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Barkle · August 26, 2008, 04:16 PM

PVP vs PVE gear ...
PVP gear is tuned for Player Vs Player. It generally has more stamina, more armor, and some resilience. It will rarely have spell hit, and may have less spell crit, spell haste, but should have approximately the same spell damage.

PvE gear is tuned for Player Vs Environment. PvE can mean solo, 5 man dungeons, 10 or 25 man raids. Will have less stamina and armor, but will have more spell hit, crit, haste and should have about the same spell damage.

Depends on how you are doing leveling if you want to worry about PvP gear. If you find yourself dieing, you might want to get some. The only problem is you generally need to PvP to get PvP gear, and if you are PvPing, you are not leveling. Leveling as affliction you shouldn't need it. Between Siphon Life and Drain Life, you should have plenty of health. The armor really isn't anything significant.

Instances. If you are having fun leveling, don't worry too much about it. The 5 man dungeon (and raids) are called instances because you are in a separate world while you are there. They do it so multiple groups can go into the same dungeon at the same time. If it wasn't instanced, multiple groups in one dungeon would be competing with each other to kill stuff and get to the end. Would be real messy.

The best loot is in instances, but only drops off the bosses, with a few small exceptions. There are instances for almost every level range in the game. To successfully run the instance, you generally need 5 people, a tank, a healer, and 3 DPS. The mobs in the instance will all be more powerful, and will award more XP, but only the bosses will drop exceptional loot. If you have a group of friends who are around the same level, try out an instance or two, they are some of the best stuff in the game. If you don't have friends near your level, finding a group may be really tough. You can always ask a level 70 to "run you through" the dungeon. That will get you the loot, but will take a lot of the fun out of it.

Do you need to worry about running instances for loot. Not really. Any loot you get from an instance you are going to out-grow in 5-10 levels anyway. Once you hit Outlands, there should be more people around, and you can more easily get groups for instances. Once in Outland, a lot of the gear you get be dramatically better than anything you can find in old world instances. My warlock replaced all his gear, every last piece, before level 64. My hunter, who had been raiding before BC, had exactly one piece of gear that did not get replaced before 70 (shoulders).

August 26, 2008, 04:16 PM	#10 (permalink)
Barkle Member Character Info Barkle 80 Undead Warlock Rexxar US PvE Guild: Corpus Vile Profile: Blizzard Armory Talent Spec: 0/41/30	Re: Leveling advice needed PVP vs PVE gear ... PVP gear is tuned for Player Vs Player. It generally has more stamina, more armor, and some resilience. It will rarely have spell hit, and may have less spell crit, spell haste, but should have approximately the same spell damage. PvE gear is tuned for Player Vs Environment. PvE can mean solo, 5 man dungeons, 10 or 25 man raids. Will have less stamina and armor, but will have more spell hit, crit, haste and should have about the same spell damage. Depends on how you are doing leveling if you want to worry about PvP gear. If you find yourself dieing, you might want to get some. The only problem is you generally need to PvP to get PvP gear, and if you are PvPing, you are not leveling. Leveling as affliction you shouldn't need it. Between Siphon Life and Drain Life, you should have plenty of health. The armor really isn't anything significant. Instances. If you are having fun leveling, don't worry too much about it. The 5 man dungeon (and raids) are called instances because you are in a separate world while you are there. They do it so multiple groups can go into the same dungeon at the same time. If it wasn't instanced, multiple groups in one dungeon would be competing with each other to kill stuff and get to the end. Would be real messy. The best loot is in instances, but only drops off the bosses, with a few small exceptions. There are instances for almost every level range in the game. To successfully run the instance, you generally need 5 people, a tank, a healer, and 3 DPS. The mobs in the instance will all be more powerful, and will award more XP, but only the bosses will drop exceptional loot. If you have a group of friends who are around the same level, try out an instance or two, they are some of the best stuff in the game. If you don't have friends near your level, finding a group may be really tough. You can always ask a level 70 to "run you through" the dungeon. That will get you the loot, but will take a lot of the fun out of it. Do you need to worry about running instances for loot. Not really. Any loot you get from an instance you are going to out-grow in 5-10 levels anyway. Once you hit Outlands, there should be more people around, and you can more easily get groups for instances. Once in Outland, a lot of the gear you get be dramatically better than anything you can find in old world instances. My warlock replaced all his gear, every last piece, before level 64. My hunter, who had been raiding before BC, had exactly one piece of gear that did not get replaced before 70 (shoulders).