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How is Gear Score used, realistically? Do people just check and judge? Oh, you're less than 2400 gear score; go away? Also, on WoW-Heroes, does the difficulty scale change with gear, or is it just static for people to reference?
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Gear score matters in WoW a lot.
You always want to have a person with a high score in your group or guild.
Gear score is judged by how advanced your gear is in the game so far.
The better gear you have the bigger raids you can jump in to.
(taking other things into consideration as well)
For tanks: the higher your score the more aggro you hold
Healers: higher your gear score the better you hea
DPS: the higher your score the more DEEPS you pull.
And, yes; the higher your gear score the better raids you can do - shown on the little bar on wowheroes
With all of this being said:
I do know people who don't have the highest gear score but are really good players; good at their class and the game in general.
Many guild will give you a test run so they can see how you play... since your spec and rotation has A LOT to do with how your toon performs.
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looking at my spec on here it says 'character has highest score in this spec', i dont have that good a gear so is it more than likely that im the only person with that spec at 80? (7/13/51)
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Whilst some of what you say is correct, Gearscore is nothing more than an indication of the Level of Gear/Enchants etc. It is in NO WAY an indication of the skill of the person pushing the buttons behind the screen.
And it is easy to get a gear score very high. As long as you can equip the item the score is reached, even if the item is not valid for your spec or class, as long as you can equip it you can get the "score" for it.
Gearscore doesn't take any "player experience" into account.
You can buy a toon off a website or get given the toon having never playd the game before with a great gearscore. Gearscore doesn't know this.
YOu have no way of knowing if someone was carried through raids/instances, knows their class, how long they have played for etc... all those things cannot be measured by an item score.
It is a tool to be used but is far from 100% accuate on a person ability to make judgements etc on what spell to cast and when and their knowledge of they raids etc.
I put it too you this way.
If i own a McLaren F1, does that mean im a Race Driver ??.... No it doesn't, it just means i have the car, doesn't mean i actually have any race experience or any driving experience.....
Same with Gearscore.
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sorry to bring this topic back up agian, but how is the gearscore calculated? i tried adding all the iLevel's together but it came to a completely diferent number. maybe i need to check my math :S
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Overall score is influenced mostly by:
- gems (their quality and usable value)
- items (not item level, but value of stats on each item)
- enchants (their quality and usable value)
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but then why have a gear score in the first place? (rhetorical) it seems a bit of a waste really other than to say 'look ats my gear i gots high like'
