A case study: newb to ICC.

[Concillian]

Ugh. My hunter has no upgrades left for triumph, 3/5 tier 10, and a number of ToC-25 pieces and still can't get into an ICC10 pug. I haven't even been able to get inside the instance and demonstrate that I f'in destroy people on the damage meters because I know what the hell I'm doing.

What are they requiring? Our server is usually 5k GS, which is mostly attainable, but not exclusively with triumph badges. Sounds like you should be there at your gearing. Sounds like they're requiring significantly higher GS. I take it that it's a fairly "progressed" server?

I think it's a problem that people can't judge your play capability outside of actually playing with you. Since they can only judge your gear, that's what they judge, but I think there should be some basic solo instance with tiered DPS achievements so it's easier to judge actual capability. Something like the portion of the LK fight where you're put inside Frostmourne and must help King Terenas, but for a set time instead of a set health pool (probably 2-3 minutes to coincide with the length of many cooldowns. Then have achievements for increasing levels of DPS. I don't think it'd be perfect, but it would be a LOT better than judging by gear score.