.

Creation Catalyst (unlocked via chapter 4 of zereth campaign) is a system used to convert any S4 item to a "tier item" for https://www.wowhead.com/currency=2009/cosmic-flux currency. Items converted keep any tertiary bonus', socktets, and any pvp scaling bonus effects, but will convert into the tier set item per slot of the same ilvl, with its according stats..

You may end up with a 298ilvl 2100 upgraded "PvP-bonus" set of tier which will be equal to heroic raid "end boss" loot in PvE but scale to 311ilvl in PvP, and a 304ilvl set of tier obtained from raid or M+ for PvE. Tier set off-pieces without set-bonus' are included this patch, only obtainable via using the Creation Catalyst on belt/bracers/boots/capes/rings. These are useful for PvPers interested in obtaining pvp scaling items with different stats, than those available from conquest gear.

Cosmic Flux:
The main power system currency of 9.2 content. Earned from most content, even looting chests in Zereth Mortis.
https://www.wowhead.com/currency=2009/cosmic-flux is used to:
Catalyze items with the creation catalyst
Buy https://www.wowhead.com/item=191701/bag-of-explored-souls, to skip torghast for legendary crafting
Buy https://www.wowhead.com/item=190644/vessel-of-profound-possibilities once per toon for 10000 flux
2000 Flux to upgrade legendary from r6 to r7
Send alts flux with https://www.wowhead.com/item=198449/pouch-of-prodigious-wonders
Directly purchase some "raid-source" Legendary Memories from https://www.wowhead.com/npc=187651/rendle

PVP GEAR:
In SL PvP gear scales in PvP content, just like Warlords of Draenor PvP gear did. This ilvl scaling is very high, PvP gear outpaces PvE gear by 1800 rating or lower. Most pvpers will be in full PvP gear, only with PvE gear if they are pushing Mythic content early on in the patch, or are pushing PvE as a late patch player whos only got honor gear or worse, to compliment gearing up Asap.

In addition to pvp gears' generous scaling in pvp combat and war mode, all PvP Trinkets in Shadowlands come with a 2-Set Equip Bonus, that is active when paired with any other Shadowlands PvP Trinket.
It is unknown if PVPgears' bonus effects will be active post-10.0

https://www.wowhead.com/item=186980/unchained-gladiators-shackles?ilvl=259
is gf'd from season 2. it has main stat and deals damage, unlike the s3/4 "maledict trinket". A squish could make it viable again.

"Eternal Aspirant" rare Honor Gear 9.2

Rank 1 PVE: 229ilvl PVP: 255ilvl
Rank 2 PVE: 236ilvl PVP: 268ilvl
Rank 3 PVE: 242ilvl PVP: 272ilvl
Rank 4 PVE: 249ilvl PVP: 275ilvl
Rank 5 PVE: 255ilvl PVP: 278ilvl
Rank 6 PVE: 262lvl PVP: 281ilvl
Rank 7 PVE: 268ilvl PVP: 285ilvl
Rank 7's 259ilvl is the same as end boss Normal Fated Raid.

"Eternal Gladiator" epic Conquest Gear 9.2

Conquest currency can be earned via weekly PVP quests, winning Rated PVP, and Winning unrated PVP, and via 2 one-time quests in Ashran and Wintergrasp. Your first daily win of each pvp function will reward increased Conquest.

Back/Wrist/Rings cost 525
Shoulders/Hands/Waist/Feet cost 700
Head/Chest/Legs cost 875
Trinkets cost 525 and 700
One-Hand Weapons cost 1,350
Off-Hands/Amulets cost 450
Two-Hand Weapons cost 1,800

You can get 1 random conquest item, via up to 3 items offered from your weekly vault if you complete the Rated PvP criteria. You dont have to win any games, just earn honor via rated PvP.
THE GREAT VAULT IS THE ONLY SOURCE OF CONQUEST PVP ITEMS WITH SPEED/LEECH/AVOIDANCE/SOCKET.

If you are planning on obtaining 1000-2100 upgraded PVP gear for PVP twinking:
Your biggest goal should be to complete the honor requirement for 3 pvp item options from the vault every week, to farm tertiary stats, especially on tier set slots.

