Obtaining gear

Some quick tips on obtaining gear, keep in mind this is not a 1 day you have everything process.

1. Get a raid group. If you don't have a group get one, raiding gar is the best gear to have for PVE, if your a PVP player get an arena team. You will want to do this of course because they have the best gear
2. Max professions. Crafting professions can craft gear, it may not be the best gear but it is still good gear and even if you choose a gathering profession you can still obtain gear that way as well by selling what you gathered and buying the gear.
3. Valor Cap. Now this has been changing, gear use to be easily valor obtainable then changed to limited obtain-ability but you can upgrade gear with it and soon it will probably change again, but one thing is for sure valor is important and will play some role in gear.
4. Do your LFR's an Flex'es as long as theirs upgrades. It doesn't matter that say 2 of 14 bosses in LFR or Flex difficulty drop gear, if you want gear go after it don't wait for everything in normal, besides if you get that gear it will help your raid group, if everyone in the group does that progression speeds up and guess what! Soon your doing heroics or in 6.0 the new mythic difficulty getting even better gear!
5. This is not a single player game, ask for help. This does not mean go to a random person and say hay buy me gear, no, this means grab your friends say hay i got this upgrade in LFR would you like to come, even if you don't have an upgrade you could get valor. Or say your leveling a 2nd character who is a leather wearer but you don't have a leather worker but your friend does. Talk to them about it, you might not have all maxed professions but this is an MMO theirs millions of players, thousands per server, make friends, have fun, help each other.
6. Don't give up. I often see people play a patch for 3 weeks then say well i have only gotten 1 piece or 2 pieces of gear i'm done better luck in 6 months next patch. You wont get everything fast, and it happens, yes some people are lucky and get a 4 piece set bonus in 1-2 weeks, yes some people by the 1 month mark have everything in normal and some heroic gear, but most people don't the fact is gear on average takes a while, give it time, even me, i raid every week ive killed some bosses over 30 times between LFR, Flex and normal and i'm still wearing 3 pieces i cant upgrade from last patch (at the time of this post) but i still try, because when i finally  do get those pieces it will be worth it, and while other people are complaining their gear never drops when they out gear me ill be able to say look, put effort out just because your gear is higher doesn't make it the best, epics and legendary's are not handed to you, i have 1 legendary from cataclysm, 3 from pandaria about to get my 4th, don't complain you don't have one if you don't try