Boosted Level 100 Player Essentials (Archived)

By Wowhead Updated: 2018/11/12

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Leveling from 1-60 Guidepreorder LegionHow to Boost

Purchase Legion Preorder and get one for free, or spend $60 for a Level 100 Boost either via Battle.net or the in-game shop.

Click on the gold 100 icon on your character select screen, then select which character to apply it on.

Characters eligible for a Veteran bonus (level 60+) have a green icon designating they get additional perks.

Once selected, you'll receive confirmation on Veteran bonuses and be asked to choose a specialization. One spec is recommended for new players and this spec affects the stats that will be on your gear.

After clicking "Next" you'll receive a confirmation window. You can no longer change your selection after this step.

Click "Level Up!" and your character will get an updated set of gear and level boost.

Starter Kit

Your character is automatically sent three pieces of mail. If you had existing items in your bags, they are taken out and mailed back to you.

Your character comes with 4 Embersilk Bag, , a Hearthstone, a backpack, and 20 Potato Axebeak Stew.

Salvage Yard Level 3

Death Knight: Heart-Lesion

Druid: Springrain

Hunter: Trailseeker

Mage: Mountainsage

Monk: Mistdancer

Paladin: Sunsoul

Priest: Communal

Rogue: Lightdrinker

Shaman: Streamtalker

Warlock: Felsoul

Warrior: Oathsworn

The fastest riding speed you automatically learn is Artisan Riding.

Veteran profession boosts do not have you automatically learn trainer recipes--you will still need to spend gold. Consider only learning max-level recipes to save gold.

If you use a Veteran profession boost but don't have profession learnt, the game will randomly pick them for you.

Mage portals are not learnt automatically as well.

If another character on your account has Draenor Pathfinder in 6.2.2, your boosted 90 can fly in Draenor.

Class Guidesclass guides

added WeakAurasGarrisons

You automatically get a Level 3 Garrison which has the maximum amount of unlocked plots and available buildings. This comes with 0 Garrison Resources.

Several buildings are already constructed, and there are three additional empty plots:
Two Level 2 Small Buildings that correspond to your Primary Professions. If you have a gathering profession, you will get a Storehouse instead which comes with a bank. If you boost a character without professions, you will get one random profession building and one Storehouse.

Level 2 Barracks which allows you to assign Bodyguard followers to accompany you.

Level 2 Lumber Mill which allows you to chop down trees and place work orders for more Garrison Resources.

Level 1 Mine which allows you to mine gathering nodes whether you have Mining or not.

Level 1 Herb Garden which allows you to gather herbs whether your have Herbalism or not.

If you're not sure what to fill the empty plots with, check out our Guide to Buildings Grouped by Content to see which have toys, pets, mounts, etc.

Menagerie for Pet BattlesFishing ShackSalvage Yard

Alliance: Qiana Moonshadow / Olin Umberhide, Loranea / Lan'veros Furybrand, Ilaniel Pine / Zen'tika, Fargo Flintlocke / Brakk Shattershield, Daleera Moonfang / Ulna Thresher, Bruma Swiftstone / Ka'la, Sprynt Starkflange / Kana'tin, Delvar Ironfist / Vivianne

Horde: Qiana Moonshadow / Olin Umberhide, Loranea / Lan'veros Furybrand, Ilaniel Pine / Zen'tika, Fargo Flintlocke / Brakk Shattershield, Daleera Moonfang / Ulna Thresher, Bruma Swiftstone / Ka'la, Sprynt Starkflange / Kana'tin, Delvar Ironfist / Vivianne

Bite-Sized Garrison GuideGarrison Follower GuideGarrison Mission GuideGarrison Shipyard GuideBoA Baleful ItemsBaleful TokensSavage Satchel of CooperationEmpowered Apexis FragmentThe Cipher of DamnationSavage Satchel of CooperationApexis CrystalTips for New Level 100 PlayersFlying in DraenorDraenor Pathfinder

Explore all of Draenor's zones (Draenor Explorer)

Collect 100 Treasures (Master Treasure Hunter)

Complete all major story quests in Draenor: Loremaster of Draenor/Loremaster of Draenor

