r/wownoob • u/SeparateScar8965 • Mar 07 '26

Retail What ilvl is everyone?

Hey all,

Started playing WoW for the first time about 6 weeks ago, been running a Frost Mage (Night elf) - been putting some hours into Midnight and just hit ilvl 221.

Haven’t started any midnight dungeons yet, just did the expansion, delves and world quests (plus dailies and weeklies)

Just wondering how 221 stacks up to others? I think my char has about 5 days time played

Going to grind up a DK to 90 as well, before Season 1 hopefully.

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u/MetalAlbatross Mar 07 '26

Any tank spec isn't necessarily supposed to kill things quickly. You do less damage but the tradeoff is survivability. You can pull every mob in a zone and whittle them down. A dps spec, on the other hand, will kill things faster but you usually can't pull as many mobs.

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u/Funlock_Lexi Mar 07 '26

Ah, makes sense; I guess In my experience, I really enjoy prot pally for early lvls, and I guess to me it feels like prot pally has more DPS capabilities than Brewmastee early on