How to Hit the ilvl 635 Gear Requirement for Blackrock Foundry LFR

posted 2015/02/15 at 12:23 PM by perculia

Blackrock FoundryHighmaulilvl 615 Highmaul LFR guideHighmaul LFR and Normal (640-655)Highmaul

Gear from Highmaul LFR is ilvl 640, with the chance to be Warforged, come with an extra socket, and/or tertiary stat. You need ilvl 615 gear to queue for Highmaul wings.

Gear from Highmaul Normal is ilvl 655, with the chance to be Warforged, come with an extra socket, and/or tertiary stat. You can use the in-game Group Finder to pug this difficulty, which scales between 10-30 players.

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Return to Table of ContentsUpgraded Apexis Gear (645-655)Apexis CrystalApexis CrystalApexis CrystalApexis Crystal

Daily Level 100 quests to kill elites reward 800 Apexis Crystal, like Assault on Darktide Roost.

Daily Level 100 group quests reward 1000 Apexis Crystal, like Challenge at the Ring of Blood.

Daily Level 100 PvP quests reward 1000 Apexis Crystal, like Battle in Ashran.

or complete a short questline beforeGarrison Resourcesall the Apexis Crystal "Assault" DailiesApexis Crystalall the ways to farm Apexis Crystals in Warlords of Draenor

The first tier of gear, "Crystal," is ilvl 630 and requires 0 Apexis Crystal for bracers and capes, 0 Apexis Crystal for belts and hands, and 0 Apexis Crystal for legs and helms. Click here to see all of the gear. Vendors are Dawn-Seeker Verroak and Dawn-Seeker Jiklar.

The second tier of gear, "Exceptional," is ilvl 645 and requires the ilvl 630 item plus 0 Apexis Crystal for bracers and capes, 0 Apexis Crystal for belts and hands, and 0 Apexis Crystal for legs and helms. Click here to see the Exceptional Apexis Crystal Gear. Vendors are Dawn-Seeker Vallar and Dawn-Seeker Rikks.

The highest tier of gear, "Flawless," is ilvl 655 and requires the ilvl 645 item plus 0 Apexis Crystal for bracers and capes, 0 Apexis Crystal for belts and hands, and 0 Apexis Crystal for legs and helms. Click here to see the Flawless Apexis Crystal Gear. Vendors are Dawn-Seeker Krek and Dawn-Seeker Alkset.

Return to Table of ContentsWorld Bosses (650-665)Tarlna the AgelessDrov the RuinerBlackrock FoundryRukhmarRukhmarSeal of Tempered Fate

Drov the Ruiner: Amulet, Hands, Waist

Tarlna the Ageless: Chest, Hands, Waist

Rukhmar: Feet, Legs, Rings

Warlords of Draenor World BossesReturn to Table of ContentsConquest Gear (660)

Rated Arenas: Rated Arenas are the most popular way to earn . Each arena win will award 180 Conquest Points up to the weekly cap of 1500 (1700 with the extra 200 for "winning" Ashran). Increasing your rating above 1597 will increase the weekly cap available to you.

Rated Battlegrounds: Rated Battlegrounds allow you to earn more Conquest Points -- 400 per win, and between 0 and 200 per loss, depending how close it was. However, they're less popular than arenas, as they require a premade group of 10 to enter. The weekly cap for Rated Battlegrounds was higher than the Rated Arena cap in Mists of Pandaria, but in Warlords of Draenor they're the same -- you can collect your initial 1500 Conquest Points however you want.

Rated Battlegrounds also have a chance to award a piece of Conquest gear from your first three wins per week, but you can only win one piece per week.

Ashran: Completing boss objectives on Ashran has a chance to award Conquest Points. There are also a few quests that reward Conquest Points on Ashran. We have a great guide by user HelloKitty to literally everything in Ashran if you're overwhelmed by the zone.

0 : Chest, Head, Legs, Caster Weapons

0 : Capes, Ring, Off-hand, Necks, Wrist, Shield

0 : Feet, Hands, Waist, Trinket, Shoulder, Melee 1H Weapons

0 : Two-Handed Weapon, Ranged

Blood Guard AxelashIngrid BlackingotMarshal GabrielGeneral AevdPvP Gearing Guide for Warlords of DraenorReturn to Table of ContentsUpgraded Legendary Ring (680-690)

The ilvl 640 ring just requires you to be 98 and complete regular Skyreach.

The ilvl 680 ring requires you to loot legendary items from heroic Bloodmaul Slag Mines, Grimrail Depot, The Everbloom, and Auchindoun. You also need 6 Apexis Crystal.

The ilvl 690 ring requires you to loot items from Ko'ragh and Imperator Mar'gok, as well as 125 Abrogator Stone which are acquired from Highmaul bosses, Work Orders, and select missions. This ring also comes with a proc which boosts your primary stat.

