The Burning Crusade Beginner Guide

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The Burning Crusade Beginner Guide

#1 » Post by Gnurg » 19 Feb 2017 12:15

The Burning Crusade:
Beginner's Guide

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  • Attunement Quests (Must do!)
    • Dungeons
      • The Shattered Halls (68) - Key - Quest chain start from an item drop nearby Black Temple.
      • The Arcatraz (69) - Key - Quest chain starts in Area 52.
      • Shadow Labyrinth - Key - Contained in the chest behind the final boss in Sethekk Halls (65).
      • Caverns of Time dungeons (68-70) - Start by talking to the dragon outside the cavern.
      • Heroic Versions (70) - Key - Each dungeon have a faction associated with it, you need revered to buy the attunement key.
    • Raid
      • Karazhan (70) - Key - Quest chain start outside Karazhan.
      • Serpentshrine Cavern (70) - Picked up inside Slave Pens heroic.
      • Tempest Keep (70) - Quest chain started up in Shadowmoon Valley.
      • Black Temple (70) - Quest chain started up in Shadowmoon Valley.
      **Raid attunements shouldn't be avaiable before the raid is released though!**
  • Aldor or Scryers?
    • Gear
      • Healers: You may be in for some tough choices. While the Scryers staff provides huge healing, Aldor gear provides substantial Intellect and MP5 gear. The shoulder enchantments are the reverse, Aldor providing substantial healing and Scryers providing more MP5.
      • Casters: The Scryers appear superior in some ways. They provide a very good spell hit trinket, shoulder enchants with stats more in favor of crits and an epic spell damage ring. In contrast, the Aldor provides a spell damage staff with intellect that lacks stamina, and a low-stamina, high intellect chestpiece with decent damage.
      • If you are training enchanting or tailoring, you should probably choose Scryer, since you can access all enchanting training on the Scryer's tier, and also more easily purchase the BoE patterns.
      • In the end, most of the rare and probably epic rewards from the two factions are likely to get replaced by other better raid loots or PvP rewards. Base your choice on the inscriptions!
    • Inscriptions
      • Aldor:
        • Permanently adds up to 18 spell damage and healing and 10 spell critical strike rating to a shoulder slot item.
        • Permanently adds up to 33 healing and 4 mana per 5 sec. to a shoulder slot item.
        • Permanently adds 30 attack power and 10 critical strike rating to a shoulder slot item.
        • Permanently adds 15 dodge rating and 10 defense rating to a shoulder slot item.
        Scryers:
        • Permanently adds 15 critical strike rating and 20 attack power to a shoulder slot item.
        • Permanently adds 15 defense rating and 10 dodge rating to a shoulder slot item.
        • Permanently adds 6 mana per 5 sec. and up to 22 healing to a shoulder slot item.
        • Permanently adds 15 spell critical strike rating and up to 12 spell damage to a shoulder slot item.
  • Inscriptions per faction
    • Lower City
      • Permanently adds 8 resistance to all 5 schools of magic to a head slot item.
      • Permanently adds 20 Shadow resistance to a head slot item.
      • Permanently adds 17 Strength and 16 Intellect to a head slot item.
      Keepers of Time
      • Permanently adds 20 Frost resistance to a head slot item.
      • Permanently adds 16 defense rating and 17 dodge rating to a head slot item.
      Honor Hold / Thrallmar
      • Permanently adds 20 Fire resistance to a head slot item.
      • Permanently adds up to 35 healing, and 7 mana per 5 sec. to a head slot item.
      Cenarion Expedition
      • Permanently adds 20 Nature resistance to a head slot item.
      • Permanently adds 34 attack power and 16 hit rating to a head slot item.
      The Sha'tar
      • Permanently adds 20 Arcane resistance to a head slot item.
      • Permanently adds up to 22 spell damage and healing and 14 spell hit rating to a head slot item.
      The Violet Eye
      • Permanently adds 7 resistance to all magic schools to a shoulder slot item.
  • Highly Recommended Quests
    • Gear
      • Ring of Blood (67) - Quick experience with a nice weapon as reward.
      • Cipher of the Damnation Chain (70) - Gives good weapons and has to be done for Tempest Keep anyways.
      • The Warden's Cage(70) - Gives good weapons and has to be done for Black Temple anyways.
      • Battle of the Crimson Watch (70) - Gives a nice ring.
      • The Nagrand Safari (68) - Side Weapon (idol, relic etc).
      • Nagrand Forge Camp (68) - Main armor piece
      Reputation
      • Ogri'la Introduction Quest (70) - Unlocks the Ogri'la faction.
  • PvE pre-raid gear
    Should you have level 60 end-raid gear, you shouldn't have to worry much about this.