Complete 12 specific Apexis Dailies: Securing Draenor/Securing Draenor

Hit Revered with the three new Tanaan Jungle factions (Tanaan Diplomat/Tanaan Diplomat): Order of the Awakened, The Saberstalkers, and Hand of the Prophet/Vol'jin's Headhunters

Draenor PathfinderDraenor PathfinderFlying CompletionPicking ProfessionsCookingArchaeologyFishing

Profession

Gets Materials From

Things to Sell

Alchemy

Herbalism

Elixirs, Flasks, Potions, Transmutes

Ranged weapons, explosives, vanity items

Darkmoon Cards, Glyphs, Shoulder Enchants

Uncut and cut gems

Leather Armor, Mail Armor, Leg Kits

Skinnable corpses

Looting mobs, Cloth Scavenging

Cloth Armor, Leg Kits

Secondary Skills

Profession

Character Benefit

Gets Materials From

Things to Sell

Archaeology

BoA Vanity Items

Survey

N/A

Cooking

Ability to cook food

Looting mobs, Fishing

Buff Food

Ability to make bandages

Looting cloth

Cheap Heal

Fishing

Ability to catch fish

Fishing pools

Buff Food

Alchemy Overview

Archaeology Overview

Blacksmithing Overview

Cooking Overview

Enchanting Overview

Engineering Overview

Gathering Profession Overview (Herbalism, Mining, Skinning)

Inscription and Glyph Overview

Jewelcrafting Overview

Leatherworking Overview

Tailoring Overview

Item Finder

Comments

Comment by Yelpster

Good guide

Comment by Karabor

One addition I would make is mentioning not only the weekly quests in Wintergrasp (AKA WG) but also in Tol Barad (AKA TB). While one of the quests (Horde: Stop the Siege | Alliance: Stop the Siege) is usually impossible to complete, the others give 150 to 225 honor (depending on guild level) atop what the battlegrounds themselves give you.

The battlegrounds themselves grant roughly 200 to 400 honor, depending on bases controlled and, obviously, victory vs. loss, for usually no more than 15 minutes of faux-PvP, depending on your realm.

For example, on a PvP realm such as Sargeras-US, where the Alliance to Horde ratio is very high, no Hordie in his right mind is going to queue for TB or WG, and if he does, he'll run away when he realizes he's outnumbered 5 to 1.

However, from what I have seen, this is not the same experience of a PvE realm, such as Zul'jin-US, regardless of faction control.

Do you get the underdog faction more often? Yes.
Is it a threat? Not usually.

It's kind of ironic to think that there is more PvP activity on the PvE servers, but it's what I have seen across roughly 4 unique servers now.

To stick more to my point, WG and TB are both really effective for gaining honor, and I think, even though this guide is clearly more focused on PvE gear/methods of obtaining PvE gear, the fastest way to get a decent ilvl is getting the ilvl522 PvP gear and going from there. On most faction-dominated servers, it's less PvP and more PvE anyway!

Winning or controlling WG also grants you access to VoA (Vault of Archavon), which, if done on 25 man difficulty alone, can grant about 1000 additional honor a week.

As an example, doing TB, WG, VoA, IoT dailies, and GH dailies, I had 3.5k honor the day I dinged 90 on my newest DK.

Yes, VoA is really hard to solo on a boosted 90, I know. It's possible for most tank and pet classes though. I speak from firsthand and secondhand experience on this. It can't hurt to try.

10 man difficulty also grants honor, albeit significantly less.

Don't get discouraged if you can't solo Toravon. First time I soloed him on 25 man difficulty was on an ilevel522 Warlock.

TL;DR: do Tol Barad and Wintergrasp along with Vault of Archavon atop the other honor dailies and you can get geared out in full ilvl522 gear really quickly, or even just replace that ilvl496 ring you've been stuck with for a while.

Hope this helped!

Comment by LuckyGhoul

Should add the very short questline (2 scenarios and one quest) that gets you a pair of 502 boots as a reward from this quest:
Path of the Last Emperor

Comment by vladis250

I boosted my character to 90 and when i wanted teleport to Uldum i didnt found teleports in the city.For the easier game in future i would recomment to do start quests at the Uldum,Twilight Highlands etc.

Comment by ealdrich

Another two items critical to gearing up are the crafted iLevel 553 belts and pants.

