Lv70 twink in retail with i545 BOE Greens (massive 10X DPS) but How?

[Ironbuket]

I didn’t buy the retail expansion so I’m playing several 70s in retail (along with 10,11 and 20 twinks as well). Often well geared 70s will outperform 80s in timewalking (quite significantly sometimes). Yesterday I was in a raid and came 2nd in damage to another 70 who did at least 10X my damage. This was so unusual I looked up their profile

Name = Chriztopher on EU
Ill try to add the link here: Character profile

They are wearing BOE greens which look like they have come from the expansion. Some of this stuff appears in the auction house but has level requirement of 80. So although I can buy similar gear I cant equip it on a 70. In some cases this gear has 2X+ the stats of high end gear from the end of Dragonflight.

Anyone know how they were able to get and wear this gear? Was this maybe obtained early expansion and they have changed the rules? Is it still possible to get this gear on a 70 and create a 70 this powerful?

There are also some interesting enchants on this guy. For example, a bracer enchant giving +1000 speed

 

[drake178]

Most of that gear comes from Bismuth Lockboxes. They were patched about 2 weeks into the expansion, and prices subsequently skyrocketed. They are essentially grandfathered. You may still occasionally be able to find them on the AH (open the ilvl 545 item groups to look at the individual items), but they will have insane price tags. The trinkets are crafted, and still obtainable as far as I know. Most TWW enchants and gems are usable and BiS for 70s (the prime exception being leg enchants), you can buy them from the AH.

 

[OnthroX]

Yeah, I'm in the same boat. I'd love to upgrade the gear on my 70s, but TW Dungeons give 415, World Bosses give 445 and the "random" Dragonflight Dungeons give 460. None of which are an upgrade to the Dalaran Defenders 480 gear I got at the end of the last expansion. Seems like there are literally no upgrades out there.

 

[drake178]

Mythic dungeons drop 493s. Dawn if the Infinite yields 1 Splintered Spark of Awakening per boss on any difficulty, even on Heroic (so 1 crafted ilvl 502 piece per two bosses cleared). Hard mode mythic DotI drops 509s. That's pretty much it. Of these, the middle option is probably the easiest.