If a person has a high gearscore it means they have put more time and effort into that character, which means they will know more about their class, but a person can still be a retard with a gearscore of 5000 or so. It's when a person's gearscore reaches 5300-5500+ is when it's pretty safe to say that "this person is good at their class" because for someone to have a gearscore that high, they will most likely have a fairly good guild, and what good guild is going to bring along someone who can't gem, enchant or use their gear properly.Originally Posted by KandyCane
When it comes to tanks and to a lesser extent healers, if you are bad at your class, you won't be downing bosses so you won't be getting gear.
Yes while in the 4-5k area it doesn't tell you much about the person, but once you hit the mid 5000s that's when gearscore can be used as skillscore.
Of course these numbers are only valid right now.