Quote Originally Posted by MiRai View Post
Oh snap, Tonuss just reminded me...

There's a level 80 Cataclysm green gear vendor at the Nordrassil camp in Hyjal now. That might help you balance yourself out if you're missing heirlooms.
I'm lvlin a new team on a new server and that gear is invaluable. I'm not realm xferring to this server, so I am starting off with nothing, no gold no bags, and just by doing the dungeon quests, and vendoring just about everything but cloth, I had JUST enough to purchase a full set of 80 gear from the vendor once I hit 80. It made a huge difference in my DPS and survivability, as most of my older gear was crap, in northrend some of the stuff I was wearing was vanilla stuff, even as old as Zul'Farrak...

So it is fully possible to do it quickly, with no gold help and with no heirlooms. That said, it's MUCH faster with a full set of heirlooms, not only because of the exp incraease, but the gear is perfectly optimized (provided you have the right heirloom sets) and you do so much more DPS especially at lower levels.

I think I'll wait until cross realm BoA mailing is possible in the next patch before doing another team. I still have some looms to upgrade to 85 anyway.