gear helpFollow

Aethien's gear list, one of the stickies at the top of the forum list, shows gear, gems, enchantments, shot rotations and most anything else you need to get ready for Karazhan and other advanced instances. Use Cheeky's spreadsheet to determine whether socket bonuses are 'worth it'.
http://wow.allakhazam.com/db/class.html?wclass=5;mid=118203468330282849;num=195;page=1

Your +hit is too high. You only need +142 to never miss on level 73 bosses. Since most are 72, I suggest reducing your bonus hit to +92 and regem for +agility or +attack power. Then go do the cook dailies until you get Spicy Hot Talbuk recipe That'll make up much of the difference for when you fight level 73 bosses.

Edited, Jun 16th 2008 11:48am by ItsaGaAs

I agree 100% with this statement. For example, I dont know if the armory updated this wrong or something, but your shoulders have only +10 stamina, and it says +0 agility lol. I dont know much about gun speeds and all those calculations, but you definitely need a new gun/bow. Easy one to get is the cross bow for being exalted with Shattered Sun, although the one in HH/Thrallmore (exalted for both) are nice too.

My recommendation would be to just go for the 70 dungeon set (in both heroic and regular):
Helm drops from last boss in Mech
Chest drops from last boss in Bot
Both Shoulders and Legs drop from last boss in SV (although I think the drop rate on those are pretty dam low, as I have yet to get either after about 26 runs)
Hands come from last boss in SH

I have 2 of them, which gives me the bonus of 4 less seconds on my trap cooldowns, which is pretty nice for heroics.

You can definitely get rid of some hit%...I'm pretty sure you can get through all of kara with 5%-6% hit, or at least most of it. Change the hit with more AP, bc even with viper on your AP is very low. I would also go so far as to say forget the stamina gems, go for the +agi or +ap ones instead. Its nice to have more health, but to give up +8 agility for +9 stamina seems like a waste to me. Your rings look fine for now, but you really gotta get rid of that first trinket. Get one that gives you extra AP on equip, and more AP for 20 secs or so when you use it.

As far as pets go, I have had my cat since lvl 10, and bring it EVERYWHERE with me, so I'm kinda biased. But I love it. It puts out good dps even though I'm surv specced. I tamed a raptor once, although they look really cool I didnt like it that much. To each his/her own right?

Once your gear is on par with what's in the Pre-Raid gear list sticky, use Cheeky's spreadsheet, or if you're too lazy to put all your iformation in there... I know i was, you can simply look at the stats on the item and see if it's better for you.

What I mean is, by taking a look at the differences in stats between the two items (the one you're wearing and the one you're thinking of using to replace it with) just glance and see if the stats are better or if it's what you want. In my experience with getting my gear to the T4+ (some T4 gear but with equipment from TK and SSC that's not T5) level I found that as long as you know what kind of gear NOT to get there really is no wrong choice. The new gear may not increase your performance but it won't take it down either, meaning taking your Agility down by 7 but increasing your AP by 14, or increasing your +hit by 10 or giving you increased crit%... the difference in your performance will be negligible, you'll just do the same damage in a different way.

I hope that makes sense. I guess what I'm trying to say is... make sure you have a complete or near complete grasp of how each stat effects your performance for your build/ playing style before you start asking which pieces are better as each person is going to have different opinions reall. As long as you do your job of doing damage and doing it well(keeping up and holding your own against other DPS) no one is going to look at your gear anyway.

No offense but honestly, is it that hard to see?