If you play a DPS in SOD, good luck finding groups because most of the time it’s empty, especially for invasions. You only see people boosting and a shaman or a rogue soloing. If you did not play early, you will fall behind, and it will be difficult to join Naxx.
Before you tell me about sanctified gear catchup mechanic, you need to find a group for that, as for karazhan crypt, people wont take others lower than 900 GS. Also, if you’re thinking of doing old raids to get gear to do kara you will barely find any groups for them. Not to mention the rep grind for naxx attunement.
However as someone who recently caught up (having come back with full shadowcraft armor and pvp daggers)… Groups still wanted “pumpers” , “3 trails blasts bwl 900gs”
Lately on nightmare grove my 880 gs got mocked, because I still have one “blue dagger”.
Yeah elitism in catch-up is a problem tbh. They need to block gear inspect and gearscore, outside of top tier hardmode … it’s simply obstructive and non inclusive.
There are many groups at evening, and i think at least one will rake you if you have at least some tier pieces for undermine reals. Also you can form your own group, it’s not really hard.
They arent wrong there, are some proper idiots about.
To be honest best Bet is to join a casual big population guild, you will find a lot of people just dont pug, dungeons or raids, and their groups are hidden within guild chat as well.
899 gs - ABSOLUTELY DISGUSTING. I SLEEP.
900 gs - ok you can come
btw your rep grind for nax is actually quite easy if you just farm some gold/runecloth.
make runecloth bandages (not the heavy ones, just the standard ones) turn them in for commendations, turn commendations in at LHC (10x = 200 rep).
you can go all the way to exalted this way. 10 commendations x5 turnins = 1000 rep, so getting from 0 revered to 21000 exalted is 1050 commendation total which might cost you a few hundred gold.
runecloth is not hard to come by during casual daily dungeon coin farms, and the price on AH is starting to dip quite severely as well, since people are stocked up on world buffs for now.
alternatively, just slap your seal on and grind invasion mobs for an hour (okay, i exaggerate, maybe 2-3 hours depending on kill speed) and you’ll have more scourgestones (and necrotic runes) than you know what to do with.
the runecloth bandage/commendation route is by far the path of least resistance assuming you got a bit of gold you are willing to burn for it.