[00:00] Hey folks, this is Kelani. Season 2 of Midnight&nbsp; gives solo content players far more options for&nbsp;&nbsp; how to gear up, and you can get much higher item&nbsp; levels in general. You can quite easily get up&nbsp;&nbsp; to item level 320 or higher with no group content&nbsp; needed. That's the equivalent of heroic raid gear,&nbsp;&nbsp;
[00:18] and you can even pick up some mythic gear along&nbsp; the way. In season 2, the main solo content&nbsp;&nbsp; features also connect much better, helping you&nbsp; gear up faster if you take part in all of them.&nbsp;&nbsp; So, we're going to go over every gearing option&nbsp; for solo content players and show you how you&nbsp;&nbsp;
[00:33] can get up to item level 320 and beyond without&nbsp; having to take part in any group content. Now,&nbsp;&nbsp; before we jump in, be sure to hit up that like&nbsp; button and subscribe so you never miss another&nbsp;&nbsp; video. One of the most important things to do&nbsp; every week is to pick up and complete the various&nbsp;&nbsp;
[00:49] weekly quests that can reward you with a spark of&nbsp; tides. There are two of these in Silver Moon. the&nbsp;&nbsp; unity against the void weekly quest from Leaddin&nbsp; and the trailing Zalatath weekly quest from&nbsp;&nbsp; Verissa. There's also the curse surge weekly quest&nbsp; on the coil. All three of these weekly quests can&nbsp;&nbsp;
[01:05] reward you with a spark of tides, though you can&nbsp; only get one spark per week if you are caught up&nbsp;&nbsp; to the current cap. We'll be able to get four&nbsp; sparks in the first week of the season and one&nbsp;&nbsp; spark every week after. You can always check&nbsp; if you're behind the current cap for sparks by&nbsp;&nbsp;
[01:19] checking your spark dust in your currency tab.&nbsp; If you are behind, you'll be able to pick up&nbsp;&nbsp; extra sparks from completing these weekly quests&nbsp; or from taking part in endgame content. All of&nbsp;&nbsp; these quests will also reward you with a pinnacle&nbsp; cash. The first two you obtain from any source&nbsp;&nbsp;
[01:34] will contain a piece of veteran gear, and they&nbsp; also contain coffer key shards, veteran crests,&nbsp;&nbsp; and other useful currencies. There are a few&nbsp; other ways to get pinnacle caches, like the&nbsp;&nbsp; special assignment world quest on the coil aisle.&nbsp; You need to complete a few normal world quests to&nbsp;&nbsp;
[01:50] unlock that one. So, if you're doing world quests&nbsp; anyway, that might be something of interest to&nbsp;&nbsp; you. World quests themselves can reward up to&nbsp; adventurer gear, so they're useful towards the&nbsp;&nbsp; start of your gearing up adventures, but not much&nbsp; past that. There are special events in the coil&nbsp;&nbsp;
[02:05] aisle called curse surges. These events end at&nbsp; a rare boss fight that can drop adventurer gear,&nbsp;&nbsp; currencies, and reputation. As you work your&nbsp; way through the Zuljarus Forc's renowned track,&nbsp;&nbsp; but there are plenty of other sources of veteran&nbsp; gear. So, I wouldn't really worry about it too&nbsp;&nbsp;
[02:22] much. To get some larger gear upgrades, you'll&nbsp; want to visit Aelor Sanctum in Silver Moon to&nbsp;&nbsp; check out the prey system. Prey hunts have&nbsp; three difficulties, and the higher you go,&nbsp;&nbsp; the more dangerous your prey targets will&nbsp; become, and you'll have to deal with specific&nbsp;&nbsp;
[02:37] torments or affixes while you're in the open&nbsp; world, but you will get much better rewards.&nbsp;&nbsp; Normal hunts will reward you with adventurer&nbsp; gear and crests. Hard mode hunts bump it up&nbsp;&nbsp; to veteran gear and crests. And then nightmare&nbsp; mode hunts offer champion gear, champion crests,&nbsp;&nbsp;
