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Straight to the point, this guide focuses mainly on movement speed in regards level 10-11 twinking with some considerations to level 20 and F2P/Vet accounts. For more in-depth knowledge see https://sites.google.com/view/betis10stwinkguide/set-up and/or https://xpoff.com/threads/the-war-within-f2p-baseline-guide.100275/
You can use this macro to track your current speed at any given time.
/script ChatFrame1:AddMessage(string.format("Player speed: %d%%", (GetUnitSpeed("Player") / 7) * 100))
Speed Rating Caps at 49%
The amount of +speed stats you need to reach the 49% cap depends on what level you're at:
Level 10-11 caps at 76 rating, this will require 6 SL gems (82-80 rating)
Level 20 caps at 110 rating, this will require 8 SL gems (108 rating)
111 if you want the last 0.04% speed
The main source of +speed will be from https://www.wowhead.com/item=173126/straddling-jewel-doublet and as such you'll need sockets to hit the cap quickly and easily.
Socketed Gear
You can get 6 sockets in under an hour of character creation (if you grab the necessary items and gems from the AH):
Enter Outland Chromie Time and do the quest https://www.wowhead.com/quest=9747/the-umbrafen-tribe and the follow up https://www.wowhead.com/quest=10096/saving-the-sporeloks Kill as few mobs as you can doing this because by the time you complete the conditions for the second quest you will be close or have already leveled. Take this moment to lock your exp at https://www.wowhead.com/npc=35365/behsten or https://www.wowhead.com/npc=35364/slahtz before turning the quest in.
Head to the Dragon Isles to obtain https://www.wowhead.com/item=200210/amnesia from https://www.wowhead.com/npc=193214/forgotten-creation (if you've finished Dragonflight) or try once a day with https://www.wowhead.com/npc=187745/disoriented-watcher and give it 3 sockets using https://www.wowhead.com/item=192994/tiered-medallion-setting
IMPORTANT: When socketing an item use different Shadowlands gems or you will not get the speed bonus for the additional gems.
Once that's done congratulations you'll be at the 49% speed rating cap!
Boot Speed Enchant and Skill Interactions
If you go for https://www.wowhead.com/spell=13890/minor-speed and https://www.wowhead.com/item=110653/enchant-cloak-gift-of-haste (+2% movement speed, the stats don't work) everything else in this section can be ignored. There can be some argument to use a non-run speed enchant, but giving up 10% movement speed is pretty painful for marginal increases in DPS.
The classic minor speed enchant will stack with pretty much all skills, as well as the +2% movement cloak enchant. As far as I know meta gem movement speed doesn't stack with any boot enchant.
However, the other boot speed enchants such as https://www.wowhead.com/spell=104414/pandarens-step or https://www.wowhead.com/spell=104409/blurred-speed stacks with only some abilities.
Further incentive to go with alternative boot enchants if you use https://www.wowhead.com/spell=44582/minor-power#recipes for your cloak instead of +2% movement
✓ = works with any boot enchant
(probably, as I didn't extensively test with every boot enchant; I just assume they all behave similar to each other)
In short druid and shaman have the most incentive to use minor speed, other classes can use other boot speed enchants that have additional stats and likely will not notice a difference.
Engineering Tinkers
https://www.wowhead.com/spell=55016/nitro-boosts doesn't take too much to obtain, roughly 100 https://www.wowhead.com/item=36916/cobalt-bar and 10 https://www.wowhead.com/item=37705/crystallized-water to get to the 30 skill required.
Combining the boosts with https://www.wowhead.com/spell=55002/flexweave-underlay will allow you to take some shortcuts in both The Slave Pens and The Underbog dungeons, which you might see a lot of if you're looking for socketed items.
You cannot use the parachute while the boosts are active, so the following macro will cancel the nitro buff and activate the cloak; allowing for long distance jumps from heights.
#showtooltip 15
/cancelaura Nitro Boosts
/cast 15
And That's All the Movement Speed! Unless...
If you want to push the limits further head to this thread which has tested a lot of speed boosting options https://xpoff.com/threads/the-i-am-speed-challenge.100729/post-1326949
Miscellaneous Items
Hope you found this guide helpful, I mostly did this as an excuse to centralize a bunch of information and links I tend to use repeatedly whenever I roll a new twink.
