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!
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