I think EG is definitely and improvement over GearScore, but I think you should also give players a chance to defend their gear choices, specs, augments, etc. before automatically passing them up. For example, my holy priest is using an off-hand that has hit rating. I hate that it has hit rating, but it was a huge upgrade from my old off-hand in terms of intellect and spellpower, so I’m rolling with it until I find something better.

I think as long as people remember these are tools to help accelerate the decision process, we’ll be just fine. I’m getting pretty fed up with all the hype around GS these days though.

Just yesterday I was going to pug VoA. Someone was advertising an open healing slot, so I messaged him w/my class and spec. He said the position was filled, but then went on to say it was filled by a healer with a 6k gear score. I replied, “that’s fine, but I don’t really care about his GS”. Seriously, what was the relevance?

Thank you.

Why do I have a feeling people wont be keeping this in mind when using this add-on.

There is simply no way to judge skill, knowledge; yes, time played; yes, but skill or ability? Never… Unless everyone starts frapsing and uploading there videos to youtube and some sort of in-game youtube player is implemented.

Heh, even the last alone would be awesome.

I digress, I do like the add-on somewhat, reminds me of a cut-down in-game version of wow-heroes, just don’t have a need for it personally.

Oh also, does the idea of people sharing notes about a player scare anyone else? Friends rating friends or someone rating someone else as bad because they just got undercut on the Auction House are two worrying examples that come to mind instantly, especially if this becomes the norm for judging players for pugs.

All the epeen add ons just annoy the crap out of me. I’d rather run any heroic with an under equipped, inexperienced player with a good attitude than all the idiots out there measuring themselves by the color of their pixels, a misplaced sense of accomplishment, and acting superior.

It saddened me to read Matticus’s comment on the stat confused Pally. Not everyone has the same levels of understanding or time options to get balanced gear sets … that’s usually why they are badge collecting to begin with. Rather than pass them by for a simple heroic why not help them out?

I’m the “raid leader” (grandiose name – I feel more like an instructor) for a fairly new levelling+casual guild. 90% of the guildmembers have never raided before in any expansion. Many of them are just now getting their very first characters to level 80. I use EG to help me with talking to these new 80s about how to properly gear up, gem up, and choose enchants. For this alone, I could kiss Shadowed…. er, well, okay, maybe not kiss. Bro-hug-double-back-tap, definately. Respect knuckles, most assuredly. Kiss, probably not.