Benchmarking gear while waiting on VoA in November
Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2011 10:09 am
Everyone knows I use benchmarks for hp/mana/AC when taking on new raiders based on group gear content.
As raiders we should be also be benchmarking our raid gear in preparation for the next expansion. ALL Raiders should be striving to be 50% or better in raid T4 gear - and rest from T3 (especially if you are a tank as group AC gear is lacking), anything below T3 needs replaced as priority. DPS needs to focus on getting the better focus gear - to improve base average dps along with their HP/Mana baseline.
I see some raiders bidding their bank for a particular focus (nukers on arms for fire comes to mind), while I see others sitting on tons of dkp, trying to snatch a bargain at 20 dkp, yet they explode on raids. Each and everyone of us need to equip ourselves to handle the T1 VoA raid content coming. We've seen AE's that destroyed us when first entering thule content - do you expect any less forceful AE's going forward?
We have about 10 weeks to farm SS and lower content - are you equipped? How close to 7700 unbuffed are you tanks? How close to 55K unbuffed are you silk classes?
As raiders we should be also be benchmarking our raid gear in preparation for the next expansion. ALL Raiders should be striving to be 50% or better in raid T4 gear - and rest from T3 (especially if you are a tank as group AC gear is lacking), anything below T3 needs replaced as priority. DPS needs to focus on getting the better focus gear - to improve base average dps along with their HP/Mana baseline.
I see some raiders bidding their bank for a particular focus (nukers on arms for fire comes to mind), while I see others sitting on tons of dkp, trying to snatch a bargain at 20 dkp, yet they explode on raids. Each and everyone of us need to equip ourselves to handle the T1 VoA raid content coming. We've seen AE's that destroyed us when first entering thule content - do you expect any less forceful AE's going forward?
We have about 10 weeks to farm SS and lower content - are you equipped? How close to 7700 unbuffed are you tanks? How close to 55K unbuffed are you silk classes?