Skill > Gear

A few days ago my brother started to play WoW again (his girlfriend has convinced him to play a bit) and decided to level his paladin alt. He made 12 lvls in two or three days and is 68 by now which I think is very imperessive. But the story I wish to share happend when he was 66.

I saw him online and asked to do some heroics. But he wanted to do Utgarde Keep normal with his paladin and so I logged onto my Deathknight (Blood Tank dual spec), ready to be healed by him. His girlfriend joined us on her hunter but it took awful long to find two DPS (in fact I rode from Borean Thundra to Utgarde Keep and found none!). We just wanted to quit the experiment when I found a paladin tank (respec to DPS again *g*) who asked a lvl76 to help us with the missing DPS.

So we entered the instance with a lvl 70 tank and a lvl 66 healer (mostly clad in sholomance or stratholme gear). We made it to the second boss without any wipes or death because my brother had no problem to keep everyone alive. I saw lvl 70 paladins with some kara gear do worse than him!

The second boss forced him to log onto another alt of him because both guys would one-shot him (we killed one and got the other down to 20% until we died). If they would use the normal aggro list we would have killed them easily. At this point, his gear was not enough to let him survive. But his skill was enough to get us to the second boss in first place. And this is something to remember!

It is always skill > gear. But sometimes a minimum of gear is required ... :-)

BTW the scrolls from the last post haven't sold yet. So I am sitting on a ~100g loss when I expected a ~400g win. Stupidity at its finest :-D

Cheers,
chaoskas