The players that have been with WoW for more than 2 years knows that there usually is an pre-expansion event, such as earthquakes before Cataclysm and zombie invasion before Wrath of the Lich King.
Knowing this and looking forward to the next expansion coming out in just a couple of weeks I started to wonder where it had gone, so I google'd and voila! This time there is no real event, it is a scenario that you have to queue for. Just like random dungeon finder. The effort put in to that Blizzard!
I must say I am extremely disappointed, I was expecting some sort of event, possibly not as big as before Wrath, but something atleast, not having to queue up for something that will then be available in level 90 aswell!
A world event is suppose to be a one time thing, never to come again, this will always be there and there is nothing special about it.
I specifically remember the pre-Wrath event, the gear, which was back then amazing with cool undead set bonuses and funky looks. Having got a level 70 rogue, that is still sitting there in gear from that event and weapons from Karazhan makes me nostalgic and hoping that Blizzard will do something special for this expansion, because as I see it now, they do less and less to keep their customers happy and expect us to be happy with whatever they decide to give us.
Unfortunately this seems to be the case, more and more young players come on to the scene and everything being new and shiny they don't know how the game used to be, what the game's soul was like before someone baby-fied it. I had my little brother play the game several years ago, he got his own little blood elf paladin and ran around killing wyrms and ghosts, never dying and not needing my help apart from with the english words. He was 8 back then. If he could do it at 8 in the Wrath expansion I have no doubt that a 7 year old, easily impressed, can handle Cataclysm and most probably MoP.
What to do about it? Only ones that can fix this is Blizzard, and we all know they are not going to limit their customerbase by making it a little bit more like BC, with keys and attunements. We all miss it, but we just have to accept the fact that we will never get it back.
Thursday, 13 September 2012
Tuesday, 4 September 2012
Tanking issues
We all need them, we don't particularly like them, but we can't survive without them, yes I am of course talking about tanks.
With the latest patch different tanks have had different boost and nerfs, but now it seems the druid tanks are having some issues. Wanting to check just how bad this is I decided to gear up my druid's tanking gear and give it a go. Having said this I have never tanked with a druid before, but with all the other classes so the only new thing to me was the whole spell and bear thing.
I must say, after doing a lot of reading and speccing and gemming and lining my spells up and decided to go for a Cataclysm normal dungeon to start me up nice and easy. Turns out, aggro is a bitch! I might add that my group consisted of a warlock, death knight and a feral druid with a priest healer, all of them geared for raiding, I had some issues with the warlock and death knight and occasionally druid. So basically all of them!
I have not got the best gear in the world, it is not all ilvl 397 as it could be, but it will get there eventually, i.e. later this week to see if that makes a massive difference or if the druids are just losing the ability to tank. I will try and get some heroics to tank with a few friends that can keep the dps up and challenge me.
I have also got this druid geared up perfectly in healing gear to get healing the DS 10 raids, I must say the mana regen is the worst for druids, but hopefully that will be sorted with even better gear and weekly runs of DS 10 mixed with some heroic bosses.
But this is a post about tanking, so what do you think about the tanking after the patch? Have you experienced that well-geared tanks are losing aggro or are you a tank that just are having issues? Let me know!
With the latest patch different tanks have had different boost and nerfs, but now it seems the druid tanks are having some issues. Wanting to check just how bad this is I decided to gear up my druid's tanking gear and give it a go. Having said this I have never tanked with a druid before, but with all the other classes so the only new thing to me was the whole spell and bear thing.
I must say, after doing a lot of reading and speccing and gemming and lining my spells up and decided to go for a Cataclysm normal dungeon to start me up nice and easy. Turns out, aggro is a bitch! I might add that my group consisted of a warlock, death knight and a feral druid with a priest healer, all of them geared for raiding, I had some issues with the warlock and death knight and occasionally druid. So basically all of them!
I have not got the best gear in the world, it is not all ilvl 397 as it could be, but it will get there eventually, i.e. later this week to see if that makes a massive difference or if the druids are just losing the ability to tank. I will try and get some heroics to tank with a few friends that can keep the dps up and challenge me.