[02:52] and some hero crests. Only the first two hunts per&nbsp; week per difficulty will reward you with gear. So&nbsp;&nbsp; you can get two pieces of champion gear per week&nbsp; by running at least two nightmare prey hunts. Now,&nbsp;&nbsp;
[03:04] you'll probably always want to run at least three&nbsp; nightmare prey hunts per week to complete the&nbsp;&nbsp; weekly quest, a nightmarish task. This will reward&nbsp; you with some hero crests as well as a scalebound&nbsp;&nbsp; Herald's flute. This item lets you summon the&nbsp; season 2 delve nemesis into your Delve runs,&nbsp;&nbsp;
[03:20] giving you a chance at some extra gear, but also&nbsp; giving you another way to secure your Trove Hunter&nbsp;&nbsp; Bounty map for the week, which can be used to earn&nbsp; a piece of hero track gear from the Delve system.&nbsp;&nbsp; As you complete more and more prey hunts, you'll&nbsp; be earning progress in the season 2 Prey Journey&nbsp;&nbsp;
[03:35] track. There are some fun cosmetics to pick up&nbsp; along the way, but at renowned rank four, you'll&nbsp;&nbsp; unlock the ability to loot afflicted souls from&nbsp; tier six or above Bountiful delves. When used,&nbsp;&nbsp; these souls will let you skip over the entire&nbsp; hunt portion of your next prey hunt, so you can&nbsp;&nbsp;
[03:50] just go straight to the boss and complete the&nbsp; hunt in under a minute. The soul also gives you&nbsp;&nbsp; bonus champion gear once per week. So, not only&nbsp; does it significantly speed up your prey hunts,&nbsp;&nbsp; but it also gives you extra gear. When you reach&nbsp; rank nine on the renowned track, you'll be able to&nbsp;&nbsp;
[04:05] loot tormented souls instead, which do the exact&nbsp; same thing, except your bonus loot will be on the&nbsp;&nbsp; hero track instead. So, you'll be able to get one&nbsp; piece of hero gear from Prey Hunts every week,&nbsp;&nbsp; as long as you're doing delves as well. Nightmare&nbsp; Prey Hunts will also be filling up your world row&nbsp;&nbsp;
[04:23] in the weekly vault. Nightmare Prey Hunts are the&nbsp; same as tier eight delves for weekly vault credit,&nbsp;&nbsp; so they'll earn you some item level 305 hero track&nbsp; gear on reset day. The prey feature was expanded&nbsp;&nbsp;
[04:35] in 12.1 to be about more than just prey hunts.&nbsp; After working through Aelor's new quests, you'll&nbsp;&nbsp; be able to enable the curse of the coil dial,&nbsp; subjecting you to the nightmare torments while&nbsp;&nbsp; in the zone, even while you're not on an active&nbsp; hunt. In return, you'll be able to loot oified&nbsp;&nbsp;
[04:50] relics from completing world quests and from&nbsp; new prey daily quests. You can turn these relics&nbsp;&nbsp; into a haunted brazier in the zone to summon&nbsp; Ralcala, Terror of the Isisles. When defeated,&nbsp;&nbsp; this boss drops corrosive coins, corrosive&nbsp; souls, champion crests, and hero crests. So,&nbsp;&nbsp;
[05:06] this could end up being a very good source of both&nbsp; champion and hero upgrade crests throughout season&nbsp;&nbsp; 2. The next way to get some big gear upgrades is&nbsp; to dive into delves. You can earn up to hero track&nbsp;&nbsp;
[05:18] gear from delves every week, and it's one of the&nbsp; best sources of champion track gear in the game.&nbsp;&nbsp; But not all delves reward these big gear upgrades.&nbsp; You're looking specifically for bountiful delves.&nbsp;&nbsp; They have a special glowy icon on the world map,&nbsp; and only four delves will be bountiful each day.&nbsp;&nbsp;
