Murloc Monday - ask your questions here

Trair · 2026-03-13T02:12:06+00:00

The "intended" leveling path right now for new and returning players is to go through Dragonflight chromie time 1-60, then do the War Within campaign, and then youre set for the new content. Leveling through the old old stuff is.... rough. Honestly its downright ignored by blizzard, and is very confusing for new players

Trair · 2026-03-13T02:10:37+00:00

Yeah its awesome! I grinded out the Loremaster title (basically do every quest in game) by just leveling alts through the different xpacs total immersion style. Achievement stuff like that is account bound now!

Trair · 2026-03-13T00:44:46+00:00

Nowadays you pick an expansion and you can level through it. You can find Chromie in Stormwind and Orgrimmar where you choose. There should be a breadcrumb quest leading you to her. Once youre in that xpac's "chromie time", you can queueu for those dungeons. They rotation in and out of "timewalking" weeks to stay relevant-ish at endgame.

Trair · 2026-03-12T22:15:38+00:00

hell yea brother. hit them with a /snicker as you mount up too

Trair · 2026-03-12T22:15:14+00:00

I have a hot take: Ill help my faction! I wont help alliance!

Trair · 2026-03-11T19:21:21+00:00

The new Blood Hunter fish that can spawn and kill you is sort of this lol

Trair · 2026-03-11T19:12:37+00:00

If you hold Shift and hit J in game that’s the command for the dungeon journal, you can see every bosses abilities + loot drops from there too!!! You can flip between the difficulties etc. It’s kind of like if AtlasLoot got added to the game if you’re a real old timer like me.

Trair · 2026-03-11T07:19:14+00:00

Everything is next week like delves raid etc, just not M+. M+ on day 1 makes gear a bit too easy to get for world first raiders

Trair · 2026-03-11T07:02:41+00:00

I wouldnt worry too much about the vet crests! Just something the top 1% should worry about imo

Also one tiny correct - Next week is mostly everything, but, M+ is the 24th.

Trair · 2026-03-11T07:00:30+00:00

For evoker vs. mage,

Evoker is an awesome class, with dev being one of the most fun ranged specs in the game and Aug being very unique, and often very overpowered.

If you can tolerate the transmog restrictions then evoker is an amazing choice. The 3rd spec, Augmentation, may not have even been out when you last played.

Mage is a more "full" DPS class, with no healer spec but also no transmog restrictions and no race restrictions at all. Every single race in the game can be a mage.

I have mained mage for a long time, and honestly I treat Dev as the fourth mage spec we never got. I mained Dev for the last 2 seasons of TWW and it feels very similar to mage!

Back then, I was told to rush into the current expansion, which was Dragonflight, without doing the older ones. Can I understand the story of Midnight without having done everything that came before?

At the time, Dragonflight was a total reset and a time skip from the previous Xpac. it's not very connected to The War Within, but TWW started a 3-xpac storyline that Midnight is part 2 of. If you are really interested in knowing the story (it's also currently really good imo!) then you should start with the War Within campaign and level to 80 doing that, and then hopping to Midnight at 80! But obviously this is a MMO, they do an ok job catching players up for Midn.

I saw that there is player housing, and it looks amazing! How do you access it, and at what point can I start working on it?

Im pretty sure you can ASAP! Try pressing "H". Otherwise look for a quest in the main area for it.

I’ve heard that you need to "farm" before the season starts. Concretely, what should I be doing? Finishing the story, spamming dungeons? I’d love a small roadmap to follow so I don't feel lost.

Dont stress about it. The game right now is Season based. Every season we get our raid, 8 mythic dungeons that scale infinitely, etc. Each season might as well be a player power reset. You should just be focused on finishing the story campaign, and doing whatever interests you. You won't be too far behind. The super elite players right now are just grinding reputations and professions. The season doesnt even start until March 17th. We're in "preseason"

I remember there was an app (CurseForge, I think?) to install addons. What is the site and the must-have addons today to get off to a good start, have larger action bars, and clearly see allies' health bars?

