[0:00] Hey folks, this is Khani. Patch 1207
[0:03] offers several new gearing up options
[0:05] which let solo content players get up to
[0:07] item level 285 gear and even higher in
[0:11] some cases. That's the highest item
[0:13] levels solo players have ever been able
[0:15] to obtain during a season. So you can go
[0:18] into season 2 fully decked out like
[0:20] everyone else. So, let's go over the new
[0:22] gearing options in 1207, how you can
[0:24] quickly get hero gear if you're
[0:26] returning to the game, and how you can
[0:28] get your hands on some of the best gear
[0:30] available without jumping into any group
[0:33] content. Now, before we jump in, be sure
[0:35] to hit up that like button and subscribe
[0:37] so you never miss another video. With
[0:40] the arrival of patch 1207, almost every
[0:42] old gearing up option or path has been
[0:45] more or less invalidated. Any gear
[0:48] source below champion isn't really worth
[0:50] spending your time on due to the new
[0:52] zones in this patch. To unlock these
[0:54] zones, you'll need to complete the
[0:56] quests from Riftblade Meia in Silver
[0:58] Moon. Progress through those and you'll
[1:00] open up a portal to one of the two new
[1:02] zones, Val and Nagtal. These zones are
[1:05] on a weekly rotation, so we only have
[1:07] access to one of them at a time, but the
[1:09] gameplay loop is more or less the same
[1:11] for both of them. There are two main
[1:14] rewards that we're interested in here.
[1:16] The first is field accolades. Everything
[1:18] you do in the zone will reward you with
[1:20] the field accolades currency. Whether
[1:22] that's completing world quests and
[1:24] objectives on the map, killing rare
[1:26] spawns, or just looting treasures, it
[1:28] all rewards you with field accolades.
[1:31] Those rewards are higher if you choose
[1:33] to enter the zone on heroic mode, and
[1:35] you can do that using the drop-down menu
[1:37] on the portal or teleporter when you're
[1:39] zoning into these zones. Heroic mode is
[1:42] quite a bit harder, but as long as there
[1:44] are plenty of people running around, it
[1:46] shouldn't be too bad. I would mainly
[1:49] focus on killing rares whenever they pop
[1:51] up. If you're on heroic mode, each rare
[1:54] kill will reward you with 60 field
[1:55] accolades, which is kind of crazy. Every
[1:58] rare also has a chance to drop warbound
[2:00] champion gear. So, that's a very easy
[2:02] source of champion gear if you're
[2:04] playing a lower geared character. and
[2:06] you can scroll away everything you don't
[2:09] need to help gear up your rolls much
[2:10] faster later on. It seems there's about
[2:13] 20 minutes between rare spawns. So keep
[2:15] your eyes peeled for the yell
[2:17] announcement in chat and check your map
[2:19] for where the rare spawned.
[2:22] While you're waiting for the next rare,
[2:23] you can work on the zone quests, world
[2:26] quests, and the bonus objectives on your
[2:28] map. The world quests in these zones are
[2:30] on a much shorter cycle than usual. Each
[2:33] one only lasts an hour and they spawn
[2:35] every 20 minutes from what I can tell.
[2:38] Each one rewards 30 field accolades and
[2:40] they're fairly quick to complete. The
[2:42] bonus objectives appear to be a bit more
[2:44] random, but they will continue to pop up
[2:46] periodically, so they're worth
[2:48] completing as well. Between the world
[2:50] quests, the rare spawns, and the bonus
[2:52] objectives, you should always have
[2:54] something to do in the new zone that
[2:56] will be earning you more field
[2:57] accolades. You should also pick up any
[3:00] treasures that you come across while out
[3:02] adventuring as each treasure contains
[3:04] eight field accolades on heroic mode. So
[3:06] that's going to add up very quickly. And
[3:09] then if you do end up with no rares, no
[3:11] world quests, and you can't find any
[3:13] more treasures, most elites in the zone
[3:16] actually drop five field accolades each
[3:18] when you kill them. This includes the
[3:20] roaming elites that are little schools
[3:22] on the map. So they are actually worth
[3:24] killing. If you see someone fighting an
[3:26] elite and you don't have your next
[3:28] target locked in, go give them a hand.
[3:30] The more people that know that elites
[3:32] are worth killing, the more folks you'll
[3:34] see helping each other out, which just
[3:36] leads to more field accolades for
[3:38] everyone.
