So I dinged 85 on my first 5 man team...

[Peli]

Now what? I tried out the Random BG finder (AV was starting to get a little stale, I ended up getting EotS), but my gear is still craptacular, so I'm more of a liability than anything (had enough honor from pvping while leveling to buy them all the shoulders). The team is 5x shaman, but I also have several level 85 tanks (all geared in at least ilvl 346, one is geared in the new heroic gear). Should I swap out my one shaman for a tank and roll through some random normals and then heroics to get gear and badges?

I guess I'm looking for your guys' advice on how to quickly and effectively gear up for PvP and PvE... TIA.

[candlebox]

Well first of all you need to slow down and breathe.

Then lets move on.

So you want to PvP, but you get dominated and you don't want to farm BG's.
A) Gather mats/ farm or buy the crafted pvp set.
B) Run regular dungeons/ or heroic for badges
C) Tol Barad
D) Run one or two characters at a time

So you want to PvE, but you get dominated and dont want to farm BG's
A) Gather mats/ farm or buy the crafted PvE/PvP set.
B) Run regular dungeons/ or heroic for badges
C) Tol barad
D)Run one or two characters at a time

Basically you need to have fun with this. If you aren't comfortable with what you are doing then practice a little more.

If still you don't feel comfortable enough, then drop a toon for a while and keep plugging.

[Shania]

Grats on the DING!

The only way is too buy gear or craft yourself if you can afford it
No real instant way

Some people craft pvp gear and jump into raid finder that way.

Hit some normals, then some easier heroics, relax, enjoy it, it will all fall into place with some patience.

[d0z3rr]

I was wondering the same thing, having recently dinged my first level 85 multiboxing group.

I can never find leather items on the AH, so my rogue/druid still have really bad gear and their DPS is sad.

Is there crafted PVE gear for plate/leather/cloth? Most of the blue gear I find on the AH has resiliance and haste or something, completely worthless stats for instance grinding.

[candlebox]

having resil isnt that bad.

As long as you have the core stat values. Stam Agi and hit rating are the basics for dps. crit and mast are great, but if you are not hit capped nothing matters.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

I can never find leather items on the AH, so my rogue/druid still have really bad gear and their DPS is sad.

Heh, I had the same problem with my paladin group: leather and chain dropped all over the place, with very little plate. Conspiracy, I tellz you!

[Ualaa]

Now what?

One team down, many to go!

I'd consider running dailies, as a team to let you "buy" alchemy on each of them.
And would recommend leveling a few more teams, and also doing alchemy on those.
The passive income is much larger earlier in an expansion or content patch, but it still is consistent gold much better than farming.

As far as PvP goes...
You can buy the starter/crafted sets, if you like.
Or put up with an honor grind without much gear.
Stick to AV, except if it is IoC weekend.
The larger BG's (AV / IoC) are best for gearing up; the smaller ones are much more punishing.
Once you have mostly full Honor gear (3/4's or so), you can add in EotS and AB (on their bonus honor weekends) or stick with AV.

[traedoril]

Why does everyone say to get alchemy?

[Zub]

Why does everyone say to get alchemy?

to cash in on transmutes

[Sajuuk]

Why must we call it a DING!?

It's more of a Fawoooosh-Doooong anyways.