It's safe to assume once the 10.0 prepatch ends, you wont be able to get any of this gear, because you'll have no conquest sources anymore. Just like BfA PvP Azerite Gear with unique traits, and all other epic Conquest PvP Gear (with it's higher ilvl than any obtainable gear from pvp post 8.3) such as on use trinkets. (Ex: BfA Maledict/Breech/Spite)

Rank 1 0000 Rating PVE: 275ilvl PVP: 288ilvl
Rank 2 1000 Rating PVE: 278ilvl PVP: 291ilvl
Rank 3 1200 Rating PVE: 281ilvl PVP: 294ilvl
Rank 4 1400 Rating PVE: 285ilvl PVP: 298ilvl
Rank 5 1600 Rating PVE: 288ilvl PVP: 301ilvl
Rank 6 1800 Rating PVE: 291ilvl PVP: 304ilvl
(Rank 6 unlocks the full elite set appearance in wardrobe set tab)
Rank 7 1950 rating PVE: 294ilvl PVP: 307ilvl
Rank 8 2100 rating PVE: 298ilvl PVP: 311ilvl
(Rank 8 has new "elite" recolor of most weapons when upgraded this high, the elite seasonal cloak, and a seasonal reward only enchant illusion.)
Rank 9 2400 rating PVE: 301ilvl PVP: 311ilvl

Special 9.2 season 3/4 PvP trinkets. If you got any of these in S3, you can double equip 2 versions of them.
https://www.wowhead.com/item=192305/eternal-gladiators-devouring-malediction?bonus=0&ilvl=311
https://www.wowhead.com/item=192304/eternal-gladiators-eternal-aegis?bonus=0&ilvl=311
https://www.wowhead.com/item=192301/eternal-gladiators-fastidious-resolve?bonus=0&ilvl=311
https://www.wowhead.com/item=192302/eternal-gladiators-echoing-resolve?bonus=0&ilvl=311
https://www.wowhead.com/item=192303/eternal-gladiators-resonator?bonus=0&ilvl=311

PvE Gear:
If you're looking to do PvE also, or have a gear set for it, you'll want to collect 304ilvl Mythic Plus +15 Keystone vault rewards, especially aiming for Trinkets, Special Effect items, and Unique stat allocation per slots not available elsewhere. Also available is 2000 M+ Rating for Keystone Master, which will allow you to upgrade any gear from Mythic Shadowlands Dungeons, and any gear from Legion Timewalking Mythic Keystones End Chest items up to Rank 12/298ilvl, with Valor Points. It is unknown if you will be able to collect Valor Points as a 60 post-Shadowlands.

Mythic+ Dungeon Gear
14/15 End chest: 288ilvl Weekly Vault: 304ilvl
2000 Mythic Plus Rating 'KSM' Valor Upgrade Rank 12: 298ilvl

In Season 4, the Keystone dungeon pool has been changed. The Season 4 dungeons are:
Iron Docks
Grimrail Depot
Return to Karazhan (Lower)
Return to Karazhan (Upper)
Operation Mechagon: Junkyard
Operation Mechagon: Workshop
Tazavesh the Veiled Market: Streets of Wonder
Tazavesh the Veiled Market: So'leah's Gambit

Legion Mythic+ Keystone Gear
You can upgrade these interesting items below to 298ilvl with Valor if you achieve 2000 Mythic Plus Rating:

9.2.5 Fated Raids:
In Shadowlands Season 4, one raid each week become Fated, dropping loot of a higher item level and scaling its difficulty. At the end of the season there will be no rotation, all 3 will be Fated at the same time. These Fated raids will have a Fated affix, which may change some strategies on the bosses! When a raid is Fated, its related world boss will be Fated and drop 285ilvl.

IT IS UNKNOWN IF RAIDS WILL BE FATED AFTER THE DRAGONFLIGHT PRE-PATCH ENDS. THERE ARE ACHIEVEMENTS ATTACTHED TO THEM WITH VANITY REWARDS THAT MENTION COMPLETION "During Season 4", SO IT IS VERY POSSIBLE THAT FATED RAID LOOT BECOMES GF'D IN DF.