I was able to gear up to iLevel 527 in just over a week averaging just three hours a day by chain running dungeons and exploiting Tol Barad and Wintergrasp. When I was done 12 items were PvP 522, 1 valor point purchased iLevel 522 amulet from the Shado-Pan Assault, and the 2 553 crafted items as mentioned above (fully upgrading the pants in the process to 569).

Comment by perculia

I've updated this for 6.0.2, updates include mentioning the Blasted Lands questline for abilities, vendors that sell epics for gold, links to beginner class guides, removing the legendary cape and solo fun content sections, linking to the new boosted gear.

Comment by Amoa

A very nice guide for those that have just boosted. Very helpful if you've just returned to the game before WoD gets here.

Some minor updates I noticed you need:

Starter Kit
You no longer get a mail from Rhonin, and the mail from Lorewalker Cho no longer contains fireworks, he just asks you to see him at the Seat of Knowledge.

Lesser Charms
Warforged Seals are no longer limited weekly. You can now buy as many as you want up to the limit of 20.

Bonus Roll Coins
Again, Warforged Seals are no longer limited weekly.

Hope this helps!

Comment by 1500485

I know most people will find this post of mine unnecessary, but to those who are reading this guide after recently returning back to WoW and don't understand or have never experienced Draenor, when they speak of SMV, and other areas that you may remember from Outland, Draenor is pretty much Outland in a difference time period. Draenor has places that are still/were in Outland. Just giving a heads up as quite a few people have been very confused by this. Hope this helps someone!

Comment by Ahriman9210

if only weapons were added to preview...

Comment by lankybrit

IIRC - you get 300 GRs, not 350 GRs.

Comment by 1431664

As a separate note for anyone wondering as I did, while all the flight paths are opened for you, your outposts aren't actually built. I took the flight to Highpass in Gorgrond, where I was dropped on empty ground lol. No flight out. The opening quest chain is where you'd expect it, so I'm assuming we'd have to do those if we care about having our outposts :D

Comment by wolfy77

It is worth noting that currently a player has to complete the quests to set up their base in Tanaan before the Lumbermill unlocks. This also applies to the random npc quest, the poster for the Nagrand quest and possibly others. After I had completed that I could go through the 3 quests from Justin Timberlord and Khadger's servant appeared with a quest also.
Kudos to CM Hagut for pointing me in the right direction on that one.

Comment by AntikytheraBB

I just rolled a heap of Baleful Tokens since the 6.2.3 patch and thought people might appreciate statistics on upgrade chance.

95 total BOE armour tokens.
24 cloth, 27 leather, 29 mail, 15 plate

60 x 650
5 x 660
7 x 665
4 x 670
11 x 675
3 x 680
4 x 685
1 x 690

Comment by kanantran99

does this boost comes with profession boost as well? if so. what level do you need to upgrade your professins as well?

Comment by 1552701

Is it possible to complete the story quests with a level boosted character? It seeming not at the moment as it auto completed "into anguish" and I have no way of getting "The dark side of the moon"

Comment by auschameleon

I got a letter in the mail to go see Loremaster Cho, but there is no portal in SW open to me.
Not about to do a lvl 90 quest chain to open the portal, so I can only assume what he wanted wasn't very important or Blizz would have given us a portal.
Thought I'd mention it, as I was looking to see if anyone else has had the same problem.

Comment by 1554117

Seems to be a bug for boosted mages - not just don't get portals - CAN NOT learn them when visiting portal trainers.

Comment by Howitzer

Might want to to add a note to the profession listings that says: You can sell shoulder enchants and leg kits for older expansions, these are not available in WoD.

Should also add bags to the tailoring list, staff based weapons to inscription, and necks/rings to jewelcrafting. :P

Comment by Cinderhella

I really hope someone can help me- because this is highly annoying. I boosted a char, but I can't upgrade my buildings to lvl 2... I want the storehouse to be lvl 2 , and even tho I have the plans it says in the garrison builder thingie that I don't have the required plans. What's up with that? It's like that with several buildings.

Comment by BMHunterMain

Note that many if not the majority of the existing comments on this page to-date were apparently posted when this was a guide about boosting a toon to 90, and are now out-of-date.

Comment by 160636

As usual, Wowhead provides more information about a character service than Blizzard. Thanks Wowhead for always providing the information that I need.

