Fresh 120 gear guide

I saw a lot of people posting about how to gear their new 120s so here ya go. This post will cover how a fresh 120 can acquire gear. Before I start, with the coming of 8.3 there will be catch up gear that starts at ilvl 400 so some of these will be irrelevant soon. There are shortcuts depending on how much gold, time and if you have a group of friends.This is free solo content. All world quest / emissary quests scale as your ilvl goes up.Open up world quests – The non azerite gear will scale to 390 and can titanforge to 420. The azerite pieces stop at 400 I think.Emissary quests – These are the 4 you do in a particular zone once a day. The azerite armor can scale up to 415 with caches for other pieces up to 420 including weapons.Invasions- These happen every 11 hours and stay for 6. A timer can be found https://ift.tt/34CfbFH . Do these in warmode for conquest points. First conquest bar fill is a 410 WEAPON.Open up Naz / Mechagon – The gear you get from the pearls you farm from dailies, mobs, bosses etc, can be traded in for every piece but weapons that can be upgraded till 425. Some Naz pieces can proc gem slots and some are actually BIS for raiding EP. Mobs / dailies have a chance to drop the base line gear 385. I would suggest obtaining the Azerite pieces first and upgrading them to 400. Azerite gear and weapons will be your biggest damage / tanking / healing upgrades.RaidFinder – I think you need 370 to que for the lowest raid. Join all of them, kindly WHISPER people for gear if it looks like they don't need it. Kind whispers go along way .Warfronts – They happen on a two week rotation-ish and last for a week. There is normal / heroic Stromgarde (400/430 reward) and normal darkshore (400 reward). If Stromgarde is up you can do the Darkshore world boss that drops 400 ilvl gear.PvP - The very first conquest bar fill is a 410 WEAPON. You can do normal bg ques. 1600 arena rating gives you a 430 piece of gear in your pvp chest on reset. Filling the bar will then give you 415 gear for about 11 bar fills then move up to a 430 weapon and 430 pieces.Weeklies – you can pick up weekly quests in your dungeon journal. PvP and PvE content cycles per week. They usually give 400 – 430 gear on completion depending on the week.Brawls – I think bi-weekly rotating pvp maps that you can que for in group finder. Give out 400 ilvl items on completion. Journal will also have these quests.​This section requires friends / guildmates / or gold. If your class can Tank / Heal I would suggest trying the specs because you can get into groups easier and faster. Making all of the grinds exponentially quicker. DPS ques for raidfinder are upwards of an hour or two. Tank and healer ques are almost instant.Auction House - Obviously duh but you can buy 370 gear. Making everything above a little easier. I wouldn't buy any of the higher ilvl ( 440+ ) stuff unless you have tons of money or its cheap. Most of that gear will be replaced in the coming month.Mythics – Start at what ever level you feel comfortable. Mythic 0s drop 400 gear and can titanforge up to 430. Azerite pieces from M0 are a solid 400 and can't titanforge.Buy or get a Mythic 10 done. 430 gear drops end of dungeon chest and 440+ on reset. The higher the mythic you do at the end of the week the more Titanium Residuum you get on Tuesday reset. Residuum is used to buy Azerite pieces. If you get a 10 done, on reset you'll have enough residuum to get 2 heroic level pieces from the vendor. Residuum guide https://ift.tt/2L6fHnE a Normal Eternal Palace and politely whisper people for drops.Do a Heroic Eternal Palace. If you are straight dps your chances of getting in with low ilvl are small. Bring a friend or roll swap. You can buy 2 reroll tokens a week. I would horde them until you can run content that drops a baseline of 430 gear for cost efficiency.PvP- Going to repost this here as well. 1600 arena rating is very easy to acquire and can be done in 2's ques. 1600 is another heroic piece, residuum and essences. You need to have filled one entire conquest bar ( 500 points ) that week and done at least one arena match to acquire gear from the pvp chest. Conquest is acquired through most pvp with bonuses on first wins for every type of pvp match. You can also acquire conquest from doing invasion quests with war mode on and chests that drop from the sky on random timers through out every BFA zone.Essences, Azerite, other helpful sites.Azerite is passive drops from pretty much any activity in the game. This affects your necklace. The higher your neck the more Essences you can put into them stacking to 1 major essence and 3 minor. The best in slot essences and what they do can be found on the list below. The higher your azerite level the more slots you can unlock on your azerite gear. Essences are small character buffs obtained from every aspect of the game that you upload to your neck.https://ift.tt/2rFvy5M - List sims for your classes theoretical best in slot. Its not the word of god but it will give you something to work towards.https://banishsoul.com/ - Lists popular traits, essences, builds for pvp and pve.https://ift.tt/1FyDQGd - can help you determine what pieces of gear are better for your toon at the moment. You do need an addon in game that can be found at https://ift.tt/34AM6uf Not the word of god but gives you and idea. Residuum can be gathered from Tuesday reset pve and pvp chests and can be obtained via disenchanting or scrapping azerite armor pieces and island maps.Islands - HUGE source of Azerite. After filling the azerite bar you will get a special quest at your "garrison" table that can proc gold / ap / mog items / residuum / pets.​Edit Edit: I thought it might be helpful to add a list of what I would do in the first week of a fresh toon.Under the assumption I have little to no gold, playing solo, no alts etc I would do the followingFill my conquest bar for the 410 weapon in pug bg ques.Do world quests / invasions in warmode while waiting.Open Naz and farm everything there for pearls and gear.Do normal EP.A week of this and you'll be sitting around 420 +. This will help scale your world / emissary quests. Run mythics and keep advancing my gear via mythics till i can get accepted into heroic EP.Fill in with warfronts, invasions, random pvp drops, conquest bar drops, world boss drops.