I have also got this druid geared up perfectly in healing gear to get healing the DS 10 raids, I must say the mana regen is the worst for druids, but hopefully that will be sorted with even better gear and weekly runs of DS 10 mixed with some heroic bosses.
But this is a post about tanking, so what do you think about the tanking after the patch? Have you experienced that well-geared tanks are losing aggro or are you a tank that just are having issues? Let me know!
Wednesday, 29 August 2012
THE patch
Yes today the end of WoW went live. We say goodbye to the WoW we used to know and be addicted to and say hello to something completely different and alien.
The drama is necessary as I am extremely disappointed in Blizzard, they had something not completely broken but fixable with Cataclysm, and then they decide to completely destroy it. We have all had the normal patch day lag, and that is not what is putting me off, but the fact that they removed so many fun things!
What happened to Have group will Travel for example, just a teaser I say.
And the way they humiliate druids even more, have you seen any balance druids today? I think they are all hiding.
Do not get me started about my precious hunter.
And the talent "tree" made me now want to drink several gallons of alcohol and never see the light of day again.
Then there is the way loot is distributed in Raid Finder, I have yet to have tried a normal 10/25 man raid, I will update on that.
The only thing I found myself doing today was to level my old friend, a druid. After the talk in trade about how brilliant they now are I decided to bring her up to level 85, this took me a little under 12 hours. Unlike some I welcome the reduced XP required, I have always hated that last level of levelling, you know you're close but the last bars are always slow, today they just flew by and I got it before I could say hello to level 84.
I do realise the Valor point system is out the window and have now gathered up a healthy amount of Justice Points so I can buy some gear for my druid to get her in to the raiding business tomorrow. I thought I might give bear a go, but the fact that I can look like a tree again won me over and I will instead go for the humiliating Balance spec + some tree spec. Having been a tree all through Wrath I decided this would be fun for raiding and Balance for random dungeons.
But enough about me, back to this patch of theirs'..
Short simple sweet, that is not the correct description of it. Horrible humiliating and soul destroying works better.
As you may have gathered, I am not happy about this, it has completely destroyed my gaming experience and many agree. Before today I was excited about MoP, but now I wonder if it is worth the money, just to be able to be a panda monk.
To me this game is now history and we're moving in to something new, something that is nothing like the old World of Warcraft we all fell inlove with.
Rest in Peace
The drama is necessary as I am extremely disappointed in Blizzard, they had something not completely broken but fixable with Cataclysm, and then they decide to completely destroy it. We have all had the normal patch day lag, and that is not what is putting me off, but the fact that they removed so many fun things!
What happened to Have group will Travel for example, just a teaser I say.
And the way they humiliate druids even more, have you seen any balance druids today? I think they are all hiding.
Do not get me started about my precious hunter.
And the talent "tree" made me now want to drink several gallons of alcohol and never see the light of day again.
Then there is the way loot is distributed in Raid Finder, I have yet to have tried a normal 10/25 man raid, I will update on that.
The only thing I found myself doing today was to level my old friend, a druid. After the talk in trade about how brilliant they now are I decided to bring her up to level 85, this took me a little under 12 hours. Unlike some I welcome the reduced XP required, I have always hated that last level of levelling, you know you're close but the last bars are always slow, today they just flew by and I got it before I could say hello to level 84.
I do realise the Valor point system is out the window and have now gathered up a healthy amount of Justice Points so I can buy some gear for my druid to get her in to the raiding business tomorrow. I thought I might give bear a go, but the fact that I can look like a tree again won me over and I will instead go for the humiliating Balance spec + some tree spec. Having been a tree all through Wrath I decided this would be fun for raiding and Balance for random dungeons.
But enough about me, back to this patch of theirs'..
Short simple sweet, that is not the correct description of it. Horrible humiliating and soul destroying works better.