Return to Table of ContentsUpgrading Profession Epics (645-670)Profession GuidesBuildings for Professions and Crafting

Armor: 640 > 655 > 670

Weapons: 630 > 645 > 660

Profession

Crafted Items

Upgrade Token

Greater Upgrade Token

Reroll Token

Blacksmithing

weapons and plate armor

Unstable Truesteel Essence, Unstable Steelforged Essence

Unstable Greater Truesteel Essence, Unstable Greater Steelforged Essence

Truesteel Grinder, Truesteel Reshaper

Engineering

gun and BoP goggles

Unstable Linkgrease Locksprocket, Unstable True Iron Trigger

Unstable Morden's Magnificent Contraption, Unstable Blackrock Rifling

Didi's Delicate Assembly

Inscription

staves, wand, offhand, trinket

Unstable Weapon Crystal, Unstable Ensorcelled Tarot

Unstable Greater Ensorcelled Tarot, Unstable Greater Weapon Crystal

Volatile Crystal

Jewelcrafting

rings, amulets

Unstable Taladite Amplifier

Unstable Greater Taladite Amplifier

Taladite Recrystalizer

Leatherworking

leather armor, mail armor, capes

Unstable Burnished Essence

Unstable Greater Burnished Essence

Leather Refurbishing Kit

Tailoring

cloth armor, capes

Unstable Hexweave Essence

Unstable Greater Hexweave Essence

Hexweave Embroidery

Legendary Questline GuideReturn to Table of ContentsGarrisonsInvasions (645)Garrison Invasions GuideFollower Missions (645-655)followersmissions

Tier 3, requires item level 630 followers: Several missions reward ilvl 645 gear: shoulders, chest, feet, neck, trinket, wrist, weapon.

Tier 4, 645: These missions reward a Highmaul Foundry cache which contains armor from the raid--ilvl 655 from Normal, ilvl 670 from Heroic, or ilvl 685 from Mythic. We have a guide specifically on how to successfully complete Highmaul Missions.

It will take some time to level followers up.

You may not have missions in your log that reward gear--they show up infrequently and many item level missions do not reward gear.

If the mission has threats your leveled-up followers don’t counter, there is a high chance you will fail it and not get gear.

Completing Work orders at the Dwarven Bunker / War Mill Level 2 for follower tokens.

Opening Salvage at the Salvage Yard for follower tokens.

Completing missions that have follower tokens as rewards.

You do not increase the item level of your follower by giving them gear to wear, like you would for increasing your own item level.

Guide to Garrison MissionsGuide to Garrison FollowersReturn to Table of ContentsBoEs (655-665)The Undermine Journal

These items can be looted from mobs in Highmaul on Normal, Heroic, and Mythic difficulty. Past expansions did not have heroic and mythic versions of trash drops, but Highmaul does.

This gear can be Warforged (+6 ilvls), have an extra socket, and/or a tertiary stat.

These items can be looted from mobs in Draenor or found at any level Salvage Yard when you acquire boxes from missions.

Unlike Highmaul BoEs, this gear cannot come with Warforged, socket, or tertiary stat variations.

Aryu's Puzzle RingErorus' Ledger of TradeAshelia's Adorned WaistguardReturn to Table of ContentsDungeons

Previously, each boss had a set of uniquely-named loot. Now, multiple bosses can drop loot of the same name, but different bosses are assigned unique item level versions of the items. For example, Bonemaw always drops the ilvl 615 version of Goldsteel Belt on Normal, Warlord Zaela always drops the ilvl 630 version on Heroic, and Vigilant Kaathar always drops the ilvl 570 version on Normal as Auchindoun is a lower level than Shadowmoon Burial Grounds.

Another change is that loot tables for each boss appear much larger than before. Instead of a boss dropping a belt, there is a chance that a boss will drop one of five belts for a particular armor type. These belts vary in the types of secondary stat combos they have--the combos are set in advance and are not random.

With Personal loot (default), you will always get an item from the final boss.

With Need before Greed active, you will get 3 items to be shared among the group.

Finally, Normal-mode dungeon gear has the chance to have a tertiary stat.

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Heroic (630)Click here to see a list of all the gear

To queue for a heroic dungeon with friends, you must be level 100 and have ilvl 610 gear.

To solo queue for a heroic dungeon, you must complete Proving Grounds Silver and be level 100. Check out our role guides to familiarize yourself with your class.

You can see what heroic gear drops from a particular zone or boss by clicking on the "Drops" tab and then setting it to "Heroic" right below.

Challenge (640)

Pick up the daily Challenge Mode quest from Challenger Sunforge in Warspear or Challenger Savina in Stormshield.

Completing the instance rewards Rusted Challenger's Strongbox, which contains ilvl 640 gear. This gear is appropriate for your class/spec but has randomized secondary stats. This gear can be Warforged (+6 ilvls), have an extra socket, and/or a tertiary stat.

