A Systematic Appoarch to getting better at WoW...

You're joking right?

Being good at WoW is not as hard as you think it is, in fact it only involves completing a few tasks a week, and knowing one simple site that can do a lot towards moving you to your goals of having better gear and maybe the ability to stop standing in the fire.

What is the site I am talking about? Openraid.

When I first started going there I had no idea how to use the site, and I kind of just stopped using it for a bit because I had found a ToT group that was willing to "carry," my sorry as for a few weeks. Til one night I was asked to tank MSV and I failed miserably because I am not a tank and I did not know the fights. The girl who was the leader of the ToT group happened to be there for the MSV and was being a total bitch and I just got fed up with her shit and ALT F4'd. The next day I was removed from her ToT group.

Enough of that, that is really what got me to get off my ass and to start using the site. See it's really easy to use. All you do is go to the chat room, wait for someone to post a raid you're interested in, and then whisper them with your iLvL and btag and you're in. Now I started using the site back in 5.3, and here we are in 5.4 so there are even more options available. Mostly in the form of ToT normal. Look if you've got a bunch of 502 or 528 LFR gear, doing some ToT will be highly beneficial to you. Mostly because you're getting end game experience, and mostly because if you have not raided, or even done flex, it will take you a long way towards not being bad. 

My recommendation is to use the site to get into a ToT, or maybe even ToES and MSV. Just do raids even if you don't need the gear, also, try to do a heroic scenario every week as well. At least that will give you a 516 weapon. Another suggestion is to go hang out on the timeless isle and farm Burdens of Eternity. They drop off of mostly rare monsters and when you use them on the token armor pieces they take them from 496 to 535. That's what I did at least, farmed the shit out of burdens as well. Get a couple of 535 gear and you can start on flex real quick. 

It's not going to happen over night, but if you plan ahead for the week, and get done what you had on your plan, eventually over time that planning adds up and you are finally getting into SoO normal and actually getting gear. That's about where I am right now at least. It took me months to get to where I am right now in the game, I did not just end up there by accident. 

Now the reason I am writing this is because I still see a lot of people running around without their capes or with really low gear and I would like to fix that. Getting the cape in 5.4 is considerably easier than the last patch because you have even more LFR raids to get your drops from. There's no excuse for you to not get it in a month instead of three. The way I used to handle really long que times was just alt tabbing and watching something on Netflix periodically checking to see if my que popped. I ran LFR every week though, until I finished my quest, and that's what you have to do too. It may suck, and it may take a lot of time, but you can do it. It's easy.

TL; DR/DC

Step 1. Go to Openraid.
Step 2. Find a raid.
Step 3. ???
Step 4. Loot!