WoW Dragonflight Season 1 Gear Guide (PvE & PvP) - Fast 421+ iLvl Gear Up Ways For Mains & Alts in Dragonflight

In this WoW Dragonflight Season 1 PvE & PvP Gearing Guide, we tell you how to gear your main and alts up to 421+ iLvl in Season 1 End-Game content.

WoW Dragonflight Season 1 Gearing Guide - How To Gear Main & Alts To 421+ iLvl in Dragonflight

The new content has just arrived at the Shores of the Dragon Isles, the first raid of Dragonflight Vault of the Incarnates is open, and the Season 1 of Mythic+ and PVP has just begun, and the Open World of Dragon Isles has even more gigantic threats and Primal invasions for you to overcome. With new content comes new gearing opportunities and in this guide, we go over all of the different ways that you can gear your mains and alts if you're looking to dive into the end-game content of Dragonflight Season 1.

1 - Gearing with New Open World Content

First, we have major updates to gearing in the Open World content:

1.1 - Primal Storms (359 iLvl Gear)

This week marks the launch of Primal Storms, a world event where Prime lists make a return and set up assaults throughout the zones of the Dragon Isles. This event is similar to the pre-expansion elemental assaults and reward a variety of gear upgrades and collectibles via open world. Group up with other players and slay Primal forces in select locations, slaying mobs helps you earn Elemental Overflow currency as well as Primal Chaos which are redeemable once a week.  Primal Overflow can be used to purchase armor of 359 item level which comes with its own tier set bonuses. These items are the perfect set of starter gear that you could farm for any fresh alts and new players, checking out Dragonflight for the very first time. An upgraded version of this gear can also be purchased for Primal chaos and awards item level that is comparable to normal raid difficulty items, but you'll also be able to spend this aurora currency on things like collectibles, pets and a Storm Hide Salamander Mount as well. 

1.2 - 4 New World Bosses (389 iLvl Gear)

This week we also get access to 4 New World bosses raging throughout the Dragon Isles. These bosses will be available for everyone to slay on a weekly rotation and will require an entire raid of players to take down. These goliaths will drop items of 389 item level which are similar to the very early gear found in the Vault of the Carnage raid on normal difficulty. 

1.3 - World Quests (Scaling Gear Upgrade To 380 iLvl)

And along with new content, you can still earn upgrades with World Quest which reward scaling gear upgrades, farming super rares could potentially net shoot 380 item level pieces, and these rares can be found in bracket hide located in the zone of Azure Span, the Obsidian Sanctum located in Waking Shore and near Vault of the Incarnates located in Thaldraszus.  

1.4 - Community Events (380 iLvl Gear)

We also have community events like Siege on Dragonbane Keep. The Community Feasts in Iskaara village and Grand haunts all over the Dragon Isles which have a chance of rewarding scaling upgrades usually around 380 item level. 

2 - Gearing In Vault of The Incarnates Raid

This week the first raid of Dragonflight - Vault of the Incarnates launches with the original reset this instance offers some of the strongest PVE items available and will open with all three difficulties of normal heroic and Mythic day one. With the lfart difficulty opening one wing at a time over the next few weeks, raiding in Dragonflight awards gear that scales with boss difficulty meaning that early bosses are generally easier to tackle but will reward lower item level entry gear. These rewards start at 389 on normal, 402 on heroic, and 415 on Mythic difficulty; while high-end difficult bosses will drop 398 on normal, 411 on heroic, and 424 on Mythic difficulties. 

These raid bosses could also drop some rare unique items with powerful bonus effects and certain raid fights can offer tier set items as well. Tier sets and gear will come with a variety of unique and powerful bonuses available for every single class pack in the game and will be worth getting early to increase your character's overall power at end-game content.

3 - Dragonflight Season 1 M+ Dungeons Gearing (415 iLvl Gear)

We also get major improvements to Season 1 Dungeons and Mythic+ gearing. The first season of Dragonflight dungeons is set to feature old and new dungeons in a rotation. Season 1 will include Dragonflight dungeons of Algeth'ar Academy where we'll be life poles the Azure Vault and the Nokhud Offensive. But we also will feature dungeons from previous expansions such as Court of Stars and Halls of Valor from the expansion of Legion, Shadowmoon Burial Grounds from Warlords of Draenor, and Temple of the Jade Serpent from Mists of Pandaria.

