WOW Dragonflight 10.1 Full PvP Gear Guide - How To Get Ilvl 447 In Dragonflight Season 2

The overhauled upgrading system in World of Warcraft Dragonflight season 2 is complex and may appear daunting at first.  Welcome to our WOW Dragonflight 10.1 full gearing guide. This Dragonflight season 2 full PvP gearing guide is going to be aimed at somebody who's been living under a rock but wants to hit the ground running at the start of 10.1. 

WOW Dragonflight Ilvl 447 Gearing Guide - Best Way To Get Full PvP Gear In Dragonflight Season 2

We’re going to explain all of the things happening with the gear systems primarily it's a new upgrade system that we're looking at but we’re also going to talk about the loot that comes from the raid and from Dungeons and the crafted gear and kind of all of the implications of all these things working together. The TLDR is that Valor upgrades are going away and the new upgrade system is much more powerful. It will let you get much more gear upgraded much earlier into this patch and lets you upgrade gear from normal or heroic raid all the way up to either high heroic or low Mythic item level respectively. So it's a big upgrade to quality life and power for players early in the patch. Check out the best item level 447 gearing tips for WOW Dragonflight season 2!

Dragonflight 10.1 Gearing For M+

These are pretty much the same item levels from the end of the dungeon that you might be used to from last time. The Great Vault item levels are actually bumped up a little bit and the thing to note is that Great Vault gear is very good. Even if you're just doing plus 8 keys, your Great Vault gear can get upgraded all the way up to a low Mythic item level, very powerful. Now you might be used to that from Valor because, under the old Valor system, the Valor cap was pretty close to three crests per week and not extra of different types. So you're getting way more of those per week but an upside of the Valor system was that you could upgrade gear from a plus two all the way up to the highest level right 441 equivalent. That is no longer the case this is a nerf basically to the system. If you want to get the max item level out of M plus. you need to be doing at least 17s or 18s and if you want to be doing it at full Crest efficiency you need to be doing the 19s and the 20s.

Dragonflight 10.1 Gearing For Raid

The raid gear is a little bit more simple with the one exception being the very rare items from the last two bosses who are actually on the next difficulties upgrade tracks because they're so high item level. In terms of the item level you can get out of LFR, you can upgrade LFR gear all the way up to 424. But it does cost obviously a bunch of LFR normal crests, you can upgrade heroic gear or normal gear all the way up to 437 though. Especially for tier pieces, this is really big. Any normal piece that you're going to take up to 437 is going to cost you at least four heroic crests and some normal crests as well generally. So this is a big sink for those heroic crafts, you get 10 per week, so four is a lot of that cap. 

How To Get Item Level 447 In Dragonflight Season 2?

Thanks to Larias's Raider's Survival guide, to craft a 447 piece, you need an Enchanted Shadowflame Crest of the difficulty you wish to craft it at. The materials for the Mythic version, the Enchanted Aspect’s Shadowflame Crest, requires 80 Chromatic Dust, 15 Vibrant Shards, 4 Resonant crystals, and, most importantly, 2 Dracothyst.

Dracothyst are the wild cards. There are two ways of obtaining them but we only know one way - a transmute with alchemy. The other way is from combining BoP shards that did not drop on the PTR and we do not know their source. While it’s safe to assume they have some sort of reliable generation, the transmute indicates that they will probably be somewhat rare.

Dracothyst are also used in a variety of other recipes, including the new raid phial cauldron, two PvP embellishments, the popular new Adaptive Dracothyst Armguards, the cauldron that acts as an Altar of Decay and a new Engineering tinker. Alchemists who wish to make money should hop on the train as fast as possible and start transmuting these. They will be in extremely high demand over the next two weeks as people craft 447 gear on May 9/10 and again on May 16/17. If you read this guide, you may also want to consider buying them now rather than when the general populace learns of them on Tuesday. After the initial burst of people crafting 7-10 of them with their stored transmutes, the production will slow to a trickle.

In addition to your Enchanted Shadowflame Crest, you also need to get a Spark of Shadowflame. Then, just like in S1, you send in your work orders and pray for that Inspiration proc.

Aberrus Sets

There are three major changes to acquiring set pieces in 10.1. The first is that the final boss will drop an omnitoken that can be used by any class for any slot. This can be used to offset bad luck in case your raid lockout gets very few tokens of a certain type. The second is that upon reaching one of three criteria a player will be able to purchase a set piece of Heroic ilvl for themselves. You have to either complete the raid on Heroic difficulty, acquire 2000 Mythic rating, or reach 1650 in Arenas. Finally, as the raid progresses, Blizzard will be reducing the number of tokens that drop per boss and offsetting that with more gear. Imagine, for example, that instead of getting two useless tokens from Broodkeeper, you got three Grieftorches instead.

Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible

Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible has nine bosses. Blizzard is bringing back the scaling item level based on the difficulty of the encounter and they are also bringing back special very rare items with increased item levels. There is a table at the bottom of the document that has the item levels for every boss.

Bosses 1-3: Kazzara the Hellforged, The Amalgamation Chamber, Assault on the Zaqali

Bosses 4-5: The Forgotten Experiments, Rashok

Bosses 6-7: Zskarn, Magmorax

Bosses 8-9: Echo of Neltharion, Scalecommander Sarkareth

Set drops from the following bosses:

Legs: Rashok - 444 Mythic ilvl

Hands: The Forgotten Experiments - 444 Mythic ilvl

Chest: Zskarn - 447 Mythic ilvl

Helm: Magmorax - 447 Mythic ilvl

Shoulders: Neltharion - 450 Mythic ilvl

Any slot: Scalecommander Sarkareth - one token for any slot at appropriate ilvl