Ready for SSC?Follow

My guild's starting SSC/TK and my guild lead asked me if I think I'm geared. However, I don't know if I am or not...

Could you guys tell me?

Armory Link: http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Blackwing+Lair&n=Dutlinx
Thanks in advance

In my opinion, you're fine to start SSC/TK. You may not be leading the damage meters, but who cares...you won't be a hindrance to succes by any means. A large portion of your gear is from Kara and most of your gear is epic. If SSC/TK isn't the next step after outfitting with Kara gear, then I don't know what is.

Getting Legacy, or the arena axe might be nice, but isn't essential.

Overall, I'd say you're fine.

If you are hit capped (you're close) then Legacy is a better PvE weapon than the S3 axe. But the S3 axe is easy to get from 2-3 weeks of losing Arena matches, and Legacy takes a BBW Opera win. The win isn't hard, but getting the event can be.

Also, both ZA and H MrT can give you a few very decent upgrades from your current gear. If I were to pick any nits with your gearing, I'd say that you are a bit low on Health for SSC/TK encounters. Don't sacrifice DPS for STA, but do try to upgrade your gear with STA in mind.

Edited, May 1st 2008 7:41am by Kompera

Just keep in mind that skill means more than gear. Don't hold off going into T5 content because you think your gear isn't good enough. Being prepared, knowing the strats, etc., is as important or more important than getting a little more AP and/or crit.

In your current gear, you are quite capable of running T5. Sure, you can make improvements, but those improvements are not on the order of magnitude of replacing greens. One or two gear upgrades are not going to be the difference in whether or not you're T5-ready, at this point.

One thing to think about...how well geared do you think the uber leading edge guilds (like Nihilum for an extreme example) were when they tackled new content?

Given their rate of progression and the week-long reset timers on instances, it is basically impossible that all their players were geared at the best level before they moved onto the next boss or next Tier level. So, the difference was skill and knowledge of the fights and teamwork. They were able to maximize less than optimum gear by being well prepared and working as a team. But, there's no way their entire 25-man raid team was decked out with all T4 (or equivalent) before they moved on to T5, etc.

Anyway, my point is that you shouldn't let the fact that you can upgrade a couple items interfere with going into the next level of content, because can and should are not the same thing.

Good luck.

That's a good point. I heard that a lot of them were still in blues and working on those "last few" pieces of Kara gear when they took down Kael. They didn't even have ZA and its 3 day timer to help them gear up.

Another example: Aethien. Unless his armory just hasn't been updated in ages, he still uses the Hellforged Halberd (alliance equivalent to the Blackened spear), and the Laughing Skull battle harness from normal BM (level 68 blue). But he tops his guild's charts in TK/SSC and has mentioned that he's trying to find a guild that's starting on BT/Hyjal.

Yeah, your good to go. I've seen alot less geared people in running TK ans SSC. I'd try to hit up VoidReaver first (TK)... T5 shoulders and a few other drops from that relatively easy fight. I wouldn't even worry about t4 at this point.

S3 axe is pretty beefy and is also relatively easy to get. Stam will become a factor in the t5 content so even a couple PvP pieces wont hurt.The belt for instance; might be a good upgrade.

If the rest of your guild is geared at or around your same level, you should be fine.

Why bother asking? You received good advice the first time you asked, posted your plan, received good advice again, and you ignored it.

Edited, May 14th 2008 12:59am by Kompera

Can you do a consistent ~800 dps?
If yes, than you're ready.
If no, you're probably not.