As you may have gathered, I am not happy about this, it has completely destroyed my gaming experience and many agree. Before today I was excited about MoP, but now I wonder if it is worth the money, just to be able to be a panda monk.
To me this game is now history and we're moving in to something new, something that is nothing like the old World of Warcraft we all fell inlove with.
Rest in Peace
Monday, 27 August 2012
How to..Gear up
Congratulations, you've reached level 85 and you now want to get on to raiding and doing heroics. There are easy and quick ways of doing this, and there are slow ways.
If this is your first level 85, this will be a slow process of farming normal dungeons and buying gear. What you want to do is keep an eye on the Auction House and buy yourself any bargain gear, such as Valor point bracers and boots, this is a great way of saving your points but at the same time get some great gear. If however you do not have any gold, or the pieces are really expensive you can simply farm for lower ilvl gear in dungeons and eventually heroics.
If you do have another level 85, this will be easy you may want to spend a few Valor points on the bracers and boots, if these are expensive on your realm. This is a great way of getting your new character up and running quicker and start enjoying it properly.
Having bought the essentials, with gold or Valor points, it is time for the grind. Before this you want to make a list of the gear you need and the dungeons they drop from. A nice and easy way of doing this is getting the AtlasLoot addon, so you can quick and easily check what gear drops from where. You will want to list what you can buy from Justice and Valor points, such as relics, trinkets, rings and necks which may be hard to get your hands on in dungeons. Since you will have done the random cataclysm dungeons all through your levelling you will have a nice little collection of Justice points to spend, this you want to spend on the item that will give you the biggest update and that will be difficult to get from dungeons and heroics. This may be good trinkets and rings or relics and wands or to start up your tier collection that will give you good set bonuses, you will want to make sure the set bonus is worth the points for your class. If it is useless, go for other items that gives you better stats, you don't want to spend your Justice points on tier gear that will not give you any benefits.
Now at this point you will have made your list and gotten some gear. Hopefully this will have gotten you over the ilvl requirement to start doing cataclysm heroic dungeons. This is a great way of getting Justice points and also gear and achievements, as this is only for gearing up, you do not want to do random dungeons but only the ones that you actually need gear from, otherwise it is a waste of your time. If you are lucky and get a brilliant group or that you have a good group of friends that will help you through the heroics to get you geared up and ready for raiding you will get to the Hour of Twilight heroics within hours.
This is the point you want to get to by the end of the day, this is where the good gear is and this is where you spend your time before getting in to the raid finder. Because of the fact that you will get Valor points for the HoT HCs you want to do the random finder and not do specific heroics. You can use the AtlasLoot addon to see what gear drops where and pray to the WoW gods that your heroic will come up and the loot will drop, but until you have reached your weekly Valor point cap, 1000 Valor points, you want to do the random finder. If you are still awake after this and want to do more, do your specific dungeons to get your preferred gear that will give you the biggest ilvl boost and gives you the best stat updates.
This is something of a rinse and repeat operation til you reach the ilvl of 372, at which you can queue for the raid finder. This is where you want to be within a day or two and hope to get some gear from the DS raid. At this point there is no point in even trying to get in to the normal DS 10 or 25, because you are just not good enough, I'm sorry but however much you know your class, your gear will just not be good enough. Spend a few weeks in raid finder and do the less demanding raids, such as Firelands to get yourself in to Cataclysm raiding.
At this point you will be in and running DS raid finder every week, not only for experience and making your knowledge of your character higher, but also for the 500 Valor points the raid finders bring. This is also the end of the massive gearing up process from your greenies to an average ilvl of around 380 that will give you a better chance of getting in to the end game raids. A good thing to do, no the only thing you need to do is reading up on the tactics for DS, and watching youtube videos for all the boss fights to make sure you know the tactics off by heart before you try and apply them to raiding. For your first raid with your new character it may be good to bring some friends and if you're lucky you will have a guild that still raids to get your through the raid and get you that all important [Destroyer's End] achievement that might get you in to PUGs around the realm.
I hope your gearing up went brilliant and stay tuned for more How To.. guides!
