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Proving grounds

Did them on my Protection Paladin and Frost Mage. Bronze is a give me at iLvl450+. Didn't make silver on either. Got to the 8/8 for the Mage, but didn't have the DPS to burn it down and didn't pop my mirror image, because I was saving it and didn't see it was the last fight.

I'll go back after I get more of the Timeless gear and see how it goes.
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"Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something." - Robert A. Heinlein

I messed around with it a bit on my 498 arms warrior last night. I got through bronze and silver pretty easily but got stuck on wave 8 on gold. Only tried it a couple times but there are banshees that spawn that seem to wipe you if you dont down them within a few seconds. I feel like classes with strong aoe will have an easier time doing these.

No time for Flex so after getting bored of the Timeless Isle I did the healer proving grounds. No deaths, but it got a bit scary on gold. You have to dispel, the tank who takes a load of damage which you can't easily heal through and mana management was a pain.

I believe I might try this... what are the rewards?

Nothing as far as I saw, other than bragging rights.

Yeah, chieve points only go so far...

Some pugging for raids might use it as a measure of your worth.
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I might get back to the proving grounds tomorrow since I've gotten some nice gear upgrades on my toons and see if I fare any better. I'll only be doing the tank and DPS versions. Really all it is, like most of the rest of the game, finding a strategy that works. I don't know what cat666 iLvl is, to get gold, but I'd bet raid level gear. With decent heroic gear I was able to get to the end of silver without much issue.

Part of the issue is not knowing what comes next, in time that will be well documented. Right now you save your cool downs for when you think you might need them. And as always if the rng hates you, there's not much that you can do about it.
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"Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something." - Robert A. Heinlein

I don't believe they scale your gear. I believe it was designed to test both your abilities and your gear. So, since I don't raid I don't know how high I'll be able to get. The Timeless Isle gear should be a huge help to at least get me to silver, but I don't know how much higher I'll be able to get without raiding.
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"Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something." - Robert A. Heinlein

Missed gold by 2%.

I gave it a shot yesterday also on my Aff lock (not to be confused with Aflac Insurance) and Icy Mage. Able to get through silver on both of them with just face rolling (and messaging people during on my 'lock). The mage faired much better for handling the AoE situations but I didn't get through Gold on either. Gave gold 2-3 attempts on each and then got bored and went and did something else.
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said by »www.wowhead.com/news=219282/wowh···-rewards :

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Gearing Rules

The gearing rules in Proving Grounds are quite similar to those in Challenge Modes:

Any item above ilvl 463 are scaled down to ilvl 463; items that are 463 or below are not affected or scaled up.

Any trinket of ilvl 463 or higher is a valid choice because of the wide selection of unique procs, so you have a wide array of trinkets to consider compared to armor.

For specs that use hit and/or expertise (all non-healing specs), if you were hit/expertise capped normally, you will remain hit/expertise capped in a Challenge Mode.

Tier set bonuses are not active, and neither are Sha-Touched Gems, legendary meta gems, or legendary cape procs.

Stats from flasks, enchants, other gems, and profession bonuses are not reduced.

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Awww man I missed a chance to have fun.
"Fixed an issue where the Healer Proving Grounds had a chance to cause the realm to crash." - Hot Fixed

Tried it tonight. Tried both the tank and the dps tests. The tank test is a snooze fest until Gold when you get multiple mobs that reduce armor and put a bleed on you. CD use, plus dps. Very interesting. I am very close to gold on DPS too. I make it to 9/10 before I run out of time. So many amber traps to run from. If you get caught without that OP human racial and you lose 8 seconds. I need to try to wait to at least wave 4 or 5 before grabbing the Bloodlust box.

So far the only toon I have stunk it up on has been my warrior. I have issues with the tank aoe pickup. So much easier on all of my other tank classes.

As Disc, bronze and silver were easy. I went oom on gold, I'll try it again another time.

I tried to tank it as Disc on bronze, seems I am a bad tank.

I did bronze and silver a couple of days ago on my fury warrior. Pretty easy for both. Gold is definitely much harder. I gave it a few tries, but by that point I was a zombie from lack of sleep. I'll give it another try this week.
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Well The best I've done is wave 7 of silver

there was a healing mob, a CC'ing mob, a tank mob, and some critters to kill.

needed a sec to figure out a strat.
I guess I'm supposed to get the healer cc'ed by the cc'ing mob then kill the critters and the tank, then back to the healer?

If the healer isn't cc'ed I just don't have enough interrupts and it heals the others back to full.

maybe I'll have to try another spec, I just don't have much crit scaled to 463.
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Isn't this the strat for most fights that have similar makeups?
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Feralmordius on Ravencrest Server (US)
Tank for Pride and Ego

I didn't see the CC'er at first, so I was nuking the healer and trying to interrupt while putting up some aoe.

then saw the amber orb moved but just got the plain mob cc'ed instead of the healer mob

maybe if I could better tell which is which faster I could get in the right place.
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So who has gotten gold and what role were you? Also has anyone attempted Silver in the wrong spec for the "You're doing it wrong" achieve?
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Feralmordius on Ravencrest Server (US)
Tank for Pride and Ego

Same as above, ripped through all of them on my protection paladin.

Knew things didn't activate, but I reforged my gear down to 5m levels vs. full on raid hit/exp capping.

Actually found some use swapping around to different seals and stuff. Wasn't that much of a headache until the final wave of gold.
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