This document provides guidance for players who have recently reached level 90 in World of Warcraft. It discusses next steps for gearing up through dungeons and raids, earning valor points and reputation, researching class roles and encounters, and optimizing gear and stats. It also addresses gold generation and costs at max level related to professions, mounts, and other expenses. The document recommends a minimum item level for different types of endgame content and factions to reach for gear and rewards.
2. Overview
• Now what?
• Item Level, Valor Points, Reputation
• Research and Optimization
• Gold, Expenses, Crafting and more
3. Grats on 90.. Now What?
• Congrats on getting to 90
• There are a few things you can do once you
hit 90:
• End-game Raiding
• End-game PVP
• Focus more on Achievements and Making Gold
• Start another character
4. Grats on 90.. Now What?
• End-Game Raiding – The hardest and most
challenging PvE experience
• End-Game PVP – The highest level of PvP available
• With 5 level 90s, can queue for rated battlegrounds and
earn PvP honor for the guild
• Focus on Achievements / Gold – no longer have to
level and are typically much higher than most areas
5. End Game Raiding
• Progression:
• Heroic Pandaren Dungeons
• Looking For Raids (LFR)
• Join as member / alternate for 10 player guild
runs
6. Item Level (iLVL)
• Is the average item level you are wearing or
have in your bag.
Activity Minimum Item Level Average Item Level of
Loot
Random Heroics 440 463
Mogu’shan Vaults LFR 460 476
Heart of Fear LFR 470 483
Terrace of Endless Spring 470 483
LFR
Throne of Thunder LFR 480 502
7. Item Level
• If you are not at a 440 item level,
• Run scenarios for chance at 463 I level gear
• Proving Grounds quest from the Arena of
Annihilation Scenario guarantees a 450 Item
Level weapon
• Gain Valor Points for completing Scenarios
8. Item Level
• Typically recommend a minimum item level
around 476-480+ for 10 player normal raids
and 25 player normal raids
• All gear drops in Heroics and LFR are random
• Quick way to get the gear you want is to build
up Valor Points
9. Valor Points
• Used to purchase high item level gear from
various factions in MoP
• 489 Item Level Valor Point gear is now half
price
• 522 Item Level Valor Point Gear is full price
10. Valor Points
• Gain Valor Points from:
• Faction Dailies
• Scenarios
• Random Heroic Dungeons
• LFRs
• Killing bosses in 10 man normal
11. Reputations
• MoP has instituted a lot of needed 489 gear that
require a revered reputation with a Pandaren
faction to purchase
• Most reputations are built by completing Dailies
• Once you get Revered, can buy a commendation
that grants all your toons double rep points
12. Must have Reputations
• Exalted
• Golden Lotus – Gives you a free 489 Neck
• Klaxxi – Gives you a free 489 Ring
13. Must have Revered Reputations
• Shado-pan
• August Celestial
• Dominance Offensive
• Wrathion / Black Prince – gives you +500
Int/ Str/ Agi gem
14. Optional Exalted Reputations
• Cloud Serpents – can ride a cloud serpent
mount
• Shado-pan – can get an onyx cloud
serpent and tiger mount
• Lorewalkers – get a disc mount
15. Optional Exalted Reputations
• Each faction has a mount that you can
buy.
• Gear and mounts can be viewed by going
to the faction Quartermaster.
16. New Reputations
• For the Isle of Thunder:
• Shado-pan Assault
• Sunreaver Onslaught
17. Research
• Once you hit 90, Research becomes
extremely important
• Need to research
• Class
• Role
• Dungeons
• Raids
18. Class Research
• Need to know Class abilities for the Role
you are fulfilling
• Buffs
• 3 min and 5 min cool downs (CDs)
• How can you help the group be successful?
(Battle Rez, Heals, Shields, etc?)
19. Class Research
• What food buffs are best for you?
• + Str, Agi, Int, Spirit, haste, crit, hit, etc.
• What potions / flasks are best for you?
• What enchants and gems are best for
you?
20. Role Research
• Know your Role!
• What helps you be a better
healer/dps/tank?
At 90, you are expected to have
mastered playing your toon and be an
asset to the group.
21. Role Research
• Know what Aggro is
• How does your role generate Aggro?
• How do you drop Aggro if you are not a tank?
22. Dungeon and Raid Research
• Look for YouTube videos
• Use the in game Dungeon Journal
• Check out Icy-veins
• Lots of resources
23. Dungeon and Raid Research
• What is your job for each fight?
• How can you help keep everyone alive?
• What is the basic strategy for success?
24. Optimization
• How do you optimize your character?
• Stat Priority – find your top three stats
• Gems – should build priority stats
• Enchants – should build priority stats
• Reforging – should build priority stats
25. Optimization
• To get started:
• http://askmrrobot.com
• Site will get you started
• Research, Practice & Tweaking will make
you successful
26. Gold Generation
• Dailies generates about 20 gold
• Dungeons generate about 50-75 gold
• LFR generate about 100 gold
28. World of Goldsinks
• Things are expensive at 90
• Flight / Riding
• Artisan – 4,000 gold if Exalted
• Master – 4,000 gold if Exalted
• Wisdom of the Four Winds – 2,000 gold if
Exalted
29. World of Goldsinks
• Mounts are expensive
• Blizz uses mounts as a way to take gold
out of circulation to control gold supply
31. Crafting
• Crafting is expensive , a lot of mats are
created on a 24 hour cool down
• High level crafting can cost thousands of
gold to make one item
32. Crafting
• What can you do to help?
• Select Disenchant instead of greed on items
you can’t use. Put the enchanting mats into
the guild bank
• If you are a gatherer, put a few stacks in
the bank or ask crafters what they need.
34. If you want to raid with us
There is a test.
We are Inevitable Instructors
afterall :D
35. Inevitable Assessments
•1) Run the corresponding LFR with a raid
leader and a guild raiding member of your
class.
• 2 person evaluation
o Class
o Overall Raid
36. Inevitable Assessments
•2) Call Mogu-Shan Palace Heroic Dungeon
• Call a guild 5 person
o It doesn't matter what class, should
be able to tell each person what to do
o Ex. Tell tanks what to pull, what to
watch out for in boss fights, ccing, etc.
37. Inevitable Assessments
•3) Run a LFR or Heroic Dungeon with
guildies and explain the recount data
Will need to explain each screen and provide in
depth discussion on those that are important to
your class/ role
Also discuss areas of improvement for yourself and
how you plan on improving
38. Inevitable Assessments
•4) Situational Awareness Test
• Will have a dungeon / LFR run recorded
and then narrate your account of the run
and justify your actions.
• (Why did you do what you did?)
39. Inevitable Assessments
•5) Know Your Class
• Meet with a Raid leader and guild raiding
member of your class and discuss your
spell choice, gems, enchants, equipment,
group and personal buffs, etc.