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With MMO's once you hit max level you spend a few days going "WTF SO MUCH STUFF" then you figure it all out in under a week and it becomes a boring ass grind.
I dont play pandaland so i wouldnt know where to start with its dailies, but there should be websites etc detailing it and it isnt too hard to figure out. You got your crafting dailies and your rep grinds then you just do dungeons / raids and go hunt random shit like pets / rare mounts or farm things to sell.
I dont think there are usually many dailies outside of the reputation grinds that you have to do.
Could be WoW-Specific things im missing but thats the general gist of it
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Well if you want to gear up and raid you should do the "Isle of Thunder" and all of its stuff but if that's not your thing just explore! Pandaria was a welcome change from Cataclysm for me (I've played since about 3 months after vanilla launch) and it's been the most fun expansion I've been involved in so far. Tons of dailies, can pet battle (I don't), PvP if you enjoy that, just chilling in your capital city, all sorts of stuff. I personally do all of my daily crafting each day and maybe a daily or two.
If you really want to gear up there are some specific things you can do to speed up the process (first heroic scenario guaranteed 516 ilvl piece, quest chain to get you 502 ilvl boots). LFRs are probably the best way to actually get the gear but can get old after awhile.
Most of the daily rewards are mounts or cosmetic things in pandaria, there's a central valor/justice quartermaster area. They're removing reputation requirements from a lot of those gear pieces in about 2 weeks though.
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I've been enjoying MoP quite a bit myself. I was skeptical of the art direction at first, but as I completed the Jade Forest and began to see what the new dungeons were about, I quickly changed my mind. I look forward to seeing what new raid encounters are like.
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My ilvl is 3 too low to queue for a random dungeon apparently... they don't have an option to queue for non-heroic dungeons only?
For purchasing good gear, there are three justice/valor merchants at Nizao Temple, and four honor/conquest merchants at Serpent's Spine, Kun Li Summit. Are there any others for lvl 90s?
Is there any way to speed up the tillers rep gains besides doing the quests that show up in halfhill? I want to be able to farm/sow for motes of harmony so I can finish making my full set of Contender's Dragonscale Armor.
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On September 03 2013 03:16 micronesia wrote:
My ilvl is 3 too low to queue for a random dungeon apparently... they don't have an option to queue for non-heroic dungeons only?
For purchasing good gear, there are three justice/valor merchants at Nizao Temple, and four honor/conquest merchants at Serpent's Spine, Kun Li Summit. Are there any others for lvl 90s?
Is there any way to speed up the tillers rep gains besides doing the quests that show up in halfhill? I want to be able to farm/sow for motes of harmony so I can finish making my full set of Contender's Dragonscale Armor.
I would skip buying any gear with points until the next patch comes out as they're reducing a ton of requirements. Those vendors you listed are the only ones in the game for level 90s (minus a repeat vendor of shado-pan assault in isle of thunder). Make sure to finish the Dread Wastes zone as it has a ton of good blues that will get you into random heroic queue worthy gear. From there you can do maybe a weeks worth of dungeons and you'll be more than set to do LFRs. It's a huge grind but much faster than at the start of the expansion.
I recommend doing the following: Do the quest that gives you your spec specific 502 ilvl boots, Isle dailies, Halfhill dailies (yes these are the only ones), crafting daily, and then finishing up dread wastes. Doing those 5 things will get you gear quickly and as soon as you can queue a few dungeons you can get into LFRs (the detuned versions of the raids in MoP). It took me about 4 hours to gear my druid to be capable of doing the first 5 LFRs (although I did buy some 458 ilvl PvP gear).
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Ias91: I am almost done with dread wastes already actually.
When is the next patch?
I bought one belt in the auctionhouse just to get my ilvl up enough that I can queue randomly for dungeons now.
I'm glad there aren't other vendors I wasn't aware of... man it's frustrating getting up to speed on all this stuff haha.
LFR seems to have nothing listed... does that just mean my ilvl is still too low?
Which quest are you talking about that gives the specific 502 ilvl boots?
I am starting the Isle right now.
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The patch comes out Sept. 10th iirc.
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On September 03 2013 03:50 micronesia wrote:
Ias91: I am almost done with dread wastes already actually.
When is the next patch?
I bought one belt in the auctionhouse just to get my ilvl up enough that I can queue randomly for dungeons now.
I'm glad there aren't other vendors I wasn't aware of... man it's frustrating getting up to speed on all this stuff haha.
LFR seems to have nothing listed... does that just mean my ilvl is still too low?
Which quest are you talking about that gives the specific 502 ilvl boots?
I am starting the Isle right now.
Patch comes out 9-10-13. You're too low right now to be listed for LFR but itll show things once you hit 460 ilvl. Make sure to do as much of Isle as you can, you can get things called "Incantations" or if you're lucky a key to the palace of lei shen, which lets you get golden coins. The coins can be used to ggive you extra rolls in the first few LFRs which can get you more gear. 
http://www.wowhead.com/news=212592/mists-of-pandaria-mahjong-set-quest-for-epic-boots-in-5-3
^that is a link to the quest line that gives you the 502 boots. Shouldn't take longer than about 30 minutes to do.