A vendor will be available that sells all SL Raid special effect items, trinkets, and weapons, at normal Fated ilvl. You will be able to buy 3 items per toon from this vendor with https://www.wowhead.com/item=192466/puzzling-cartel-dinar, upon comletion of boss kill quests such as https://www.wowhead.com/quest=66648/crossing-fate. These can be completed in LFR.

Killing Fated Heroic/Mythic Raid bosses will award currency to combine into an upgrade item. This will allow you to upgrade any Fated Raid item, to Heroic, or Mythic, if you are able to farm 20 boss kills of that difficulty. In combination with the 3x Dinar, a raider should be able to guarantee that they recieve their 3 most wanted Fated Raid items, at the ilvl of the content that they raid, Regardless of individual boss progression, or needing to loot specific items.
https://www.wowhead.com/item=191910/confounding-antique-cypher
https://www.wowhead.com/item=191926/confounding-ancient-cypher
https://www.wowhead.com/item=191911/cosmic-creation-impetus
https://www.wowhead.com/item=191927/sacred-creation-impetus

https://www.wowhead.com/item=186414/raeshalare-deaths-whisper drop rate is increased. If you have a non-fated version it can be upgraded to Fated with https://www.wowhead.com/item=199181/tips-of-penitent-steel#, which drops off Fated Sylvanas, or purchasable for 1 Dinar. You can upgrade the bow to Heroic or Mythic as well with the 2 Creation Impetus items.

LFR: 265ilvl / 272ilvl
Normal Raid: 278ilvl / 285ilvl
Heroic Raid: 291ilvl / 298ilvl
Mythic Raid: 304ilvl / 311ilvl

Sepulcher Raid:
Non-Fated SEPULCHER OF THE FIRST ONES End Boss Mythic gear would be 285ilvl, the ilvl of max rank Eternal Honor PvP gear when pvp-scaled.

LFR: 239ilvl / 246ilvl
Normal Raid: 252ilvl / 259ilvl
Heroic Raid: 265ilvl / 272ilvl
Mythic Raid: 278ilvl / 285ilvl

Zereth Mortis Content:
Campaign Progress Ch. 7 and Revered Enlightened rep required to unlock memory of unity legendary, and Ch. 4 for the Creation Catalyst for converting items into tier items. Also required to add optional reagents to blue crafted gear.

Crafted Gear 9.2
233ilvl single stat, w bonus effects available in all slots except weapons
1 unique-equipped 262ilvl item, (233ilvl item crafted with https://www.wowhead.com/item=187742/crafters-mark-of-the-first-ones)
There will be some optional reagents to add various "Equip:" bonus effects to Rare quality crafted items. It may be worth to wear the one 262ilvl crafted item, with the best bonus effect available, such as 61 speed or 41 stat proc, especially on a neck or ring slot. A full set of 233 Speed gear is also useful.

9.2 Legendary System
291 ilvl max
In this patch you will be able to wear 2 Legendary items. One must be a Memory of Unity Legendary, the other can be any. The Covenant Legendaries are being combined into one legendary memory, https://www.wowhead.com/item=190584/memory-of-unity, you'll only need 1 item, not 4. It can be runecarved on any slot. You will receive a 265ilvl belt with this covenant legendary memory for free from ZM chapter 7.

Due to the 291ilvl max of Legendaries, for 9.2.7 you will want to have your 2 on jewelery slots if possible. And in 10.0, you will very likely not use any legendary item in instanced PvP.

Rank 1-6 Legendary crafting is done via running Torghast/Covenant Assaults/Follower Missions for Soul Ash/Soul Cinder currency and also obtaining a crafted Base item.
Rank 7 is obtained via 2000 https://www.wowhead.com/currency=2009/cosmic-flux, a 9.2 patch currency obtained from many activities.
https://www.wowhead.com/guides/shadowlands-legendary-gear-crafting-upgrading
https://www.wowhead.com/guides/torghast-tower-of-the-damned-overview
It should be assumed that these shadowlands legendaries will not work in 10.0 instanced pvp, Just like legion, wearing 2 of them with no effect, just for their power as high ilvl items. It's very possible they could be active in other content, for PvE/WorldPVP.