[05:34] At the end of a bountiful delve run, you'll find a&nbsp; locked chest. That's where your gear upgrades are&nbsp;&nbsp; going to come from. To open that chest, you will&nbsp; need a restored coffer key. And to get those keys,&nbsp;&nbsp; you just need to earn 100 coffer key shards. And&nbsp; then the next time you enter a delve, they will&nbsp;&nbsp;
[05:49] be converted into a key automatically. You can&nbsp; obtain coffer key shards from almost all openw&nbsp;&nbsp; world content, including prey hunts, curse surges,&nbsp; weekly quests, pinnacle caches, rare monster&nbsp;&nbsp;
[06:01] kills, opening treasures, and more. Getting 600&nbsp; per week to turn into six keys should be easy&nbsp;&nbsp; peasy. The gear rewards from Battleful Dells will&nbsp; improve as you increase the difficulty and they&nbsp;&nbsp;
[06:13] cap out at tier eight. So that's where you want&nbsp; to use all of your restored coffer keys. That&nbsp;&nbsp; will earn you two of six champion gear for every&nbsp; single key you spend. And all of that gear can be&nbsp;&nbsp; upgraded up to item level 308. So this is going&nbsp; to be your main source of gear upgrades early on.&nbsp;&nbsp;
[06:30] Now, just like prey hunts, completing delves&nbsp; will fill up the world row in the weekly vault,&nbsp;&nbsp; and the rewards also cap out when you can complete&nbsp; tier eight delves. So, that should always be your&nbsp;&nbsp; goal. Tier eight delves will earn you 305 hero&nbsp; track gear on reset day. You want to fill up the&nbsp;&nbsp;
[06:45] world row with a combination of nightmare prey&nbsp; hunts and tier eight delve runs to maximize your&nbsp;&nbsp; chances for a good upgrade. There's another way to&nbsp; get some hero gear from delves, and all you need&nbsp;&nbsp;
[06:57] is a trove hunter bounty map. There are a few ways&nbsp; to get your hands on one. The prey weekly quest&nbsp;&nbsp; from earlier should reward you with a scalebound&nbsp; herald's flute. You can use this item to summon&nbsp;&nbsp; the season 2 delve nemesis in any delve run after&nbsp; you've reached the checkpoint halfway through.&nbsp;&nbsp;
[07:13] After you fight the nemesis off or die, whichever&nbsp; comes first, they'll drop a cash that will contain&nbsp;&nbsp; a Trove Hunter Bounty map. The other main option&nbsp; is to complete the weekly quest down in the vaults&nbsp;&nbsp; of Italute. The map itself is a reward from that&nbsp; quest, so that's worth doing if you haven't done&nbsp;&nbsp;
[07:30] the weekly prey quest for whatever reason.&nbsp; You also have a chance to get the map from&nbsp;&nbsp; any delve run. So, there are plenty of options&nbsp; available. You can only get one map per week,&nbsp;&nbsp; so where you get it from doesn't really matter.&nbsp; You just need to get one per week if you want&nbsp;&nbsp;
[07:44] an extra piece of hero gear. When you use the map,&nbsp; your next delve run will have a hidden trove chest&nbsp;&nbsp; at the end which contains your piece of gear. You&nbsp; can only get hero track gear if you run a tier&nbsp;&nbsp; eight delve or above with your map. So only use&nbsp; your map on tier eight or above delves. Otherwise,&nbsp;&nbsp;
[08:01] you'll be missing out on a piece of hero gear&nbsp; every single week. As you complete delves,&nbsp;&nbsp; you'll be earning progress in the season 2 delve&nbsp; journey track. And just like the prey track,&nbsp;&nbsp; there are some big unlocks in here. At rank three,&nbsp; you'll be able to find Dundon in your delves.&nbsp;&nbsp;
