How to Reach Gearscore 5000 as a Casual level 80 player Guide

WoW: IncGamers illustrates the fastest way for casual and solo players of the World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King, who just reached level 80, to acquire the item level and gear needed to gain an invite into any Icecrown Citadel dungeon raid without getting the boot.

[thetamer]

What?!

[Cogo]

"What" the fact it's this easy, or "What" the fact people are still playing wow? ;)

[Bereaver]

Wait, what? Casual level 80? Uhhh....

[gamesmaster]

skill > gearscore

[Leord]

It's not over 9000 :(

[Fyzzu]

Woo.

[Eoweniel]

This is really awesome. A good help on the way for newer peeps or those who don't have much time to play seriously. As we all know, WoW can be quite addictive, so being a casual player is not such a common occurrence nowadays. :P

[theslim]

Good to see some info on what to do, me myself, just go for random heroics and gather triumph to get atleast T9 before i do raids. i dunno what gearscore T9 has but i would think it would work anyway :)

[SCFreelancer]

How is that even calculated?

[Panthers]

Using an add on. We dont even use that on our server. We use wow heroes. So for us a GS of 2800 is pretty high.

[JD_Shadow]

I think the Armory does something like that, too (not sure on that, though).

But the leveling is easy if you know where to level, what is expected of your class, what instances to go into, and when to go into which zone.

Whether or not you can go from 1-80 before Cataclysm using this, though, is another story.

[Dorjan]

nicely done!

[sashimi]

uhhhh.....is 5k high? lol

[Faelan]

I don't even know what my gearscore is, nor do I care. I hate pug raids and only do them if I feel like I must. I do ICC with my small guild. We are casually working our way through and that's all that matters to me. I mean, 3-6 hours of raiding per week doesn't require you to quit your job, divorce your wife and sell your children into slavery, right?

It'll probably take some time before we get to the end, but why the rush? It's not like Cataclysm is just around the corner and I see little point to farming gear beyond what is needed to make Arthas eat dirt since Cataclysm is going to hit the big red gear reset button anyway.

So I just enjoy the game for the good times with my guildies and let the epeeners stress over their pointless gearscore. Seriously, there's more to life than getting all worked up over some numbers. It's a game, not a race.

[threepy]

not even going to read the article...I could tell people how to get that gearscore in less words than the title of this article...

"Heroics".

Emblems of Triumph and the Occasional Frost = over 5k gs

[Medievaldragon]

The problem is that while we all know these NPC vendors are there, people thinks it takes way too long to farm these emblems, and wrongly think by doing heroics they can get good gear.

In fact, most of these gear you get from emblems is of better item level than what you can get on an heroic dungeon.

Right now, the best heroic dungeons to run are Forge of Souls, Pit of Saron and Halls of Reflections. Because not everyone looks at the loot table of each of those bosses, you keep playing it over and over trying to see if you are lucky -- but the reality is not all the gear drops from these. You need alternatives: emblems.

I had no clue about any of this, until I learned I was not getting invites to ICC due to my gearscore.

I was like what's a gearscore. From there I learned where to download it, and noticed I was somewhere around 4200 gear score.

That motivation to raise my gearscore to past 5000 made me search at wowarmory for upgrades -- and noticed if I didn't do Grand Crusader, I wouldn't get better gear -- it's nigh impossible to find a group for grand crusader since everyone is in ICC.

That led me to take a look at the emblem vendors, and after some time studying the item level of each emblem vendor, on my own, I figured it out. That's the way I had to go in order to raise my gearscore.

Decided to write it down for the bunch of people who still farms heroic after heroic without aim or direction. Emblems is the way to go, not praying an heroic boss is gonna drop the uber loot.