I have a GS of about 5050 on my Mage in my regular gear, my GS set puts this at about 5200 at present. Even this is usually “too low” according to some people, so imagine my shock when someone actually invites me to a group in my 5050GS outfit and I outdps others in the group, including fellow mages with 5300+ GS.

GS is useless if you are unable to tell when a player is using higher ilevel but inferior items. That is the end of that. When I have someone boasting of GS and I am on my main char then 9 times out of 10 I am, like with your main, able to tell them where to shove it because my Moonkin has a very high GS, currently #4 on the server I think (out of the Moonkin) which considering the saturation of high end raiding guilds is not bad going

It’s just the same as linking Achievement and [Epic] before, a way for people to have an excuse to not take someone, probably because they want to reduce the competition for their specific loot items. It is just sad that people will not believe you when you say that you have done the fights (I have 4/4 on the original wing on my mage but not the new fights ofc). I mean I have done them on my main char, but I doubt most of the rest of the raid aside from those, like me, that are alts from endgame raiding guilds can say the same.

GS can die a horrible horrible death and I would shed not a tear If I could be bothered I would make an addon that could judge a players gear based on stat balance for their class. I do not wish to spend my life learning every classes stat balance, updating it every patch, etc etc though I have better things to do

I wish Blizzard would make do on their (probably joking) suggestion that they could implement a shirt with no actual effect other than an insanely high iLevel to screw up gearscores

If I was making a pug I’d likely hit pugchecker.com, be-imba or wow-heroes moreso than gearscore. But at the end of the day I’m mostly allergic to pugs and too time constrained to run many randoms anyway. Will be a long time until I get perky.

Also, a guildie of mine is so going to gear his DK up in SP plate just to fuck with the GS people.

Being well geared != having high ilvl gear.

See also: spellpower, death knight.

BUT if anyone were to pass judgement based on gearscore .. you know who the nub is alrdy

They helped me with spec enchanting my gear and worked with me to get gear. I have been back for about 3 months and have gone from the bottem off the dps charts to towards the top and i’m now one of the guilds core raiders. I guess my point is that if they had not given me a chance to imporve and just laughed like alot of people did they would have missed out on a guildie willing to help with what ever i can.

To me, it’s useful for two reasons. One, if I’m on my Hunter and someone walks by with a nice gearscore, I like to stop and inspect their gear and see what kind of nice upgrades they have. Two, when I am entering a PUG I like to check everyone’s gearscore just to get a guesstimate of what kind of DPS we’ll likely have, or if I’m healing, how squishy the tank is. Tank’s decked out in TOC25 gear? That’s cool, they are probably pretty good. Tank’s mostly in blues crafted epics? Also cool, maybe they can get some nice upgrades, and now I know to be just a little extra aware of their health.

Obviously this isn’t perfect – well-geared people can be the worst players. But it’s generally a better estimate than, well, nothing.

Gearscore is handy as a better-than-nothing tool, but sadly it becomes extremely annoying in the hands of idiots.