You have carved your legend across four continents, slit a thousand throats, looted a veritable fortune in gold, and completed a million (at least it feels like you have) quests on your march to glory and level 80, so what do you do now? The answer, of course, is raiding. This handy-dandy guide is here to provide some guidelines for what you’ll need to begin raiding.

To begin raiding, you will want all your gear to be blues, and by blues, I mean high level blues. A level 60 blue item doesn’t count! The sad fact is that you need good gear to raid, but that you get the best gear in raids. A nasty catch-22, so what to do? There are several ways to get decent enough gear to begin raiding.

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