[08:16] the first time you find him each day, he will&nbsp; make your run abundantly bountiful, which gives&nbsp;&nbsp; you extra chests at the end for even more loot.&nbsp; At rank four, you can start earning myth crests&nbsp;&nbsp; by completing tier 11 bountiful delves. At rank&nbsp; five, a vendor will appear at the end of your&nbsp;&nbsp;
[08:31] delves that will sell champion gear. At rank&nbsp; eight, you can start looting warbound champion&nbsp;&nbsp; gear from your delve runs, which can make gearing&nbsp; up your alts much faster. And then at rank nine,&nbsp;&nbsp; tier 11 bountiful Dells have a chance to reward&nbsp; hero track gear or a currency that you can spend&nbsp;&nbsp;
[08:45] with a Dell vendor to buy hero track gear. Either&nbsp; way, you can start earning hero gear directly from&nbsp;&nbsp; delve runs after you reach rank nine. You can earn&nbsp; progress for the del journey track by completing&nbsp;&nbsp;
[08:57] bountiful delves from opening the coffer key&nbsp; chests at the end from the nemesis chest. So,&nbsp;&nbsp; it is worth killing all the nemesis monsters when&nbsp; you can. You'll get a good chunk from your hidden&nbsp;&nbsp; trove chest, and you'll get an item that starts a&nbsp; quest for your first delve clear of each week. If&nbsp;&nbsp;
[09:12] you want to farm the rep to progress through the&nbsp; track quickly, I would recommend clearing every&nbsp;&nbsp; bountiful delve every day, even if you don't&nbsp; have a key to unlock the chest at the end. Now,&nbsp;&nbsp; you may be wondering, what about the vaults for&nbsp; tall? Is it still worth venturing down into the&nbsp;&nbsp;
[09:28] underground or the coiled aisle to farm those&nbsp; events? It can be, but it is the least valuable&nbsp;&nbsp; source of gear for solo content players out of the&nbsp; main three options. The most important thing to do&nbsp;&nbsp; in the vaults would be the weekly quest, purging&nbsp; the vault. This quest rewards you with a venom&nbsp;&nbsp;
[09:44] cursed fragment, and when you get two of these,&nbsp; you can turn them into a piece of champion gear.&nbsp;&nbsp; So, that will help you gear up slowly but surely.&nbsp; The other key reward from this weekly quest is&nbsp;&nbsp; the Trove Hunter's Bounty Map. So, instead of&nbsp; having to summon the nemesis to get your Delve,&nbsp;&nbsp;
[09:58] this quest just straight up rewards it. The&nbsp; quest also rewards a good chunk of coffer key&nbsp;&nbsp; shards. So if you haven't hit your shard cap for&nbsp; the week, that's another reward to look out for.&nbsp;&nbsp; There are constant public events in the vaults of&nbsp; Italo, but only one type of event really matters&nbsp;&nbsp;
[10:14] if you want some gear. Temple incursions start on&nbsp; a timer and you can see a countdown at the top of&nbsp;&nbsp; your screen when the next incursion is close. The&nbsp; incursions themselves are cool, but the only real&nbsp;&nbsp; important part is that the incursion succeeds or&nbsp; complete. Every time an incursion is successful,&nbsp;&nbsp;
[10:30] an ancient foe will spawn right after. And this is&nbsp; where the gear is actually going to come from. The&nbsp;&nbsp; first ancient foe you kill per week drops a venom&nbsp; cursed fragment, which you can then combine with&nbsp;&nbsp;
[10:42] the one you get from the weekly quest for one&nbsp; piece of champion gear per week. But then every&nbsp;&nbsp; kill of the ancient foe also drops a bag that&nbsp; contains a three of six piece of veteran gear. So,&nbsp;&nbsp; they are worth killing at least once per week,&nbsp; but they're still a good source of veteran gear&nbsp;&nbsp;
