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So for the last few weeks I've been rockin' 4/5 Tier 7 Valorous gear (skipped the pants since you can't see them anyway and I have Leggings of Fleeting Moments which IMO are better). An absolutely awesome set of gear, great 2 and 4 piece bonuses, great stats. And a freakin' amazing look, I've loved just standing around looking cool almost as much as I have been effective at raiding as a dps due to the gear.

Last night in my guild's heroic Naxx and Malygos runs I acquired several new pieces of gear, mainly because nobody wanted them and I'd passed numerous times before. Frosted Adroit Handguards, Cover of Silence and Tunic of Indulgence. I opted for them because of the huge boosts in hit rating. With a bit of re-gemming I'm now hit capped for the first time in my druid career.

And...I LOOK HOMELESS. The cool factor is completely gone as all that's left now are the Valorous shoulders. The pants look like cut off jeans and all the new pieces are a very dull, boring grey color. AND I LOOK F---NG HOMELESS. It's awful. My guild was making fun of me all night and saying I needed to put the Valorous gear back on. But I won't. Not to just look cool at the expense of my raiding effectiveness.

So a note to Blizzard. Can you please make the best gear look awesome, I think we'd all greatly appreciate not looking like we got dressed in the dark or live in the back alleys of Stormwind surviving off the apples the townsfolk throw at new DKs.

Get a mod like Outfitter that can automatically equip a town outfit whenever you enter a town. Any time you are out of town you are in one of our forms anyway :)


I had my 8/8 Feralheart set up as my town outfit for ages and got heaps of comments on it. Unfortunately, the life of a druid interferes and I had to put it back in the bank so I could carry around all my sets of gear :(

@Tavarde:
Sry to say but:
- Cover of Silence = Crap
- Pants = Crap compared to T7.5
- Cloak = if u are rocking naxx25 get a new one, not really that good cloak
- Ring: why ruthelessness??? get strong-hardened ring = + 41 HIT
- Belt: get Belt of the Tortured = +50 HIT

Im running around with 4 piece T7.5 and am at 7.50% HIT.

Edited, Mar 17th 2009 5:23pm by druidserg

I agree that guy's attitude needs a readjustment, but how much has your DPS gone up with being hit capped? He has a point: if you had the tier 7 helm it would be a very bad idea to drop it for a hit heavy helm lacking a meta. Meta gems are awesome. They're worth over 100 DPS JUST for the meta gem. I highly HIGHLY doubt 50 hit rating will give you 100 DPS.

Also, you need to consider how much the 4pc bonus is worth. I personally have no idea, as I'm not a cat. If you're tanking, then keep the tier bonus. That's 3 more second every minute of great mitigation.

Also, have you looked into using hit food? You're probably already doing so, but that can help.

I personally wouldn't sacrifice tier gear, but I don't try to optimize. If you're trying to go for the best of the best, run some recounts on target dummies in a city with your different gear types. See what the truly best set-up is.

Same problem for me with not seeing many items. I'm sick of tanking with my blue staff, but so far my guild has never even seen it.

Ouch, a blue? You should probably make it a priority to run Heroic VH every day, as the end boss drops the Staff of Trickery, which is great until you get an upgrade from 10-or-25-man Naxx.

Correct, I am using the Enraged Feral Staff for tanking and have Black Ice for DPS at the moment :)

Interesting, I too had Enraged Feral Staff and then Staff of Trickery. Although I never put Mongoose on them. When I got Origins of Nightmare, after almost having an ****** from winning the roll, I THEN went out and got the mats and put Mongoose on it. That was one happy day for me. :)