Look at this and tell me your thoughtsFollow

You have dropped an impressive amout of gold on all those craftables and BOEs.

I would say you are ready for T5 gearwise. You are certainly geared to handle anything Karazhan can throw at you. Get some pieces from Karazhan. The impression your gear leaves me is that you have not raided at all with this Hunter. (You may very well have, but I see not one piece of gear that is a raid drop - red flag in any recruiting officer's eyes.)

SSC and TK are not forgiving environments, and someone who has not raided before will have to learn fast, lest they be unwelcome at future raids. Get into some Karazhan runs. Experienced player >>>> good gear.

Shelor007


Edited, Aug 29th 2008 4:47pm by shelordoubleoseven

I can't the armory to open up, so I'll just go by what's been said here. :\

Leather Gloves from Midnight are superior to the T4 gloves, so get those if you can.

For Rings some options are Angelista's Revenge (number 1 I think most people would say), the one off of The Black Stalker in heroic UB, Guardian's Band bought with Honor, or the Vindicator's band, also bought with honor.

Other than that, I'll second getting the hourglass and Blood Lust Brooch. Both are pretty sexy.

The Brutal gloves are even better. There aren't any better gloves than them until you hit T6 content.

Well, you have 5 gem spots. You don't have to match the colors. You can put a yellow gem in a blue socket- you just won't get the socket bonus. Take your belt for example. You can put 16 hit rating on that thing, and it will raise your DPS by 1%- if you're doing 900 DPS (where you should be at T5 content), that would by 9 DPS. If you keep that 16 ap + 3 Agi, you're getting about a 2-3 dps increase. And since you don't have a meta slot, you don't have to worry about getting the right color combo. And now that you're planning on raiding, NEVER ever ever ever EVER gem for AP. It's wasted. You will get more DPS out of an 8 agi gem than you will out of a 16 AP gem. That's because with Agi, you also get crit, and when you're in a raid, Agi scales with buffs, but AP does not.

Also, I would strongly suggest replacing that helm with the Season 2 helm. A few hours of BGs on an AV weekend, and you'll get a FAR superior helm.

I'm just in complete awe of how much money you must have spent on your gear. And this is coming from a girl who just put 3 epic gems and Nethercobra leg armor on her new pants.

Edited, Aug 30th 2008 1:38am by ProjectMidnight

Well having raided a T5 hunter....your gear is good... but not T5.
You could use some badge items once you start raiding, and about 400 more Ap or so. And hit cappped or close is a must. for kara you are very well geared... should be putting out 700-800 dps eazily.

and btw most guilds running t5 stuff want 1000dps... not hard to get i do that and i am still wearing blues


my armory: http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Azuremyst&n=Ordin

just my opinion

JZ

Edited, Aug 31st 2008 2:10pm by joshzoladz

Your gloves suck, other than that you are ready to down Gruul and Magtheridon.

Gratz bro, you made it! Now the dull march through BT begins....

Okay so some mixed response here. Some say ready for this others say not ready for that but I have now replaced my AP gems with Hit rating and agility gems, so a nice balance and I have managed to link up 3 from our guild to go along on regular Sunday night raids in Kara with another guild.

Looking forward to it and will let you know how it went

Thanks for the advice peeps and keep it coming

I just noticed your head enchant. If you're taking my previous suggestion about getting the S2 helm, then you have some time for this. Get Revered with the Cenarion Expedition. The Glyph of Ferocity is the head enchant that you should be looking to get. It has ~34 AP and 16 hit.

And your hit is still awfully low. You can't even hit a level 70 mob 100%. Keep running Kara and hope for some more hit rating gear, and use the badges to get the Crossbow, then the pants, the gloves, the ring and finally the chestpiece.

Wouldn't take that to be the gospel. As always check Cheeky's before any upgrade. For me personally It's wildly the other way. The difference between Rapidity and Brutal under full raid buffs(~9 DPS) is larger than the difference between Brutal and GoDM that I mentioned before(~4), assuming 1X10 AGI for Rapidity and 2X8 AGI for GoDM.

There might be better places to spend your arena points.

I had 15 Agi enchant on all three. You might be relatively more AP heavy making the higher crit on the Brutal gloves do more, while I'm relatively more Crit heavy making the extra AP on Rapidity do more.

That's why I suggested he always consult Cheeky's. What's right for one isn't necessarily right for all.


Edited, Sep 2nd 2008 7:31am by Ieatrocks