[10:56] if you want to farm them. So, the vaults can be&nbsp; worth it if you need some extra veteran gear or&nbsp;&nbsp; if you've already exhausted the other sources of&nbsp; champion gear for the week, but other content is&nbsp;&nbsp; more rewarding, and you'll probably get your trove&nbsp; hunters bounty map from the prey system first. So,&nbsp;&nbsp;
[11:12] the vaults do lose quite a lot of value simply&nbsp; due to that. Now, as you complete your prey hunts,&nbsp;&nbsp; delve runs, and take part in the vaults content,&nbsp; you'll be earning corrosive souls. You can spend&nbsp;&nbsp;
[11:24] these souls at the altar of corrosion to&nbsp; unlock new powers in the corrosive codeex.&nbsp;&nbsp; You can only have one of these powers active&nbsp; at a time until you unlock eight powers total,&nbsp;&nbsp; at which point you can use two powers at a time.&nbsp; All of these powers only work in solo content. So,&nbsp;&nbsp;
[11:39] they don't work in dungeons, raids, or PvP,&nbsp; but that makes it a great way to power up your&nbsp;&nbsp; character to help you take down prey targets or&nbsp; higher tiers of delves. Some good powers to pick&nbsp;&nbsp; up early would be Affidian Moore, Insidious Venom,&nbsp; and Oolletex Gift. If you want to swap your powers&nbsp;&nbsp;
[11:56] around without having to venture back down into&nbsp; the vault, you can find a mini altar of corrosion&nbsp;&nbsp; at the start of every delve that lets you change&nbsp; things around. Up until now, the highest gear&nbsp;&nbsp;
[12:08] track we've been able to obtain is hero track&nbsp; gear, and those sources are very limited for&nbsp;&nbsp; solo content players. You can get one piece per&nbsp; week from your bounty map in the delve system,&nbsp;&nbsp; and one piece per week from the weekly vault.&nbsp; More options open up later on from the prey and&nbsp;&nbsp;
[12:22] delve journey tracks, but that's still just more&nbsp; hero gear. There is only one way to go higher than&nbsp;&nbsp; that for solo content players. This is where your&nbsp; sparks of tides come into play. Sparks of Tides&nbsp;&nbsp;
[12:34] can be used to craft high item level gear. It&nbsp; usually takes two sparks to make a piece of gear&nbsp;&nbsp; or four sparks to make a two-handed weapon.&nbsp; The higher the rank of the resulting craft,&nbsp;&nbsp; the higher the item level will be. So, you always&nbsp; want to get a rank five result, whether you're&nbsp;&nbsp;
[12:49] crafting it for yourself or using the crafting&nbsp; order clerks. The gear will start at item level&nbsp;&nbsp; 305 when just using the sparks, which should be a&nbsp; good upgrade for most players at the start of the&nbsp;&nbsp; season. But the real power of this crafted gear&nbsp; comes through using crests to upgrade them. You&nbsp;&nbsp;
[13:05] can use hero crests to upgrade all spark crafted&nbsp; gear to item level 318, taking it up to almost a&nbsp;&nbsp; max hero track item level, or you can use myth&nbsp; crests to bump it up all the way to 331. Spark&nbsp;&nbsp;
[13:18] crafted gear with a myth crest upgrade is the&nbsp; very best gear available to solo content players,&nbsp;&nbsp; but you are going to need to get your hands on&nbsp; some hero or myth crests to fuel these upgrades.&nbsp;&nbsp;
[13:30] Hero quests are very easy to come by for solo&nbsp; content players nowadays. You can earn them from&nbsp;&nbsp; nightmare prey hunts, from the prey weekly quest,&nbsp; from the housing weekly quest, and from high tiers&nbsp;&nbsp; of delves. You shouldn't have too many issues&nbsp; reaching your hero crest cap every week. Even as a&nbsp;&nbsp;
[13:46] solo content player, you can use your hero crests&nbsp; to upgrade sparkcrafted gear to item level 318 or&nbsp;&nbsp; to upgrade your hero track gear up to item level&nbsp; 321. Now, myth crests aren't quite as plentiful.&nbsp;&nbsp;
