World of Warcraft → Near 100 checklist

I just found this thread and figured I'd share. Not sure how good the info is but whatever, more stuff to read at work!

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Are you closing in on 100? About to head to Nagrand? Time to start looking to the future.

Legendary Ring Quest

Similar to the legendary cloak from MoP, this time we have a ring.
At 98 you can start the legendary ring quest. Talk to the elemental in your garrison for the quest.
You can then do the Skyreach dungeon at 97-100, completion of this gives you an ilvl 640 ring (500g to buy one for a different spec, you cannot use 2 different rings at once).
After heroics (Slag Mines, Depot, Everbloom, then Auchindoun), you can get an ilvl 680 ring, but this will be a while away yet!
There is a quest to collect 4986 Apexis crystals (4985 is inadequate. 4987 is of course absurd.), but you don't need to do this yet. I suspect you will need them later though, so keep it in mind.

Nagrand

Get a Dwarven Bunker (Alliance) / War Mill (Horde) ASAP! It might seem costly, but you will want it anyway.
Level 1 doubles your chance for quest gear upgrade. This is fantastic for Nagrand, as ilvl 600 (green) quest rewards can be upgraded to 615 (Blue), or 630 (purple), putting them on par with lvl 100 dungeons or heroic gear.
Level 3 grants you 1x Seal of Tempered Fate per week (extra loot on Highmaul + World Bosses), but you need 20x lvl 100 followers before you can upgrade to this.
Once you have your bunker, quest around Nagrand at will, you can get 610 ilvl by the time you complete it with a bit of luck.

Gearing up at 100

Skyreach dungeon gives ilvl 600 gear
Silver proving ground gives an ilvl 610 weapon, luck can make this blue/purple and higher ilvl.
Level 100 dungeons give ilvl 615 gear
Some garrison missions can give ilvl 615 gear (Follower ilvl 615 can grant 630, and so on and so forth).
Honour gear is ilvl 620 (or 675 in pvp zones), so very useful until you have heroic gear. It's easy to farm honour in Ashram, and can award ilvl 660 epic gear (conquest level) if you are lucky. You can get this gear from BG rewards as well.
Level 100 rarespawns around the map give ilvl 620.
Heroics give ilvl 630, but you need 610 average to access it through LFG. You must also complete Silver proving grounds for your role.
Nagrand quests can give anywhere from ilvl 600-630 gear depending on luck (See previous).

Apexis

3000-5000 apexis for ilvl 630 gear.
Can be upgraded in future as raids are unlocked (645, then 655, requires base item).
4986 required for legendary ring at some point, but not required yet. Keep this in mind for future!
800 for solo daily, 1000 for group daily. I believe you can get 1000 for Ashram daily, but I haven't found it. Apparently it might reduce how much you get each day if you repeat the same quest.
Apexis crystals are dropped from any level 100 enemy in the open world (not dungeons). lvl 100 rares drop more, rare elites even more.

Crafting

Crafted gear is ilvl 630 (weapons) and ilvl 640 (Armour).
Costs 100 daily cooldown material each (Truesteel ingot etc).
150 daily mat + 15 savage blood for T1 upgrade patches, 200 mat + 15 savage blood for T2 (630>645>655 for weapons, 640>655>665 for armour). Savage blood is from lvl 3 Barn!
4-10 daily mat from profession cooldown, based on skill level.
1 per 4 hours from work orders.
1 mat for 10 primal spirit from garrison vendor, or 1 savage blood for 50 spirits.
Primal Spirit can also be farmed from level 100 enemies and skinning/mining/herbing.

Garrison

Get your Dwarven Bunker (Alliance) / War Mill (Horde) ASAP!
Do your weekly invasion quest in a group. The better you do, the better reward you get, and its easier in a group. Form a group with the Garrison owner as the leader. All others in the group can right click the portrait and visit leader's garrison. Rotate this around the group. The beginner invasion counts as the first weekly! The first weekly invasion was Shadowmoon Clan (Aliance) / Thunderlord Clan (Horde) attacking while you were levelling. You won't get another until the following week.
Trading Post and Lumber mill both add Garrison resources, which are somewhat scarce otherwise. Both are medium buildings!
You can farm treasures and rarespawns for Garrison resources.
If you haven't already, get the Smuggler's Den for Spires of Arak. The skill summons a vendor which previously sold Garrison resources for 50g on a 10 minute cooldown, and a level 99 follower. The resources are currently disabled (likely due to exploits with the cooldown by... unscrupulous users), but may return later.

thanks for posting this.

I forgot to mention that one thing I am really enjoying is finding a silver mob (and how it shows up as a silver arrow when you are near one). I like how most of the time I can solo it (especially with that Talador siege cannon, omg that thing is awesome) but if others are attacking it already, I can just join in and get credit. Reminds me of GW2 dynamic events, where I don't have to message frantically about sharing a kill before someone tags it.

I was going to go ahead and complete the 5k Alexis shards quest to be done with it. Should I not?

Yes, you should. You are going to have to do it anyhow to keep progressing on the legendary questline:

I guess the other thing to point out is that after heroics you can also start doing the challenge dungeons which will award 640 gear. For the serious raiders, this is going to most likely be the next step.

Just a reminder on challenge mode dungeons (that I'm passing along from the CTR guys) - Your ilvl scales DOWN to 630. Down is emphasized because anything above 630 is brought down. HOWEVER, anything below is 630 is NOT brought up. So if you want to do CMs, you really need to be decked out in at least 630 gear in every slot.

EDIT: Also worth noting is that you do not need to achieve a Bronze/Silver/Gold status to get this gear. Just completing the dungeon will give you the strongbox which may include the gear. While that makes the challenge a little less challenging... the WoD CMs are no joke. Case in point: Just to get a Bronze rating, they are allowing over an hour timer.