Can't even get into a raid

So I leveled a resto shaman on a new realm, hit 70 and got pre-raid BIS. I cant even get invited to a kara or ZA. I cant join a GDKP because I dont have enough gold to be a buyer as i am new to the server and I cant join a regular MS>OS group because I am undergeared and every group wants T6 only for fast runs and does gear checks.

I thought maybe as a undergeared shaman I could still get invited since I provide lust and totems. I have a main on another server thats full T6 and 6/6 sunwell and I try telling the leader I know all the fights but that doesnt matter. I join so many pug runs on my main where they invite people with good gear but who are absolutely terrible at the game, bought their gear, dont buff, play like bots with terrible dps… but thats ok?

This sucks, really takes the enjoyment out of the game.

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Just came in at the wrong time for raids. Likely approaching the final month of TBC and the TBC gear catch up is not good.

This gets better in wrath, and at least in wrath you won’t be starting a year behind everyone else.

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Come back in a couple months and play wotlk. Farm dailies for gold while you wait.

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Just do what I do and ask for LFR. forget the elites.

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What server?

Do BGs/5s for points. Sadly, that’s the best way.

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I recommend doin PVP and getting some easy purples, that’s how I get invited to runs, they see purples they invite, they don’t care if its pvp gear or not

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Ask your guild to carry you

Have you tried joining the server’s Discord and posting in the looking for guild channel?

This is why no one likes the wow community lol

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Im gonna start forming kara groups on the weekends starting next week. If you play on Mankrik let me know.

I’m literally just messing with alts right now. TBC was always WotLK waiting room for me.

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I’m leveling my soon to be wrath main and I figured I’ll just be doing casual PvP for some epics of some kind, farming gold, and working on professions. It sucks but you are trying to break into raiding at one of the hardest times but here soon the floodgates will open.

Trying to PuG raids

Trying to PuG raids at the end of an expansion*

Trying to PuG first-tier raids at the end of the expansion**

Yep, it does suck.

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Can you form your own?

Did you send materials and items you didn’t equip to an alt and sell them on the AH, while leveling? That should give you more than enough gold to join GDKPs.

Which server are you on?

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Unfortunately at this point no one really wants to do Kara/ZA other than the occasional badge run which people want done fast. Being an undergeared healer is more of a detriment when it comes to 10 mans (esp. Kara) because they’re usually solo healed in favour of more DPS.

Your best bet for gear before Wrath is MGT/Sunwell dailies and do as many heroics as possible for badge gear, all of which is better than Kara gear anyway. There’s not a lot of point in chasing raid gear that’s all going to be gone in a couple months.

Not everyone is cut out to be a raid leader, and there are many times where there just aren’t any bites when LFM.

To be a buyer in a GDKP he needs at least a few thousand gold. Probably more, to be a full carry. This… isn’t really a good suggestion to make.

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Why not? You can get a few thousand gold while leveling, by selling gathering mats, boes, etc. gathered from questing/dungeons on the AH. That’s how I had enough for epic flying.

It’s likely he spent a lot of that on a flyer and his mounts. Plus, spending all the gold you have this close to the expansion isn’t a good idea.

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Why would they, if they aren’t even able to get into raids (if raiding is what they want to do)? And assuming that’s the case, then they can farm gold with their flying mount.

“good” is subjective. It depends on what the OP wants to do. If joining GDKPs that require a few thousand gold is the goal, then not spending on epic flying is a way to go.

There are definitely options. Most GDKP discord servers I know also have SR groups listed, and running regularly. We don’t know which server the OP is on, since they didn’t post on the character in question, and may just be trolling for all we know.