Sometimes when I play, I don't want to worry about making sure my buffs are active every 10-15 minutes, nor whether I have enough healing potions to save my life in a bind. Sometimes I just want to kill stuff, get loot, and sell it on the Auction House and get the joy of the cash that comes as a result of that.
I hopped on my 44 Warrior toon and thought about picking up quests for Razorfen Kraul, but when I was wandering around in Thunder Bluff I found the Lord of the Fangs (?) quest for Wailing Caverns and decided to go into there instead.
What a haul! I got two of the four quest Gems but didn't even finish half of the dungeon before my bags were overflowing with non-grey items. I ended up listing 15 green items for Auction, generally with a buy out of over 75s each item. Perhaps it was too early in the week to be listing for maximum sales, but I'm sure they'll sell just fine.
Warrior Equipment: Tanking vs Soloing
In anticipation of hitting dungeons more challenging for my level, I'm starting to build a "tanking" equipment set which is seperate from my "soloing" gear with this toon as well.
My talent spec is mostly towards Protection (11/7/17), but has a jumble of other things too. I seem to be doing well in my PvE soloing of quests with this build, however I don't do instances or party up very often to need to "tank", and still want to be decent at it. So far so good, but carrying the +str and +attack items into the dungeon isn't as good as the high-AC, +sta and +def items I'm beginning to pick up now.
So far my DPS/soloing set looks like this:
Warbringer\'s Crown of ...
Binds when equipped
HeadPlate
355 Armor
Requires Level 40
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Tyrant\'s Epaulets
Binds when equipped
ShoulderPlate
321 Armor
+12 Stamina
+4 Agility
Requires Level 40
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Truesilver Breastplate
Binds when equipped
ChestPlate
519 Armor
+12 Stamina
Requires Level 44
Equip: When struck in combat has a 3% chance to heal you for 60 to 100.
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Jouster\'s Girdle
Binds when equipped
WaistPlate
149 Armor
+10 Strength
+4 Stamina
Requires Level 40
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Saltstone Legplates of ...
Binds when equipped
LegsPlate
232 Armor
Requires Level 40
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Obsidian Greaves
Binds when equipped
FeetPlate
257 Armor
+6 Agility
+10 Strength
+10 Stamina
Requires Level 40
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Bloodforged Bindings of ...
Binds when equipped
WristPlate
191 Armor
Requires Level 40
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Truesilver Gauntlets
Binds when equipped
HandsPlate
300 Armor
+16 Strength
+7 Stamina
Requires Level 40
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Phantom Blade
Binds when equipped
Main HandSword
59 - 111 DamageSpeed 2.60
(32.7 damage per second)
Requires Level 44
Chance On Hit: Decrease the armor of the target by 100 for 20 seconds. While affected, the target cannot stealth or turn invisible.
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Ebon Scimitar of ...
Binds when equipped
One-HandSword
33 - 62 DamageSpeed 1.90
(25.0 damage per second)
Requires Level 38
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And here's my Tanking set:
Overlord\'s Crown of ...
Binds when equipped
HeadPlate
383 Armor
Requires Level 44
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(no tanking shoulder piece)
Truesilver Breastplate
Binds when equipped
ChestPlate
519 Armor
+12 Stamina
Requires Level 44
Equip: When struck in combat has a 3% chance to heal you for 60 to 100.
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(no tanking belt)
Heavy Mithril Pants
Binds when equipped
LegsPlate
417 Armor
+11 Stamina
Requires Level 40
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(no tanking boots)
(no tanking wrist pieces)
(no tanking gloves)
Champion\'s Wall Shield of ...
Binds when equipped
Off Hand (Shield)Shield
1493 Armor
23 Block
Requires Level 43
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Phantom Blade
Binds when equipped
Main HandSword
59 - 111 DamageSpeed 2.60
(32.7 damage per second)
Requires Level 44
Chance On Hit: Decrease the armor of the target by 100 for 20 seconds. While affected, the target cannot stealth or turn invisible.
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I've found some folks I advanced my first toon to 60 with who have alts near the 40s levels, so perhaps we'll hit Zul'Farrak or something soon and I'll see how my tanking equipment holds up.
BRD With Guildies
A bunch of us who have known each other for about a year got together last night and headed into Blackrock Depths for some killing and questing. While we'd all been in there a number of times with one toon or another, nobody really knew how to venture towards the "Summoner" that the miner in our group needed for learning how to smelt Dark Iron Ore. Since I had started the party and we're all pretty relaxed folk, I took the lead and we blundered our way through things.
It's been a few months since I was in BRD, so I forgot almost all I knew... like, oh yah! Medics! Get them first. And oh yah, those Emissaries are healers too, and those Summoners or whatever - they fire off a lot of arcane missiles and need to be downed quickly as well!
We had a couple complete wipes, but a couple of times where the priest and one hunter would survive as well. Each of us also took our turns at aggroing more mobs or the wrong mobs or something, so when by the time we came out a few hours later, everyone was happy with the run and looking forward to the next time we'd get together to try it or one of the 58+ dungeons like LBRS, Strat and Scholo.
In the mean time I need to look up that Dark Iron Ore training route, since my 44 Warrior is also a miner/blacksmith and will be dealing with Dark Iron stuff as soon as she's within level to survive in the areas it's found in.