Gear or Epic Mounts?

[mebben]

I am pretty close to hitting 80 with my team now. Been pondering if I should go for a quick gear upgrade on tank and slaves, or get epic mounts instead. It is nice with the mounts, but I figure they will only provide a small upgrade in terms of travel speed. My goal is to start doing heroics as soon as possible. Is it just stupid to get this stuff or?

Looking at what items AH could offer I was mainly thinking of getting some good gear for the tank, and maybe some gear for the rets (I play an all paladin team).

Tempered Titansteel Helm: 600g
Tempered Titansteel Treads: 450g
Titanium Earthguard Chain: 400g
Titanium Earthguard Ring: 800g
Titansteel Shield Wall: 600g

Tank stuff: about 2900g.. not that bad imo

DPS stuff
Titansteel Destroyer 1100-1500g, so lets say 1500g
Spiked Titansteel Helm: 600g
Ice Striker's Cloak: 350g

Dps stuff: about 2500 x4 = 10k

[Redbeard]

I would go with mounts. The mounts will serve you well for the rest of your chars life, throughout the next expac, etc.

Its a huge quality of life upgrade.

Gear is always being recycled. Mounts are not.

Get the mounts.

[Otlecs]

If you religiously do dailies, the mounts will pay for themselves pretty quick.

If you don't, they're just a waste of money. I don't have epic mounts on my current "main" team and just don't miss them at all. The 150% speed increase is fine for me personally, but then I'm not a daily grinder(!).

My goal is to start doing heroics as soon as possible.

With this stated goal, I PERSONALLY would spend the cash to gear your tank in BoE epics and not bother spending money on the others in the team. That will at least get you into heroics more quickly, which in turn gets you cycling through badge gear and drops.

Once you're there, and assuming you have a (dis)enchanter, it won't take you long to earn the money back and deck your team out with epic flyers if that's what floats your boat.

[mebben]

I haven't even started on professions yet, but I will do enchanting eventually...
It's a tough choice but I'm leaning towards atleast equipping the tank with some purples and getting the titansteel destroyer for the rets.

[Ridere]

Doing 25 of the dailies in Ice Crown, nets you around 300+ gold per toon. That's 1500 a day. Get the mounts, spend a week and a half doing dailies, or whatever you need for the cash. Like mentioned above. As soon as old world is opened up for flying in the expansion, or you need to move about northrend/outlands, the epic fliers are very nice.

[Jubber]

It depends on what you want to do with your time and your goals. If you want to grind heroics then gear is your better bet. The gear will ultimately help you in the grind over your epic flyers. If you want to do dailies with the most efficiency then getting your epic flyers will definately help you there.
Really the epic flyers are nice but not a complete necessity. With any Pally in the group the crusader aura is a nice boost to the reg flyers as it is. Also your epic flyers won't help you in instances.

[gitcho]

I almost never pug, but I spent about 4 hours in a naxx 10 pug with my healer one night, and got 4 epic upgrades - saved a TON of money on BOE epics ... you may even be able to off-tank a good naxx10 pug with some BOE epics on your MT, and get a ton of good upgrades ... 2-5 upgrades in one night with a decent pug (or guild run) ? just a thought ...

[Coltimar]

If you farm the really good tank stuff from quests and instances, and maybe the BoE blue Daunting stuff, you can start UK, Drak and Gundrak. You won't clear them right away but you will get some gear from there and badges. I recommend the mounts as well.

[Multibocks]

Gear the tank out as fast as you can. It will save you the headache of constantly healing him and you can concentrate on dpsing more. My main paladin rarely takes damage in heroics now that his block is above what trash can hit for. Only magic attacks get to him now, makes gearing a group so damn easy.

[mebben]

Gear the tank out as fast as you can. It will save you the headache of constantly healing him and you can concentrate on dpsing more. My main paladin rarely takes damage in heroics now that his block is above what trash can hit for. Only magic attacks get to him now, makes gearing a group so damn easy.

Yeah, I figured gearing the tank would be most important. I'm pretty sure (I hope) that the cash will be rolling in later. Should ding 80 later today when I get back from work. Gonna get some cheaper BoE epics for the tank and see what he can do in terms of tanking.