The road to the complete set of tier .5 dungeon gear is a long and arduous one, requiring much money and lots of time farming. These sets are mainly geared towards new servers who has guilds who have never raided before. All of my friends who have all of their tier .5 gear say it is far too time consuming.

You are much better off making some friends and getting into their guild and doing Molten Core and Onyxia for Tier 1 gear. This is just too hard to get.

Remember, this set came out a long time ago. When it came out it wasn't half bad, actually. Of course, remember that the gear curve was much harder and you couldn't, say, four-man one of the instances without a healer (Which I did a couple times before BC).

Does it take time? Yes, it does. But it was aimed much more to the casual player. An instance run takes maybe two hours tops, and a guild starting MC might spend six hours in and get a new boss a week (or two/week). You can attain this gradually over some time, or quickly, unlike MC which has a week-long reset timer.

Also, however much gold it costs, you can't honestly tell me that your repair bills for your guild, starting on Lucifron and wiping all the way to down Ragnaros, wasn't well over 3k gold or even more (especially if you're not a clothie like me).

This is very much a dead set, with BC, but it wasn't THAT bad when it was released. I almost with I could upgrade my level 70 dungeon sets like this (except with the fact that my guild is already doing level 70 raid instances, making it, at this point, a waste of time :o).

-- ethraax

I found getting this set at 80 to be quite enjoyable. There was a couple areas where the farming was a little much, but a mage at lvl 80 can AOE the stuff in Silithus so easily that it went quickly. The quests are a good read (and I don't usually bother to read quests), and it's a well put together (but loooong) quest line. I would hate to do this as any other class, as the traveling would be too much without teleportation.

The last boss fight you face is in the Beast's room in UBRS. I found the fight quite hard to solo as an arcane mage with a 5530GS. But the strategy was to pop mirror images close enough that they would aggro the boss, and once they get their first frostbolt cast off, open up with everything you got.

The boss has roughly 115k health, and summons adds. The adds will stun you (and/or your images), but only have just over 1k health. You need to kill the adds quickly and get back onto the boss. If you fail to DPS him down substantially by the time he kills your mirror images, he will likely rip your face off and feed it to the orcs.

I screwed up in handing the quest in the first time, so I had to kill him twice. I died once each time, and killed him on the 2nd attempt both times.

Good luck on your quest for sorcerer's! I really enjoyed it.

Old sets like this one will be available from Darkmoon Faire Island in 4.3 patch(minor details might not be accurate).