[13:59] There's only one reliable source of myth crests&nbsp; for solo content players at the start of season&nbsp;&nbsp; 2. After you reach renown rank four on the Del&nbsp; seasonal journey track, you can get five myth&nbsp;&nbsp; crests per tier 11 bountiful delu run up to a cap&nbsp; of 20 per week. That's it. That's all you have to&nbsp;&nbsp;
[14:16] work with. That means it will take you four weeks&nbsp; to earn enough myth crafts to fully upgrade a&nbsp;&nbsp; piece of sparkcrafted gear, which isn't ideal, but&nbsp; it is doable and leads to the best gear available&nbsp;&nbsp; for solo content players. If you want easier or&nbsp; faster myth crests, you're going to have to clear&nbsp;&nbsp;
[14:32] mythic plus 9 keystones or above. You can get four&nbsp; sparks total in the first week of the season with&nbsp;&nbsp; one spark every week after that. So, you can craft&nbsp; a new piece of gear every 2 weeks. And as long as&nbsp;&nbsp;
[14:44] you're keeping up with your myth crests, you'll&nbsp; be able to upgrade one of them to item level 331&nbsp;&nbsp; every 4 weeks. It is slow going, but that's the&nbsp; best gear available for solo content players.&nbsp;&nbsp;
[14:56] There is one other way to get some myth crests as&nbsp; a solo content player, but it's only a one-time&nbsp;&nbsp; deal. If you can defeat the Delve Nemesis on the&nbsp; higher difficulty, you'll get 30 hero crests and&nbsp;&nbsp;
[15:08] 30 myth crests. And these crests do not count&nbsp; towards your crest caps, making them even&nbsp;&nbsp; more valuable. The problem is that clearing the&nbsp; higher difficulty is pretty hard by yourself. So,&nbsp;&nbsp; I would recommend doing this in a group to make&nbsp; it significantly easier. It is doable solo,&nbsp;&nbsp;
[15:24] and there's even a very special achievement for&nbsp; doing it solo in the first week of the season,&nbsp;&nbsp; but it's definitely not easy. Getting those extra&nbsp; 30 crests will shave an entire week off your first&nbsp;&nbsp; piece of 331 crafted gear. As you gear up, you'll&nbsp; also be able to trade up your crests to the next&nbsp;&nbsp;
[15:41] tier. So, you'll be able to turn champion crests&nbsp; into hero crests and hero crests into myth crests&nbsp;&nbsp; eventually. Being able to trade your crests up is&nbsp; tied to specific achievements called crest name of&nbsp;&nbsp;
[15:53] the mist. So, champion of the mist or hero of the&nbsp; mist, for example. To earn those achievements, you&nbsp;&nbsp; need to equip a piece of gear in every slot that&nbsp; is equivalent of that gear track at six of six or&nbsp;&nbsp; higher. So for champion, you would need item level&nbsp; 308 gear in every slot, and then you'll be able to&nbsp;&nbsp;
[16:10] tread your champion crests up to hero crests and&nbsp; so on. So the more you gear up, the easier you can&nbsp;&nbsp; obtain higher tiers of crests. These achievements&nbsp; will also unlock crest discounts for all of your&nbsp;&nbsp;
[16:22] alts. So when you've gotten the champion of&nbsp; the mist achievement on one character, all&nbsp;&nbsp; other characters will have their champion crest&nbsp; upgrade costs cut in half down to 10 per upgrade,&nbsp;&nbsp; which will help you gear up your alts much faster.&nbsp; And then the last major puzzle piece to your&nbsp;&nbsp;
[16:37] gearing adventures is going to be tier gear and&nbsp; getting your hands on your four set bonus that&nbsp;&nbsp; will provide you with a massive power spike. But&nbsp; tier gear isn't easy to come by for solo content&nbsp;&nbsp; players. You only really have two major sources.&nbsp; The first is the catalyst. The catalyst lets you&nbsp;&nbsp;