[3:40] You'll also want to make sure you pick
[3:41] up the zone weekly quests before heading
[3:44] out. The first one is the showdown
[3:46] weekly quest, and this is just your
[3:48] standard fill the bar type quest, so
[3:50] everything is going to count towards
[3:52] that. When you hand it in, you'll get a
[3:53] bag of goodies that contains 175 field
[3:56] accolades, 15 myth crests, and 15 hero
[4:00] crests. So, you can put all of those
[4:02] rewards to good use. But when you hand
[4:04] that quest in, you'll actually gain
[4:06] access to another weekly quest that
[4:09] rewards another bag of goodies. You can
[4:11] choose between world quests and
[4:13] objectives or rare and elite kills. So,
[4:15] make sure you pick that up before
[4:16] heading back out so you can get another
[4:18] bag with 175 field accolades and 10 hero
[4:22] crests. It doesn't stop there, though.
[4:24] After you complete that quest, you'll be
[4:26] able to choose the other option that you
[4:28] didn't already complete. So, you can
[4:30] actually pick up and complete three
[4:32] weekly quests to take part in the zones
[4:34] activities, and each one will reward you
[4:36] with 175 field accolades. All of these
[4:40] weekly quests can then be repeated on
[4:42] your alts if you really want to. So,
[4:44] that's one way to earn a lot of field
[4:46] accolades quite quickly for each of the
[4:48] characters that you're wanting to gear
[4:50] up before season 1 comes to an end. In a
[4:53] couple of hours play time, I was able to
[4:55] pick up almost 1,700 field accolades.
[4:58] And I know I missed quite a few rares in
[5:00] that time. So, you can earn field
[5:01] accolades quite quickly in the new
[5:03] zones. Now, if you find yourself dying
[5:07] too much on heroic mode, you can just
[5:09] knock the difficulty down to normal and
[5:11] do more or less the same thing. It's
[5:13] just going to be a bit slower because
[5:15] everything rewards fewer field
[5:17] accolades. The rares still drop champion
[5:19] gear though, so it may be a good idea to
[5:21] stay on normal mode until you have a few
[5:23] pieces of champion gear under your belt.
[5:26] But that's going to be up to you and how
[5:27] much you're struggling. I imagine fewer
[5:29] players will be in the normal modes,
[5:31] though, so you might find it difficult
[5:32] to kill the rares or complete objectives
[5:34] if you're all by yourself on a lower
[5:36] geared character. I guess we'll have to
[5:38] wait and see where the player base
[5:40] decides to congregate.
[5:43] Another easy source of gear comes from
[5:45] the new zone world bosses. On heroic
[5:47] world tier, the world bosses can drop
[5:49] hero warbound gear. And this works just
[5:51] like the other world bosses in midnight.
[5:53] So, you aren't guaranteed to get an item
[5:55] your current class can use, but you are
[5:58] guaranteed a piece of gear for your
[6:00] first kill on your account for the week.
[6:02] So, you will get a piece of hero gear.
[6:04] It just might not be the one you want.
[6:06] The good news though is that you can
[6:08] trade it over to an alt. So at least
[6:09] you're gearing up one of your characters
[6:11] with that free piece of hero gear. If
[6:14] you only kill the world boss on heroic
[6:16] mode, you'll also get a piece of
[6:17] warbound champion gear at the same time,
[6:20] which is a nice bonus. The world boss
[6:22] world quest rewards you with over 200
[6:24] field accolades on heroic difficulty,
[6:27] and the quest to kill the world boss
[6:28] rewards another 75, which is a huge
[6:31] chunk to put towards your next piece of
[6:33] gear.
[6:35] Now, before you get your world boss
[6:36] kills in, make sure you pick up the
[6:38] knocking off the top quest from Desimus.
[6:41] This quest requires you to kill the
[6:43] world boss in four different weeks to
[6:44] obtain a special quest item, and it
[6:46] rewards you with a myth track piece of
[6:48] gear. You can choose between a cloak, a
[6:51] belt, and some braces. So, that's one
[6:53] slot that you can fill more or less for
[6:55] free for just keeping up with this quest
[6:57] and getting your world boss kills in
[6:59] each week. I would encourage you to look
[7:01] at the stats on each piece of gear from
[7:03] the quest and compare it with what you
[7:05] would get if you put these pieces of
[7:07] gear into the catalyst. You can easily
[7:09] check your catalyst results by using an
[7:11] add-on like keystone loot. Find the item
[7:13] with the best stats for your class or
[7:15] spec and then lock that item in. Then
[7:17] you can avoid that gear slot when
[7:19] obtaining gear from other sources to
[7:21] make things even more efficient.
