Shadowlands has been released and with it comes with a new leveling method called Thread of Fate. This gameplay mode can only be accessed:

- after one of your toons has reached max level of 60 and finished the main campaign, and choose a Covenant. Covenant is just one of the four factions that you have to make commitment to throughout this expansion, as most of your power in game will tie to the progress you make within the faction.
- your alt toon still needs to go through the introductory questline in the Maw and escape to Oribos, the new hub city.

To meet the requirements is not difficult, most people already finished the main campaign in less than a few days by playing on and off. And the campaign is linear that all you need is to do all the quests with a shield icon and you will never get lost. And the intro questline in the Maw is easy and not depends on your gear level, since in all fights you will have helper NPCs aiding you and even when I play a toon with only ilevel 50 (equivalent to about Legion gears), I can just let the NPCs do all the work.

After you start Thread of Fate in Oribos, this will be permanent and all your main campaign quests are marked as completed. From then onward, you will level up by doing only side quests (all of which will be marked with question marks on map), world quests which are random and renewed from time to time, bonus objectives on map (similar to the map objective started from Warlords of Draenor), killing rare mob, or run dungeons. Besides granting you experienes to level up, world quests can also drop gear reward to help you gear up. At level 51, the world quest is currently dropping ilevel 90 gear which is equivalent to previous expansion endgame welfare gears. So it is a good way to catch up on your alt toons if they are not already geared up during previous expansions.

After you have chosen Thread of Fate mode, you can also grouped up with other people including other max level 60 toon to do the world quests together. This will provide a more flexible way for veteren players to help newcomer friends to get their alt toons to max level, instead of just relying on replaying the main campaign.

Also, if you are leveling an alt toon fresh from level 1, with the new level squash it is pretty fast to reach level 50 now. Starting from level 10 onward, you are able to quest in any previous expansion content, including doing the Legion invasion quests and BFA incursion quests. All previous expansions are scaled to your level. At lower level, Legion invasion quests actually grant you quite a lot of experiences so I always choose to do them when they are up.


This post has been edited by dimensionx: Nov 29 2020, 05:29 PM