If this is your first level 85, this will be a slow process of farming normal dungeons and buying gear. What you want to do is keep an eye on the Auction House and buy yourself any bargain gear, such as Valor point bracers and boots, this is a great way of saving your points but at the same time get some great gear. If however you do not have any gold, or the pieces are really expensive you can simply farm for lower ilvl gear in dungeons and eventually heroics.
If you do have another level 85, this will be easy you may want to spend a few Valor points on the bracers and boots, if these are expensive on your realm. This is a great way of getting your new character up and running quicker and start enjoying it properly.
Having bought the essentials, with gold or Valor points, it is time for the grind. Before this you want to make a list of the gear you need and the dungeons they drop from. A nice and easy way of doing this is getting the AtlasLoot addon, so you can quick and easily check what gear drops from where. You will want to list what you can buy from Justice and Valor points, such as relics, trinkets, rings and necks which may be hard to get your hands on in dungeons. Since you will have done the random cataclysm dungeons all through your levelling you will have a nice little collection of Justice points to spend, this you want to spend on the item that will give you the biggest update and that will be difficult to get from dungeons and heroics. This may be good trinkets and rings or relics and wands or to start up your tier collection that will give you good set bonuses, you will want to make sure the set bonus is worth the points for your class. If it is useless, go for other items that gives you better stats, you don't want to spend your Justice points on tier gear that will not give you any benefits.
Now at this point you will have made your list and gotten some gear. Hopefully this will have gotten you over the ilvl requirement to start doing cataclysm heroic dungeons. This is a great way of getting Justice points and also gear and achievements, as this is only for gearing up, you do not want to do random dungeons but only the ones that you actually need gear from, otherwise it is a waste of your time. If you are lucky and get a brilliant group or that you have a good group of friends that will help you through the heroics to get you geared up and ready for raiding you will get to the Hour of Twilight heroics within hours.
This is the point you want to get to by the end of the day, this is where the good gear is and this is where you spend your time before getting in to the raid finder. Because of the fact that you will get Valor points for the HoT HCs you want to do the random finder and not do specific heroics. You can use the AtlasLoot addon to see what gear drops where and pray to the WoW gods that your heroic will come up and the loot will drop, but until you have reached your weekly Valor point cap, 1000 Valor points, you want to do the random finder. If you are still awake after this and want to do more, do your specific dungeons to get your preferred gear that will give you the biggest ilvl boost and gives you the best stat updates.
This is something of a rinse and repeat operation til you reach the ilvl of 372, at which you can queue for the raid finder. This is where you want to be within a day or two and hope to get some gear from the DS raid. At this point there is no point in even trying to get in to the normal DS 10 or 25, because you are just not good enough, I'm sorry but however much you know your class, your gear will just not be good enough. Spend a few weeks in raid finder and do the less demanding raids, such as Firelands to get yourself in to Cataclysm raiding.
At this point you will be in and running DS raid finder every week, not only for experience and making your knowledge of your character higher, but also for the 500 Valor points the raid finders bring. This is also the end of the massive gearing up process from your greenies to an average ilvl of around 380 that will give you a better chance of getting in to the end game raids. A good thing to do, no the only thing you need to do is reading up on the tactics for DS, and watching youtube videos for all the boss fights to make sure you know the tactics off by heart before you try and apply them to raiding. For your first raid with your new character it may be good to bring some friends and if you're lucky you will have a guild that still raids to get your through the raid and get you that all important [Destroyer's End] achievement that might get you in to PUGs around the realm.
I hope your gearing up went brilliant and stay tuned for more How To.. guides!
Saturday, 25 August 2012
Old raids
Sorry about the lack of posts lately but IRL has been hectic.
The little time I've had on WoW has been spent doing old raids, like BT, Karazhan, Ruby Sanctum, Naxxramas and such.
Karazhan was the only one I soloed, mostly because the others where locked, and being alone I thought the chess game would be a pain, but it turns out I did it the first time. This was something that annoyed a few guild members that had tried countless times.
