How to prepare your character for high-end content fast? [Dragonflight Guide]

There's a fast way to unlock a 389 ilvl epic ring. It will take you about an hour to do that. As soon as you've hit 70 lvl and completed the main campaign, travel to Azure Span to find the new faction there – Cobalt Assembly. Do their quests and then farm mobs around their base. Yes, it's pure grind, but it won't take long, don't worry. It's definitely a great idea to grind mobs as a group – you will likely find lots of other lone grinders around. The ring becomes available for purchase from the NPC vendor when you hit the High reputation level with the Assembly. Don't expect it to be too overpowered (to be honest, it's far from that) but it's a lovely stamina and ilvl boost, so get the ring at least for the sake of it. Here's a sweet short video on how to do it right (by BizzleBerry):

Okay, this might be not what everyone would enjoy doing but it has lots of potential. If you turn your war mode on, you'll see several additional world quests on the map. Those new quests will award you with the new world-PvP currency – Bloody Tokens. The quests don't always focus on killing other players so don't worry about that. Do as many of those quests as you can – safely. The awarded Bloody Tokens are quite numerous and you can use them to purchase items of 366 ilvl which is pretty decent. Do these quests for as long as you need – at some point 366 ilvl will stop being relevant. And remember to turn the war mode on and off – if you forget to do that, you'll run the risk of getting ganked.

To spend your bloody tokens look for the vendor named Fieldmaster Emberath in Valdrakken. You can find him in a cave to the right of the Obsidian Enclave on the map (see the video below to get a better idea).

Here's a brief video guide on the bloody tokens thing (by N1ck Games):

Loot coming from rares scales off your average item level. So all the rules that work with world quests apply here too. There's also the so-called super rares that drop loot only once a week. That loot is usually superior to that coming from regular rares (up to 385 ilvl vs up to 375 ilvl). Make sure to defeat as many regular rares as possible throughout the day. As for super rares, wait till the last day before the reset to have better chances for more powerful loot. How to tell one type of rares from the other? Try databases like Wowhead and in-game add-ons like Weakaura.

Here's a video in which Dratnos gives you a better idea of what rares are and what they look like:

Most of them are locked behind a certain level of renown with different factions so make sure to invest some time in improving your reputation with them.

Finally, if you have run out of things to do and still want to find more sources of loot, professions are a solution for you. Its potential is limited, however: the highest ilvl is 382 and you can only get it with an item dropping from last bosses of M+0 (i.e. you can only have 8 of them each week – and that's quite improbable since it doesn't drop all the time). Nevertheless, we'd not discourage you from leveling up your professions. You will be able to craft several decent items to improve your average ilvl for sure. Also, you will definitely enjoy your profs later when the season starts as the cap for crafted items will increase to 418 ilvl which is only several points short of the highest Mythic raid ilvl – 424.