Wod heroics - getting to 610

[fightcow]

Im interested to see how you guys are getting on with progressing to heroics?

ive pretty much done all the quests i can find.
ive got the 640 ring.
ive only got a few rarespawn 620's, not even 1 per char. They are heavily camped and i havent got the patience to wait for spawn.
so my team is at 601-605.
quite a way to go to 610. Gonna need lots of normal dungeon 615's. Plus Hopefully have a crystal peice in a few days which i think is 620?

i only just replaced my barracks with a bunker as i didnt know about the increase in upgrade chance it gives until today! So i dont think ive done very well with rare quest rewards which is a shame. Mostly greens.

[Meeo]

Tier 1 Apexis Crystal gear is 630, and is similar to the dropped versions of similar naming from Heroic Dungeons. I was fortunately lucky enough to get most of my quest geared epic upgraded or are upgraded so i was near 610 when i got done with nagrand. However 1 of my guys was all green on his gear and was around 590.

[fightcow]

ive got my team to 610 now.
Still finding normals tough! ive yet to get past everbloom second boss and burialgrounds last boss, UBRS is the only one i can comfortably run.

I do wonder why no one else on these forums is talking about boxing the new instances? i thought you guys would be all over it?
Im interested to compare notes and find out what team compositions work and where etc..

[Lyonheart]

I am not done with Nagrand and have a few guys 610+. I made some gear ( one each ). One thing i just noticed last night, the lvl3 salvage yard drops 610 greens randomly, that has helped. But i am all over the mission cooldowns... i have several 615 items so far from those. I go out and do a few quests and return to do more follower missions about every hour.

[Mosg2]

I recommend having the Warmill in your large plot while doing Nagrand so you can luck out on quest rewards/rare spawn loot.

If you're already done with Nagrand, I'd set your garrison up to do follow missions: Warmill, Salvage Yard, Inn.

[MiRai]

I recommend having the Warmill in your large plot while doing Nagrand so you can luck out on quest rewards/rare spawn loot.

If you're already done with Nagrand, I'd set your garrison up to do follow missions: Warmill, Salvage Yard, Inn.
For those of us who play the master faction (Alliance), the War Mill is the Dwarven Bunker.

[Lyonheart]

I have the lvl2 Bunker and lvl3 salvage yards on all my team

[fightcow]

Just finished my first heroic.
Iron docks.
i616-i618 team of prot paladins.
I reckon i should be able to start working through the rest of them now as i get to i620, thats the sweet spot for my paladins it seems.
Itching to start a new team now, see if i can do the instances with lower ilevels.

Quite a few wipes!
You can see a pile of bones from a previous failed attempt.
1384

[Fat Tire]

You can see a pile of bones from a previous failed attempt.
1384

Good fighter that mark hunt

[Mercurio]

Just finished my first heroic.
Iron docks.
i616-i618 team of prot paladins.

Congrats! That's great to hear. I'm sure I will be getting into heroics soon. As you mentioned before, it is different in this expansion with all the different ways to gear up.

My first team of ten is between ilvl 619 and 627. I've yet to set foot in a heroic or even a regular level 100 dungeon. I'm not raiding Highmaul yet, but my followers are starting to. They get a mission called "Highmaul Raid" once you get a group of them to (follower ilvl) 645. They give your toon a piece of ilvl 655 gear when successful.

Don't get me wrong, it isn't like the follower game leads to instant free 655 ilvl gear. It has taken me a good amount of time to get my followers leveled up to that level and it could be that spending my time in heroics instead would have yielded quicker results. Heroics definitely require more skill to accomplish. However, I've been enjoying managing each toon's little army from the comfort of my garrison.

[Toned]

Had to build a new computer to 5 box WOD, just got it last week.

Got the main paladin 100 w/ ilvl 640.

War + 4 Sham group is 94 (Chain running instances ftw)

[Ughmahedhurtz]

My first team of ten is between ilvl 619 and 627. I've yet to set foot in a heroic or even a regular level 100 dungeon. I'm not raiding Highmaul yet, but my followers are starting to. They get a mission called "Highmaul Raid" once you get a group of them to (follower ilvl) 645. They give your toon a piece of ilvl 655 gear when successful.

Don't get me wrong, it isn't like the follower game leads to instant free 655 ilvl gear. It has taken me a good amount of time to get my followers leveled up to that level and it could be that spending my time in heroics instead would have yielded quicker results. Heroics definitely require more skill to accomplish. However, I've been enjoying managing each toon's little army from the comfort of my garrison.
I'm doing very much the same thing, though I started late on the follower leveling. Coming along nicely, and most of my guys are in 607-612 average ilvl without completing a single heroic instance. Heh, I'm still working on the treasure map locations for Frostfire Ridge after picking up the maps tonight. So much to do...so little time. :p

[fightcow]

dont leave it too late to do the instances or they wont present much of a challenge!
even 5 ilevels makes the difference between the seemingly impossible and the doable in my experience so far.

My aim is to finish each heroic at the lowest ilevel possible. after that there's just no point in running them as the gear is crap i630 and all the GOT(gear over time) stuff supercedes it by miles.(classic hyperbole i know..)

Did someone mention war+4sham !!! thats on my shortlist for my next team :) tell me more!

[fightcow]

Good fighter that mark hunt

he is originally from a previous team :)
i hate choosing names, so i gave them all names of my favourite fighters from back in PRIDE (the japanese fighting organisation not the gay movement lol)

[sorrowharvester]

I definitely think War Mill/Dwarven Bunker is the way to go levelling up.
I would say I got upgrades > 50% of the time. When I hit 100 on my paladin I only needed a couple of normal runs to be ready for heroics.

[Mercurio]

Finished my first heroic tonight - figured I'd try to make some progress toward the ilvl 580 legendary rings that require three heroics. Hadn't read any strats or seen any videos when I walked in - totally cold. Started with Bloodmaul Slag Mines, but it took a while. First and second bosses killed me once or twice while I learned what they did. Third boss was a real pita - spent half my time in there on him. One spotted the last boss, which was a welcome change after the third boss.

Two more heroics to go for the uberring :)

[fightcow]

Finished my first heroic tonight - figured I'd try to make some progress toward the ilvl 580 legendary rings that require three heroics. Hadn't read any strats or seen any videos when I walked in - totally cold. Started with Bloodmaul Slag Mines, but it took a while. First and second bosses killed me once or twice while I learned what they did. Third boss was a real pita - spent half my time in there on him. One spotted the last boss, which was a welcome change after the third boss.

Two more heroics to go for the uberring :)

rolltal ?
he was the hardest on normal, havent tried him on heroic yet, but imagine he will be an arse!

what team are you using? what ilvl?

[Mercurio]

rolltal ?
what team are you using? what ilvl?

Yep, Roltall. Tons of movement and crap all over the floor to dodge. It was surprising to me that the best strategy for two of the bosses (Roltall and Crushto) was to keep my guys on follow the whole time. On Gug'Rokk my healers and DPS were grouped the whole fight. Only on Magmolaus did I retain the strategy that I always start new fights on - my guys spread out most of the fight.

Hmmm... that team was a prot pally, disc priest, ele shammy, marks hunter, and destro lock. About ilvl 620.

[luxlunae]

Had to build a new computer to 5 box WOD, just got it last week.



I have the memory but I have to "upgrade" to windows 8 in order to use it, so I'm dragging my feet.