Originally Posted by constantius

All the people asking about PMC vs badge gear are missing a very important point.

How are you going to GET badges without gear? I mean, ok, badges are easy to get ... but not that easy. You require Karazhan / Zul'Aman / heroics to effectively farm badges to get ~ 500-600 badges worth of gear. And you're not going to get that many badges by running around in blues.

Go tailoring, make PMC and Whitemend, and then farm badges. The badges will fill in your gloves, boots, and bracers slots, and give you an option for an offhand. You can pick up a trinket. Cloak comes from Karazhan, and you can grab a neck from ZA. At this point, you're almost kitted out. You THEN start replacing the tailoring gear (6 weeks later) with badge gear. All told, it'd take you over 3 months to get 600 badges if you start from scratch.

I mean, farming badges hard-core, with tons of 25-mans, heroics, ZA every reset, and Karazhan when I'm bored, I get about 125 badges a week. Most of that comes from the 25-mans, though -- BT+HS is 22 badges, Magtheridon is 3, and Gruul's Lair is 5.

And I have gear, which means I'm not running instances for gear/badges -- I'm running them for badges.

Just looking at the ilvls on the gear tells you whether or not PMC is better than the new badge gear (hint: it's not). It's a dumb question. ilvl 115 vs ilvl 141 ... I wonder which one will win?