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Warcraft Gear Score
WoW at Level 80, How to Deal With It
I never thought I’d be writing this article!
“How to deal with WoW at level 80″? It sounds preposterous!
So many times you’ll hear, “the game STARTS at level 80!”, or “I can’t wait to get through the grind to 80″.
Which is exactly why I wanted to write this article…
Lots of people expect that when they hit level 80, everything will “fall into place”, they’ll become all powerful, and birds will start to sing their names…
In reality, many players are confused and shocked to find that once they reach level 80 they have to deal with some unexpected issues, such as:
1. Gearscore. Blizzard hates it, I hate it, you’ll learn to hate it…
Gear score is a mod which calculates how good a persons gear is so that raid and dungeon leaders can work out if they want you or not.
Its sorta like high school all over again. If you aint in the coolest hottest monster bashing gear, then you’re not allowed.
This causes players to ask, if I haven’t got the gear to do this dungeon, how do I get better gear? Much like job applicants who need experience to get a job, new level 80’s need gear to do dungeons, but can’t do the dungeons until their gear is good enough!
This isn’t 100% accurate however, and I’ll talk more about this in just a moment.
2. New 80’s don’t know what to do now.
You’ve just spent 2 or 3 months (or more) leveling a guy to 80… all you know what to do revolves around leveling… and now there’s no more levels to get.
More of the “what do I do now” syndrome kicks in.
3. A whole new “hidden” set of levels need to be gained.
New levels? What levels, you ask…? I’m talking again about gear.
If you like PvP, or if you like dungeons, you’ll come to realize that you need to “level up” your gear to take part in the best parts of the game.
This is more true for players who want to do PvP at 80. You no longer have battlegrounds limited to level 50-60, and instead you’re facing off against players in gear that might have taken them YEARS to put together.
Its like fighting a level 60 when you’re only 30.
So how do new level 80’s tackle these challenges?
Lets look at a few options.
First, find a good guild if you haven’t already. Start becoming familiar with guild names of players you see a lot walking around Dalaran, and ensure that you take note.
Maybe you get in a group with a guild member who you like. Ask them about their guild, and when you find a good one, join up first and ask questions later!
You can always leave & get a new guild if you find you’re not learning or doing dungeons…
Which brings me to my next point – join guilds that serve your goals.
Do you want to get to end game raids? Join a good raiding guild who intentionally take lower geared members into higher level dungeons explicitly to get them better gear!
Want to join arena teams? Join a PvP guild!
The next thing you want to do is familiarize yourself with what are called “dailies”.
Go to Violet Hold, and pick up a daily heroic, and a daily dungeon quest from the two quest givers, and do both each and every day if you can.
This will do two things:
1. Get you gold and gear upgrades
2. Get you marks of triumph and marks of conquest/stonekeepers shards.
Each of these marks can be turned into faction vendors inside your faction’s building in Dalaran.
Get familiar with those rewards, and be sure to set goals for what items you want to buy as you accumulate marks.
This will give you purpose and drive to get out there and complete those daily dungeons as often as possible.
These two steps – doing dailies and getting better gear will be your first most important steps once you reach level 80.
While you accomplish those steps you’ll meet new players, new guilds, and learn a ton of different things about how to function as a new level 80 player.
Best of luck!
About the Author
Jon is a World of Warcraft lover from way back. If you’d like to hit him up for more WoW tips on leveling fast, be sure to visit his
Horde Leveling Guide
website.
Does gear score only matter at lvl 80? (World of Warcraft)?
I’m level 55 and in checking gear score, mine is horrible (504). Will this prevent me from getting into groups for instances if I choose to do any? I’m in a small guild now with not a lot of support, and any friends I had left (I left WoW over a year ago so my old decent guild dropped me). I am really wary of doing pugs.
Also I have noticed some people don’t show gear scores when I mouse over them. Why is that?
I might stop playing after my time card runs out. I was thinking about playing COH/COV again for a bit for old times sake.
Yeah compared to WoW it isn’t that great. But I’m kind of nostalgic lol.
GearScore is just another thing for people to get all high-and-mighty about. If you don’t know how to play your class, it doesn’t matter if you have epic gear in every single slot, you still suck. Essentially WoW is a 2-part game, the first part being from lvl 1-79, and the 2nd part beginning when you get to 80. PUGs are hit-and-miss, but I’d say about 75-80% of the time it’s a good-enough group that we finish the instance. Depending on your class, I’d worry more about DPS than gearscore, because for instance if you’re a DPS mage and you’re doing under 1k (I’ve seen it), then that definitely will keep you from getting into desireable raids.
How to Win at Pugs and Gearscore
