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To be honest, I wouldn't want you in a heroic run. If everybody else in your group is very well geared and well played you would be fine, but you would definitely be a weak link if everybody else is just adequately geared.

Read Aethien's pre-raid gear thread at the top of the forum. Should be wearing stuff from that list in every slot except maybe one or two before trying a heroic.

In my experience, heroics are on par, if not more difficult than Kara.

I'd take you along for normal SV, Shattered Halls and Shadowlabs, but not heroics.

However... If the rest of the group was in really good gear, you might do alright in heroic Bot. It's still hard, but by far the easiest heroic in the game and you get the most badges to get better gear. With a Heroic Daily quest, you can get 7 heroic badges from 1 run.

As for specific suggestions for your gear... Don't put agility on Terokk's quill. You're not at the point that you'll benefit from it. Go for Savagery. Besides, it's cheaper. Put a scope on your bow. And wait for either an AV or EotS weekend to build up honor for the non-set epic PvP boots. You'll use them until well into Kara. Oh replace those rings, already! They're level 60 greens. Pathfinder's Band is fairly cheap, and there are some quests in Shadowmoon and Netherstorm that give nice rings as rewards.



Edited, Nov 30th 2007 6:00pm by ProjectMidnight

That's easy to say, but the OP stated that his Guild wants to do Heroics and isn't interested in running normal difficulty Instances.

HitashLevat, you've got a few options:

- Try more persuasion. There should be some others in your Guild who can use faction or gear from standard runs. Find out who those people are and group with them.

- Quest. There are a huge number of quest rewards which are better gear, by far, than some of what you're wearing now. Many of these can be accomplished solo.

- Find a new Guild with more helpful people.

And you desperately need Hit Rating. 16 is the lowest I've ever seen on a level 70 Hunter. There are two quest reward rings which offer identical stats. IIRC it's 10 Hit Rating, 15 AGI, and 50 AP. Get both of them. Go for the Sonic Spear for 24 more, or the Thrallmar/Honor Hold weapon with 19. Try to find groups for the Instances where Desolation shoulder and boot pieces drop, and run them until you get two. You'll be upgrading your gear and improving your Hit Rating by a massive amount all at the same time.

You're also worried too much about socket bonuses. And your two pieces of the Beast Lord armor will probably last you a while, so invest some money in good gems and enchants for them. +12 attack power gems are dirt cheap, and +16 gems, while significantly more expensive, aren't so bad when you start doing daily quests and such. My general rule of thumb is to not worry about a socket bonus if it involves any sort of blue gem. All blue gems that have any use to a Hunter (that I can think of off the top of my head, anyway) have either stamina or MP/5. Which aren't bad stats, of course, but they aren't stats I ever specifically look for. Especially in heroics - if you're taking hits, you're dead, so stamina is hardly worth it. With your attack power where it is, you'd be better off stacking +16 attack power gems.

Your gear is ok in the most slots.
I've started doing heroics with equally bad gear. The main difference was that I had gemmed/enchanted my gear to the max (which I still do).

Replace those stamina gems (you have at least 1k HP you can exchange with AP, crit, ...). Buy at least +14ap gems (better the +16AP ones).
Enchant your gear (yes, all of it, except you expect an upgrade within one or two weeks on a certain slot).

After having that done you should be ok for most heroics.

BTW, if you can spare the talent points go for those 5% crit in MM tree, that should help your damage quite a bit (at least you can reduce your talent points in survivalist for 2% additional crit).