Teir Sets: Are they bad though?

[Thage]

Using your full set isn't ideal, since the tier pieces aren't always super well-itemized and there's non-set pieces for several slots that perform objectively better than the tier pieces minus set bonus, but if you aren't trying bleeding-edge progress you should be fine. Just like with dungeon sets/t0. Mostly, though, people collect full tier for cool sets to hang out in town with or to RP in.

[Tumile]

Lol. A burden. What are you even talking about. For one person being a burden we are talking an extra 10 secs on a 2 min boss fight. Let's do some math.

30 dps. Because we are talking averages Let's just divide hp by 30. 10k HP to keep numbers small. Each person does 333 damage. Let's just delete that one person. After 2 mins there's 334 damage left. 334 divided by 10k is 3.34 percent. 3.34 times 1.2 is about 5 seconds. Honestly. Who gives a shit?

You said an extra 10 sec on a 2 min boss fight, not me. theres so many aspects to doing an MC, its Trash DPS, how much prolonging trash by 2 seconds costs in healer mana so they have to drink, slowing down everyone yet again.

ur entire example makes no sense, you are being a burden if ur lazyness, and egocentrical thinking slows down the boss by 1 second, because if everyone was fine with doing 200-300 DPS like you, instead of the 700-1300 they should be doing you are gonna end up with 2 minute boss fights like ur example, when they should only take 15-30 seconds. only exception is Raggy which might take up to 50 seconds.

So anyone who doesn't give a shit is a burden, and incredibly Selfish and Toxic.

also ur entire equation makes literally no sense, you give a static amount of damage, yet you add time to the fight. you say 30 DPS, when the standard setup is 2-11-27. "334 divided by 10k is 3.34 percent" did u even pass grade school dude? what the hell are you even typing. maybe you shouldn't try and math it up bro, cuz no offense, you suck at it, even with your own fictional numbers. 3.34 times 1.2 is about 5 seconds? lmfao ur all over the place

[VigilantRose]

All tier sets suffer from giving too much of weak stats and too little of good stats. However, some tier sets counterbalance this either via the sheer volume of stats they provide or the set bonuses. While there are some stray decent pieces for any class, the real winners in tier:

1. Shaman. Awesomely powerful set bonuses make Earthfury the best T1 set for any spec.
2. Warrior. Terrible set bonuses, but many of the individual pieces are BiS anyway for Prot Warriors.
3. Warlock. Warlocks aren't really a 'dps class' in early Vanilla raiding but brought for their utility. This tends to mean that it's often better to compromise your dps in favor of durability (as Felheart does) than to gear for pure dps like a Mage would.

[Orby]

I miss it for the the RP factor that the bonus and gameplay reasons. The Armor sets we have right now usually look nothing like the class they are fitting.

For example leather, Rogue, Druid and Monk have to share an armor type yet they never look appropriate to all of them, just one, or none.

With tier sets every class felt like they had a theme for every raid.

[Tripax]

For holy pala PvE healing the T1 and T2 sets are pretty bad. But for any other content they are awesome, especially for PvP.

Now that 5mans are done for and raiding takes like 2 hours per week....... I'm starting to find even T1 pretty appealing compared to running around in cloth/leather.