You can use this macro to track your current speed at any given time.
/script ChatFrame1:AddMessage(string.format("Player speed: %d%%", (GetUnitSpeed("Player") / 7) * 100))
Speed Rating Caps at 49%
The amount of +speed stats you need to reach the 49% cap depends on what level you're at:
Level 10-11 caps at 76 rating, this will require 6 SL gems (82-80 rating)
Level 20 caps at 110 rating, this will require 8 SL gems (108 rating)
The main source of +speed will be from https://www.wowhead.com/item=173126/straddling-jewel-doublet and as such you'll need sockets to hit the cap quickly and easily.
You can craft this gem immediately upon learning shadowlands jewelcrafting, but you need 10 skill to access some of the +1 gems; you'll need about 50 prospectable Shadowlands ore to get the skill and enough gems for the speed cap. You can follow this guide up to 50 skill for +2 gems https://www.wow-professions.com/guides/shadowlands-jewelcrafting-leveling-guide (you'll need 400-500 prospetable SL ore)
Socketed Gear
You can get 6 sockets in under an hour of character creation (if you grab the necessary items and gems from the AH):
Enter Outland Chromie Time and do the quest https://www.wowhead.com/quest=9747/the-umbrafen-tribe and the follow up https://www.wowhead.com/quest=10096/saving-the-sporeloks Kill as few mobs as you can doing this because by the time you complete the conditions for the second quest you will be close or have already leveled. Take this moment to lock your exp at https://www.wowhead.com/npc=35365/behsten or https://www.wowhead.com/npc=35364/slahtz before turning the quest in.
Getting the gold to lock experience as F2P: Enter Legion Chromietime and story skip to get the https://www.wowhead.com/item=140192/dalaran-hearthstone which also rewards https://www.wowhead.com/item=143785/tome-of-the-tranquil-mind x5
Kill Warmaul orges until neutral reputation https://www.wowhead.com/npc=17138/warmaul-reaver
Then take the quests given by
(A) https://www.wowhead.com/npc=18009/puluu
(H) https://www.wowhead.com/npc=18018/zurjaya
Once you complete the quest involving https://www.wowhead.com/npc=20477/terrorclaw you will be rewarded with a 2 socket item.
If you have socketed heirloom gear like https://www.wowhead.com/item=104405/hellscreams-decapitator, feel free to use those as well.
Then take the quests given by
(A) https://www.wowhead.com/npc=18009/puluu
(H) https://www.wowhead.com/npc=18018/zurjaya
Once you complete the quest involving https://www.wowhead.com/npc=20477/terrorclaw you will be rewarded with a 2 socket item.
If you have socketed heirloom gear like https://www.wowhead.com/item=104405/hellscreams-decapitator, feel free to use those as well.
Head to the Dragon Isles to obtain https://www.wowhead.com/item=200210/amnesia from https://www.wowhead.com/npc=193214/forgotten-creation (if you've finished Dragonflight) or try once a day with https://www.wowhead.com/npc=187745/disoriented-watcher and give it 3 sockets using https://www.wowhead.com/item=192994/tiered-medallion-setting
Follow this guide to make them https://xpoff.com/threads/f2p-tiered-medallion-setting-encyclopedia-how-to-get-guide.100756/
IMPORTANT: When socketing an item use different Shadowlands gems or you will not get the speed bonus for the additional gems.
https://www.wowhead.com/item=173125/revitalizing-jewel-doublet should be used as the healing provided is insane. (F2P cannot access)
https://www.wowhead.com/item=173129/versatile-jewel-cluster are usually the weakest stat: decent for survivability, ineffective for damage.
The exception being if https://www.wowhead.com/item=173130/masterful-jewel-cluster doesn't do anything for your class/spec: In terms of damage it does nothing for healing specs, nor really fury warriors. When in doubt just go for https://www.wowhead.com/item=173128/quick-jewel-cluster and pair it with https://www.wowhead.com/item=173127/deadly-jewel-cluster
https://www.wowhead.com/item=173129/versatile-jewel-cluster are usually the weakest stat: decent for survivability, ineffective for damage.
