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Tier 1-3 was old world pre-TBC level 60 gear. Tier 4-6 is TBC level 70 gear with Tier 4 dropping in Kara, Gruuls, and Mags.

We can only assume that WotLK will feature Tier 7-9 gear level 80 gear.

It also stands for the quality of loot of a certain dungeon.
Like how Karazhan is t4 content, and SSC/TK are t5 content.

t4 content = item lvl 115-125
t5 content = item lvl 128-138
t6 content = item lvl 141-151

Anywho Alex, love the new site.. keep them vids coming :)

The PvP sets work in a similar fashion to this, except their set bonus' will always work, no matter if you had 2 bits of one season, and 2 bits of another.

(In PvP, the sets are known as seasons:

Season 1 = Tier 4 (Kara/Gruul/Maggy)
Season 2 = Tier 5 (SSC/TK)
Season 3 = Tier 6 (Hyjal/BT)
Season 4 = Tier 6.5 (Sunwell)

Hey,

Thanks guys, your guides are amazing i use your class guides and proffesion guides alot, and i new tier was somthign good, but dident exactly know what it ment, thanks keep em up!

Is it just me, or does Dr. Dark kinda look like the joker? We should be getting some tier 5 tokens very very soon. This week even. TRG, FTW

'Tier' comes from Warcraft III.

When you start a game, you begin with a towncenter and basic available upgrades, known as Tier 1.

When you upgrade it, you can research new upgrades, build new buildings and create new units. This new phase is known as Tier 2.

Upgrading it one last time allows you to reach Tier 3.

When the first set was made available in WoW (through Molten Core), players started to talk about Tier 1 gear, and it stuck.

Tier 2 dropped from Ragnaros and Blackwing Lair, Tier 3 dropped from Naxx (and will no longer be available when WotLK hit the stores).

Not to mention Tier 2.5 to, although confusing that there are many sets, tier 2.5 is a Pre TBC set that comes before tier 3 in Naxx. Tier 2 can be obtained through a token system similar to tier 4/5/6 and the tokens drop in AQ.

But why is it called "Tier"?? Thordalis who commented says it came from Warcraft 3. But does it mean something? Or is it just some random word? Why couldn't it be "beer" or "rear" or "reindeer"??

Main Entry: tier
Pronunciation: \'tir\
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle French tire rank, from Old French — more at attire
Date: 1569

1 a: a row, rank, or layer of articles; especially : one of two or more rows, levels, or ranks arranged one above another b: a group of political or geographic divisions that form a row across the map

Blizzard have released numerous different armour sets during the course of World of Warcraft. These armour sets were referred to as 'Tiers' (tier meaning a class or ranking.)

Typically tier sets have set bonuses tied to them. The exception to this are tier sets 2.5 and 6.5 which are stand alone pieces with no set attached, and are tied together by a matching visual theme.

The different tiers and the location they drop are as follows:
Tier 0 - Strathholme, Scholomance and Blackrock Spire
Tier .5 - Upgraded versions of Tier 0 done via quests.
Tier 1 - Molten Core
Tier 2 - Ragnaros, Blackwing Lair and Onyxia
Tier 2.5 - Ruins of Ahn'Qiraj and Temple of Ahn'Qiraj
Tier 3 - Naxxramas
Tier 3.5 - Shattered Halls, The Steamvault, Sethekk Halls, Shadow Labyrinth, Botanica, Mechanar, Arcatraz, Black Morass
Tier 4 - Karazhan, Gruul's Lair, Magtheridon's Lair
Tier 5 - Serpent Shrine Cavern, Tempest Keep
Tier 6 - Hyjal Summit, Black Temple, Sunwell Plateau
Tier 6.5 - Sunwell Plateau

There's also the Zanadalar armour set which is obtained by grinding reputation doing Zul'gurub.

Arena sets also share reskinned graphics with the tier gear.
Reputation Set > Tier 3.5
Season 1 > Tier 4
Season 2 > Tier 5
Season 3 > Tier 6
Season 4 > Tier 6.5

Hope that helps clear things up.

T0-T0.5 and T.35 are also known as d1-2 and d3 (Dungeon sets)

Just a little fun fact, actually the sets in WoW weren't meant to be called Tier 1, 2, 3, etc at all. The names "Tier 1" and etc started off just being Blizzards place holders, but WoW players kept calling them tiers and so it just stuck.

Anyways, the word Tier means: a relative position or degree of value in a graded group.

actually tier's and dungeon are different dungeon has 8 pieaces and tier's have only five plus dungeons is for pve and tier is for pvp hope that helps you guys

@ Harry: Tiers have nothing to do with pvp, that's Seasons. If you go up and look at aaalll the other posts you'll realise your little typo there :P

Well, you can actually see the TWO (!) T7 sets from WotLK with AtlasLoot Enchaned, or whatever it is called.. These are actually just upgrades from the pre-TBC T3 sets, but there are two different sets, one from 10-man raid and another one from the 25-man raid (which is better, ofc) I'm not sure if everything drops in Naxx, but atleast parts of it.

How can you tell? does it say tier 4 (for example) on the item description???

ok teir items are based on ranking system teir 1 being the lowest teir 6 being the highest (as of now) teirs are levels in which something is ranked and being gear from warcraft you can look at like a latter of progression like this :
---tier 6(sunwell sets are teir 6 not 6.5)BT,MH,SWP
---tier 5 SSC, TK
---tier 4 Kara, Gruuls, Mags
---tier 3 Naxx (pre-bc)
---tier 1 & 2 bad exmaples of a tier system being that these sets were obtainable in the same raids

the non tier sets are NOT tier sets there is no such thing as tier 0 .5 3.5 these no epic sets are called dungeon sets because they drop in dungeons not progression raids in order to move from teir to tier you have to progress and the dungeon sets are not tier sets

even the arena sets are based on tiers
season 1
season 2
season 3
season 4
only difference is this based on seasons between the tournaments instead of actually game progression

For a very comprehensive explanation of Tier Sets, see the following post:

http://www.bloodshotguild.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=523