Comment by happilykilln

i did the lv 100 boost, only problem i had was no quest for my prebuilt lumber mill. do the tanaan quest till u have built your base. if u still dont have the lumber mill quest then do the lead up quests for the mill. lost lumberjacks

Comment by Sanguis

Don't forget to mention that :

Boosted characters are unable to enter dungeons and raids from previous expansions for 24 hours.

https://us.battle.net/support/en/article/level-100-character-boost

A little personal observation, before this mandatory waiting time, I was able to enter old raids from Vanilla, BC and WotLK but not from Cata and MoP. I didn't try WoD because it was irrevelant at my gear level to even thinking solo it.
On the other hand, I wasn't able to enter any dungeon whatsoever.

Hope that helps =)

Comment by Shelgeyr

My wife just used her Legion pre-purchase boost on a brand new priest (level 1, no professions). Garrison included a Tailoring Emporium, which we assumed was because that's a "traditional" profession for a clothie. Can anyone confirm the profession building is in fact random and not class-based?

Comment by Caltron

So just to clear something up with a friend... you get absolutely no bonus profession experience from boosting a new character?

Comment by T2HSLM

I see u get ember silk bags. but what if u already have larger bags? ie hex weave. how does it work do they get placed in new bags or what? thx.

Comment by tigerhearted

It should be noted that the character boost completely wipes your questlog. Don't be an idiot like me who found the original Vials of Eternity quest in an old toon's log, used the boost to solo the bosses to get the title, only to find out that it was wiped from the log. GMs won't do anything because there was no record of which quests got wiped, and their records don't go back far enough to prove I picked up the original quest. So I'm SOL. Out the boost and out the title.

Comment by Ascesion

It seems like boosted characters get all flight path unlocked on broken isles.

Comment by CaedesEnder

Ok, I need an honest opinion.

with the way legion proffs work, is it really even worth getting to 60 for the profession boost?

I am currently in a new ish guild so not many people have proffs but I cant decide if grinding to 60 is worth the hastle.

thanks!

Comment by Wyr3d

Might want to add a note somewhere early on that boosting a character to lvl 100 will disable all the initial questline for Draenor, locking out some followers, and other stuff. However, is appears this is only temporary, as according to Panna from the US servers, those quests are available should you wish to do them. She wrote:

"The quests in Draenor ARE available. You can even do the intro scenario. I tried it myself. I went through the dark portal in blasted lands and when I came out I was standing in Tanaan Jungle with Kadghar in front of me with the quest to start the invasion. The cut scene for creating your garrison isn't there however because you already have a level 3 garrison.

All the quests are available for you to do and you can do them in any order. You can start with Nagrand quests if you like for example. I would recommend doing them since they do give a good amount of gold plus you pick up extra followers."

I have yet to try this myself, but I will do so and get back with an edit. If this is true, then it's possible the only a handful of directive quests (those sending you to the Dark Portal in the first place) will be unavailable for boosted characters.

EDIT

Before attempting the jump, I questioned Support about this, who replied:

"You should be able to do the Warlords of Draenor opening by travelling to Blasted Lands and heading through the Dark Portal into Tanaan Jungle. This will allow you to play through the WoD introduction just as you desire. You will still have a Garrison built up to level 3, but not all of the garisson will be active until you've completed the full introduction to Tanaan, culminating in the quest where you assemble the Garrison."

So that's another confirmation that most of the quest line is still obtainable, even after a lvl 100 boost. You just need to run around a bit to actually find them.

EDIT II

Okay, so I've run through the questline on two chars since I last posted. The first was a lvl 85 that I got up to 90. The second was my boosted lvl 100. For both chars, the pre-WoD content in Blasted Lands was still available. Might be worth noting that for my leveled char, the board offered the quest The Dark Portal which wasn't available for my boosted char. Click the link for more information.

Leveled Character

Accepting The Dark Portal invalidates the Blasted Lands pre-Draenor content, so I took the portal to Blasted Lands, and spoke to Thrall. I took the quests Attack of the Iron Horde and Under Siege of him, then got Peeking into the Portal of the troll, since the initial breadcrumb quest, Iron Horde Invasion - is no longer obtainable. The Blasted Lands questline progresses without issue, directing you back to Orgrimmar when completed.

