Gear up alts to 660 in ONE DAY or Gear up character to 680 FAST in Patch 11.1.7

Written By Moudi .

This guide provides a structured approach to reaching item level 660 in one day and 680 fast, taking advantage of all available systems in patch 11.1.7. Follow the phases in order for optimal progression.

Starting Gear 

You will first need some starting gear to be able to run around and start gearing up. You don´t need much even 580 ilvl is enough. 

To get just some decent starting gear it is all about what you have done in the game before this character that you will gear up. 

Auction House

There are a lot of cheap stuff on the AH and you can get full gear of 580 for just some thousand gold in total. 

Warbound Delve vendor

If you have unlocked the veteran Warbound Gear in the Delve vendor, you can buy some there on a character that has undercoin and then send the gear to your gearing up character. 

Warbound - Dastardly Duos

If you have run Dastardly Duos on another character, you will always get Veteran Gear that is Warbound everytime you complete a duo. Check if you have some gear and send it to you gearing up character. 

Warbound - Nightfall Scenario

If you have run Nightfall Scenario on another character, you will always get Veteran Gear that is Warbound everytime you kill and loot the boss at the end of the scenario, also the bags that you get in the scenario can also contain veteran gear. Check if you have some gear and send it to you gearing up character. 

Other Warbound Gear

Basically, the content you do with a character will always have a chance to drop Warbound gear that is one tier below the difficulty you do. For example, if you do content that drops Champion gear, then you will have a chance on getting veteran gear as warbound gear as well. If you do Hero gear difficulty, you can get champion warbound gear and so on. Check if you have some gear and send it to you gearing up character. 

Phase 1: Acquiring Veteran Gear (Base Gear)

Now it is time to gear up. We will start with getting a base gear of Veteran and also items needed for later. 

Step 1: Outdoor Activities

  • What Changed: In patch 11.1.7, all outdoor activities now reward Veteran gear directly

  • Weekly Rewards:

    • Up to 7 pieces of Veteran gear per week

    • Additional rewards include:

      • Weathered Crests

      • Carved Crests

      • Valorstones

      • Relic Coffer Keys

  • All outdoor activities are: 

  • Theatre Troupe

  • Severed Pact Activity

  • Spreading The Light

  • Awakening the Machine

  • Snuffling

  • Special Assignments

  • Urge to Surge

Step 2: Dastardly Duos

  • Location: Find NPC Xyggie Marou outside Dornagal (/way 52.80, 51.67)

  • Time Investment: Approximately 5 minutes per run

  • Important Notes:

    • No limit on gear pieces obtainable

    • Each completion guarantees one Veteran gear piece

    • Most efficient method for initial gearing

Phase 2: 691-701 ilvl Power Waist

In 11.1.7, there is a waist that you get by completing a small questline tied to Delves. To complete this quest line you must enter delves as well. You do not have to complete the delves at any specific difficulty, so you can just do the easiest delve Tier (Tier 1) so it goes fast and easy to complete. 

This waist starts at ilvl 691 and you will also get a follow up weekly quest to upgrade it to 694 ilvl on the first week of 11.1.7. After that, there is a weekly quest that rewards you with an ilvl upgrade on your waist for 3-4 weeks and you will have 701 ilvl on that waist in the end. This waist also has power on it that you have to unlock. 

Phase 3: Crafted Gear (Hero Item Level)

Step 1: Undermine Questline

  1. Complete the entire Undermine story on any character.

  2. On your gearing up character:

    • Visit Paks Topskimmer in Undermine (Intercontinental Hotel) and skip the storyline.

  • Grab the quest “Liberation of Undermine: The House Loses. 

  • Talk to Pask again and select "Proceed with the Liberation of Undermine Story Mode"

  • Defeat Gallywix in the final chapter and turn in the quest. This rewards an Enchanted Runed Undermine Crest.


Step 2: Undermine Renown 

If you have reached max renown with the Undermine Renown faction, you will have access to “Glinting and Gleaming” by talking to Smaks in Undermine (Intercontinental Hotel). This rewards an Enchanted Runed Undermine Crest.   

Step 3: Crafting and Upgrading

  1. Now you have obtained at least 1 Enchanted Runed Undermine Crest.

  2. Head to Custodian Khubon in Dornagal (/way 49.8, 54.4) and get 2 Fractured Spark of Fortunes (you will have some of these by completing the veteran gear steps above). 

  1. Make some Sparks that is needed to craft gear. 

  2. Craft one (or two) items for your character, the ilvl will be 658 in the crafting order AH. 

Check https://www.archon.gg/wow what the best players are crafting and craft the same. 

Phase 4: Champion Gear

Step 1: Overcharged Delves Weekly Quests

In the first four weeks of patch 11.1.7, players will complete weekly quests tied to overcharged delves, earning the DISC belt and various upgrades.