The exception being if https://www.wowhead.com/item=173130/masterful-jewel-cluster doesn't do anything for your class/spec: In terms of damage it does nothing for healing specs, nor really fury warriors. When in doubt just go for https://www.wowhead.com/item=173128/quick-jewel-cluster and pair it with https://www.wowhead.com/item=173127/deadly-jewel-cluster
While you're collecting gear you might get equipment upgrades with +speed on them. At level 10/11 if you get a total of +7/9 speed from your gear you can drop your first SL gem and remain speed capped at 76 speed rating. (+13 more for each one after). At level 20 you'll need +17 speed to drop your first SL gem and stay capped at 110 speed rating (+15 more for each one after). However unlikely, in theory you can drop as many as 3 SL gems for primary stat gems if you upgrade every piece of gear with speed.
If you want to optimize your SL gems with a specific secondary stat instead of a mixture of two/three, spread them out over multiple pieces of equipment instead of having them on just two pieces.
Another consideration: Place SL gems on pieces of gear without durability; there might be situations where you park your character in an instance without the ability to repair. Having your SL gems on the jewelry slots will allow you to keep your speed bonuses even with broken gear. For me personally it saved my level 20 evoker who was having razor thin margins while farming for the timewalking version of https://www.wowhead.com/item=18370/vigilance-charm
If you want to optimize your SL gems with a specific secondary stat instead of a mixture of two/three, spread them out over multiple pieces of equipment instead of having them on just two pieces.
Another consideration: Place SL gems on pieces of gear without durability; there might be situations where you park your character in an instance without the ability to repair. Having your SL gems on the jewelry slots will allow you to keep your speed bonuses even with broken gear. For me personally it saved my level 20 evoker who was having razor thin margins while farming for the timewalking version of https://www.wowhead.com/item=18370/vigilance-charm
Once at speed cap you can fill your other sockets with these gems:
The best primary stat gems (+4) are
https://www.wowhead.com/item=28362/delicate-ornate-ruby
https://www.wowhead.com/item=28118/brilliant-ornate-ruby
There's no +4 strength equivalent, so use these instead.
https://www.wowhead.com/item=40146/fierce-ametrine
https://www.wowhead.com/item=40142/inscribed-ametrine
Obtaining Marks of Honor as F2P has gotten a bit easier now that you can transfer honor between characters. With a level 20 you can enter warmode and in the Dragonflight zones look for
https://www.wowhead.com/object=385217/war-supply-chest (best done while in chromie time) Alternatively you can roll a new level 10 character and level them up through random BGs and transfer the honor you get to the character that needs marks of honor to purchase https://www.wowhead.com/item=185834/orboreal-distinguishment So a good way to scratch the PvP itch and get marks of honor for the +4 stat gems.
The best primary stat gems (+4) are
https://www.wowhead.com/item=28362/delicate-ornate-ruby
https://www.wowhead.com/item=28118/brilliant-ornate-ruby
There's no +4 strength equivalent, so use these instead.
https://www.wowhead.com/item=40146/fierce-ametrine
https://www.wowhead.com/item=40142/inscribed-ametrine
Obtaining Marks of Honor as F2P has gotten a bit easier now that you can transfer honor between characters. With a level 20 you can enter warmode and in the Dragonflight zones look for
https://www.wowhead.com/object=385217/war-supply-chest (best done while in chromie time) Alternatively you can roll a new level 10 character and level them up through random BGs and transfer the honor you get to the character that needs marks of honor to purchase https://www.wowhead.com/item=185834/orboreal-distinguishment So a good way to scratch the PvP itch and get marks of honor for the +4 stat gems.
Boot Speed Enchant and Skill Interactions
Leveling up classic enchanting can be a little bit of a hassle, but can be done without crafting and DEing a bunch of low level gear.
Purchase items from
(A) https://www.wowhead.com/npc=167429/quartermaster-richter
(H) https://www.wowhead.com/npc=42028/kromgar-quartermaster
And disenchant them for your first 25 skill.
To get the strange dust/essence to level from 25 to 105 you can visit enchanting trainers/vendors and buy their stock. Shattrath has 4 vendors, Northrend Dalaran has 3. You can cycle through these every hour or so to get around the 100 https://www.wowhead.com/item=10940/strange-dust needed. Once you reach 105 skill you can just buy as many items you need from the quartermaster to level the rest of the way.