    See this sheet for your class.
  • PvP gear, where do you start?
    To begin with you should get your battlegear. It's purchased from each of the dungeon factions (Cenarion Expedition, Thrallmar/Honor Hold, Keepers of Time, Sha'tar & Lower City) when you reach honored with them. Simply do quest or dungeons related to them (Spam RDF!).

    Once you've picked up the Battlegear, you can obtain further Gladiator gear by doing arenas once each season begins.
  • Class Guides
    No class guides exists as of now.
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Re: The Burning Crusade Beginner Guide

#2 » Post by Gnurg » 19 Feb 2017 12:19

I am new to TBC myself, so if we all could contribute to making the guide, that would be great! The idea is just to share our knowledge about TBC to make it simpler for new players to catch up on the content they might be unfamiliar with. Main point is that it's clear already from level 58 what you should focus.

For the pre-raid section, I was hoping we could get something similar tinyurl.com/primalbis. Whoever did set it up the last time, please do it again for TBC! :-)

As for class guides, that will just be links to the guides that you make.
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Re: The Burning Crusade Beginner Guide

#3 » Post by Longi » 19 Feb 2017 12:56

You can make a good topic... time to time


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Re: The Burning Crusade Beginner Guide

#4 » Post by Gnurg » 19 Feb 2017 20:03

I think the first version is done now.

If you feel like some vital information is missing, please let us know in the thread. I would especially like if you know any other recommended quest to do. I need someone to set up a pre-raid gear sheet, similar to the one we already have. Class guides would also be cool, but I don't think we'll many of them before TBC actually is released.
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Re: The Burning Crusade Beginner Guide

#5 » Post by Fitzpatrick » 19 Feb 2017 21:33

Shadowmoon valley has a number of important quest lines with good rewards such as:
The Cipher of Damnation
and The Warden's Cage Questline
both visible here: http://wowwiki.wikia.com/wiki/Shadowmoon_Valley_quests
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Re: The Burning Crusade Beginner Guide

#6 » Post by Longi » 19 Feb 2017 21:52

may you can add important class quests, well in wotlk all those spells/ ablities are from trainer, but back in TBC you had to do quests :)


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Re: The Burning Crusade Beginner Guide

#7 » Post by Gnurg » 19 Feb 2017 22:00

Fitzpatrick wrote:Shadowmoon valley has a number of important quest lines with good rewards such as:
The Cipher of Damnation
and The Warden's Cage Questline
both visible here: http://wowwiki.wikia.com/wiki/Shadowmoon_Valley_quests
Thanks for the input. :-)
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Re: The Burning Crusade Beginner Guide

#8 » Post by blagovest_tonev » 20 Feb 2017 07:53

Perhaps The Journal of Val'zareq: Portends of War chain is worth to be mentioned too, a lot of players like to farm tabards :)

Good guide! :P

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Re: The Burning Crusade Beginner Guide

#9 » Post by Gnurg » 22 Feb 2017 00:28

blagovest_tonev wrote:Perhaps The Journal of Val'zareq: Portends of War chain is worth to be mentioned too, a lot of players like to farm tabards :)

Good guide! :P
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Re: The Burning Crusade Beginner Guide

#10 » Post by blagovest_tonev » 22 Feb 2017 06:07

You may like to include the following to the highly recommended quests. These quests give a lot of XP and good items.

The Nagrand Safari quest chain
Nagrand Forge Camp quest chain

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Re: The Burning Crusade Beginner Guide

#11 » Post by Gnurg » 22 Feb 2017 14:49

blagovest_tonev wrote:You may like to include the following to the highly recommended quests. These quests give a lot of XP and good items.

The Nagrand Safari quest chain
Nagrand Forge Camp quest chain
Added. :-)
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Re: The Burning Crusade Beginner Guide

#12 » Post by blagovest_tonev » 23 Feb 2017 07:30

Another good addition! :P
Pay attention to the Quest progression section as there may be difference between the versions!

P.S Fix the link of Battle of the Crimson Watch (70) - Gives a nice ring. ;)

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Re: The Burning Crusade Beginner Guide

#13 » Post by carpalo » 23 Feb 2017 08:40

Blue pvp gear from factions shouldn't be available at start. It was added later maybe few weeks/months before black temple patch as catch up mechanism

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#14 » Post by Gnurg » 23 Feb 2017 09:08

carpalo wrote:Blue pvp gear from factions shouldn't be available at start. It was added later maybe few weeks/months before black temple patch as catch up mechanism
Hmm you' re right. It was added ìn 2.4.

Question is if it's better to have it released from the start as it' s worse than the gladiator set and would allow people to start balancing battlegrounds/arenas before entering them for the first time?
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Re: The Burning Crusade Beginner Guide

#15 » Post by carpalo » 23 Feb 2017 10:47

If they give any advantage to pve at release then no. If they don't, adding them could promote pvp more.

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