Comments on: I request your Plate Gearing advice!

By: Peter

Peter — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 14:36:33 +0000

Same as with Galleon, Oondasta is up more often now (or at least, so say the hotfixes)
I’ve heard of quite a high droprate on 522 items from him, if you can handle being dead more often than alive on that fight.
My freshly dinged mage got some gloves off of him, which made 460 easily reached.

By: bigbearbutt

bigbearbutt — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 12:28:53 +0000

Um, that was a little unclear, it wasn’t Goose that made us grumpy, Goose was WITH us and he was fine, it was the pug tank we got that made me grumpy.

I can understand wanting to have people in all epics run with you to make things faster, but the tank was in blues, and one minute into the pull he’s shaming my son for only having 15k DPS. Shaming.

We left after the first boss.

By: bigbearbutt

bigbearbutt — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 12:19:25 +0000

We did a scenario AND a heroic last night! And a grumpy start to a heroic with Goose, but we left the group after the first boss.

The scenario was a blast, Alex enjoyed running the cannon while Cassie defended the beach adn I used my Warlock skills to quickly gather brew. He blew up a shark, and also a boat before it reached shore! He was very happy with the scenario.

I ran a scenario on his character earlier before dinner, just me on his DK. Just for a quick one. Horrible gear, of course, but most people should be doing better than me, right?

Fall of Theramore. With a healer Druid that refused to DPS to help… and a Hunter that did less DPS than me.

33 minutes later, multiple deaths and the most miserable f’ing scenario ever, I was ready to get serious about gearing him past scenarios and heroics.

By: bigbearbutt

bigbearbutt — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 12:15:43 +0000

You’ve got great points, and I am using ALL of them, thank you very much. :)

By: Jem

Jem — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 11:57:14 +0000

Convert JP into honour, buy honour gear. The JP gear isn’t worth the investment in my opinion. Scenarios are definitely the way to go for people with limited time.

By: Katzbalger

Katzbalger — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 00:31:28 +0000

Take him to Isle of Thunder and get a few rares killed for the Key to the Palace of Lei Shen, so he can run through the solo loot chest scenario, this’ll give him plenty of elder charms. Then try Sha and Galleon, might get lucky there, 4 chances with the elders, plus the elder charms will help getting gear once you get him into LFR.

By: Valerym

Valerym — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 23:47:47 +0000

Hey BBB, longtime lurker and fellow Azuremystian here.

Hadn’t seen anyone mention it, but if he is on Azuremyst as well, getting in on a Galleon run should be cake. That guy is up more often than down, these days. I can hardly go to my farm without him tripping NPC Scan. Some 496 gear might narrow that gap a bit.

Also, if he’s doing Isle of Thunder dailies and getting keys to the Lei Shen vault scenario, Elder Charms drop like candy in there. When he can get into the 5.0 LFRs, being able to bonus roll on every single boss won’t hurt on his journey to the 480s.

By: typhoonandrew

typhoonandrew — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 05:10:08 +0000

Apart from all the good suggestions above, I’d say buying gear is the only way you’re going to get a boost outside of scenarios and instances. There are reasonable crafted items to be purchased in the Chest and Gloves slot for plate, and also some BoEs for Legs, trinket, and shoulders. It might cost a small bomb, but it will get you there fast.

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 03:30:12 +0000

The 476 Gloves/Chest are the obvious bits; they’re actually not that horrible to make, 14 spirits between the two of them, so 6 days if you’re farming 16 motes/day. After that, the 522 neck from Shado-Pan Assault is 1250 valor and well worth it. If you can get him rep with Kirin Tor Offensive, they’ve got a 476 belt for a couple hundred gold as well at honored rep.

By: Ted

Ted — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 19:42:04 +0000

Klaxxi ends with a 489 ring http://www.wowhead.com/quest=31612