Kryp wrote:SnowFlakes wrote:norm964bgb wrote:It's just the gear which will ultimately stop you from progressing if its lacking.
And even then vanilla is 80% consumables. You can raid endgame in fairly poor gear aslong as you bring some consumables.
That's a little in-correct. From what I remember in Naxxramas you had to have fairly good gear and consumables. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that's slightly incorrect.
Yes, but in retail almost nobody raided Naxx. So you can ignore that raid if you want and still make a correct statement.
Anyway most consumables are not even needed till Cthun. This min-maxing is somewhat a modern phenomenon .
If your gear is on par with the content you are clearing, you don;t need consumables. they are only really needed for undergeared players (like first kill progression) or for speed runs.
In retail I raided MC-BWL-AQ40 without ever using a Flask. Only our tanks used Flasks for the nice hitpoint boosts and the dps and healers only used very basic stuff like wizard oils and the most obvious elixers like Mongoose or Intellect. We never went all out on obscure Juju buffs or every single last scroll you can find, yet we were always horde first and often competed for server firsts...