Upgrade Your Gear in Season 2

Season 2 has brought a whole new level of gear upgrades, and knowing where to get all the materials you need to make the most out of your gear is crucial. From Valorstones to Crests and crafting powerful gear, there’s a lot to digest. Here’s a breakdown of everything you need to know about upgrading your gear and maximizing your potential this season.

Valorstones and Crests: Where to Find Them

To upgrade any piece of gear in Season 2, you’ll need Valor Stones and Crests. Both are earned by participating in various in-game activities, including raids, dungeons, PvP, and even some open-world content.

Valorstones:

Valorstones can be obtained from completing endgame content, such as dungeons, raids, PvP, and even from scavenging in the undermined zone. As long as you’re actively engaging with the game’s endgame systems, you’ll earn Valorstones to help you with gear upgrades.

Crests:

There are four different types of crests, each corresponding to different levels of gear upgrades:

• Weathered Crests: Come from easy open world content, heroic dungeons, LFR raid bosses, and early-tier delves.
• Carved Crests: Dropped from weekly quests, normal raid bosses, Mythic dungeons, and mid-tier delves.
• Runed Crests: Acquired through heroic raid bosses, Mythic dungeons (Keystone level 2 to 6), and higher-tier delves.
• Gilded Crests: These are the rarest, coming from Mythic raid bosses, Mythic +7 or higher dungeons, and Tier 11 bountiful delves.

Once you’ve capped out on a specific type of Crest (90 Crests), any additional rewards will automatically downgrade to the next tier, ensuring you’re always progressing in some way.

You can use Crests to upgrade your gear, but Valorstones are essential for the process. Checking your gear upgrade window will show you exactly how many of each you need to push your gear to the next tier.

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Gear Up Your Alts

Season 2 includes some catch-up mechanics that make gearing up alts or new characters more accessible. The game will track your highest item level for each gear slot across all your characters. If you find a piece of gear that’s lower than your current highest item level, you’ll receive a massive discount on Valorstones and Crest costs, making it cheap and easy to upgrade.

This mechanic also applies to your alts, meaning you don’t have to grind extensively to catch up with your main character. Just be sure to keep upgrading your highest-tier gear to benefit from these discounts.

Gearing Through Different Content

Season 2 introduces various ways to gear up, from crafting to delves, raids, and more. Here’s a breakdown of the best methods for upgrading your gear:

Gearing Up Through Crafted Gear

Crafting gear has been revamped in Season 2, with two tiers available: a lower tier that caps out at item level 629 and a higher tier that can reach item level 675.

• Lower-tier crafted gear: Requires enchanted Weathered Undermined Crests and is easy to craft.
• Higher-tier crafted gear: Requires a Spark of Fortunes, which is obtained by combining two Fractured Sparks of Fortune. You can get one fractured spark per week from completing weekly quests that reward a Pinnacle Cache.

Once you’ve obtained the Spark of Fortunes, crafting the higher-tier gear is straightforward, but keep in mind the time-gated nature of the process. You’ll need to grind weekly quests for about two weeks to fully craft the higher-tier gear. Once crafted, the gear can be upgraded using Enchanted Runed or Enchanted Gilded Crests, pushing the item level up to 675.

You can also add embellishments to your crafted gear, which provide extra boosts, but remember you can only equip two embellishments at a time.

Gearing Up Through Delves

Delves are a critical part of the gearing process, offering both currency and gear upgrades. There are several difficulty tiers, with the most rewarding gear coming from Bountiful Delves at Tier 8 and above. These delves give out 639 item level gear at the highest tier, which is perfect for solo players looking for a consistent upgrade path.

• Tier 8 Bountiful Delves: Best for 639 gear and Runed Crests.
• Tier 11 Bountiful Delves: These will drop the highest rewards, including Gilded Crests and item level 649 gear.

Delves also come with special chests that can be unlocked using Restored Coffer Keys. These are rewarded through weekly activities and are essential for unlocking the best loot at the end of your delve runs.

Gearing Up Through Raids

Raids in Season 2 provide some of the highest rewards, with loot scaling depending on the difficulty:

• Looking for Raid (LFR): Drops item level 623 gear.
• Normal: Rewards gear up to item level 645.
• Heroic: Item levels go up to 658.
• Mythic: The top-tier rewards hit 672.

Additionally, T-set tokens can only be obtained from raids, and these tokens allow you to create your full Tier Set Gear.

You can also earn a weekly reward from raid bosses in the Weekly Vault, where the higher the difficulty of the raid, the better the loot.

Gearing Up Through Dungeons

Dungeons are another fantastic way to gear up this season, with rewards starting at item level 593 and scaling up to item level 655 from Mythic +10 dungeons. Here’s a quick breakdown of how dungeons fit into your gearing strategy:

• Normal Dungeons: Drop up to item level 593 gear.
• Heroic Dungeons: Rewards item level 619 gear.
• Mythic Zero Dungeons: Drops item level 636 gear.
• Mythic Plus Dungeons: Starting from item level 639 and scaling up to item level 655 at the highest difficulty.

Mythic Plus dungeons are also one of the best sources for obtaining Runed and Gilded Crests in Season 2, especially from Plus 2 keys or higher. These rewards make it a worthwhile activity for gearing and upgrading your character’s power.

Gearing Through PvP

For those who enjoy PvP, the new season has some interesting twists on gear. PvP gear scales differently than PvE gear, ensuring a level playing field in competitive modes.

• Honor Gear: Starts at item level 665.
• Conquest Gear: Starts at item level 678.
• War Mode Gear: Starts at item level 675.

You can earn Honor and Conquest points by participating in various PvP activities, including random battlegrounds, arenas, and rated PvP. The higher your rating, the better your gear will be.

With all these new systems and mechanics, upgrading your gear has never been more dynamic or rewarding. Whether you’re focusing on crafting, delves, raids, or dungeons, there are tons of options to increase your power and get the gear you need for endgame content.

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