I went on a different blog to find an easy way of doing it and it seemed alright. The first thing you have to do is get on the King and cast Bloodlust. I did this and was then unable to get off the King, I couldn't dismount. So I made the best of the situation and cast Bloodlust as much as possible.
The opponent king then started going towards me and I simply cleaved and bloodlusted til he was right infront of me. Saying this I was in the same position as where I started. All I did was casting bloodlust til the king was in range and then used cleave and bloodlust. This worked a charm and took me possibly 5 minutes.
Something worth mentioning is that the cheat that was used was fire. But I just had to cleave on every CD in the end instead of using bloodlust to make sure the opponent's king was down before the fire took me out.
I would love any reader to try this out again as I couldn't verify that it worked a second time, I will try again on Wednesday and hope it goes to plan. I will keep you updated.
The rest of Karazhan is amazingly easy to solo as a hunter, although the Netherspite drake was impossible because I was too short to interrupt the beams, goblin height is an issue!
When it comes to other raids that are 80 or below, just grab a few friends and run off, a healer and a tank is a good thing to have, especially for the 80 dungeons, but other than that it is a laugh and you fly through everything. Also giving you achievements and giving you something to do til MoP.
If you want any other ideas on what to do for a month, just scroll down to my other posts. It has plenty of ideas and you'll spend hours on each and every one of them!
The little time I've had on WoW has been spent doing old raids, like BT, Karazhan, Ruby Sanctum, Naxxramas and such.
Karazhan was the only one I soloed, mostly because the others where locked, and being alone I thought the chess game would be a pain, but it turns out I did it the first time. This was something that annoyed a few guild members that had tried countless times.
I went on a different blog to find an easy way of doing it and it seemed alright. The first thing you have to do is get on the King and cast Bloodlust. I did this and was then unable to get off the King, I couldn't dismount. So I made the best of the situation and cast Bloodlust as much as possible.
The opponent king then started going towards me and I simply cleaved and bloodlusted til he was right infront of me. Saying this I was in the same position as where I started. All I did was casting bloodlust til the king was in range and then used cleave and bloodlust. This worked a charm and took me possibly 5 minutes.
Something worth mentioning is that the cheat that was used was fire. But I just had to cleave on every CD in the end instead of using bloodlust to make sure the opponent's king was down before the fire took me out.
I would love any reader to try this out again as I couldn't verify that it worked a second time, I will try again on Wednesday and hope it goes to plan. I will keep you updated.
The rest of Karazhan is amazingly easy to solo as a hunter, although the Netherspite drake was impossible because I was too short to interrupt the beams, goblin height is an issue!
When it comes to other raids that are 80 or below, just grab a few friends and run off, a healer and a tank is a good thing to have, especially for the 80 dungeons, but other than that it is a laugh and you fly through everything. Also giving you achievements and giving you something to do til MoP.
If you want any other ideas on what to do for a month, just scroll down to my other posts. It has plenty of ideas and you'll spend hours on each and every one of them!
Sunday, 19 August 2012
Achievements
Over the past week I have been knocking out quite a few achievements on my hunter, just because she is a new character and, well, I thought she deserved some!
My talk about these in guild chat plus the achievement rain at one point caused a bit of a discussion in the guild, it came down to what achievements are really worth doing?
I said that the only reason I'm doing these is because I have nothing better to do at that time, whereas the other person kept saying that an achievement is only worth doing if it gives you something, i.e. a title, a mount or a pet.
I didn't quite agree with that, obviously, because the person in question was simply sitting in Orgrimmar and complaining that there was nothing to do on the realm. This is incredibly true and the reason why I was running around loving and killing critters. I decided that spending my time on this will actually give me something for the money I'm paying to be on WoW every month, instead of just sitting in Orgrimmar complaining about the Trade channel.
So to you, what achievements are worth doing?
