08-16-2006, 03:25 AM
Quote:The "necessary gear," isn't as hard to obtain as main people think. Most raiders started out with blues from the "end game" instances (Strat, Scholo, BRS, Dire Maul) and then geared up in MC before progressing to BWL and on. The worst part about preparing for BWL was farming MC for the cores to make the fire resistance gear, although you can get around that to some degree if you're a cloth or leather wearer.
I was referring more to the later raid instances here. If my guild is running Instance X and I don't have enough gear from Instance X-1 because I only went to X-1 when they were short then I won't contribute much to the raid (and based on what I hear about some Naxx fights might actually be worse for the raid than an empty slot because I'll die easily and start a chain reaction). If I go to X-1 enough to fill my role in X then nothing in X-2 will be a challenge. This isn't a problem is all you do is progress with a guild in X, it can be if you also want to play in the Y series of instances that don't have anything harder than X-2.