Remember back in the day when hitting level 80 meant an entire new game of questing and grinding for gear. Finding a good group in order to do a dungeon. Well, things have changed a bit. Flyv wrote a post of his new Disc Priest turning level 80 and within 6 days he has a gear score of 4480. (By the way Flyv, congrats on rolls a Disc Priest, that’s my main toon’s class as well.) You’re post is pretty accurate.

With the new dungeon finder it is easier than ever to gear up a new level 80 for end game content therefore nerfing and making obsolete many dungeons we use to grind for gear in. It is definitely easy to get gear as a new level 80, especially if you’re a healer because it is much easier to get in a random. Q’s are very short.Now you can do randoms until you have all the triumph badge you need to buy good gear. I think Blizzard knows this and it is one of the reasons that Cataclysm is coming out.