Enchants

Head

1. Arcanum of the Stalwart Protector revered with Argent Crusade

Shoulders

1. Greater Inscription of the Pinnacle exalted with Son’s of Hodir

Legs

1. Frosthide Leg Armor 55 stam, 22 agi; LW, easy mats if none are in ah

Feet

1. Tuskarr’s Vitality 15 stam, minor run speed increase; The loss of 7 stam is very minor but the run speed increase may come in handy on some fights
2. Enchant Boots – Greater Fortitude 22 stam; 3 lesser cosmic essence, 3 infinite dust

Weapon

1. Enchant Weapon – Potency 20 strength, increase shield block value by 10 (via modifiers), BC enchant; this is my personal choice
2. Titanium Weapon Chain 28 hit rating, reduces the length of disarm effects by 50%

Shield

1. Enchant Shield – Defense 20 def, 6 Infinite Dust and 6 Eternal Earth
2. Titanium Plating 40 shield block value, from blacksmiths

Waist

1. Eternal Belt Buckle buy in AH, put a blue gem 24 stam gem in

Wrist

1. Enchant Bracer – Major Stamina 40 stam; 4 greater cosmic essence, 1 abyss crystal

Hands

1. Enchant Gloves – Armsman 2% increased threat, 10 parry;  my personal choice
2. Enchant Gloves – Expertise 20 expertise, 20 infinite dust, 2 greater cosmic essence

Chest

1. Enchant Chest – Greater Defense 22 defense to chest, 10 infinite dust, 1 eternal earth
2. Enchant Chest – Powerful Stats 10 to all stats, expensive mats (15 infinite dust, 4 abyss crystals)
3. Enchant Chest – Super Stats 8 to all stats, relatively inexpensive (4 infinite dust, 2 lesser cosmic essence)

Back

1. Enchant Cloak – Titanweave 16 def, 2 titanium bars, 2 dream shards, 8 infinite dust

Gems

Blue (green, purple)

1. Solid Sky Sapphire 24 stam

Red (orange, purple)

1. Champion’s Monarch Topaz 8 def, 8 str
2. Sovereign Twilight Opal 8 str, 12 stam

Yellow (orange, green)

1. Thick Autumn’s Glow 16 def
2. Enduring Forest Emerald 8 def, 12 stam

Prismatic

1. Solid Dragon’s Eye JC only, +41 stam
2. Enchanted Tear 6 all stats; unique equipped

Meta

1. Austere Earthsiege Diamond 32 stam, 2% inc armor value; my personal choice
2. Eternal Earthsiege Diamond 21 def, 5% shield block value

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Post tags: enchants, gems, pally, prot, tank

Naxx

I raided Naxx with my guild on Friday and Saturday nights. On Friday, we did the Arachnid (achievement) and Plague (achievement) quarters. On Saturday, we did the Military (achievement) quarter and attempted the Construct quarter. On the Construct quarter, we downed Patchwerk and attempted Grobbulus a couple of times. We couldn’t get Grobbulus down since over 1/2 of the raid was lagging including our MT (who d/c’d on 2 of the attempts). We called the raid after the last wipe.

I walked out of Naxx with four drops, three of which are holy! The fourth drop was a cloak (that I will link when I am able to log into WoW) that is not any better than my current cloak. The holy pieces were Helm of the Corrupted Mind and two others that I’ll name and link when can log in to WoW.

Tanking

We were going to try and finish Naxx on Sunday night but couldn’t since one of our healers was having internet issues and couldn’t log in. We decided to split up into groups and do some heroics instead. Our MT has been wanting to respec ret and knows that I’ve been wanting to try my hand at tanking so we switched specs. I went with the most popular prot pally build (5/60/6) according to talentchic.com.

We attempted the first boss (Slad’ran) of Heroic Gundrak three times before skipping him in hopes of getting some emblems from two other bosses and then returning to him.

We downed the other bosses in the instance without a problem and went back to Slad’ran. We wiped on him once more before the freshly minted (read: very low dps) lock logged out and into his much better geared mage. After that switch was made, that boss was very trivial. Once attempt, one downing, altar switched and then it was onto the last boss, Gal’darah. The last boss was just as trivial as the others.

I got the achievement for completing Gundrak on Heroic. After reviewing the dps of my group (to myself), I commented that I should get the achievement for tanking my first heroic. Then I looted the boss and saw my achievement waiting: the Horn-Tipped Gauntlets! Those dropping was the icing on the cake for me.