With many of the older dungeons scene changes and new mechanics to help scale them to the Dragonflight standard. Similar to previous expansions, Mythic dungeons reward end of run gear which can now scale all the way to plus 19 difficulty offering better competitor rewards of 4 or 5 item levels for challenging yourself in upscaled instances. These items can also be upgraded with Valor - a currency obtainable from Mythic+ Dungeons and can be potentially upgraded to item level 415 depending on your Mythic dungeon rating. Your Mythic+ rating can be improved by finishing and timing more difficult Mythic+ dungeons.

4 - Dragonflight Season 1 PvP Gearing

We also see massive improvements to PVP gearing in Dragonflight:

4.1 - Combat with Other Players (Scaling Upgrade)

First things first, PVP gear will still reign supreme inside of PVP combat situations meaning that you don't necessarily need to grind raids or dungeons or other external activities to be competitive in rated PVP. All PVP items will still retain their scaling qualities, upgrading when engaging in combat with other players. 

4.2 - PvP Open World Quests (421 iLvl Gear)

There are also new avenues when it comes to gearing for PvP, with open-world PVP gear and new open world vendors. These items can be obtained by participating in PvP open world quests as well as other activities. Slaying players in the open world nets you Bloody Token currency which can be exchanged for starter PVP items. The base World PVP gear scales to atom level 408 and comes with its own tier set bonuses, it can be further upgraded to scale to 421 in PvP combat for trophies of Strife awarded for participating in open-world PVP activities.

4.3 - Hornor Gearing (411+ iLvl Gear)

We also have basic honor gear which scales up to item level 411 and can be obtained with other points awarded for most PVP activities. While these items can be upgraded to a higher rank, the scaling level does not change, and upgrading only benefits their PVE capabilities.

4.4 - Conquest Gearing (424 iLvl Gear)

Conquest gear can be obtained with Conquest points which are awarded from participating in rated PVP activities. These items scale to automall 424 and just like honor obtaining higher ranks does not improve its scaling item level making Conquest pieces the most competitive items you should try to obtain for PVP combat.

5 - Great Vault Gearing

Participating in end-game content like raids Mythic+ and rated PVP, let's collect gear from the great Vault, the more bosses you slay the more dungeons you complete, and the more you PVP the more chances you gain at rewards to take with you every weekly reset. But you may only walk away with one of these items at a time, so choose wisely.  This gear will scale with the difficulty of content, meaning slaying Mythic bosses will award a better gear than normals, higher-end dungeons will award better gear, and competing at a higher PVP rating will not change the scaling item mobile but will improve the base item level of the item.  For those of you looking to focus on Mythic dungeons or PVP, the great Vault offers an opportunity at collecting tiers at pieces, and it's recommended to fill your Vault fully in any of these activities in order to gain more chances at potential upgrades. 

6 - Catalyst Tier Set Catch-Up

The creation Catalyst will be returning to Dragonflight at a later time of the Season, Just like in the expansion of Shadowlands, this Catalyst will be able to take your base PVP raid and dungeon gear and upgrade him into tier set items. The Catalyst will be released a few weeks after the season has launched, as it is mostly intended to be bad luck protection and a catch-up alternative for alt characters. This version of The Catalyst will be alt friendly and capable of sorting multiple charges globally for all of your characters at once, just make sure you do the weekly questline to collect a charge on your main first. The Catalyst will also support all future characters as well, making it much easier to re-roll into a new main or catch up with some new all characters way after the season has launched.

7 - Professions Gearing (418 iLvl Gear)

Gearing through professions is another alternative. Crafting professions can offer great starter gear which can also be listed on the Auction House for a bit of profit. Specializing in certain professions can allow you to make some of the most competitive items for the end game, but take a lot of time and commitment to cultivate. Specialization items will require Primal infusions which is a unique crafting currency obtainable from all forms of end games for you by those who invested time into these professions and specializations for an item level 418. Some of these crafting items even come with unique combat bonuses which could be useful to a variety of play Styles in PVE content, as well as unique bonuses found only in PvP.  It's highly recommended to hold on to all crafting materials, as you can use the work order system to get these items crafted for you by those who invested time into these professions and specializations. 

For now, that's going to be the full guide to how gearing will work in the Season 1 of Dragonflight, hope it will give you a good ahead idea about gearing.