Go here if you're interested in obtaining other enchants https://xpoff.com/threads/enchanting-and-you-a-brief-summery.96389/#post-1274511
Purchase items from
(A) https://www.wowhead.com/npc=167429/quartermaster-richter
(H) https://www.wowhead.com/npc=42028/kromgar-quartermaster
And disenchant them for your first 25 skill.
To get the strange dust/essence to level from 25 to 105 you can visit enchanting trainers/vendors and buy their stock. Shattrath has 4 vendors, Northrend Dalaran has 3. You can cycle through these every hour or so to get around the 100 https://www.wowhead.com/item=10940/strange-dust needed. Once you reach 105 skill you can just buy as many items you need from the quartermaster to level the rest of the way.
Go here if you're interested in obtaining other enchants https://xpoff.com/threads/enchanting-and-you-a-brief-summery.96389/#post-1274511
The classic minor speed enchant will stack with pretty much all skills, as well as the +2% movement cloak enchant. As far as I know meta gem movement speed doesn't stack with any boot enchant.
However, the other boot speed enchants such as https://www.wowhead.com/spell=104414/pandarens-step or https://www.wowhead.com/spell=104409/blurred-speed stacks with only some abilities.
Further incentive to go with alternative boot enchants if you use https://www.wowhead.com/spell=44582/minor-power#recipes for your cloak instead of +2% movement
(probably, as I didn't extensively test with every boot enchant; I just assume they all behave similar to each other)
Engineering Tinkers
https://www.wowhead.com/spell=55016/nitro-boosts doesn't take too much to obtain, roughly 100 https://www.wowhead.com/item=36916/cobalt-bar and 10 https://www.wowhead.com/item=37705/crystallized-water to get to the 30 skill required.
Combining the boosts with https://www.wowhead.com/spell=55002/flexweave-underlay will allow you to take some shortcuts in both The Slave Pens and The Underbog dungeons, which you might see a lot of if you're looking for socketed items.
You cannot use the parachute while the boosts are active, so the following macro will cancel the nitro buff and activate the cloak; allowing for long distance jumps from heights.
#showtooltip 15
/cancelaura Nitro Boosts
/cast 15
And That's All the Movement Speed! Unless...
If you want to push the limits further head to this thread which has tested a lot of speed boosting options https://xpoff.com/threads/the-i-am-speed-challenge.100729/post-1326949
Miscellaneous Items
Without the AH you only have vendors and treasures to get stuff quickly, here are some notable ones.
Gems
https://www.wowhead.com/npc=19330/lisrythe-bloodwatch
Meta Gems
(A) https://www.wowhead.com/npc=32294/knight-dameron
(H) https://www.wowhead.com/npc=39173/champion-rosslai
Bags
34 slot https://www.wowhead.com/object=375668/misty-treasure-chest#comments
28 slot https://www.wowhead.com/npc=132076/totes
14 slot https://www.wowhead.com/item=60335/thick-hide-pack
Gems
https://www.wowhead.com/npc=19330/lisrythe-bloodwatch
Meta Gems
(A) https://www.wowhead.com/npc=32294/knight-dameron
(H) https://www.wowhead.com/npc=39173/champion-rosslai
Bags
34 slot https://www.wowhead.com/object=375668/misty-treasure-chest#comments
28 slot https://www.wowhead.com/npc=132076/totes
14 slot https://www.wowhead.com/item=60335/thick-hide-pack
The idea here is to put minimal investment into a profession so you don't feel too bad unlearning it shortly after.
https://www.wowhead.com/npc=65121/clean-pelt Pandaria Leatherworking is the fastest by far, once you've trained it you can enchant your legs items with strength, agility, or stamina.
https://www.wowhead.com/npc=28693/enchanter-nalthanis#comments Northrend enchanting takes second place (for classes available during WotLK).
There's many vendors in Dalaran that sell gear for silvers that can be disenchanted for materials. (They will only be visible for your class)
For Blue Quality Gear
(A) https://www.wowhead.com/npc=31580/arcanist-ivrenne
(H) https://www.wowhead.com/npc=31582/magistrix-lambriesse
For Epic Quality Gear
You will need to visit the cloth, leather, mail, or plate vendors depending on your class.
