All of my gear is item level 115 except for one ring and two trinkets, which puts my average at 107. Even if I replaced those three pieces with absolute BiS, I’d only gain around 50 attack power.
Still got declined from two Karazhan groups for being “undergeared.”
yeah people go “it’s nerfed you don’t have to be geared!” but this is the reality they expect you to be full prebis and gems and enchanted or kicked
Meta sheep kinda forgot that games are supposed to be fun, not a job.
Anyone who declines people for kara for not having full or near full pre-bis are just bad players looking for a carry, it sounds like you dodged some garbage runs. Anyone can look at a guide and follow the bis lists to the T, doesn’t mean they are worth a damn.
As long as someone has the easily obtainable gear (quest line blues, crafted), we brought them and the good players we recruited. Funny part is, its easier to distinguish good players from bad when they don’t have full pre bis. You can tell right away by their gearing choices when it’s not all from a list on wowhead.
We brought a bunch of pugs to gruul this week, one healer was screaming to be swapped out with a diff healer in the healer group so he could have spriest and mana tide. Said he’s the best geared, highest output healer in the raid and demanded to be swapped. Bro was oom 30 seconds into gruul and needed two other innervates plus his own throughout the fight and still managed to be oom for the last minute. To top it all off he had 223k overhealing.
Lesson of the day, lots of the most geared players right now are swipers and can’t play their class worth a damn.
Because it shows effort.
People who put effort into gemming/enchants etc tend to be much better players than those who don’t do that.
Nowhere is it mentioned whether the gear is or is not kitted up, merely that 107 is being labeled as undergeared. Considering heroics drop 110…that’s insane.
I’ve seen people in greens get into kara.
Gearscore is meaningless.
Simple solution, make your own group and invite anyone that is undergeared and that want to make the run for fun.
Join a guild. Heck half our raid is in mid level dungeon blues and cleared everything easily lol