WOW Classic Season of Mastery Gear Guide- How to Get FULL Gear in ONE MONTH in WOW classic SoM

It's now been over two weeks since the classic wow Season of Mastery was released. Wow classic Season of Mastery isn't short of awesome avenues for gearing up your character. So this is the perfect time to start talking about gearing up, Season of Mastery has significantly more content available from the get-go at 60 than Classic WoW had in phase 1, content that can provide your character with some very strong gear to step inside Molten Core with, and you may not know about all those new avenues available to you.

Today sharing a gearing guide for WoW Classic: SoM, from the easiest ways to get gear, and thus the ones you should do first, to the hardest, so the ones you should leave for last. 

WOW Classic Season of Mastery Gear Guide- How to Get FULL Gear in ONE MONTH in WOW classic SoM

1. Questing

Alright first off, just like it's the case in every wow expansion, your first avenue for gearing up is gonna be through questing. And questing in wow Classic can provide you with some very good pieces of gear that you might be keeping for a very long time, that's why suggest you start with this right away. 

Now before going further into questing, here's a disclaimer for you if you're still  , and this is only a concern at the higher levels. If you come across some of these quests that reward you with any choice of armor or weapons, always select the one you're gonna use for the spec you're gonna be raiding with, you'd be surprised how many pre-raid bis pieces you can come across while questing.

Ideally, you'd want to check your pre-raid bis list to know these in advance, but you could also just always select the one for your raiding spec say once you reach level 50+. But to name just a few examples of quest reward items, you'll be keeping for a while, you have the leggings of the Ursa for fury warriors, for example, comes off a level 50 quest in Felwood and you'll be keeping those until you manage to get the legs from the last boss of Dire Maul West. 

Mark of Fordring is another powerful piece neck that you'll be keeping as a melee or hunter until you get the neck from Onyxia's head. Spirit of Aquamentas from a quest in un'goro for casters, and much more things like. So check your pre-bis list, and make sure to either do those quests while   or at least once you max level.

2. Crafting

Your next avenue of gearing in Classic is gonna be crafted gear, either crafting those things yourself, hence why choosing the right professional is important in this game or getting another player in your guild or someone you know to craft them for you if they're boe. 

Don't recommend buying stuff directly from the auction house, it's generally gonna cost you more. Things like Lionheart Helmet, Heart of the Wild, Robe of the Archmage to name just a few, or even more basic things like the Felcloth set or the Frostweave set to start with, you're probably not gonna have enough classic wow gold at the moment you hit 60 to get all these things, so those are more like long term things to aim for, especially the epic pieces.

But recommend starting working on those as soon as you can. The question is: should spend your gold on your epic mount first or on one of those important epic pieces? It's up to you, if you're someone who farms a lot of gold in the outside world, the epic mount could be a great investment, but if you're someone who's only into raiding, you can start with crafting those powerful gear pieces. 

3. Dungeons

The next avenue of gearing that you should get into is dungeons. Classic has a lot of dungeons available at max level, and with Dire Maul being available from the start now, unlike with the first iteration of Classic, you'll be busy doing dungeons for quite a long time. If you've played Classic, you know how insane certain dungeon pieces can be and how long they will last you. In the first iteration of Classic in 2019, Hand of Justice completely randomly while doing BRD while  , and kept that thing into Naxxramas, and even used it in Naxxramas for certain bosses or Spellweaver's Turban from General Drakkisath, that's another new thing available from phase 1 and this will last you for a very long time. And of course, how could not mention the dungeon set 2, aka tier 0.5. This gear was designed to give players who didn't raid, raid equivalent gear. 

But don't get too excited about the dungeon set 2, it's better for certain classes than others. For rogues for example it's just insane, you'll be keeping the four-set for this into AQ40. For most other classes, you'll only be using one or two pieces, or even no pieces at all for most healers. 

Dungeons in Classic are super good for gearing, and now they should be easier to form too with the presence of summoning stones near each dungeon's entrance, so people should be more down to forming groups for these or joining groups for them. That being said they're still Classic dungeons, so quite long and quite tedious for some of them. 

4. Reputations

Next up reputation vendors, so unlike in TBC and subsequent expansions, Classic doesn't have a lot of reputations that offer gear the only ones that do are the PvP reputations. Among those, the easiest one to level up is the Alterac Valley rep, you'll need to participate in quite a few AVs to reach exalted, and obviously, you'll get more rep by winning, so how fast you reach exalted will depend on how good your faction is in AV. 

But the AV rep has some very solid pieces for a lot of classes, recommend you get it to exalted sooner rather than later if there's something you can use from here. Then the other two reps are the Warsong Gulch rep and Arathi Basin rep, completely day and night in terms of the time, it takes to reach exalted compared to AV, that being said some pieces are even more insane to get from here.

