Advancing in World of Warcraft
Do you find yourself wearing greens and blues while wanting to wear purples and oranges? Throughout this article you will find tips and tricks that will help you increase your World of Warcraft character’s gear level.
Upon reaching the level cap in World of Warcraft you may find yourself wearing gear that doesn’t seem so great when compared to the players around you. At this point you need to ask yourself an important question. Do you want to want to PvE or do you want to PvP? Both options are viable in terms of character progression, but both offer upgrades suited to your choice.
The gear designed for PvP is designed around the concept of survivability. You will receive more health with this gear and more resilience. Resilience being a statistic that decreases the amount of damage you receive from critical hits and decreases the chances of enemy players from scoring a critical hit against you.
Gear that caters towards PvE players is designed towards defeating the raid bosses in the World of Warcraft. Tanks are designed to deal low damage and absorb high damage, healers are designed to have high sustainability with their heals and damage dealers are designed to put out the largest amount of damage in the shortest amount of time.
If you feel that PvP is the path for you then there are two areas that you should focus on and they are battlegrounds and arena. In battlegrounds you will gain honor points and honor marks. Both are used to purchase gear through the honor system. Gear purchased through the honor system will take a long time to buy. 1000 honor per hour is not an unreasonable rate to expect, but with gear costing 20,000 honor each you can expect 20 hours to get one piece of gear.
The arena system is a bit different in that it is based on a rating system. Your arena team will win or lose games and based on whether you win or lose you will move up and down in the ratings. Your rating is tabulated once a week and based on that tabulation you will be awarded arena points. Depending on how well you do you can gain gear very quickly or very slowly.
If instead of PvP you wish to PvE then you will have a different focus. You will initially need to start out in the 5 man dungeons. As you gain gear through these instances you will become a little stronger and slowly you will be ready to conquer heroic dungeons. These dungeons will offer a little bit better upgrades. Low level raids will become accessible to you, followed by medium and ultimately high level raids. Depending on your support system this can be a process that takes upwards of many months to complete. With PvE you are depending on a large number of other people to succeed, but the reward is unifying as a group to accomplish a common goal.
Whatever your decision may be, know that whatever accomplishments you make you will ultimately be judged on your gear in the World of Warcraft.
October 01 2008 03:08 pm | Uncategorized