How to gear up fast in Dragonflight

Dragonflight is here, and it’s high time to start looking for new sources of improving your character’s power. Gearing is an important part of the end-game process. Not only it helps you to deal with harder trials but allows you to smooth your gameplay to an appropriate level of difficulty. Without proper items, your character may fall behind drastically. This is not a problem anymore. Welcome to the Dragonflight Gearing guide from Overgear Team. We are starting now!

Disclaimer: Note that this guide has been written during the Dragonflight pre-season period. Some of the options for gearing may not be available at the launch of the expansion.

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Dragonflight Dungeons Gear

Farming Dungeons is one of many ways to gear up your character. Dungeons come in 4 difficulty variations. They are Normal, Heroic, Mythic, and Mythic+. The more difficult it is, the better reward you get. Let’s look into those.

Normal Dungeons

Is a starter option. Doesn’t contain any superior challenges. Bosses drop ilvl 346 gear for lvl 70 players, and there are no daily CDs. Can’t be considered a good source of gear due to its low quality and stats. It is more like a ‘better than nothing’ option. Still, we had to mention it. Let’s move on.

Heroic Dungeons

A slightly harder variant of Normal mode. Bosses get some new abilities, but it is not enough to become a real challenge. You can loot ilvl 359 gear here once a day for every dungeon. It is worth it to go here only if you really need a slight upgrade. Otherwise, it is also skippable in most cases.

Mythic Dungeons

This is where players can face their first troubles. Bosses and trash mobs’ abilities become more difficult to handle. Following encounter tactics is necessary to succeed. You will be rewarded with ilvl 372 gear here, which is a good start to your first Normal mode raiding attempts. Mythic dungeons have a weekly lockout, which means you can receive rewards only once a week per each boss.

Mythic+ Dungeons

The main source of gear for many players. Item level of rewards scales with key level. The higher key you run, the better rewards you get at the end of the dungeon and from the weekly chest. It has no lockouts, so Mythic+ can be farmed repeatedly.

Valor upgrade

You can upgrade your Mythic and Mythic+ gear up to ilvl 415. That will require some rating, though. And Valor Points, of course.

Raid Gear

In Dragonflight, there are some ilvl changes that players are used to. There are still 4 difficulties: Raid Finder, Normal, Heroic, and Mythic. Item level grew according to higher difficulty before. Now it also increases within the same difficulty-based boss:

• The first boss drops the lowest ilvl gear;
• Then it increases with 3 ilvl for boss 2-4;
• Then it increases with 4 ilvl for boss 5-6;
• Then it increases with 3 ilvl for boss 7-8.

Crafting Professions Gear

Dragonflight brings huge changes to professions. Crafted gear can be upgraded with BoP items that players loot all over the world. That will increase the item level and quality of the gear. Gear can be crafted by yourself, or you can have it crafted for you using the new Work Order system. Crafted gear starts at 306 ilvl but can be improved up to 418 ilvl!

World Quests Gear

World quests occasionally will reward players with gear, starting at item level 340 and capping at ilvl 382. These numbers will increase in the future Seasons. Open your world map to find world quests in different zones that may bring some gear improvements for your character.

Dragonflight World Bosses Gear

There are 4 World bosses in Dragonflight, one for each available zone. Only one spawns per week, and they will rotate. They drop ilvl 395 gear.  The world bosses are:

• Strunraan, The Sky´s Misery 
• Basrikron, The Shale Wing
• Bazual, The Dreaded Flame
• Liskanoth

PvP Gear

There are 2 PvP vendors Seltherex, Honor Quartermaster (Honor gear), and Calderax, Conquest Quartermaster (Conquest gear). These vendors sell PvP gear such as Weapons, gear, and trinkets.

Honor Gear

This gear starts at ilvl 340 and increases to ilvl 411 in PvP as soon as you enter a PvP combat or when your Warmode is turned on.

This gear can be upgraded 5 times.

Conquest Gear

This gear starts at ilvl 382 and increases to ilvl 424 in PvP as soon as you enter a PvP combat or when your Warmode is turned on. This gear can be upgraded 9 times up to ilvl 408.

War Mode Gear

Bloody Tokens can be spent for purchasing ilvl 366 gear. This gear scales up to ilvl 408 once you start a PvP fight. This currency is earned for completing War Mode world quests, doing PvP in War Mode, and looting supply drops Also take a look at Trophy of Strife which is a weekly quest reward from Fieldmaster Emberath. It allows you to upgrade your War Mode Gear up to ilvl 385.

