How are you gearing your teams?

[Dhamage]

I'm not sure if most or all of us are working on our 5-man team solely for lvl 70 end game stuff, with the looming WotLK probably within the next 9 months, how are you guys gearing yourselves? Is it really that easy to get high lvl arena equipment? Is there decent enough drops in Heroic 5-man instances that my team could get near tier-6 quality armor and weapons?

I plan on doing A LOT of instances once I hit 20 just because I want to train for the outland ones. My main goal is to hit exhaulted with as many factions as I can (except for the insane ones who go for the bloodsail buccaneers), so I see a lot of instance grinding before I ever do a quest in outland.

Anyway.... let me know what you guys (and gals) are doing. You just can't be a lvl 70 hardcore multiboxer, but then decked out in blues and greens... right?

[Jaese]

Heroic drops are barely near T4 let alone T6.

I wouldn't worry about gear. Level 74 BoE blues are already better than their T6 counterparts.

Also, oldworld instances don't give rep.

[Kyudo]

If I was in your situation I'd predict hitting 70 around 2-3 months before Wrath. Now in that situation, unless you are pretty dedicated, you're not gonna get much chance at running Kara+, so what to do?

I'd do the same as I am planning on my (currently shelved) shammy/pally team. Gather up 75,000 honour, 5,000 arena points, and as many PvP badges as I could get my hands on, then wait patiently. Starting so late in the game you'll never be able to catch up to the well geared guys, but you can put lots of "points in the bank" for a great head start in Wrath. When you hit 80, you can trundle off and get a couple of bits of the new Gladiator Equivalent gear and some of the blue PvP bits with all those hard earned points, and a nice head start.

The above is thoroughly possible even loosing 10 arena games a week with the blue rep based pvp gear.

I wouldn't worry about grinding to get exhaulted in all factions, just do all the quests and a few instances and that'll get you Kara entry level gear anyway.

This I think is the most "efficient" use of your time given the situation.

[Dominian]

Wont arena points be reseted? kinda crazy if not...

[Dhamage]

Also, oldworld instances don't give rep.

Argent Dawn Rep is what I'm talking about mostly, but drops from BRD give rep with the Thorium Brotherhood.

[Sanctume]

I plan to get the best gear I can get with minimum amount of time, even if I know it will be outdated at level 80.

However, having the best gear I can get at 70 will be useful until I get green upgrades while levelling up.

That said:
- At least S2 armor and weapons.
- At least S4 gear obtainable with 1600 PR, that includes honor gear neerding PR.
- At least 10 games per week, resetting team at 1500 with whatever loses I get. So far, Im 2-8 the past 3 weeks.
- Keep doing "easy" heroic especially if it's the daily heroic for badges to get heroic badge gear upgrades.

[Havelcek]

My priorities in order:

1. Get team to 70
2. Finish quests for gold
3. Raise tradeskills to 375
4a. Bank 75,000 honor 4b. Bank arena points
5. Bank PvP badges
6. Grind instances

[Drizzit]

[quote='Fursphere',index.php?page=Thread&postID=928 59#post92859](I don't know what you'd actually do with said rep tho)[/quote]

If you get exulted you get a free key to the 40 man raid [font='arial']Naxxramas [/font].

[Kyudo]

I plan to get the best gear I can get with minimum amount of time, even if I know it will be outdated at level 80.

However, having the best gear I can get at 70 will be useful until I get green upgrades while levelling up.

That said:
- At least S2 armor and weapons.
- At least S4 gear obtainable with 1600 PR, that includes honor gear neerding PR.
- At least 10 games per week, resetting team at 1500 with whatever loses I get. So far, Im 2-8 the past 3 weeks.
- Keep doing "easy" heroic especially if it's the daily heroic for badges to get heroic badge gear upgrades.

But Sac, from what I can see, your team is already 70, this guy is just starting out. So I stand by my post, forgo the imba gear for now, save up as much as you can that will actually "keep" for wrath. It might be worth getting a couple of S2 bits along the way to help with the PvP grind, but unless he levels super fast he's going to have "missed the boat".

Agree with the arena stuff though....

[Kyudo]

Wont arena points be reseted? kinda crazy if not...

Well I'm making an assumption here that they wont. Badges and honour dont so why should points?