hey there guys this is zigh with WTBGold and today we are going to be talking about the
one thing trade chat constantly says was nerfed and not doable anymore, let's get right into
this
so you may have noticed in your local trade chat people starting to advertise freehold
powerleveling yet again and other people arguing with those people saying "that's fixed you
can't do that anymore" but yes freehold is indeed back and over the past week I've been
selling runs at about 400k for 10 levels
Twinks are gone.
People are right about that due to the 8.2 experience debuff added to these characters.
But with the new endgame gear and essences in patch 8.2 max level tanks such as the prot
paladin and the vengeance demon hunter as well as a few select dps specs such as the
havoc demon hunter and assassination rogues are able to do freehold yet again
So today we are going to be talking about how you can make gold from freehold carries
from a prot warrior's perspective
If you’ve played mythic plus with a prot warrior you’ve probably noticed their incredible
dps output on trash pulls.
We can use this in combination with a few enchants and azerite essences in order to
be able to pull off freehold leveling yet again.
Freehold is still the fastest way to power level from 110 to 120 at about 15 to 20 minutes
per level it's not quite as fast as twinks but Demonhunter twinks were so overpowered
blizzard had to Nerf them but due to the higher iLvL and skill required to run the dungeon
fast the prices of these services have gone up drastically making power leveling a much
more lucrative service.
When people could gear up and set up a 111 twink in a couple of days the prices dropped
so hard.
Some people selling as low as 5k per level.
But if you want to go about setting up a prot warrior we should get started.
Overall you want to gear aggressively rather than defensively.
Clear speed is more important than staying at max hp at all times.
Trinkets such as the radiance of azshara trinket, Phial of the Arcane Tempest, or the Jaina
trinket, Everchill Anchor, can do a large amount of damage when pulling such large packs
You will also want siphoning on your weapon as when your pulling such large packs and
dealing so much dmg leach will be a large amount of your healing
After getting some gear on your warrior i'd recommend starting to farm your essences as
most of them are time gated in one way or another and are massively useful.
Many essences are good such as anima of life and death.
When combined with all your max hp cooldowns you can have some massive burst, but it has
a long cooldown and realistically you want smooth consistent aoe dmg.
You don't really want things that give kiting ability such as conflict and strife as it
makes your thunderclap root all enemies it hits and can cause gaps in your deathball
so that every mob isn't getting hit with every one of your casts.
Due to prioritizing speed over defensive abilities traits such as azeroths undying gift aegis
of the deep or nullification dynamo are overall super underwhelming only offering damage reduction
and no offensive power.
Visions of perfection, much like its name is perfect for the prot warrior a random chance
to proc avatar our main dps cooldown which also synergizes with most of our talents and
azerite traits is so powerful in this context its not even funny.
Minor essences are much more simple as you wanna go with things that scale with the amount
of enemies hit things such as crucible of flame can add some nice extra dot damage to
your enemies and you’ll wanna take memory of the lucid dreams for some rage refund for
your second one once you hit level 65.
For your talents it's quite self explanatory you wanna take anything that buff your main
damage or aoe abilities.
For warriors this is avatar and thunderclap so take crackling, thunder unstoppable force
and anger management, booming voice is a nice aoe damage boost whenever demo shout is off
cooldown.
Into the fray is another easy choice for a free 15% haste and finally bolster and rumbling
earth are nice survivability talents due to there being no dps options on these rows
For your azerite traits you must and i cannot stress this enough have at least 1 deafening
crash 1 bastion of might and 1 blood sport
Bastion of might gives a bunch of mastery whenever avatar is active and also gives you
a free ignore pain casts which also stacks with visions of perfection
Bloodsport gives you leech whenever ignore pain is active and makes your ignore pain
slightly stronger per cast
Deafening crash gives your thunderclaps extra damage and also extends your demo shout
And once you got your character fully set up you can start to do runs but practice before
you find your buyers your gonna drop below 10% hp and your gonna panic and your gonna
die alot……
And if your buyers see you dying a lot they don't buy from you again so practice till
you can at least clear at least 3 times in a row without dying
And there you have it you have your character setup and ready to do runs and in the next
video ill go over the route I use to run the dungeon as well as some specific tips on certain
pulls that can cause problems so make sure to subscribe for when that one comes out and
make sure to leave a like if you like this type of content and as always good luck and
happy gold making.