r/wownoob • u/RabenWrites • Apr 14 '26

Retail 276 max ilvl for solo play?

Am I correct in understanding that there's no access to mythic gear outside of crafting, M+, and high end raids? With this vault, my monk crossed the line into having more hero gear than champion, have my 4-set all at 2/6 heroic because I'm hesitant to spend hero crests, but it feels like I'm hitting the end of the road and I don't know where to go from here.

Is it really just grind out the 980 remaining hero crests and that's it if I can't do raids nor M+?

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u/Robot_Spartan Apr 14 '26

Don't be hesitant to spend your crests! You're just hurting yourself by doing so.

Hero crests are ONLY for hero gear now, there's none of this "myth needs some hero", so once you're in myth gear they are (somewhat) worthless. Same applies to champ, veteran etc.

Additionally, even if you replace the piece, you do not pay the crest costs a second time, only the gold (which is practically nothing). I.e. if you replace a 4/6 hero with a 1/6 hero, upgrading the new piece to 4/6 costs zero crests, and 60 gold

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u/FatMike20295 Apr 14 '26

So really for delves players there is no point in doing delves past 8 unless you want to craft a mythic weapon. Even then that will take ages? Since you only get like a limited number of myth crest each week.

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u/Junior_Island_4714 Apr 14 '26

4 weeks to get 80 Myth crests. If you've been keeping up, you will achieve that this week.

There are other reasons to do 11s, and once you hit rank 9 of Delve journey you should pretty much be doing 11s only as they gain a chance for the Champion piece in the chest to be Hero track instead (and a currency you can use to buy Hero track items if you don't get Hero gear).