[7:24] You can take all of your hard-earned
[7:25] field accolades and spend them to get
[7:27] more champion gear or preferably some
[7:30] hero gear. You can buy champion gear for
[7:32] specific gear slots for 100 field
[7:34] accolades each, which can be worth it if
[7:37] you're still struggling to stay alive in
[7:39] the heroic world tier. But personally, I
[7:42] would recommend saving up for the hero
[7:43] gear boxes instead. You can spend 500
[7:46] field accolades for a random piece of
[7:48] hero gear or 750 if you want to target a
[7:52] specific gear slot. I would probably get
[7:54] the one random box to start off with if
[7:57] you don't have any hero gear yet. That's
[7:59] going to save you 250 accolades for the
[8:01] most part, but after that, I would
[8:03] probably stick to the gear slot boxes.
[8:06] When these hero boxes were first
[8:07] introduced, I bought three random boxes
[8:10] just to test things out, and I got three
[8:12] weapons in a row. So, I don't really
[8:14] trust the odds there. I'd rather kill a
[8:17] few more rares and know that I'm going
[8:18] to get an upgrade. When you're buying
[8:21] your hero gear, remember to avoid buying
[8:23] pieces of gear for the same slot that
[8:25] your Myth Track quest gear is going to
[8:27] be in. So, if you reckon you're going to
[8:29] pick up the belt from that quest in 4
[8:31] weeks time, don't buy a belt from this
[8:33] vendor. You don't want to waste 750
[8:36] field accolades if you can avoid it.
[8:39] So, that's how you can easily kick
[8:41] yourself out in full hero gear just from
[8:43] these new zones, but you can actually go
[8:45] a bit higher thanks to the new
[8:47] difficulty option for ritual sites. Tier
[8:50] six ritual sites reward you with five
[8:52] myth crests per run, and you can run as
[8:54] many as you want, giving solo content
[8:56] players an endlessly farmable source of
[8:59] myth crests for the first time. We also
[9:01] don't have any crest caps to worry about
[9:03] at this point. So, you can just run
[9:04] these over and over again to farm as
[9:06] many myth crests as you want or need.
[9:09] Every 80 myth crests you get. So, for
[9:12] every 16 tier six ritual sites you can
[9:15] sit through, you can spend your crests
[9:17] to upgrade a piece of radiant spark
[9:19] crafted gear to item level 285. That's
[9:22] the highest item level you can get as a
[9:24] solo content player right now. The
[9:26] current spot count is about 16, which
[9:29] means you can craft eight pieces of
[9:30] gear. If you don't include your tier set
[9:33] pieces or trinkets, that means you can
[9:35] cover most of your gear slots with
[9:36] crafted gear right now. You also won't
[9:39] have to craft a piece of gear for the
[9:41] slot that your myth track gear quest
[9:42] will fill in. So, that's one more slot
[9:44] you don't have to worry about. Now, if
[9:46] you haven't made your piece of gear yet,
[9:48] whenever you go to craft it, or whenever
[9:50] you make your crafting order in Silver
[9:52] Moon, just add the crests in down at the
[9:54] bottom of the crafting page. If you get
[9:56] a rank five craft, it will be guaranteed
[9:58] to be item level 285 if you're using
[10:01] myth crests. If you've already made a
[10:03] piece of gear, you can recraft it using
[10:05] your own professions or by making a
[10:07] recrafting order of the crafting order
[10:09] clerks. It won't require as many
[10:11] materials, and you can slot the
[10:12] mythrests in the same way.
[10:15] Because we're mostly interested in the
[10:17] myth crest rewards from the end of your
[10:19] ritual site run, you want to focus on
[10:21] completing them as quickly as possible.