Arriving back in Blasted Lands, Khadghar chats a bit, then you are ported into Tannan Jungle for the Draenor Introduction quests. Khadghar offers up the quest Azeroth's Last Stand and the questline progresses from there until I completed with The Home Stretch

After this, my char arrived at Frostfire Ridge, and the Building your Garrison chain was offered up starting with A Song of Frost and Fire and following on through from there, The whole chain is as follows:

1. A Song of Frost and Fire
2. Of Wolves and Warriors
3. For the Horde
4. Back to Work
5. A Gronling Problem
6. The Den of Skog
7. Establish your Garrison

After this your Frostwall Garrison Quests begin

Boosted Character

The Dark Portal isn't available for boosted chars, so I took the portal to Blasted Lands, and did the pre-Draenor content as above. When I handed in the final quest in Orgrimmar, I headed back to the portal, and walked on through. This spawned my char at the initial stage of Draenor Introduction quests, and Khadghar offered up the same quest as for my leveled char.

Although the boosted character appears at the same location as a leveled character, upon arriving at Frostfire Ridge, nothing happens. You spawn alone on the shore without the NPCs. From here, you must head to your pre-built Garrison, and continue with the boost version of events. The Building your Garrison quest line mentioned above starts off already completed in your quest log (for add-ons that show this) in addition to the following quests from Frostwall, and Frostfire Ridge:

We Need an Army
Winds of Change
The Ogron Live
Mission Probable
Clearing the Garden
Lost in Transition
New Goods
Things are not Goren our Way
Ashran Appearence
Build your Barracks
Den of Wolves
What we Got
What we Need
Bigger is Better
Vouchsafe our Arrival
Pinchwhistle Gearworks
My Very own Fortress
Proving Grounds

On arrival at your Garrison, you are prompted with the following quest:

Garrison Campaign: War Council

EDIT III

According to Support, once you have completed the questline for Tanaan Jungle upto establishing your outpost all the locked features in your garrsion will unlock.

Although the quest Den of Wolves, the breadcrumb leading to Wor'gol has been completed, the next quest in the chain, Rally the Frostwolves has not. You can pick up your Frostfire Ridge questline from there.

Comment by 1579674

An incredibly well done listing.

For me though, the biggest problem is to decide what class to boost. I want to get a Druid and Shaman to max, but it's so hard to decide since the preview feels so limiting.

Comment by jgaseni

Hi, I boosted to lvl 100 a new character and I don´t have a Garrison stone... I haven't played Warlords of Draenor at all, just came back to play and I don´t know how to get to the Garrison... any help? Thank you

Comment by 702679

Patch 7.2.5. For level 100 boosted character, If you don't have any quest after completing Demons Among Us and spoke with Illidari in mage quarter. Try log out then log back in. In the Blink of an Eye should show up then. Had me panicking for a while.

Comment by badgalgamer

Cheers for the hard work you put into the guides! So I should take the time to go to Draenor and complete the quests there, or should I keep pushing forward with the Legion Content? Just wondering, because my character is only 101 and I did not play the previous expansions.

Comment by 1726496

One thing not mentioned, your toolbars will be wiped out, settings reset, talent points reset, and anything that you unlocked at 60 will be removed.

on my rogue at 60 I unlocked Leeching Poison, post boost its gone, along with most of the contents of my tool bars.

also, I was tossed directly into the broken isles combat zone with no way to fight and nothing in my bags.

basicly, dont use the boost. it $%^&s over your toon and makes it impossible to play it for hours on end.

Comment by flange

As of BFA there is no longer any professions Veteran bonus for characters above a certain level. I've just just had this confirmed by Blizzard Support.

Support chat excerpt: https://i.imgur.com/MDWEq8M.png

I missed out by 2 days >:-[

Comment by Environy

I had both 100 and 110 boosts. I used a 100 boost today 12/1/18.
used on a level 15ish panda monk
you can not use a 100 boost on a trial character.
I got a full set of 137 gear
I did get bags, 500 gold and some food also was mailed 137 gear for other specs.
the stuff I was carrying and my gear was mailed back to me.
did not get any garrison anything.
I got nothing for professions. (they were and remain zero)
my talents were set to the first selection down the line.

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