Renown/Soulbinds/Conduits
Renown
Getting level 59 renown gets you 10% stamina with your current active covenant. its a gamble if these stamina gains will be active in 10.0 instanced pvp, but its 9.1 content so there's no real way you'll not get it at some point. Renown Progression ended with rank 80, in 9.1 patch.
Please see these 2 wowhead guides below for information on Renown
https://www.wowhead.com/guides/renown-shadowlands-covenant-progression-rewards
https://www.wowhead.com/guides/how-to-catch-up-on-renown-in-shadowlands

Soulbinds
Soulbinding is a new system of progression in the Shadowlands expansion in which players who join a Covenant will be able to bind themselves to one of its members, sharing some of their power through an artifact-like talent tree. Each of the different Covenants has three options to choose from, with each Soulbind offering different bonuses, for a total of twelve different trees of progression across the four covenants. Conduits add further customization to those Soulbind trees, allowing players to fill empty sockets in the trees with bonuses of their choosing. (from wowhead author Paryah)
See this wowhead guide below for in-depth information on Soulbinds
https://www.wowhead.com/guides/soulbinds-conduits-covenants-shadowlands

Conduits
Conduits are items which allow an additional level of customization to your Soulbind with bonuses that are specific to your class and or spec. They are categorized into three types: Potency (Throughput), Endurance (Survival), and Finesse (Utility). Conduits have item level which allows you to upgrade the power of your Conduits.
Conduits can be acquired as rewards from playing max level content: Dungeons, PvP, Raids, Reputations, World Quests, etc. Most Conduits will be available from more than one source, allowing flexibility of acquisition across content types. Conduits drop as personal loot and drop separately from the loot table.

The max ilvl of conduits in 9.2.5 is 278. For 10000 Cosmic Flux, https://www.wowhead.com/item=190644/vessel-of-profound-possibilities can be purchased, to instantly max out conduit progression.
Below is a wowhead guide on Conduits.
https://www.wowhead.com/guides/soulbind-conduits-types-ranks-sources

It is extremely likely the Soulbind/Conduit/Renown systems will be disabled in level 60 10.0 content, and instanced pvp in 10.0. It could be possible for the Power systems to be active in SL PVE Dungeon/Raid/World content, or possibly Legacy Party Sync content.

60s consumables

zazzyfraz · Aug 22, 2022

Reserved.

Changes incoming: new ilvl screenshots of vault and upgrade UI

Chops · Aug 22, 2022

homepage bump

Srs · Aug 23, 2022

think there's still time?

zazzyfraz · Aug 23, 2022

Srs said:
think there's still time?

yes, the patch will likely go on till early november.
the prepatch will likely last 1 month, and have a season pause. you might be able to obtain mythic keystone and conquest gear during this prepatch, but being able to still get rating to upgrade conquest gear is not something i would rely on

sevenohseven · Aug 23, 2022

looking for other 60’s to do rated stuff with. convoke feral and chain harvest enh both alliance and around 280pvp ilvl. pugging randoms for such a small amount of conquest makes me feel angry feels.

zazzyfraz · Sep 1, 2022

first look at the SL beta (day 1), with my copied 60. this is likely a snapshot of the week of content before the first SL raid opens up (season 1 start). it shouldnt be taken as a prediction of anything related to the prepatch. its likely any valid prepatch predictions will come via the PTR realms, when the prepatch is nearly upon us.

-all raids are fated (304/311 ilvl) this is great news if this stays. being able to gear from all raids, 30+ bosses weekly of a variety of max ilvl loot, is good for the bracket, and horrible if GFd(278/285max obtainable post SL then...). in addition, the dinar vendors are still present, and quest to obtain dinar is still in my quest log(sketchy).

-all SL legendaries and covenant related spells and procs, are disabled outside of SL content. including orgrimmar, and random bg/arena

-pvp gear still has active green text "scales to X ilvl in pvp combat or warmode", and it is working in skirmish arena

-pvp trinkets still have a 2-set bonus "increase main stat 175 and stamina 300 in pvp combat or warmode", and it is working in skirmish arena

-s3/s4 tier sets are working in skirmish arena and likely bg. warlock instant bolted me

-theres no way to earn conquest to buy epics. the items are on the vendor still for conquest currency.