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Comment by ExcelionSome random tips for fresh 100s:

- Honor gear is really good, it's preferable to wait to spend it to fill in a gap or two with gear unless it'll get you to the breakpoint. If you do Ashran, most honor comes from the objectives instead of the main battle. If you're patient and your faction is capable of winning them, events can be done infinitely, but the static objectives are on a daily reset timer

- If you have spare gold, buy up Stage 1 640 BoEs and don't equip them, keep them in your bags. It'll count towards your ilvl as long as its an item you 'can' equip. Resell once you have the appropriate ilvl or other 640 items to equip from Highmaul LFR. Don't try this shortcut method as a tank, easier to pull off as a DPS. There aren't too many good trinkets in LFR, so odds are you'll equip the Darkmoon 640 and keep it for awhile.

- You'll need 5k crystals for the legendary quest so I found myself never buying the starter gear

- World bosses can be looted by sub 100s. If you play on a high pop you can hang out by the Rukhmar/Drov/Tar spawns. I'm actually doing this already to get more shots at the Solarspire Hawk mount. Group Finder is a mixed bag, leaders can be picky and not invite sub 640 DPS. However if you're a tank/healer/or Warlock role, you'll have an easier time getting in.

- In 6.1 the 615-630-645 mission gear tokens will be BoA, which is huge. I don't think it'll be retroactive though, but definitely hold onto those. That'll be the most efficient way to gear up for fresh 100s if you have other characters to do missions on.

- Pair up with a more geared friend to run through Normal Highmaul. When you sign up for groups in Group Finder, you'll show up as a package deal.Comment by perculiaGreat tips! I don't think the mission gear tokens are BoA though in 6.1, from the ones I've done on the PTR :( Theres some BoA versions of the ilvl 630 tokens, but I haven't seen them attached to missions.Comment by ExcelionWell that's unfortunate. ><

Also on the invasion front, I should mention that the Botani invasion is way easier than the other ones to get gold on, you can approach 1800 on them. So you can farm up your own and then make the group, won't have to worry about groups denying you. IH is also pretty easy and is 1200-1300 usually. It's not the most time efficient thing to do though since the 645 piece isn't guaranteed from the bag, but it is a chance at one of 4 mounts too.Comment by GrasstThere is some outdated or just plain incorrect info I figured I should point out in this guide. First is that Rukmar is always up and is a separate loot lockout from the other world bosses.

Second is that as far as conquest goes, the special events that appear in the four zones of Ashran award 125 conquest and 250 honor if you participate and win. There are almost always"event groups" going that ignore the main road and just farm those rewards. Ask to hon one as soon as you enter Ashran. These conquest points also count towards the 200 Ashran only weekly points, you don't have to win Ashran to fully cap.

Lastly, boe drops from highmaul and Blackrock foundry are the iLevel as the loot bosses in the insurance will drop, not just 655. For instance heroic highmaul gives670boe and Blackrock normal gives 665boes.

I hope this helps, even if it doesn't make it into the guide.Comment by avatarofshadowthe engineering googles aren't bop. they never were in live. not sure if they were in the PTR for WoD.Comment by JdamoyfHow do you flag a guide for correction? Crafted pieces of armor are 665 at max, not 670.Comment by SoCalWoWGalHow do you flag a guide for correction? Crafted pieces of armor are 665 at max, not 670.Comment by InterestHow do you flag a guide for correction? Crafted pieces of armor are 665 at max, not 670.straight up wrongComment by dylank22The engineering goggles aren't BoP they just require 600 engineering to equip.Comment by InterestThe engineering goggles aren't BoP they just require 600 engineering to equip.Comment by TassitThe engineering goggles aren't BoP they just require 600 engineering to equip.Comment by InterestThe engineering goggles aren't BoP they just require 600 engineering to equip.On the other hand players may want Swapblasters and Loot-A-Rangs still.Comment by MoltenCookieFor me is says that my LFR (Slagworks) isn't available yet, even though i have a 635 ilvl?
any help will be appreciated :)Comment by lankybritThe engineering goggles aren't BoP they just require 600 engineering to equip.On the other hand players may want Swapblasters and Loot-A-Rangs still.Comment by bazzylIts 18th February and Raid Finder Wing 1: Slagworks (Gruul, Oregorger, and The Blast Furnace) is still unavailable...Comment by SoCalWoWGalIts 18th February and Raid Finder Wing 1: Slagworks (Gruul, Oregorger, and The Blast Furnace) is still unavailable...Blackrock Foundry Raid Schedule February 18, 2015:• Raid Finder Wing 1, Slagworks (Gruul, Oregorger, and The Blast Furnace) unlocks.Comment by bazzylNow it's unlocked :)

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