The dps for the group was pretty low considering it was a heroic run. The top dps-er averaged ~1400 dps while the second was 1100ish. The fresh 80 lock averaged just over me, with 900ish dps. I rounded out the bottom with 823 dps (which I feel is extremely low for a WotLK tank).

I had a lot fun tanking that instance, despite the low dps of the group and the many wipes we faced. Tanking is a lot more hectic than dps but I’m ready to tank some more.

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Post tags: epic, gear, gundrak, heroic, holy, naxx, naxxramas, raiding, ret, tank

I want my health to be 24,000 unbuffed.  I’ve been looking over the spreadsheet I made yesterday, trying to determine what I can get that will bump my health to at least 22k but much closer to the 24k mark.

After about an hour, I have created yet another spreadsheet that notes how I can almost reach my goal. I’ve found 197 extra stam, 41 extra defense and some other stats as well. I have a net increase of every stat across the board (I believe). The mats for these upgrades are very cheap in my opinion, especially for what I’m getting in return.

Notice that none of the gear I’ve listed includes either of the major stamina trinkets that jewelcrafters can create! Once I get that, I should be over 25k health!

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Post tags: 20000, 20k, gear, health, heroics, jewelcrafting, prot, stamina, tank, trinket, upgrades

That was a great idea if I have to say so myself! Last night, I dinged 75 and I still have not finished Borean Tundra. Technically, I’m still in the starting zones!

Leveling was definitely not this easy in the Burning Crusade! I’m sure it’s helped that I’ve done a LOT of the new instances as well. I’ve completed Utgarde Keep four times, three of which I tanked, the Nexus about five times, all as ret and Azjol-Nerub twice, as ret.

Azjol-Nerub is insanely short and very easy. I believe there are only 9 pulls in the whole instance and 3 bosses. I received various gear upgrades for all of my gear sets – dps, tanking and healing.

I’ve been leveling mostly as ret. I did respec for a short time in Howling Fjord so that I could tank Utgarde Keep for the group I was in. I was going to go back to ret immediately after that group but I decided I’d try leveling as prot. It wasn’t bad at all! With Hammer of the Righteous, prot leveling has never been easier. I did go back to ret after gaining 75% of a level as prot, but now that I have Shield of Righteousness, I’m very intrigued and might just go back to prot to level, since I’d be able to tank any instance I wanted to step foot in and tanks are somewhat difficult to find while leveling.

The next zone is Dragonblight. I hope some of the quests turn out to be a little more difficult than the two starting zones.

I’ve got to point out that the amount of healing gear that I’ve accumulated is somewhat maddening! If a quest reward didn’t upgrade my dps or my tanking sets, then I took whatever piece of armor had the most intellect or spellpower, with an emphasis on intellect.

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Post tags: azjol-nerub, borean tundra, dragonblight, howling fjord, leveling, nexus, prot, ret, tank, utgarde keep, wotlk

I’d like to get to honored with Sporeggar so that I can buy the best AoE grinding shield for pallys, the Petrified Lichen Guard! I only need to complete “Now that we’re still friends…” quest 5 more times before I can get the shield. That shield coupled with a Felsteel Shield Spike is a AoE paladin’s dream!

My pally dinged 68 on Monday morning, just before work. That means I got to equip The Oathkeeper I found on the auction house for 40g!

Today is the day of the much coveted 3.0.2 patch! Ret pallys got an insane amount of buffs this patch. We actually got a good crowd control spell in Repentance! Repentance is like a long range sap.

I’m very excited to play with the new spell and abilities. Ret paladins will now be *very* viable for dps spots in instance groups!

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Post tags: ding, pally, slave pens, tank, zangarmarsh

I had to respec to prot last night so that I could tank. I also had to get a 1H sword and a shield. The sword (Blade of Retribution) was a quest reward (from Terokkarantula – which I solo’d as ret) and the shield (Outland Shield of the Beast) was the best one on the AH that I could find. I got a nice set of shoulders out of the run, Truth Bearer Shoulderguards.

I have about 175k experience until I ding 68 and then leveling to 70 will get easier…30% easier! Patch 3.0.2 comes out this Tuesday (10/14/08) and the experience required to level from 60-70 will be decreased by 30%. I’d like to be 68 by then, so that I can advantage of the exp decrease at a fresh level.

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Post tags: instance, prot, tank, terokkar forest, underbog, zangarmarsh