GearScore

GearScore the woes of this particular little addon, that some bad Shaman on Detheroc created to make his PuGing life easier.

This particular addon has done nothing but cause heartbreak and annoyance toward myself and my friends.

A few situations I've encountered involved me trying to get into a PuG ToGC 10. I easily pull 5.2k DPS self buffed in my Ulduar level gear (Currently 4827 gearscore) well, here it goes. I look in trade chat and see "LF1M DPS for ToGC10 | Good Group | Skill at least|" I send this person a PM saying "Enhance Shaman, I can pull 5.2k Self Buffed and cleared ToGC's first 3 bosses week one, know rest of the fights"

You know what I get back "Oh sorry we brought in an SPriest, your gearscore was lower." First of all, when did a SPriest EVER out DPS an Enhancement Shaman, let alone myself. Secondly to completely disregard my gear and playing as "Subpar" because a stupid fucking addon tells you my number is too low? That's the most ignorant and stupid thing I've ever fucking heard.

So basically, being able to put out higher throughput in lesser numbers makes me somehow less qualified to take part in a ToGC raid, I don't know... I do know this though. GearScore is a worthless add-on that a lot of people use too religiously and hold on too closely.

If anything this needs to be changed in my honest opinion, some way to block it or another. Or have it integrated or something much like how LFG is set up now, where it is lenient but fair allowing people who are geared ON PAR for it (As in 25k life DCapped for a normal heroic as a tank, not 70k life and 100% avoidance or something stupid)

tl:dr GearScore needs to be changed or outdated.