Originally Posted by
clevin
MY guild... not his. We're not, as a raid, quite geared for ToT normal week 1 and we're certainly not pushing server first etc so it doesn't matter to me if I optimize my week 1 performance. The order of buying things isn't going to affect me much whereas I can see a top guild really crunching the numbers to figure out the right order to buy things in, etc. But for me, I'kll have the first 2-3 items plus (hopefully) some LFR loot before we start raiding ToT normal. Right now the raid is all in 48x gear and while that doesn't suck for a raid that just started up 2 weeks ago, it means we'll have a bit of catchup to do to get everyone to ~496+ so we can credibly hit up ToT Normal.
The other reason I upgraded Fang Kung is that it helps now as we're trying to catch up a bit and gives me the best possible weapon I can get (since we're not going to hit normal Lei Shi before 5.2) and IMO a 497 Fang Kung is as good as, perhaps better than the 483 LFR gun upgraded to 491 and with the 500 agi gem. Right now I have, I think, about 850 VP. If we have at least 2 weeks I'll hit 2850. Three weeks and I can cap 3k and slack a bit