Gearing for Raids at Level 85

While the quest and instance rewards and drops will provide you ample “blues” (rare items) and prepare you for level-85 heroic 5-man instances, those drops will not equip you adequately for raiding the new level 85 raid content. The first priority, after learning your new spells etc at level 85, is to start running heroics with the guild. Running heroics with the guild will get you heroic blue gear and will increase our guild xp. You will need the heroic blue gear (not the regular blue gear) in order to get into raid instances and perform successfully.

Equipped with heroic blue gear, you will find a spot in our guild raid groups welcoming you! Depending on the number of raiders available in the first weeks, we will set how many and how large the raids are. By mid to late January, we should certainly have settled into who is raiding when and with whom - which in effect forms the base rosters of the level 85 raid groups. While each raid group will drive its own culture and rhythm, we will have at least one raid group that has a more hard core than casual approach and likely one raid group that is more laid back. This will give you the choice of how often and how hard you want to raid!