Weekly Breakdown:

  • Week 1:

    • Complete the quest for the DISC belt.

    • Receive an overcharged chest containing champion gear.

    • General weekly quest also rewards an additional overcharged chest with more champion gear.

  • Weeks 2-4:

    • Each week, complete a quest that rewards the belt upgrade and an overcharged chest containing champion gear.

    • Continue to receive the general weekly quest for an extra overcharged chest with additional champion gear.

Post Weeks 1-4:

  • After the fourth week, only the general weekly quest will be available, rewarding an overcharged chest.

Step 2: Nightfall Scenario

  • Head to the Nightfall event that starts every hour at the full hour. 

  • Take and complete weekly quest "The Flame Burns Eternal"

  • Purchase gear from vendors in Morgean's Tears (Hallowfall) with the Radiant Emblem of Service you got as quest reward. 

  • Important: Skip weapon purchases (you will either craft a weapon or buy one later at the Horrific vision vendor). 

Step 3: Dinar System (Hero Gear)

  • Grab the Ultra Prime Deluxe Turbo Boost quest in dornagal at /52.5, 46.0. 

  • Que up on LFR and kill 4 raid bosses

  • Tune in the quest at Wrexxle (/52.5, 46.3) and earn 3 dinars. 

  • Purchase Hero gear, best-in-slot trinkets, or weapons from the same NPC you turned in the quest. Check https://bloodmallet.com/index for what the best trinkets are for your class and spec. 

Step 4: Horrific Visions

  1. Complete vision with 2 masks for getting a Champion piece as a reward. 

  2. Complete vision with 3 masks for getting a Champion piece as a reward. 

  3. Any masked completion grants access to Champion weapons at the Horrific Vision vendor next to the vision entrance. Buy if needed. 

Step 5: Delves

You will now have 4 Relic Coffer Keys if you completed the steps earlier during the veteran gear part. Each Relic Coffer Key will open a bountiful chest at the end of a delve run. If you complete a tier 8 or higher, you will be rewarded with a champion gear piece.

  • Run Tier 8+ Bountiful Delves

  • Use Relic Coffer Keys (5-6 available weekly)

  • Each successful run rewards Champion gear

Phase 5: Hero Gear

Step 1: Turbulent Timeways

  • Complete the weekly tied to Turbulent Timeways. Each week, you will be rewarded with one Hero Gear, for 6 weeks

  • Complete 5 Timewalking dungeons

  • Get the Hero Gear.

Step 2: Delves

Each week, you can get a Hero piece from a Tier 8+ delve. To get a hero piece at the end of a delve, you must have a delve map. You can get this delve map in two ways. 

Either you will be lucky and loot a Map when doing a Delve. Or you have to buy an item called Wave Scrambler 2000. This item is sold by Sir Finley at the Delver´s Headquareter in Dornagal for 2000 undercoin. Check if you have a character that has undercoin and buy it on that character, then send it to your leveling character. 


  1. If you have the map, use it when entering a delve do get the “Delver's Bounty" map buff.
    If you bought the Wave Scrambler 2000, use it inside a delve when reaching the hearthstone (halfway). Fight underpin, and loot the gold pile when he leaves. This pile will have the map. Use the map, get the buff.  

  2. Run Tier 8+ Delve with map buff

  3. Complete the delve and loot extra chest for Hero gear

Step 3: Advanced Horrific Visions

If Horrific Visions in this phase will be to hard, skip to phase 6 and 7 first, the come back here.

  1. Complete vision with 4 masks for first Hero piece

  2. Complete vision with 5 masks for second Hero piece

  3. Five-mask completion grants access to Hero weapons at the Horrific Vision vendor next to the vision entrance. Buy if needed. 

Phase 6: Bonus Crests and Valorstones

If you have farmer renown with the war within renown factions, you will have access to loads of crests, valorstones, coffer keys. 

Talk to each renown quartermaster for: 

  • The Cartels of Undermine

  • Council of Dornagal

  • The Assembly of the Deeps

  • Hallowfall Arathi

  • The Severed Thread

And grab all the goodies. 

Phase 7: Optimization

Step 1: Tier Set Conversion

  1. Visit Catalyst console in Dornagal

  2. Convert eligible gear into tier pieces

  3. Focus on obtaining both 2-set and 4-set bonuses

Step 2: Upgrading System

  1. Carved Crests:

    • All weekly activities reward carved Crests. 

    • Lower Delves rewards Carved Crests. 

  1. Runed Crests:

    • Farm Tier 11 Delves (15 Runed Crests per run)

  1. Gilded Crests:

    • Complete Tier 11 Delves (10 Gilded Crests per run)

    • Weekly cap increased to 30

    • Map: Overcharged gives 30 Gilded Crests. 

    • A total of 50 Gilded Crests per week

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