[16:54] convert any piece of seasonal gear into tier set&nbsp; gear. So you want to get your hands on some head,&nbsp;&nbsp; shoulders, chest, hands, and leg pieces of gear.&nbsp; Pop them in the catalyst and you'll have some tier&nbsp;&nbsp; set gear. Easy peasy. The only problem is that&nbsp; you need a catalyst charge to fuel the conversion.&nbsp;&nbsp;
[17:11] We start the season with one charge and then&nbsp; we'll get another charge every 2 weeks. So,&nbsp;&nbsp; if you only rely on the catalyst, it's going to&nbsp; take you quite a while before you can enable your&nbsp;&nbsp; powerful four set bonus. The other main way&nbsp; you'll be able to obtain tier set gear as a&nbsp;&nbsp;
[17:27] solo content focused player is from the weekly&nbsp; vault. Every reward row in the weekly vault has&nbsp;&nbsp; a chance to be tier gear when you open the vault&nbsp; on reset day. The more rewards you have unlocked,&nbsp;&nbsp; the higher the chance of getting a big upgrade,&nbsp; which includes a piece of tier set gear. So, make&nbsp;&nbsp;
[17:42] sure you're filling up your world row at the very&nbsp; least. You can fill in some dungeon slots with&nbsp;&nbsp; random heroic dungeons or time walking dungeons&nbsp; if they're available. It doesn't have to be&nbsp;&nbsp; mythic dungeons, but your rewards are going to be&nbsp; a bit lower. Now, many guides will be telling you&nbsp;&nbsp;
[17:58] to only pick up bonus rolls from the weekly vault,&nbsp; as that's the most powerful option and better than&nbsp;&nbsp; any actual gear reward, which is true if you do&nbsp; high-end mythic plus or raid on heroic or mythic&nbsp;&nbsp;
[18:10] difficulty. Bonus rolls can be used to target myth&nbsp; track gear in those cases. But if you're strictly&nbsp;&nbsp; a solo content player, your bonus roles will cap&nbsp; out at heroic, so it's not quite as worthwhile. It&nbsp;&nbsp;
[18:22] is very important to consider if you want to try&nbsp; and jump into any of that group content though,&nbsp;&nbsp; as there is no way to catch up with bonus rolls&nbsp; if you don't choose them as your vault reward. So,&nbsp;&nbsp; if you think you'll want to try some mythic plus&nbsp; 10 keys or above or the raid on at least heroic,&nbsp;&nbsp;
[18:38] maybe consider picking up the bonus rolls and&nbsp; saving them up. Otherwise, I would be aiming&nbsp;&nbsp; for tier set gear. Now, another way to get your&nbsp; hands on some tier set gear is to run the LFR&nbsp;&nbsp; wings as they become available. We start off with&nbsp; just the first wing open, but as the weeks go by,&nbsp;&nbsp;
[18:55] more and more bosses will become available to give&nbsp; you extra chances at tier gear. LFR is very easy,&nbsp;&nbsp; and you can queue into it all by yourself.&nbsp; So, while it is technically group content,&nbsp;&nbsp; you don't have to do anything to create or&nbsp; join the group. Specifically, just jump in,&nbsp;&nbsp;
[19:11] try to have some fun, and hopefully you'll walk&nbsp; away with some shiny loot. Getting some raid&nbsp;&nbsp; boss kills in from LFR will also help fill up your&nbsp; raid row in the weekly vault, giving you even more&nbsp;&nbsp; chances to get tier gear on reset day. The reason&nbsp; why obtaining your foret as quickly as possible is&nbsp;&nbsp;
[19:27] important is due to an achievement called catalyst&nbsp; unbound. When you first equip your four set,&nbsp;&nbsp; you'll earn this achievement and that will let you&nbsp; obtain additional catalyst charges from endgame&nbsp;&nbsp; content, mainly delves if you're a solo content&nbsp; player. You can then use those charges to convert&nbsp;&nbsp;