-you cannot interact with the great vault in any way, meaning no more attendants tokens will be obtained. the attendants token vendor items, and also keystones are still present in this beta version

-unrated solo shuffle, and brawl are not available for a 60 with dragonflight. (could be for those without, like how 50 has brawl. maybe shuffle queue will work for us this time now that the content is given by the base xpak.)

-calling daily quests, still give valor, and upgrading UI for valor and pvp still function. this is likely to change

-character stat scaling, health values, gear ilvl and stat amount are all unchanged. 100k hp twinks

sevenohseven · Sep 2, 2022

great info zazz thanks! if it’s season one on ptr does that mean the pvp gear from vendor can only be upgraded to 203?

zazzyfraz · Sep 2, 2022

sevenohseven said:
great info zazz thanks! if it’s season one on ptr does that mean the pvp gear from vendor can only be upgraded to 203?

season 1 of dragonflight... beta...

sevenohseven · Sep 3, 2022

zazzyfraz said:
season 1 of dragonflight... beta...

sorry i was wanting to know what the ilvl of the 60 gear was on the vendor in oribos.

zazzyfraz · Sep 8, 2022

DF prepatch is now on the PTR, so there's a feeling of being near the end of any changes or tuning for 60.

right away we notice that no activity on this ptr build awards any conquest. this could change, maybe blizzard lets people farm some conquest for 3-4 weeks to buy some leveling epics. nothing on the vendors is changed, just the ability to get conquest.

the raids are still fated in dungeon journal, and the dinar vendors and quest are present, just like beta.
you can use the vault. you cant on beta. perhaps with some rated pvp youll still be able to collect a great vault reward, allowing a player to obtain a couple unrated Conquest Gladiator Pvp items (youd want a trinket) via the vault. might still be able to get socket adding item via vault

if you cant farm conq, youre stuck with 268|285 honor gear/fated raiding/couple weeks of M+ for prepatch gearing, unless you decide to play during S4/9.2.7 to get 1800/2000

legendaries and cov related powers are disabled already outside SL zones

the season label clearly states "Off Season", numbers are greyed out, and gear upgrading is based off of Last Season High. if you stalled on finishing gear, maybe youll be able to finish some upgrades. you might even be able to queue 2100+ brackets with no fear of rating loss while looking for a weekly win to be eligible to upgrade

no idea on m+ score and valor on prepatch ptr

zazzyfraz · Sep 15, 2022

Blizzard has posted a blog post about collectibles that are going away prepatch/xpak release.
https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/n...-do-in-the-shadowlands-when-youre-mostly-dead
https://www.wowhead.com/news/blizza...ragonflight-pre-patch-and-dragonflight-328872
https://www.wowhead.com/news/blizza...ragonflight-pre-patch-and-dragonflight-328872

-it seems like all 3 raids will be fated during the prepatch, and likely throughout the rest of Dragonflight “Once the Dragonflight pre-expansion update arrives, all Shadowlands raids will become Fated for the rest of the expansion.”

-mythic+ cosmetic rewards are unobtainable at prepatch launch, unknown if there will be mythic keystones

-gladiator, 2100 enchant, and 1800 sets go away at prepatch launch. Unknown if there is currency, and gear upgrading during prepatch.

fungchewuchi · Sep 22, 2022

this is a good idea for convenience's sake.
macro that swap covabil buttons for ya when ya swap covenants.
https://www.mmo-champion.com/content/10181-Covenant-Signature-and-Class-Abilities-Macros

zazzyfraz · Oct 13, 2022

https://www.wowhead.com/news/shadowlands-tier-sets-to-be-disabled-with-dragonflight-pre-patch-329360

tier sets will be disabled for level 60 twinks in DF

youve got a week to replace those items with better statted pvp items.

fungchewuchi · Oct 15, 2022

someone who keeps on the news mind fillin out this table for me?

system pvp sl-content other-pve
legendaries no yes no
setbonuses no no no
conduits no? ? no?

zazzyfraz · Oct 18, 2022

https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-gb/n...-season-4-ends-soon-and-a-look-at-post-season

During the prepatch you will be able to:

