Comments on: WTF is my Gearscore

By: Katherine

Katherine — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 21:32:51 +0000

The “fail” or “win” from GS is based on the average gearscore for your level. If you’re above average you get a “win”. I’d ignore it.

By: Harry

Harry — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 18:51:15 +0000

gearscore. i dont understand how they do it,
yesterday i inspected a friend of mine see the gear (both got druid) 2/3 of my equips were better and still he has 200 more gs sup with that:P

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 09:20:59 +0000

At least you said “misusing” and not “gear score sucks”.

Gear score is a tool, it doesn’t suck, it just has to be used correctly. Being able to tell on the fly if the person is still in blues, or has never stepped into a 25m is easy with GS and that’s valuable information.

I’m sure most people know this, when PuGs ask for high gear scores they are just doi9ng so to make sure the run gets done as quickly as possible. Nothing wrong with that.

If a person is 100-200 less than everyone else, just check his gear, he might be wearing something because it’s better than higher ilvl stuff.

So, the best thing is a combination of Gear Score and asking someone yourself.

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Mon, 10 May 2010 15:22:29 +0000

I haven’t raided hardcore since Naxx and alittle ulduar. I couldn’t get into anything!
My gearscore is 4600. I couldnt even get into TOC runs to gear up. I join a guild with min 4800 gearscore to join. They say “well, we will give you a chance..we do run TOC, but there is no way you can run ICC”.

2 hours later…during their ICC run I get a whisper “can you heal ICC?”. I say, “but I was told my gearscore is too low”…they say. “well you can try”. My 4600 disc priest outlives the 5200 gearscore druid to heal the last minute or 2 of Deathbringer. We down 4 bosses. Another thing worth noting. This was the guilds first ICC run. Nobody was uber geared out to begin with. It can be done. Would a higher gearscore be better? yeah. Would have made it a tad easier, but we lived.

By: Frostymunky

Frostymunky — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 17:09:27 +0000

Armory? In the old days, we had to approach you, and then inspect you, not this Armory crap. You are like the fourty year old who complains of being old.

By: @valkyrierisen

@valkyrierisen — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 21:46:26 +0000

This post made me cry. Be glad you didn’t raid with those jerks :/ It would have been painful.

Another new armory type site: http://elitistarmory.com/

By: Dyre42

Dyre42 — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 01:05:49 +0000

The site labels people between 5K and 5.2k GS as fail. How lovely.

By: Aloix

Aloix — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 15:46:44 +0000

My biggest problem with gearscores in all its iterations I think is that it can encourage bads (or even ‘casual/socials’) to make poor gear choices to inflate their score.

By: Ngita

Ngita — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 06:50:10 +0000

Union sorry your wrong, You can not stand in /trade and say lf more for flame leviathian, must have full clear acheivement, or lf1more for 10 man naxx must have full epics. But lf 10 man icc must have 5600gs, lf toc 25 must have 5300 gs. These are lfm’s that are right now in trade and acceptable because Gearscore is just a arbitrary number, you can’t argue stupidity against it. I had a talk to the toc guy because while I have 2 characters that still need trinkets+1 drop from toc25. But I am not going to sit a pug for a hour while he finds people that meet that high a standard and also want to go to toc25. He had 8, 15 mins later he had 10.

Gearscore simply tells you how much gear the have accumulated, The 5500 GS healer still stands in flame breath on onyxia, they stand in front of the drake on Malygos etc. In one of the raids today I outdps’ed a hunter @ 5800 gs on my 5300 gs warlock by a 1000 dps.

By: Narx

Narx — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 00:45:14 +0000

Yeah shields and boots are the hardest tanking pieces to obtain usually…