EDIT: Just for clarification, current LFR tiers are: Mogu'Shan Vaults first and second half = 460 ilvl requirement, Heart of Fear first and second half/Terrace of Endless Spring 470 ilvl, Throne of Thunder first quarter = 480 ilvl (other 3 quarters are unlocked after completing intial quarter consecutively). The Siege of Orgrimmar LFR (coming with the next patch) is supposedly going to require 496 ilvl to enter.
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I just finished the one-man scenario entering the Isle and got a key to the palace of lei shen.
I'll do the boots quest as well.
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Definitely well on your way. What class/spec do you play? Healer queues are almost instantaneous for most of the early LFRs. (lucky bastard getting a key that fast :O)
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I'm a troll beastmaster hunter. I have no idea what the odds of getting the key were or how to use it lol
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On September 03 2013 04:32 micronesia wrote:
I'm a troll beastmaster hunter. I have no idea what the odds of getting the key were or how to use it lol
You go to a little outcropping thing in Isle. Turn it into a person, do a solo instance and collect chests which gives you gold/rep tokens/coins
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I'm kind of confused how to get started on that boot quest... what do you do first?
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On September 03 2013 05:08 micronesia wrote:
I'm kind of confused how to get started on that boot quest... what do you do first?
I'm not horde side, but for alliance we did a quest that teleported me from Shrine to Ratchet (then fly to Durotar). It brings you to Vol'Jin and his camp. Do "Battlefield: Barrens" then Chen will have a quest for you to do, which leads you back to Kun-Lai and the 502 boot quest
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As a long time ex-player of WoW, who turned casual for Cataclysm before quitting before pandland, here are my tips/ramblings for a newer player (that probably don't apply too much since expansion, who knows)
I had 3 characters, all with their own mini-excel sheet to track my current progress/plan. When you first hit max cap, its usually maxing reputation with the various factions in the expansion - I think they now have easy ways to grind them just doing the daily dungeons over and over again. Each faction also has multiple daily quest hubs. Just look up on wowhead and it will list all of them. After that, the goal is to get the ilvl of gear necessary to run the weekly LFR finder to get shiny purple gear. Usually the progression is : Normal 90 dungeons > Heroic Dungeons > Heroic Tier 2 dunegons > LFR T1 > LFR T2 > etc. I'm not sure if the current MoP progress has opened the Tier 2 dungeons or whatnot, but usually you can see what slots you need to upgrade in order to qualify ilvl-wise to enter those dungeons. Then it's just doing those raids once per week, every week until the next patch with hopefully new raids; rinse and repeat!
I assume you are just wanting to have fun and not min/max your character like some nutjobs, but using resources such as Wowhead, EJ, whateverisgoodthesedays should let you know how you want to progress. This is what my pre-MoP 3 character weekly to-do list looked like before I quit. Basically I was just running old dunegons for transmog gear, achievement points, and rare mounts before playing some Pandaland beta and quitting.
![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/QyNK2RVl.png)
If you post your profile, I'm sure current WoW folks can provide more specific advice on what gear to upgrade to become eligible to run the LFR content, which is pretty fun to do at least once. Definately figure out how to use wowhead, it was a great resource to use.
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On September 03 2013 05:51 Burrfoot wrote:
As a long time ex-player of WoW, who turned casual for Cataclysm before quitting before pandland, here are my tips/ramblings for a newer player (that probably don't apply too much since expansion, who knows)
I had 3 characters, all with their own mini-excel sheet to track my current progress/plan. When you first hit max cap, its usually maxing reputation with the various factions in the expansion - I think they now have easy ways to grind them just doing the daily dungeons over and over again. Each faction also has multiple daily quest hubs. Just look up on wowhead and it will list all of them. After that, the goal is to get the ilvl of gear necessary to run the weekly LFR finder to get shiny purple gear. Usually the progression is : Normal 90 dungeons > Heroic Dungeons > Heroic Tier 2 dunegons > LFR T1 > LFR T2 > etc. I'm not sure if the current MoP progress has opened the Tier 2 dungeons or whatnot, but usually you can see what slots you need to upgrade in order to qualify ilvl-wise to enter those dungeons. Then it's just doing those raids once per week, every week until the next patch with hopefully new raids; rinse and repeat!
I assume you are just wanting to have fun and not min/max your character like some nutjobs, but using resources such as Wowhead, EJ, whateverisgoodthesedays should let you know how you want to progress. This is what my pre-MoP 3 character weekly to-do list looked like before I quit. Basically I was just running old dunegons for transmog gear, achievement points, and rare mounts before playing some Pandaland beta and quitting.
If you post your profile, I'm sure current WoW folks can provide more specific advice on what gear to upgrade to become eligible to run the LFR content, which is pretty fun to do at least once. Definately figure out how to use wowhead, it was a great resource to use.
A far easier way is to just look at icy-veins for your specific class for their gearing up list. This contains a list of each piece from about 400 ilvl to BIS, where to find it, and what its stats are. MoP you actually don't have to max reputations like previous expansions to hit current content/gear level.
EDIT: Got rid of pic, taking too much space ~
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I had to do a couple of scenarios before I could do the main quest, but I finally got the boots!
Thanks guys for all the input. I am going to keep working on the things you suggested.
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Sure I'll do some pvp once I finish this Contender's pvp gear. The thing that struck me about pvp (I did a little bit earlier on) was that there were so many different places to do it, and no real way to learn the layout/rules/strategy except by doing them, and while you are a newbie at it you bring the team down.
Which pvp locations do you recommend?
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