Am i ready for kara and beyond?Follow

Today i was thinking, I dont really know what else i can do about getting better gear. I have tried as much as possible to get the best pre raid gear i can find. Now im kinda lost to what i can do next. Pretty much i just wanna do karazahn, hard part is i cannot get my guild to do it. but when we actualy do get around to doing it. i wanna be as ready for it as possible. So does anyone have any tips for any gear that may make me more ready for kara? I know i need to replace my beastlord stuff. but as of right now i cannot think of much else that is pre kara that is better than the 4 pieces with the set bonuses. any tips are greatly apreciated.

Edited, Nov 29th 2007 4:18am by Slammerofkooter

Actually, unless Zul'Aman was nerfed in the latest patch (didn't read the patchnotes yet), he isn't geared for it. Possibly two bosses, but that's pretty much it. Zul'Aman's difficulty level points more towards people who are fully geared after Karazhan and Gruul, and has enough raid experience to adapt in the middle of combat.

Compared to the loot tables, Zul'Aman is actually too difficult. Most people agree that you should have cleared Karazhan and Gruul, and have started working your way into SSC and steady Mag runs before you consider Zul'Aman a serious raid destination.

Gearwise, but mostly for raid experience. You really have to have the experience to really react quickly in that instance. Rumor has it that it's been released as it is to give the BT/TK raiders something to have fun with before they'll nerf it down to a difficulty that lower end raiders can enjoy.

Besides, I wouldn't think that an instance that has loot on par with SSC/T4-5 would be a destination for a beginning Karazhan raider anyhow. Clear Karazhan first, and go through Gruul to get a feeling for 25 mans before you hit Zul'Aman with any expectation of getting through more than the first two bosses. And you can completely forget about the timer events.

That's what I did, I switched to a guild that actually did and not talked.

Your tooltip and crit% are both very near mine (in fact your crit is higher even taking into account the buffs you logged out with), and I'm wearing about half Kara gear.

In short you're more than ready to go through Prince easily.

Some things to work on:

First would be making sure you can chain trap well. I could do it "well enough", but my first Moroes attempt was a serious wakeup call. Having points in Survival and the BL trapping bonus will help you out a lot there.

If you don't have a shot rotation macro, personally, I'd make one. Having one thing less to focus on can help a lot on some fights where things can get hectic, Shade for example.

You have a ton of HPs. Like 2K more than you'd really need since if anything looks directly at you then you are probably dead one way or the other. I'd see if you could ditch some stam for more AP, Agi, or most importantly...

HIT RATING, HIT RATING, HIT RATING. Ever since I *whiffed* my first MD shot at Prince my first week I haven't been able to let myself get under hit capped. Luckily my auto-shot went off just as Prince got to the edge of the deadzone and he ran off the other way.

Get a threat meter if you don't have one. Learn it, live it, love it, FD early and often. Personally, I prefer KTM as Omen seems to be less accurate.

Consumables. Fel Mana pots or Super Mana pts (fel Mana are superior, but harder to find on my server for some reason), Ravager Dogs or Warp Burgers, and Flasks of Relentless Assault or the Agi/crit rating potions who's name escapes me for the moment. I'd go with the Flasks in the first couple of weeks while everybody is getting the hang of what is going on, but lately I've been finding myself using the much cheaper agi pots now that we pretty much have the place on farm and I die less often.

You're more than geared, and will probably be at or near the top of the damage meters unless there are equally geared persons in your raid.

Heres me if you'd like to compare: http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Feathermoon&n=Rockcelot
(I know my chest isn't enchanted, but I'll get it done before I do anything important. Finally picked that up in heroic bot the other day and would have worn it even if the stats were much worse than the laughing skull battle harness that I had before because that thing was f'ing hideous).

Edited, Nov 29th 2007 5:52am by Ieatrocks

The H Mech drop is a better piece, but it's never dropped for me. And the Mainstay is a quest reward, so it's a 100% drop.

You win some, you lose some. I've had some luck in other areas, such as getting the Sonic Spear on my first run. I'm not going to complain about random chance, and I've got Gloves of Quickening now in any event.