How did you gear up?

[Marathon]

brute force and ignorance!

lawlz !!!!

[Phanes]

Also why did you pick H HoL / H Gun / H UK?
aren't H VH, H UP, H AN just as easy if not quicker for the badges?

Sorry meant to say H UP not H UK.

I don't like timed fights. I play the game to relax and timed fights makes me feel to pressured. I would clear H GuN in 17 minutes and it gives 5 badges. Most of the pulls in there you can just skip by swimming around them.

H UP of course was a breeze and I would do H HoL in 27 minutes for four badges.

I know timing how fast I clear may seem like pressure but it is pressure I can exert on myself and not have forced on me. So I did not mind competing against myself.

[Volch0k]

I started doing Heroic Gundrak 3 bosses first, since my gear was ubercrap at 80 ding. Then i advanced to full run Gundrak, and started doing Heroic UP/UK. After farming those a while, i could easily clear most heroics.

If you are having trouble...check out quest-gear. There are alot of good upgrades from elitequest/chain-quests, if you newly dinged that is. And don't do think that small upgrades don't matter, because they really do. e.g +16 SP from an item, x4 mean your group will have 64 more SP all the time. You wont notice this for each upgrade ofc, but after a when it adds up...oh boy!

And ofc, skip most of the trash. Gundrak you can skip almost anything with jumping down in water after snakeboss, running up to the golem/water elemental boss (You will pull adds if you do it this way, but when u get gear this is eez) then swimming to the next.

Also, don't give up. Once you get the hang of it, heroics go FAST.

[heyaz]

I geared up all my shaman in 100% pvp gear. For my tank, I ran some normal instances and got a bunch of stuff crafted. I did some heroics back when my tank had about 22k hp and my shaman were in savage pvp gear, and they were tough but doable (needed the shields).

I took a break and went back to farming heroics when 3.2 came out, in full deadly/furious gear on the shaman and tank with 28k hp. They were super easy at that point. I farmed badges and ToC to get my shaman in 2 piece tier 8.5 and several other pve pieces, and my tank at 31k unbuffed, and now I kill the bosses without even having to heal my tank. Would love to get more gear with +haste though, that really seems to up the dps in heroics.