When you've finished the long grind to level 70 of World of Warcraft, you want to start doing the endgame raids. It can be overwhelming to figure out where to begin but this will put you on the path to gearing up your character. If you're willing to spend some gold and expend some effort, you'll be raiding Kara immediately.
   There are several steps for your reference. See below:
   The first step is to decide what spec you want to be. This is a bigger change for some classes than others. You must decide whether you want to tank, heal or DPS. For example, most of a raiding Hunter's points can be in the Beast Mastery tree, but some talents like path-finding are useless for raid DPS.
   The second step is to install Atlasloot on your account. This will make finding gear much easier since it's all listed in one place, under an easy-to-navigate interface. This is useful when you can't find a gear list for your class, or it's unclear where a certain piece of gear comes from.
   The third step is to spend the gold to level up a useful profession for your class. Most of the high-level crafted items are Bind-on-Pickup, so if you want to have it, you'll have to be able to make it. Engineering is an excellent profession for Hunters, Rogues and feral DPS Druids, while tailoring is great for Mages and Priests. It will take a bit of time to collect the mats to create most of these pieces of gear and gold to max out the profession but it's an easy way to get some top level gear for your character if you'll put the time into it.
   The fourth step is to find out what reputation rewards are upgrades fro you and what will bring up your stats to your guild's minimum requirements. Atlasloot is extremely useful for this, but if you don't have it and are leery of addons. The Shattered Sun Offensive, Lower City and the Sha'tar are all factions that give good rewards for a variety of classes. Once you know what gear you want, start grinding reputation through quests, instance runs, dailies and donations.
   The fifth step is to get groups together to run the high level five-man instance. Steamvaults, Shattered Halls, The Caverns of Time and the Tempest Keep are just a few of the many Outlands instances you could farm for gear. You may continue to run them until you get all of the useful blue or high-quality green gear upgrades out of them.
   The sixth step is to move up to heroics after you've geared up a bit, and your group can handle it. These are harder versions of Outlands instances tuned for five well-geared level 70s. Many of the bosses drop epics, and some are better than what you can get while running the early raids.
   The last step is to consider PvP gear. If your character is DPS-based, look at the arena season gear or purchasable reputation faction PvP gear. This will take some honor grinding but you can get some good upgrades with PvP gear. Resilience is useless in raiding but the other stats are for high damage as well, so it can benefit your DPS character. There are some good healing upgrades but it's often easier to get healing and tanking gear in PvE content rather than PvP. What you do is just to compare the stats and figure out what's best for your character.

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