Should You Choose Aldor or Scryers? The Best Option for Each Specialization in The Burning Crusade

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Aldor offer a very slightly superior shoulder enchant for PvE damage dealing.

Aldor offers a decent sword at Exalted, Vindicator's Brand. This is good for starters, but it is already outclassed by other phase 1 weapons.

Scryers offer Plans: Enchanted Adamantite Belt, which can make leveling Blacksmithing much cheaper.

Scryers are usually the less popular faction, making their reputation turn-in items often cheaper than Aldor equivalents.

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Aldor offer a very slightly superior shoulder enchant for DPS.

Aldor also offers a decent staff at Revered, Auchenai Staff. This is okay for starters, but Main-Hand/Off-Hand combinations are better at level 70.

Scryers offers one of the best rings, Seer's Signet, at Exalted, and a powerful trinket, Scryer's Bloodgem at Revered, although you probably will not need its high Spell Hit due to getting so much of it from talents.

Scryers are usually the less popular faction, making their reputation turn-in items often cheaper than Aldor equivalents.

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Aldor offer a very slightly superior shoulder enchant for DPS.

Scryers offer a decent pre-raid leg option with Retainer's Leggings.

Scryers are usually the less popular faction, making their reputation turn-in items often cheaper than Aldor equivalents.

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The Inscriptions

Mathematically speaking, the Aldor's inscription Greater Inscription of Warding totals slightly more raw avoidance at 1.30% avoidance, while the Scryers' Greater Inscription of the Knight provides 1.28% avoidance. This minuscule difference, at the scale of your entire gear set, is only a 0.06% difference in total mitigation value, which is to say negligible and irrelevant.
Math aside, it is worth mentioning that more defense can help facilitate your gearing process early on in Phase 1. This can be a good argument for choosing the Scryers, as you replace a lot of gear fast and have to adjust your crit immunity constantly.

The Necklace

The Shattered Sun Offensive tank necklace, Shattered Sun Pendant of Resolve, available in Phase 5 once you are exalted with this new faction, comes in two versions based on your chosen Shattrath faction. The Aldor version has a +100 dodge rating proc (+5.28% dodge) and the Scryers version has a +100 expertise rating proc (-6.25% dodge/parry).
While the Aldor necklace may look like the more survival-oriented choice at first glance, the Scryers version is in fact both the best of the two for threat by a landslide but also for damage mitigation thanks to the additional expertise reducing your chances to parry haste bosses, thus resulting in higher survivability than the dodge proc.

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The Aldor can give you access to Vindicator's Brand, a powerful pre-raid off-hand weapon, provided you have the finances to boost this reputation to Exalted early on. On the flip side, the Aldor is also generally the most popular faction, which usually drives the prices for Mark of Sargeras and Fel Armament up compared to the Scryers equivalents.

The Scryers' advantage primarily resides in its unique Blacksmithing plans, which will help you level Blacksmithing up to level 375 to craft your best weapons at a much lower cost. Sunfury Signet and Arcane Tome are also usually cheaper than the Aldor equivalents, both contributing to saving you a decent amount of gold at the start of the expansion.

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Comment by WhetsProt pallys, go aldor....Comment by avatarofshadowi've been going Scryer the entire time for the easy profession trainers.Comment by salviati206Aldor or Scryer? Don't let it divide you like Mojache and Jimmy!