One Man Crew

Yesterday night it was meant to be the night of the 10 men TotC/Ulduar for 2 groups, but we ran short of healers and dps to form a second group so the usual raiders where split in two, those going for the 10 men and those just sitting around. That’s a good time to gear up some alts. At the moment I have two level 80 alts that could use some better gear and so I took my druid and went to farm a couple of heroics (the daily which was Utgarde Keep and ToC).

Now.. I know that this has been discussed almost everywhere on the net, but I’ll throw my 2 cents in as well. ToC is the easiest and fastest way to gear up any toon. Just by running that and farming some badges I managed to get the best tanking gear for my feral druid that can be taken before hitting Ulduar. And I’m planning on doing the same for the resto gear. Anyone out there remembers how hard it was to gear up through heroics in TBC just to be barely able to snip into a raid to Karazhan?

With normal ToC you can get your first epics while still leveling. At 80 you farm ToC heroic and get the rest of the gear and with the badges you buy the two T8.25 pieces and you’re set. Geared and ready for Ulduar and up.

This opens a question though.. why are people applying to raiding guilds showing that they have very bad gear when you can have a decent set in less than two weeks? Is it a sign of lack of commitment? Laziness?  Lack of time? I’d say that laziness is the winner here. And if that’s the case, maybe that’s one of those nice indicators of how dedicated certain applicants can be. Of course gear isn’t everything, but since it’s so easy to gear up with a few runs, why wouldn’t people do it instead of complaining about it?!