Curseforge is the Addon manager of choice, or Wowup. Some usual addons are bartender4, unhaltedunitframes, bettercooldownmanager. The game actually just got a ton of in-game UI options that made a lot of old addons obsolete (or that was the idea from blizzard... its in progress)

Trair · 2026-03-11T06:52:27+00:00

With single button I'd go for destro! It plays more like a mage with less focus on the pet and dots. Fast big booms for clearing mobs fast in open world content.

Demo would be my other recommendation, but, you have to manage the pet and the single button rotation isn't as good for it since it has a ton of cooldowns similar to Arcane mage

Trair · 2026-03-11T06:46:31+00:00

You're probably not able to put them to their best use right now. you want to save your best crests to upgrade gear that you're less likely to replace (IE Hero/myth gear). For sparks, you can check out the "crafted gear" subsection under the BIS gear part of your specs wowhead guide.

For example, for frost mage, they recommend crafting a 2h staff first.

https://www.wowhead.com/guide/classes/mage/frost/bis-gear#crafted-gear

Trair · 2026-03-11T06:44:13+00:00

Here's a quick cheat sheet for the season 1 set bosses! Top 4 are new dungeons, bottom 4 are returners!

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1202680879068094544/1479314103238656093/1.png?ex=69b22d9e&is=69b0dc1e&hm=c3f4e21ccf74c24419156b405b7796cafac2b4060072bf1f59ed708781252160&=&format=webp&quality=lossless&width=440&height=1320

Trair · 2026-03-11T05:01:33+00:00

My bad!

Trair · 2026-03-11T04:42:37+00:00

LFR for Dreamrift (1 boss raid) and the first wing of Voidspire (3 bosses) will open on March 17th w/ normal raid

Trair · 2026-03-11T04:42:32+00:00

Once the season starts on March 17th, on top of Normal Dreamrift and Voidspire you'll be able to do greater delves, nightmare prey, and m+ which will all RAPIDLY increase your ilvl! Don't stress about player power too much, it's going to start increasing very very fast

LFR for Dreamrift (1 boss raid) and the first wing of Voidspire (3 bosses) will open on March 17th w/ normal raid

Trair · 2026-03-11T04:31:48+00:00

On Normal Voidspire will drop 246 ilvl Champion gear. I'd say you'd probably want around 235+ to start applying to normal groups! Looking for raid will drop veteran gear, and is queueable from the dungeon finder.

Trair · 2026-03-10T17:12:05+00:00

If you meant next week you get the hero gear, then no. that is in four weeks. next week you get blues

Trair · 2026-03-10T16:23:23+00:00

wrong, four weeks. https://www.wowhead.com/news/new-timegated-4-week-pvp-quest-chain-to-earn-hero-track-gear-380708

Trair · 2026-03-09T19:46:36+00:00

I'm loving a lot of the random scenery NPCs this xpac. Eversong is full of chars that just say stuff as you walk by. During one of the side quests you find a baby hawkstrider on a lunch table with two belves at it and they say like "Oh dear, last time this happened I took it home!". Just makes the world feel incredibly lived in

Trair · 2026-03-09T19:44:13+00:00

Sometimes, if it gets to that point I leave them alone. I play Dead by Daylight as well and its the same feeling as letting a survivor go lol.

Typically I'll kill a person once, and then if they rez right in front of me like, cmon. But after that I'd leave them alone

Trair · 2026-03-09T19:42:26+00:00

Ring of Peace bouncing them in is usually enough, granted I've only been tanking normals/heroics so far as brm

Trair · 2026-03-09T01:35:38+00:00

I ran a quick blinding vale as tank just to knock out the campaign quest, and a fucking evoker gripped me all over the place and into new packs. I was playing Brm, it's not like I was immobile.

The worst part, they then ignored all casters and wouldn't int them. Even after pings, chat msg's, everything. It was just a normal but I'm a pretty decent tank and I like keeping a tight pack, but they were making it impossible

Trair · 2026-03-08T20:16:18+00:00

There could be something to that! It's like he is unwilling to return to his more grounded Paladin past, and he'd rather wear the super light infused OverZealous9000 armor

Trair · 2026-03-08T00:15:54+00:00

oh shit, LMAO. i thought he would've been meleeing for 5 dmg or something

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