Blizzard introduced a curious little system with Cataclysm, one that I trust that you are all to familiar with now. In order to queue up for instances – normal and heroic – you need to attain a high enough item level. If you don’t have that, you can’t queue up. You can still enter the instance manually, say with a group from your guild, but you will need to fly there yourself.
I think that the idea of this system is brilliant. Heroics are hard, and there should be some sort of lower limit before you can enter. You might have a lot of trouble if you try to do a heroic in full greens, so it is an excellent measure for players to gauge if they are ready for heroics.
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Patch 3.3.5 and The Ruby Sanctum is just about to hit, and it is probably a good time to take a look at the new items coming, and how they fit into our gear.
Before we do that, I want to try and make an important point. Best in slot lists are very discriminating. What I mean by that is that they asse that you have access to everything, normal and heroic, 10 an 25 man. If you don’t, the value of an item might change due yo caps and whatnot. Also, keep in mind that just because it is a best in slot list, it doesn’t mean that there isn’t alternatives out there. A good example is the Boots of Unnatural Growth. While they have spirit instead of haste, they are nearly as good as the Plague Scientist’s Boots.
An upgrade is an upgrade, so don’t go tunnelvision against these items in particular. If you an upgrade your stats with a nearly-as-good item, you should.
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