🚀 go-pugleaf

On Sat, 22 Nov 2014 13:11:07 -0600, Cryptoengineer
<pete...@gmail.com> wrote:

>Catriona R <catrion...@totalise.co.uk> wrote in news:cdbkf5F65veU1
>@mid.individual.net:
>> The event goes on until January, in any case you don't need to do any
>> heroics to reach 615, I'm 617 and not even done any normals since
>> Auchindoun, there's other ways to get gear :-) Craft a 640, buy a 630
>> from Apexis Crystals, get the first part of legendary ring which only
>> needs normal dungeons, etc :-)
>
>That's a relief - I thought it ended Sunday night.
>
>I really need to do the Silver PG anyway - it's a gating issue to
>most of the end game content.
>
>I wonder why Bliz decided to put this in - did they feel that too
>many toons were being 'carried' in LFR? Since they normalize ilvl
>etc in the PG, they're a pure LTP barrier; unskilled toons can't
>get through regardless of their gear.

LFR isn't affected by it, only 5-man heroics - the idea is two paths:
normals > LFR and heroics > higher end raiding. So if you only plan to
LFR, don't bother, nothing important is gated behind it, except the
legendary ring, and whatever, that can wait anyway, no way I plan to
try heroic 5-mans till I'm way better geared.

>This is a problem for me, since I've generally been a bit low
>on my dps, and relied on grinding gear to keep up.

I'm similar, but it's better than it was, at least, in that mobs scale
up to your gear, instead of gear scaling down to the mobs - that made
the healer one just plain impossible in moP. Haven't tried it now and
frankly, won't bother till my stats are better optimised, at present
they're all over the place, but I imagine I won't find it that easy
anyway, I prefer to outgear things slightly.