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Well, kind of. This post on WoWAce says that any addon that uses the inspect function will have delays between their requests; in laymen's terms, addons that work like GearScore will work slower or not at all. Sometimes the server will not even grant the query a request.

I'm quite pleased with this turn of events, perhaps the game will go back to a kind of gear check that does require the armory and looking at people instead of just stamping a number on them. It makes putting together a raid or a guild just the right amount of work.

How do you guys feel about GS getting the nerf stick? How many of you remember gear checking people before this addon existed? Do you guys think there will be a way for this addon to work around this problem, or do you think it will eventually go away?

On my server, no one really cares how well your gear matches the raid you're in.

Going back to TOC? 5k GS minimum!

Back to Ulduar? 5k GS!!

Ony? 5k!!

Molten Core? You better have 5k GS or dont bother whispering for invite!

People seem to have just picked the highest average and demanded that for every raid in the game.

I'd be glad to see the addon go, but somehow I doubt they wont be able to work around this problem

I don't have the addon. I don't have much use for it. I do not pug. And when I do want to see what someone's gear is like (that generally only happens when they are applying to the guild), then I check them on armory anyway because I want to make sure their gear is not only a decent level but also appropriate for their class and spec, gemmed and enchanted properly, and I want to double check their raid experience.


5k is very low. So even though I don't put much stock in gearscore, I actually wouldn't blame people for asking for more than 5k when putting together pugs. Because if a person has less that 5k, they're probably not putting much (if any) effort into raiding and gearing. Even my alt who I never play and have only taken into ToC like one time is almost 5k.

I agree that old content does not require a 5k+ gearscore. It's just that people don't generally run old content for progression anymore. They run it for achievements, the weekly, etc. And that generally means they want to get in, blow through it, and get the hell out. So that's why they generally want higher gearscore people, people who don't need any old gear, people who know the fights, etc.

My server has a 5k min on ToC, 4.5k on Uld, and 5.5k on ICC. on top of that though, you need the achievement to go in, where if your like me, you cant raid with a guild due to your schedule and can only get in through PuGs, and you dont have the achievement. i have only killed the first 4 Uld bosses, cleared 1 Naxx wing, Os reg, and Malygos because of this. i stepped in ToC once, but the group couldn't pass Northrend Beasts.

Gearscore is just everyone's wow-peen. Incidentally, I recently got a new weapon, it rose my gearscore, but my stats were worse rolleyes

I've been told "Gearscore let's players know your max potential".

So detached!

The biggest problem with gearscore is that PvP gear is scored higher then PvE score. So even if someone has over a 5K gs that doesn't mean they're correctly geared. They could be in PvP gear.