Pieces that were added in later phases of Classic, but that are available from the get-go in Season of Mastery, so if you don't mind some PvP and can invest some time in those BGs, you'll be rewarded with some crazy pieces, of course not for all classes and specs, so first check what there is to get before you make your decision. 

5. Silithus

Next up real quick, for Season of Mastery Blizzard enabled Silithus dukes and royal lords from the get-go now in phase 1, those are bosses you can summon by farming Twilight Sets from the twilight mobs around the camps in Silithus, then summoning Templars, you can kill those with 2 to 3 players, then after you kill enough Templars you can summon Dukes, those require at least 5 players to kill, then after you kill enough Dukes you can summon the big Royal Lords, those require way bigger groups, anywhere from 15 to 20 or 25 to down. Dukes already have some very good pieces that they can drop, surprisingly enough some of them are also BoE, so they could be great for making WOW gold classic, and obviously, the big royal lords are gonna have the best loot tables, with epic raid equivalent gear that they can drop. So look into those, maybe there's something you could use from them. 

6. Raiding

After you've exhausted all those avenues of gearing and got a good amount of pre-raid bis gear, you're ready to set foot in raids. Raiding is harder in Season of Mastery, much harder, so you'll probably want to get a good amount of gear before dabbling with this. Now two weeks into World of Warcraft SOM Classic and no one even set foot inside Molten Core or Onyxia, and it's not like there's a shortage of level 60 people, there's more than enough in most servers to tackle raiding, but people know how tough it's become now and they probably want to get prepared quite thoroughly before dabbling with it. 

Anyways with Molten Core and Onyxia available now, there are some nice pieces to get in preparation for Blackwing Lair and beyond. Things like Quick Strike Ring, the Onyxia Tooth Pendant, Talisman of Ephemeral Power, Ring of Spell Power, Choker of the Fire Lord to name just a few, are all quite solid pieces that you'll be keeping for a while. Speaking of upcoming raids this is something that's gonna be available in the future, but ZG is a nice and easy 20 man raid that has quite a lot of neat pieces of gear to get from, and after that, once AQ releases you also have AQ20, another 20 man raid, not too hard and which has great pieces to get for people who can't invest the effort into getting in those harder 40 man raids.

But, with all the insane avenues of gearing outside raiding available now in World of Warcraft Season of Mastery, it makes raiding less important in terms of gearing than it was originally, so don't feel bad about skipping a week or two of raiding, or not even raiding at all, it's less important now, especially in phase 1. And with raids releasing every 4 months or so, it means that most people will not be fully raid geared anymore. 

Anyways let move on to the harder avenues of gearing, at this point getting into content that you'll have to invest tens or even hundreds of hours into to even get a single piece of gear from, so not recommended for casual players, but if it's your thing, go for it. 

7. Ranking

And, to start, PvP ranking gear, ranking up in wow Classic SoM is now supposed to be twice easier roughly according to Blizzard, but twice easier still doesn't make ranking any easy at all. You'll still be investing tens of hours per day at the higher ranks to climb the ladder, and if you stop, you'll fall behind equally as fast. 

But that being said, if you can manage to reach rank 11, 12, 13, or god forbid, 14, you'll be going home with some insane gear that will last you for a very long time. Again, certain classes will make better use of this than others, fury warriors and hunters will be wearing the full set at least until BWL. Healers don't have much use for this obviously, and other classes will only make use of the rank 10 and 11 pieces for example. 

8. World Bosses

Past that, you have world boss gear, it's hard to say whether world bosses are harder than PvP ranking that will depend on your guild and who you're competing with, but world bosses are generally insanely hard to get a tag for, people will be camping those 24-7, and making summoning networks for them, so you'll see guilds popping at a world boss location the moment they spawn if not all already there in the first place of course. But world bosses have some awesome loot, rystal Adorned Crown, aka CAC, from Azuregos being an incredible healing headpiece relevant up till AQ40. 

Empyrean Demolisher from Kazzak was also an incredible mace for warriors that replaced in Naxx, and Fel Infused Leggings from Kazzak too are also crazy for warlocks, not sure for how long. They will be added in phase 2, which should be released only 6 weeks from now, but yeah the moment they're available you'll see people camping them 24-7, some guilds will even start selling gear to people once all their guild got what they want, and there's probably only gonna be less than 1% of the player base that will even be able to get a tag for those, let alone kill them. 

9. Recap

This covers pretty much all the main avenues of gearing in Season of Mastery, if there's something else you want to add, drop it in the comments to benefit everyone, and remember that raiding now is quite tough and not as important for gearing as it was in WoW Classic: SoM. Originally, so don't feel like you have to clear every lockout, or even raid at all to make your character powerful, all the things covered here should make your character on par in terms of power with someone that is actively raiding MC and Ony every week.