Catriona R
1/3/2012 2:04:00 PM
On Tue, 3 Jan 2012 13:48:06 +0100, "Shammy" <none@nothing.com> wrote:
>So I was thinking about trying the new LFR and the new instances but I have
>a big problem... I have only pvp gear on all my chars. I have full ruthless
>and my ilvl is around 390 but still it's pvp gear...
>I don't really want to go farm everything low lvl and get all pve gear just
>to see this stuff once since I'm not really interested in hardcore raiding.
>I have all classes on 85... what would be best to see the new stuff with
>least problems? A healer (priest, pala, shaman)? A ranged dps (mage, hunter,
>lock)? A melee (warrior, rogue, DK, feral)?
>Will having pvp gear (all enchanted and gemmed) be such a huge problem to
>see this stuff once?
If you can pull decent dps, there's nothing wrong with pvp gear, just
so long as you can do decent dps in it - I hear people bitching about
people in full pvp gear who do crap dps, but I'd assume from your
posts here that you know how to play decently enough to be fine with
that kinda ilvl, given 372 is the minimum to join, the stats lost by
being pvp geared will be more than offset by the extra primary stats
gained from higher ilvl. Maybe convert some honor into justice and get
1-2 pieces with pve stats to help. You *may*get kicked if you hit a
group with bad attitude, I'd suggest transmogging it into something
not visibly current pvp gear if possible and you should fly under the
radar unless anyone's really looking for stuff to moan about - if that
happens, then try again and you'll get a better group.
As for class, well, don't be a tank, anyway lol. DPS is probably fine,
there's 17 dps in a raid so you'll blend in and not be noticed even if
you underperform a little, so long as you're not off the bottom of the
charts (and I don't think you would be). Unless you've got a ton of
hit, I wouldn't be a caster though (nor a rogue spec that relies on
poisons); it's 17% spell hitcap for bosses, and you're not likely to
have stacked higher than 5-6% in pvp gear, I assume. Hunters, or 2h
melee dps, should be fine, since they only use 8% hitcap I think, a
little reforging here or there will put you near enough to not matter.
Healing, depends if you have much spirit on your pvp gear or if you
focussed on survivability and throughput (which is perfectly fine for
pvp, but a bad bad thing in long pve bossfights - I run out of mana
most fights and I'm only running one pvp item in my gear!). My pve
gear was 372 ilvl when I started, and I've struggled with mana all
along, usually ok but be warned that people do not know how to avoid
avoidable dmg (which sadly does not oneshot people on raid finder; it
does in normal/heroic - they'd learn faster if it did in raid finder
too!) so healers end up having to compensate a lot for other people's
mistakes. It's not that stressful I find, I just spam all my aoe heals
whenever multiple people take dmg and it's fine, but you definitely
need mana regen or you'll suffer!
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