[19:43] higher item level pieces of gear as you obtain&nbsp; them. And it goes from being an extremely limited&nbsp;&nbsp; resource to quite abundant, which will be the key&nbsp; if you want to try and chase down some tier gear&nbsp;&nbsp; with your class or specs best in slot stats. So&nbsp; running some LFR wings now and then could get you&nbsp;&nbsp;
[19:58] your four set weeks earlier than just waiting for&nbsp; the catalyst, which will speed everything else up.&nbsp;&nbsp; And then if you're ever struggling to replace some&nbsp; lower item level pieces of gear, there are a few&nbsp;&nbsp;
[20:10] other sources that might pique your interest.&nbsp; You should be able to pick up a pair of veteran&nbsp;&nbsp; braces from the Zuljara's Forces faction, as long&nbsp; as you've completed the story quests for the new&nbsp;&nbsp; zone. That gets upgraded to champion braces if&nbsp; you reach renown rank nine with the new faction.&nbsp;&nbsp;
[20:25] So keep that in mind if you end up really needing&nbsp; some braces later on down the line. You can get&nbsp;&nbsp; another four pieces of veteran gear more or less&nbsp; for free from the four original midnight renowned&nbsp;&nbsp; factions. Even if you got that gear during season&nbsp; 1, you can get a helm from the Silver Moon Court,&nbsp;&nbsp;
[20:41] a necklace from the Ammani tribe, a belt from&nbsp; the Harati, and a trinket from the Singularity&nbsp;&nbsp; faction in Voidtorm. Each one does require a&nbsp; bit of renown with the respective factions. So,&nbsp;&nbsp; if you're new to the game for season 2 or you&nbsp; just didn't get the reps farmed up in season 1,&nbsp;&nbsp;
[20:56] it's probably not worth going out of your way to&nbsp; get these items. But if you do have the renowned&nbsp;&nbsp; requirements already, it's a very easy way to get&nbsp; four pieces of veteran gear to help speed up the&nbsp;&nbsp; initial gearing process. You can also use your&nbsp; adventurer crests or veteran crests to craft some&nbsp;&nbsp;
[21:13] half decent gear if you are struggling to gear up.&nbsp; You just need to add your crests at the bottom of&nbsp;&nbsp; any blue crafting recipe. Adventurer crests can&nbsp; bump the gear up to item level 279, while veteran&nbsp;&nbsp;
[21:25] crests will increase its item level to 292. That's&nbsp; basically a fully upgraded veteran piece of gear.&nbsp;&nbsp; This option becomes more and more potent as the&nbsp; season goes on, as you'll have a lot of crests&nbsp;&nbsp; that can be used to instantly gear up your alts&nbsp; halfway through the season. This is also a great&nbsp;&nbsp;
[21:41] option for just filling in any gearing gaps you&nbsp; may have, like that pesky low item level ring that&nbsp;&nbsp; you just can't seem to replace. And then something&nbsp; else that's worth noting if you love to engage in&nbsp;&nbsp; a spot of PvP is that you can pick up veteran four&nbsp; of six gear from the bloody token vendor in the&nbsp;&nbsp;
[21:57] PvP area of Silver Moon. You can earn some bloody&nbsp; tokens by turning on war mode and taking part in&nbsp;&nbsp; openw world PvP with large chunks of the currency&nbsp; coming from certain world quests. It's not the&nbsp;&nbsp;
[22:09] most efficient gearing option available to you,&nbsp; but it's worth knowing about if you're running&nbsp;&nbsp; around with war mode on. Anyway, but that's how&nbsp; you can get up to item level 320 or higher as a&nbsp;&nbsp; solo content player all by yourself with no group&nbsp; content. So, that's it for this video. What kinds&nbsp;&nbsp;
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