Queue rated pvp, increase rating, collect conquest, upgrade gear.
Maybe queue rated solo shuffle

raid fated raids, use dinar, collect cypher item to upgrade items

do mythic keystones

Use the weekly great vault (you might not be able to get socket adding item)

zazzyfraz · Oct 25, 2022

https://www.wowhead.com/news/shadowlands-now-included-in-base-wow-subscription-329537

Confirmation that the base wow sub level cap is 60 today. You have until nov 28 to collect any gear that will become GFd

fungchewuchi · Oct 25, 2022

for our 1st time 60s here's some tips after having speed-done it myself when they offered free sl a month or two ago:

1st time through you gotta do the quest-leveling path, no way around it. it about gets you to 60 as-is.

upon dinging:
https://www.wowhead.com/item=188167/broker-mark-of-distinction 500g insta 60 renown for a covenant. grab one each time you pick up a new cov. don't switch away from a cov until renown 80 or you lose progress.

if you're honor-capped you can buy a full honor pvp set right away.

again i'll point out the handy covenant ability macros here
https://www.mmo-champion.com/content/10181-Covenant-Signature-and-Class-Abilities-Macros
***seems mucked up a bit by some things moving into talents, i'll update this when i learn more about a possible fix

buy maxed out soulbind conduits https://www.wowhead.com/ptr/item=190644/vessel-of-profound-possibilities for 10k flux. flux can be gotten through just about anything, lfr, bgs, dungeons, etc. flux can be mailed to alts through a purchase that takes a cut.
the 3 npcs in a covenant you can soulbind with, once unlocked on one char, are available to alts early on. otherwise getting the 3rd means questing out the covenant campaign. don't forget that when you change covenants you may want to reassign your spec's assigned npc, all specs default back to the 1st npc when changing covs.

although it makes life much easier, i wouldn't recommend going for flying in the little time one has during prepatch. it's a lot of questing. finish a covenant campaign and quest out 3rd chapter of chains of domination campaign.
https://us.battle.net/support/en/article/307013

legendaries aren't to be useable in pvp, but if focusing pve, you'll unlock the ability to craft them fairly early on in the chains of dom campaign. whatever specific one you want you need to look up the drop location for. hope it's not a weekly world boss and you have to wait for it to show up.

the penultimate quest zone, zereth mortis's unlock path is https://us.battle.net/support/en/article/306148 questing there offers easy 229 gear and easy renown increases. it has a little more than elsewhere to unlock flying. https://www.wowhead.com/guide/zereth-mortis-flying-how-to-unlock in the zone is the creation catalyst that can change gear into tier gear. upgraded gear keeps any sockets and terts, including pvp upgradeability if converting pvp gear. the setbonuses are disabled, but a given piece MAY have stats you prefer over the pvp piece.

successive characters can skip the levelling through questing and use a system called "threads of fate" where worldquests and such are the path instead. it has a minimal unlock requirement of accomplishing a little of the maw questline. https://www.wowhead.com/guide/threads-of-fate-shadowlands-adventure-mode-leveling in particular, make note of the 2nd most popular comment on this thread, that documents the 4 dungeon quests (and possibly 2 weekly dungeon quests, although a given week's quest may be for dungeons you don't have access to yet). they award massive exp, and in combination with the zone-meta-quests will easily rush to 60.
there are many "i've seen this before" skip options through maw and zereth mortis content already done on a diff char, although it's not always particularly obvious. i'd recommend always checking tal-inara and bolivar near the covenant-changers in oribos to see if they offer a skip.

mebbe i'll update if i think of more.

zazzyfraz · Oct 26, 2022

looks like covenant powers, legendaries, are working in pvp currently. including rated pvp.

rating is not frozen, mmr swings are large, prepare to lose -15 for games if you played before today.

bad news for fresh toons, more effort needed to be at par for certain goals
[doublepost=1666759650,1666754588][/doublepost]not sure why, but the arena ratings look to be currently frozen

will update if changes

zazzyfraz · Oct 27, 2022

took a friend from 1600 to 1800 today, rating seems to be fixed. the person was able to upgrade their gear from r5 to r6 304 ilvl

swings are still large. you will lose more than you gain if you dont play with someoen the same rating as you

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