Reputation rewards

Some factions will reward players not only with pets, toys and mounts but also they will provide some gear. Usually, it is not worth it to farm reputation just to get that gear, but Dragonflight revamps the system of the reputation system, making it account-wide. So that means now this will be a good way to gear up your alts in the future.

One faction stands out. Take a closer look at Steiz. He is the Quartermaster of Cobalt Assembly. He provides players with a good ilvl 389 ring. It doesn’t take much time to get it. The rewards are the following:

• Assembly Guardian’s Ring
• Assembly Preserver’s Band
• Assembly Scholar’s Loop

Welcome to the Assembly is an initial quest to start reputation farming.

World Events

World event gear scales with your item level, to a cap of 385.

Once a week World Events reward players with guaranteed loot, and every following completion grants only a chance to loot something. World event gear scales depending on the player’s current gear up to its cap of ilvl 385.

The world event in The Waking Shores is To Dragonbane Keep!. You will need renown 5 with the Valdrakken Accord to start it.

The Community Feast can be found in The Azure Span. Renown 3 with the Iskaara Tuskarr is required to take part in the cooking event. This event has a weekly quest nearby which awards a piece of loot with a cap of ill 372. If the cooked soup has Legendary quality then  Bisquius spawns.  Killing it has a chance to drop gear and more.

The Centaur Grand Hunt Event allows you to hunt down the wild fauna of Dragon Isles. Unlocking Grand Hunts requires Renown 5 with the Maruuk Centaur. The first Grand Hunt completion of the week grants Grand Hunt Spoils.

In addition to that there are two more trial events. The Trial of the Flood which is situated in the southern part of the Ohn’aran Plains and The Trial of the Elements which is found in the cave in the north-western part of the Primalist Tomorrow zone. The last one can be accessed by the portal in The Temporal Conflux, in south-eastern Thaldraszus.

 Both Trials can only grant ilvl 376-379 loot once a week. You get the reward after defeating waves of enemies.

Rares and Super Rares

There are a variety of Rares which can be found all over the Dragon Isles. Nevertheless, Dragonflight has brought us a new type of Rare – the Super Rare. The Super Rare has a chance to drop ilvl 385 gear.

Aiding The Accord

This is a weekly quest that Therazal starts in Valdrakken. Players have to earn a combined total 4000 reputation with the factions of the Dragon Isles. At the end you will be awarded with Valdrakken Treasures which contains gear scaled with your item level.

Primal Storms Gear

Primal Storms are special world events that can be found all over the Dragon Isles. Mobs killed inside a Primal Storm drop special currency Elemental Overflow. It is used for buying ilvl 359 gear. If you want to farm Elemental Overflow, the best way is to kill the Forbidden Reach rare enemies. Every single boss will give about 1000 Elemental Overflow.

This can be upgraded to ilvl 385 gear with Storm Sigil. You can earn this currency by completing the 5 weekly quests which start from items you can get in Primal Storms areas and from Valdrakken vendor:

• Dissipating the Air Primalists (x2 Storm Sigil)
• Vaporizing the Water Primalists (x2 Storm Sigil)
• Extinguishing the Fire Primalists (x2 Storm Sigil)
• Shattering the Earth Primalists (x2 Storm Sigil)
• Storm Surge (x1 Storm Sigil)

Also, you can create parts of Primal Storm sets from items that drop from the Forbidden Reach rares and treasures. They already will have rank 2 and 385 item level.

Primal Storm gear has unique set bonuses. Unfortunately, the last bonus only works outdoors which means you cannot benefit from it in Raids, Dungeons, or during Arena or Battleground fights.

• 2 Set:  Primal Power
• 4 set:  Spark of the Primals
• 6 set: Protection of the Fallen Dragons

Starting from 10.0.7 players also got an opportunity to upgrade Preimal Storms gear to rank 3 and 395 ilvl using Untapped Forbidden Knowledge. Thus currency also can drops from the Forbidden Reach rares and treasures.

Onyx Annulet

One of the Dragonflight patch 10.0.7 novelties is a unique ring you can get after completing the Forbidden Reach questline, Onyx Annulet. You can insert sockets into 405 ilvl ring to increase its item level and get various bonuses from Primordial Stones (learn more about that in our Dragonflight Onyx Annnulet and Primordial Stones overview),

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