[10:23] To that end, I would use these six
[10:25] challenges, which means turning off
[10:27] malevolent boons and embers and enabling
[10:30] pretty much everything else. Those
[10:31] specific challenges slow you down
[10:33] significantly as you have to clear the
[10:35] obelisks and empowered monsters before
[10:37] you can take on the mini bosses and
[10:39] bosses. With those challenges disabled,
[10:41] you can just focus on completing the
[10:43] objectives, which is just killing the
[10:45] mini bosses and bosses, I would ignore
[10:48] absolutely everything else, including
[10:50] treasures and rares. Getting the lower
[10:52] shrine buffs is still probably worth it,
[10:54] though. Now, because ritual sites are
[10:57] still going to be rewarding you with
[10:59] field accolades, it's probably worth
[11:01] moving on to tier six ritual sites
[11:03] before you are fully equipped in hero
[11:05] gear. Not only are you going to be
[11:07] replacing some of those pieces with 285
[11:10] crafted gear as you earn enough myth
[11:11] crests, but if you wait until you've
[11:13] already bought a full set of hero gear,
[11:15] you won't really have anything to buy
[11:17] with the field accolades that you're
[11:19] getting from farming ritual sites. So, I
[11:21] would probably head on over to ritual
[11:23] sites when you're in about half hero
[11:25] gear and just test the waters. If you
[11:27] need some more gear to make tier six a
[11:29] bit easier, head back to the new zones
[11:31] to keep farming there instead.
[11:34] This is definitely more of a steady burn
[11:36] kind of grind rather than getting it all
[11:39] done at once gearing option. With a bit
[11:41] of practice, you can probably clear a
[11:43] tier six ritual site in 10 minutes or
[11:45] less if you're being efficient. I
[11:47] managed to get my runs down to 7 minutes
[11:49] on my 277 Paladin. But with you needing
[11:52] 16 ritual sites per piece of gear you
[11:55] want to craft, it is still going to take
[11:57] you quite a while.
[11:59] It's also worth noting that if you don't
[12:01] have all of your radiant sparks and
[12:03] you're behind on this specific currency
[12:05] in your currency tab, it's probably a
[12:07] good idea to include some bountiful
[12:09] delve runs to the list. Not only will
[12:12] they help change things up and give you
[12:14] a bit of a different scenery from ritual
[12:15] sites, but you'll still be earning myth
[12:17] crests. You can still get 20 myth crests
[12:20] per week from running four tier 11
[12:22] bountiful delves, and they have a good
[12:24] chance to drop a radiant spark if you
[12:26] missed a few weekly quests. I'm not sure
[12:28] if radiant sparks can drop from ritual
[12:30] sites or from completing content in the
[12:32] new zones. I personally haven't seen
[12:34] any, so keep your eyes peeled for any
[12:36] extra sparks. If they can drop from the
[12:39] new content, fantastic. If they don't,
[12:42] your main option as a solo content
[12:44] player will be delves. And then don't
[12:47] forget, you can use the ascendant void
[12:49] cores from the nil hammer to boost the
[12:51] item level of maxed out crafted hero or
[12:54] myth track weapons and trinkets. So, you
[12:56] can bump up the item level of your hero
[12:58] trinkets as well as your crafted weapon
[13:00] for a little bit of extra damage. And
[13:02] that gets you an item level 295 weapon,
[13:05] which is very shiny indeed. Now, if you
[13:08] want to get your hands on some better
[13:09] gear a bit faster, your only real option
[13:12] would be jumping into mythic plus
[13:13] dungeons and working your way up to plus
[13:15] 10 keystones. They're not too difficult.
[13:18] It just requires a bit of learning and a
[13:19] bit of patience, but that will give you
[13:21] access to guaranteed Myth Track gear by
[13:24] using your void core bonus roles, as
[13:26] well as faster hero gear acquisition and
[13:28] faster Myth crest farming. If you manage
[13:31] to get a full hero gear set from the new
[13:33] zones, but really don't want to do the
[13:35] ritual site farming, mythic plus keys
[13:38] should be very easy with your shiny new
[13:40] hero gear. But if you want to stick to
[13:43] just solo player content, the new zones
[13:45] and tier six ritual sites are where
[13:47] you'll be spending most of your time.
[13:49] But that's how you can get up to item
[13:50] level 285 or higher as a solo content
[13:54] player in patch 1207. So that's it for
[13:56] this video. What are you going to be
[13:58] focusing on as we lead up to patch 12.1
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