Noob question on gear score.

[Tyval]

So the concept of gear score seems to have become in vogue while I was taking a break from the game after wrath came out.

Since I've been back I haven't worried about it too much as most my team wasn't lvl 80 and their gear sucked anyway .

That said, I did some searching, it almost seems there is more than one metric for this? I check, hmm WoW heroes site and looked up my chars, My tank is currently around 1400.

Yet I hear folks talking about 5k plus scores, is this using the same system as I found there? I was thinking there must be more than one method to calculate as my priest with all epic i200-213 is in the 2000s, yet not sure how one would get to 5k upgrading to say 245s.

Any thoughts, links , info is appreciated.

Tyval

[Ogloo]

are you using the addon called gearscore?
or the website online that shows u character score? <-- online 3k is really good

[Svpernova09]

So the concept of gear score seems to have become in vogue while I was taking a break from the game after wrath came out.

Since I've been back I haven't worried about it too much as most my team wasn't lvl 80 and their gear sucked anyway .

That said, I did some searching, it almost seems there is more than one metric for this? I check, hmm WoW heroes site and looked up my chars, My tank is currently around 1400.

Yet I hear folks talking about 5k plus scores, is this using the same system as I found there? I was thinking there must be more than one method to calculate as my priest with all epic i200-213 is in the 2000s, yet not sure how one would get to 5k upgrading to say 245s.

Any thoughts, links , info is appreciated.

Tyval

Wow heroes will give you a lower score than the gearscore addon. When people say 5k+, they're talking about the addon score, not the wow heroes.

[Fat Tire]

[Littleburst]

curse.com has the addon "gearscore"

full epic should give you a 4k+ gearscore. full 200 blue is about 3,5k i guess.

[Gormand]

I think a fresh to 80 in quest blues and greens is around the 2700 mark.
With a fair chunk of frost emblem gear and ICC 10 gear you end up with around 5300-5500
People call for 5k for a ICC run, that is more then enough, for the first wing, and depending on skill (See above comic) for a fair chunk of the second.

But gearscore also doesnt take 1 other major thing into account, and thats lower gear being better then higher gear. Darkmoon Card : Greatness is awesome for a whole lot of classes and is only just getting replaced with some 245 and 251 gear. My Priest has a 213 wand that is better for me then a 232 wand I picked up to replace it.
It also doesnt take into account gems or enchants.

Gearscore is good for getting a quick idea of how smooth the run should be, but if you really want to know how the toon is geared and how they should perform you need to inspect them or WoW hero them. That will give you more of an idea of the skill level as typically skilled people will have the correct gems and enchants on all their gear.

One of the people in my guild is building up a screw gearscore set. They are a DK who takes any and all 251 items that dont get taken by anyone else (Mostly stuff with spellpower) They can in fact build an outfit with a higher GS then their actual gear.

[Tyval]

Thanks!, that explains it , seemed to me there had to be 2 different scoring methods.

I'm not particularly concerned about it other than to know what folks are talking about.


Sure I might vote kick out my mage in my box crew if his score irritates the shaman, but well he is a gnome, so kind of deserves it.

My shaman can have quite the tude sometimes...

If they get too uppity though my Pali lets them get agro and then refuses to target them so the heals won't get to them...

That gets my priest bitching about why haven't I moved to ISBoxer yet..

hmmm

I wonder if I have been boxing to much of late it ...

Tyval

[Zub]

fun facts with gearscore, my level 1 warlock (now level 10) had ~1200 GS.
(5 heirlooms)

[lordmythic]

This might be derailing a bit but I use the Elitist Group Addon to give me a better idea of the player I'm with when I run solo. It will give you a better picture of the toon's accomplishments, avg Ilvl score of his gear and what he should be capable of running without waving around an epeen.

[Nejcha]

This might be derailing a bit but I use the Elitist Group Addon to give me a better idea of the player I'm with when I run solo. It will give you a better picture of the toon's accomplishments, avg Ilvl score of his gear and what he should be capable of running without waving around an epeen.

Truth ^