I agree, go grab 5 random scrubs and clear kara and za if you haven't yet this week, with the nerfs and new 3.0 stuffs these places are just a joke and guaranteed laughs/goodtimes if you take some buddies with you. You can't beat 23 badges for all your guys in less then 2 hours, plus a ton of nice epics to boot! Reguarding 5mans, I don't think gear really matters here. I haven't done all the heroics, but i did do quite a few right after hitting 70 and never really had any issues. With thunderstorm now, these places are even easier as chain thunderstorm makes the trash pulls almost trivial. Just pickout some places with drops you want as well as rep that you need, first boss in HM MrT drops a decentcaster mainhand if you still have blue mainhanders. Plus if your doing all the SSO dalies you will hit exhaulted SSO rep that much faster for the epic caster shields and necks