Yesterday I also decided to join an ICC group doing 10 man HC, just for old times sake sort of thing, it was good fun up until we had a couple of people leave and we had to bring in some fresh healers and DPS, this sent the whole raid into a different mood and the new healer kept linking the Recount for HPS and kept going on and on about how much more he was healing than the other healer.
Yes, this is one of those things I just can not put up with, if we were dying, fine, link as much as you want, but the fact that he was bragging about he much healing in a level 80 raid, when the other healer, a disc priest, was keeping us alive and kept us out of wipes, just pissed me off. I can take people randomly linking the DPS/HPS but then also having to brag about it, Really?
This was made worse by the fact that this same guy was from my guild, had complained about no one ever wanting to do anything and always ignoring him in the guild chat. So we invited him over to the ICC run, thinking it might get him feeling a little bit better and that, but 15 minutes in to the raid, for him, after one boss he decided he was hungry and went off and made dinner. We all sat about waiting for him before taking on Professor P and he came back and we kept at it the rest of us having a laugh and joking about everything from dinner to gear. We got ourselves up to the Lich King, where we failed a couple of times, mostly because of this one guy not moving at all. Third attempt; We get buffed up, ready check done, event started and this same healer goes "Sorry guys, gotta go" and leaves! We were all just like "What on earth! After all we been through with him and he does that?"
Where is the respect in these players? Do they really think doing that will get them invited to any guild runs or and PUGs with the people involved? If I would've been the guild master of this guild I would've thrown him out straight away, alts and everything, but unfortunately I can't do that and the GM was not online at that moment, so what can a hunter do?
[R][Player]says: I'm the beeest healr here guuys what you dooin?
My talk about these in guild chat plus the achievement rain at one point caused a bit of a discussion in the guild, it came down to what achievements are really worth doing?
I said that the only reason I'm doing these is because I have nothing better to do at that time, whereas the other person kept saying that an achievement is only worth doing if it gives you something, i.e. a title, a mount or a pet.
I didn't quite agree with that, obviously, because the person in question was simply sitting in Orgrimmar and complaining that there was nothing to do on the realm. This is incredibly true and the reason why I was running around loving and killing critters. I decided that spending my time on this will actually give me something for the money I'm paying to be on WoW every month, instead of just sitting in Orgrimmar complaining about the Trade channel.
So to you, what achievements are worth doing?
Yesterday I also decided to join an ICC group doing 10 man HC, just for old times sake sort of thing, it was good fun up until we had a couple of people leave and we had to bring in some fresh healers and DPS, this sent the whole raid into a different mood and the new healer kept linking the Recount for HPS and kept going on and on about how much more he was healing than the other healer.
Yes, this is one of those things I just can not put up with, if we were dying, fine, link as much as you want, but the fact that he was bragging about he much healing in a level 80 raid, when the other healer, a disc priest, was keeping us alive and kept us out of wipes, just pissed me off. I can take people randomly linking the DPS/HPS but then also having to brag about it, Really?
This was made worse by the fact that this same guy was from my guild, had complained about no one ever wanting to do anything and always ignoring him in the guild chat. So we invited him over to the ICC run, thinking it might get him feeling a little bit better and that, but 15 minutes in to the raid, for him, after one boss he decided he was hungry and went off and made dinner. We all sat about waiting for him before taking on Professor P and he came back and we kept at it the rest of us having a laugh and joking about everything from dinner to gear. We got ourselves up to the Lich King, where we failed a couple of times, mostly because of this one guy not moving at all. Third attempt; We get buffed up, ready check done, event started and this same healer goes "Sorry guys, gotta go" and leaves! We were all just like "What on earth! After all we been through with him and he does that?"
Where is the respect in these players? Do they really think doing that will get them invited to any guild runs or and PUGs with the people involved? If I would've been the guild master of this guild I would've thrown him out straight away, alts and everything, but unfortunately I can't do that and the GM was not online at that moment, so what can a hunter do?
Ignore these names as they have
nothing to do with the post.
Thursday, 16 August 2012
Item level
The age, 2 year, old debate about item level is once again brought up. Does item level really make up for the good old inspection? Of course sodding not!
