Epics for casual players pre - Burning Crusade This article is a guide to Epics for casual players . Original source : WoW EU forums by Cyllvaynne of the Date 4 / 23 / 2006 . This post is meant to be a guide for casual s . Casuals in WoW are people who don ' t have the time to farm raid instances for epic items . Lots of people think this class of people is overlooked . However , casuals can still gain a deal of epic items , but it will require effort . I explain it again : casuals will need to work hard for epic items . This means farming gold / items in the time they have . The real difference is that casuals won ' t farm for 8 hours straight for the drops they need . They will do it in spells of 1 . 5 hours or so . This means you will get your epic slower in calendar days , but about the same in / played . Again : find yourself a neat farmplace , and farm gold until you die of boredom . Hardcore raiders do it too , and it is exactly what you will have to do to get the items you want . Dungeon Set 2 . The Dungeon Set 2 quest line is a way to get four class specific epic items without ever needing to be in a group larger than 10 people . The quest line itself is exceptionally difficult ( involving the infamous and Valthalak ) but the entire quest line has been successfully PUG ed on various servers . Because the quest line does not require raiding , nor does it require maintaining a regular play schedule , this quest line can be considered casual friendly , despite its exceptional difficulty . Each piece of the quest line can be completed in chunks of time totaling 2 hours or less . The rewards are as follows : Easy epics . Epic amulets and trinkets can be acquired from the Darkmoon Faire . The materials and gold for these items can be farmed in a few weeks . The options here include : Hint : Try to find someone with a good crafting profession to optimize the ticket quests . You can use rugged leather , dense grinding stones , or white drops from Scorpids and Plaguelands bats . Casters that are also Tailor s can purchase patterns that have entirely farmable ingredient lists . These are : These are all bind on pick up , so the caster must make the items for themselves . World Item Crafted Epics . The craft professions all have some difficult and expensive recipes that produce epics . With focus , however , the materials can be gathered through farming or purchase on the auction house . These items are : Blacksmithing : Tailoring : Leatherworking : Alterac Valley . If you enjoy PvP you can also acquire reputation in Alterac Valley . With the recent changes , both sides gain reputation quite quickly . Getting to Exalted will take time and might require some dedicated days of PvP farming , but it can be done in 2 – 3 months with 1 dedicated day each week and some more in the evenings . At exalted , you receive immediate access to a range of items that are the equal of Molten Core - level items . Alterac Valley Rewards epics : Instance Epics . Some epics drop in 5 - man instances , or are quest rewards from items that drop in 5 - man instances . This includes several classes of items . The first are items based on the , a rare skinning drop from UBRS . The components are expensive , but are all bind on equip and farmable by casuals . No raiding needed , but it will be very expensive as the Hide can sell for anywhere from 300g to 900g . The second class is the - based items . These are comparable to the Hide items , but the Carapace is Bind on Pickup , so it requires a lot of UBRS farming . Once you have the Carapace , you will need Skins of Shadow from Scholomance or Frayed Abomination Stitchings from Stratholme , Blood of Heroes from the Plaguelands , and Chromatic Dragonscales which can be bought or farmed from UBRS . There are a small number of very rare epic drops in high - level 5 - and 10 - man instances . These include : Epics Based on Raid Items . There are a number of epic raid items that are Bind on Equip , or use items that drop with some frequency in raid instances . One class of these is the Bind on Equip Tier 1 items from the Molten Core . These can often be purchased directly from a guild leader or on the auction house . The price will depend on your realm but ranges from 200 to 600 gold , usually . The second class are crafted items that depend on Molten Core raid drops . The Thorium Brotherhood sells recipes that use Molten Core drops ( notably s , s , and ) to create a variety of epic armor and weapons . The Fiery Cores and Lava Cores can be purchased on the auction house but are very expensive ; typical prices range from 80 to 200g . Most of these items represent around 1000 gold of materials cost . Armor : Weapons : The third class are crafted items that depend on Temple of Ahn ' Qiraj raid drops . These are : World Drops . These items can be obtained through extreme luck or by purchasing them from the auction house . They all tend to be quite expensive . Some of these are quite good items , while others are mere status items . Field Duty . Field Duty is a quest line in Silithus related to Cenarion Circle . Most of the quest can be done solo or in small groups ( depending on your class ) , but it does require a rather significant time commitment . The following items can be obtained . Stalwart ' s Battlegear ( Revered ) : Champion ' s Battlegear ( Exalted ) : Armaments of the Dawn . With Patch 1 . 11 , a series of quests in the Eastern Plaguelands with the Argent Dawn has made available additional epic items . These can be obtained through a combination of reputation grinding and collecting a series of drops ( either from the auction house or farming ) . The higher your reputation , the less items you need to collect . These include . . . Player versus Player Rewards Items . As of Patch 2 . 0 , honor points from PvP can now be accumulated to buy PvP rewards items . Now it is possible for casual players to obtain Field Marshal / Warlord armor sets as well as Grand Marshal / High Warlord weapons with constant PvP grinding . This may take a while but it is considerably easier than raid items for players who do not have the amount of time to go in a raid constantly . Conclusion : . Casuals can still get epic items , however they will get them at a very slow rate and it will take long stretches of grinding . The unique thing in these items is that you can break up the grind stretches .