Northrend enchanting will cover most of your needs (provided you can see the cheap gear options)
Mining:
50 prospectable shadowlands ore for https://www.wowhead.com/item=173126/straddling-jewel-doublet
100 cobalt ore and smelt them into bars for https://www.wowhead.com/spell=55016/nitro-boosts You can get cobalt from https://www.wowhead.com/zone=206/utgarde-keep while farming for a meta socket helm (except cloth classes).
1000 dragonflight ore for https://www.wowhead.com/item=192992/tiered-medallion-setting
https://www.wowhead.com/npc=65121/clean-pelt Pandaria Leatherworking is the fastest by far, once you've trained it you can enchant your legs items with strength, agility, or stamina.
https://www.wowhead.com/npc=28693/enchanter-nalthanis#comments Northrend enchanting takes second place (for classes available during WotLK).
There's many vendors in Dalaran that sell gear for silvers that can be disenchanted for materials. (They will only be visible for your class)
For Blue Quality Gear
(A) https://www.wowhead.com/npc=31580/arcanist-ivrenne
(H) https://www.wowhead.com/npc=31582/magistrix-lambriesse
For Epic Quality Gear
You will need to visit the cloth, leather, mail, or plate vendors depending on your class.
Northrend enchanting will cover most of your needs (provided you can see the cheap gear options)
Mining:
50 prospectable shadowlands ore for https://www.wowhead.com/item=173126/straddling-jewel-doublet
100 cobalt ore and smelt them into bars for https://www.wowhead.com/spell=55016/nitro-boosts You can get cobalt from https://www.wowhead.com/zone=206/utgarde-keep while farming for a meta socket helm (except cloth classes).
1000 dragonflight ore for https://www.wowhead.com/item=192992/tiered-medallion-setting
There might be better threads on the subjects at hand, but it's hard enough as to find useful threads I've run across in the past.
Year Thread Was Created
2024 https://xpoff.com/threads/mechagon-ring-guide.100313/
2025 https://xpoff.com/threads/rings-with-2-sockets.100559/post-1326185
2024 https://xpoff.com/threads/updated-list-which-gear-can-upgrade.100613/
2023 https://xpoff.com/threads/teleport-items-retail.99775/#post-1315551
2024 https://xpoff.com/threads/quality-of-life-items.99989/
2024 https://xpoff.com/threads/lifestealing-for-f2p.100560/post-1324285
2020 https://xpoff.com/threads/lvl-20-f2p-gems-and-jewelcrafting-guide.95274/
2023 https://xpoff.com/threads/are-meta-slots-worth-it.99080/#post-1307750
2025 https://xpoff.com/threads/how-do-ft...-warband-bank-is-disabled.100821/post-1326937
2022 https://xpoff.com/threads/consumables-and-others.97751/
2024 https://xpoff.com/threads/f2p-reage...out-on-df-prepatch-event.100050/#post-1317798
Threads I think exist but I can't find
Secondary stat exploration/breakdown
Trinket choices/information
F2P profession rotation
F2P prep before a sub runs out
List of gold sources to lock exp
Year Thread Was Created
2024 https://xpoff.com/threads/mechagon-ring-guide.100313/
2025 https://xpoff.com/threads/rings-with-2-sockets.100559/post-1326185
2024 https://xpoff.com/threads/updated-list-which-gear-can-upgrade.100613/
2023 https://xpoff.com/threads/teleport-items-retail.99775/#post-1315551
2024 https://xpoff.com/threads/quality-of-life-items.99989/
2024 https://xpoff.com/threads/lifestealing-for-f2p.100560/post-1324285
2020 https://xpoff.com/threads/lvl-20-f2p-gems-and-jewelcrafting-guide.95274/
2023 https://xpoff.com/threads/are-meta-slots-worth-it.99080/#post-1307750
2025 https://xpoff.com/threads/how-do-ft...-warband-bank-is-disabled.100821/post-1326937
2022 https://xpoff.com/threads/consumables-and-others.97751/
2024 https://xpoff.com/threads/f2p-reage...out-on-df-prepatch-event.100050/#post-1317798
Threads I think exist but I can't find
Secondary stat exploration/breakdown
Trinket choices/information
F2P profession rotation
F2P prep before a sub runs out
List of gold sources to lock exp
Hope you found this guide helpful, I mostly did this as an excuse to centralize a bunch of information and links I tend to use repeatedly whenever I roll a new twink.