I randomly got invited to this DS run with my hunter the other day, not having asked for it or even wanting to go really, and in trade they wanted people with ilvl 394, yes a normal DS 10 run this. Me on my hunter having a rather low score of 382 asked why I got invited in the first place, the leader said nothing so I went around inspecting the others and realised they were all, even the leader, in PvP gear expecting to get through DS on that, alright for a dps it maybe possible to sneak through, but a tank? a healer? So I did the obvious thing and left.
I wouldn't know how difficult it is to get the highest PvP set but everyone seems to have that and go for that ilvl, which in all honesty is just wrong, on my realm no one seems to inspect people before a raid, the item level is what is asked for and that's it. This based on the fact that most DPS walk around raids in their PvP gear.
I for one has never really cared about item level, it is just wrong to me, I've boosted it to get in to the raid finder and hour of twilight heroics but apart from that, it is useless to me. I remember it coming out and people were a little bit cautious about it, now its item level and nothing else thank you very much!
To me there's nothing like an inspect and checking the talents before inviting someone, if you end up with an ungemmed, unenchanted and rubbishly geared PvE character with a full PvP set in the bags he's no use.
If you do however have a slightly lower item level score, say you've got a few tier pieces and heroics gear and gemmed it perfectly, added the right enchants and buckles and all. To me that person is a lot more worth than someone that clearly doesn't know his class and spec or really cares about adding the correct buffs to the gear.
I for one will always pick the people that knows more about their class and spec and how to gear, gem and enchant than the one with a high item level. If I find people with brilliant knowledge about class and spec and they happen to have beautiful gear, I'm in love, but til then geared, but not perfectly topped item level, characters will always be my first choice when it comes to raids, even heroics. If that makes me stupid then so be it, but anyone from Wrath, who raided regularly will know that this is the way to go.
So from a slightly undergeared hunter to the rest of the world, I can still beat you on boss damage eventhough I'm 10 item level points below you. May want to consider this on your future travels, inspection is everything!
I randomly got invited to this DS run with my hunter the other day, not having asked for it or even wanting to go really, and in trade they wanted people with ilvl 394, yes a normal DS 10 run this. Me on my hunter having a rather low score of 382 asked why I got invited in the first place, the leader said nothing so I went around inspecting the others and realised they were all, even the leader, in PvP gear expecting to get through DS on that, alright for a dps it maybe possible to sneak through, but a tank? a healer? So I did the obvious thing and left.
I wouldn't know how difficult it is to get the highest PvP set but everyone seems to have that and go for that ilvl, which in all honesty is just wrong, on my realm no one seems to inspect people before a raid, the item level is what is asked for and that's it. This based on the fact that most DPS walk around raids in their PvP gear.
I for one has never really cared about item level, it is just wrong to me, I've boosted it to get in to the raid finder and hour of twilight heroics but apart from that, it is useless to me. I remember it coming out and people were a little bit cautious about it, now its item level and nothing else thank you very much!
To me there's nothing like an inspect and checking the talents before inviting someone, if you end up with an ungemmed, unenchanted and rubbishly geared PvE character with a full PvP set in the bags he's no use.
If you do however have a slightly lower item level score, say you've got a few tier pieces and heroics gear and gemmed it perfectly, added the right enchants and buckles and all. To me that person is a lot more worth than someone that clearly doesn't know his class and spec or really cares about adding the correct buffs to the gear.
I for one will always pick the people that knows more about their class and spec and how to gear, gem and enchant than the one with a high item level. If I find people with brilliant knowledge about class and spec and they happen to have beautiful gear, I'm in love, but til then geared, but not perfectly topped item level, characters will always be my first choice when it comes to raids, even heroics. If that makes me stupid then so be it, but anyone from Wrath, who raided regularly will know that this is the way to go.
So from a slightly undergeared hunter to the rest of the world, I can still beat you on boss damage eventhough I'm 10 item level points below you. May want to consider this on your future travels, inspection is everything!
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