I keep digging a hole
TankSpot, I need your help.
This blog is about a problem I have had with all of my characters except for one, my warrior. I have a warrior, a mage, a priest and I had a rogue. I gave to rogue to my brother because he doesn't enjoy his shaman anymore.
Anyways, except for the warrior all of these characters with PvP first in mind, PvE 2nd. So what I'd do when I hit 80 is go PvP hard and acquire some good PvP gear.
This is where the hole-digging begins. Most people look differently at players that PvE with PvP, which I absolutely understand. At some point in my PvP career I reach a point where I feel that I could use some PvE either to get better gear or just to get some more fun out of my character, I was never a guilded raider so joining a raid is great fun for me.
This bugs me especially on my healer. I hit 80 and I was in greens / blues, I replaced those with 213/226/245 PvP items that are 90% of the time MUCH better than, say, a heroic item even with the resil + stam itemization.
My trouble is, and this is where I ask for your assistance, how do I get out of this hole. I don't mind downgrading to 200/213 items if it means I can get groups but I have heroic groups kicking me because of my 15k Mana and PvP equip.
Best solution I have come up with is join a scrub guild that doesn't care about my gear but I have yet to find that guilds ad in /2.
Help me TankSpot, you're my only hope.
God that looks horrible. I apologize.
This blog is about a problem I have had with all of my characters except for one, my warrior. I have a warrior, a mage, a priest and I had a rogue. I gave to rogue to my brother because he doesn't enjoy his shaman anymore.
Anyways, except for the warrior all of these characters with PvP first in mind, PvE 2nd. So what I'd do when I hit 80 is go PvP hard and acquire some good PvP gear.
This is where the hole-digging begins. Most people look differently at players that PvE with PvP, which I absolutely understand. At some point in my PvP career I reach a point where I feel that I could use some PvE either to get better gear or just to get some more fun out of my character, I was never a guilded raider so joining a raid is great fun for me.
This bugs me especially on my healer. I hit 80 and I was in greens / blues, I replaced those with 213/226/245 PvP items that are 90% of the time MUCH better than, say, a heroic item even with the resil + stam itemization.
My trouble is, and this is where I ask for your assistance, how do I get out of this hole. I don't mind downgrading to 200/213 items if it means I can get groups but I have heroic groups kicking me because of my 15k Mana and PvP equip.
Best solution I have come up with is join a scrub guild that doesn't care about my gear but I have yet to find that guilds ad in /2.
Help me TankSpot, you're my only hope.
God that looks horrible. I apologize.
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That is my most horrible photoshop ever.Posted 10-29-2009 at 02:51 PM by Edgar
- taht is one awful picture
I basically farmed easy stuff on my priest, got the two rings from headless horseman, got some moonshroud epics and the sash of jordan. I had triumph badges lying around so I got the 245 bracers crafted. If you missed headless horseman there is a jc boe ring.
I had [superior] in under 10 hours after dinging 80. You could also conscript some guildies to run you through heroics, conquest badge loot is also very good.Posted 10-29-2009 at 07:45 PM by Pyrea - It does look horrible
I suggest going to TotC 5 normal and heroic as much as you can. You'll get a set of 200/219 PvE items that are exceptionally well itemized for their level.
When it comes to DPS, PvP gear is frowned upon due to lack of +hit and +expertise. So a self-proclaimed uber DPSer arrives and does very mediocre DPS because they get avoided about 17% of the time. For healing gear this does not apply, and for tanking PvP gear is good starting gear (but still frowned upon). Other than for crit immunity, resilience is useless points so that a 232 PvP item may indeed be equivalent to a 200 or 219 PvE item.
PvP healers have a bad reputation because, if they lack PvE experience, they don't heal correctly for PvE. When I group with one of these as a tank I notice lots of short heals but poor mana efficiency and low throughput. Maybe people who see your PvP gear are afraid that you'll make these mistakes, rather than criticizing the gear itself.Posted 10-30-2009 at 05:43 AM by Machus
