World of Warcraft MEGA-FAQ

At level 80 the game becomes very different from the questing and profession advancement of the 79 previous levels. You have only six things you can do with a level 80:

PvP
Heroics
Raids
Get gold Max professions
Earn achievements

That’s it. The seventh option is to make more toons, which you will, but of  course your 80 only allows more gold for them.

PvP —

This is my first option because this is the best way you can get purple gear. In you faction’s capitol is a place to purchase PvP gear at level 80 for  your class. 31000-49000 honor points will buy you a piece of gear. Two pieces of the same set nets a bonus, and four give an even better perk. Nearby of the  base gear vendor is a guy who will sell trinkets, rings, capes, and necklaces.

Another nice way to get purple gear is to help your faction’s fight for  Wintergrasp. The quartermaster there sells a few base pieces of gear, as well as some trinkets. No, the heirlooms he sells won’t help your level 80 for long, they are meant for your other toons on the server. The 80 equipment requires your WG marks of honor, but you must kill 15 players (or be around them) and  win each match to get 3.

Before a recent patch you could really farm Wintergrasp for honor with at least the daily quests, but now those quests are weekly, so WG is only a source of  normal honor for the other days of the week.

I say Alterac Valley is the best option for honor, a win in which all the  towers/bunkers fell and you put in some killing of your own nets about 1600 honor a pop, and even losses can get 600 honor, which is almost as much as  winning the other BGs. Arathi matches are usually quick too. Feel free to  rotate all the BGs, and do the daily quest. If you rotate enough you can spend your marks from all five BGs, one of each, at a battlemaster for the quest  Conserted Efforts for honor.

Once you’ve done all you can for the Wintergrasp marks of honor and once you have all the heirlooms, you can start spending those on honor from the WG quartermaster. You can even spend the Stone Keeper Shards on the honor if you know you won’t need some of the heirlooms, but you may want to hesitate before you do that. The WG marks of honor run out of use quicker than the SK Shards.

Heroics ——-

All dungeons from Outland and Northrend have heroic options. I believe most of the Outland options require keys to unlock them (that may have since changed), but no one really cares about those at 80.

There are only a handful of Northrend dungeons. The purpose of running these  are for gear, emblems of heroism, and heroic quests. The gear is obvious,  just whatever the bosses or mobs drop.

I mention this option second because it takes a group of five players with all good gear in order to hope for non-wipage. Ironically, only the end-boss  purple drop from heroic dungeons will help, but you need a group of players with gear that is on that level to kill the end boss, easily at least. Ideally you will group with four other players that already have raid gear, and you can basically tag along and hopefully get a few good drops, or get the  emblems. You can spend the emblems at a heroism quartermaster in Dalaran.

Emblems of heroism buy Frozen Orbs for professions, but also pay for a number of weapons and some gear. The gear may not be what you are looking for, but the weapons are for the most part at the same level of the Titansteel weapons made by blacksmiths.

Here is what each type of play style needs to shoot for:

DPS – 1.5k is the minimum. Tank – be around 30k health. Heal – not sure really, I guess around 18k mana.

It goes without saying, but knowing your class, maybe asking around or looking on the net for tips for your class, always helps improve whatever it is you do.