Thinking Out Loud On Next Emblem Purchase
Last night was pretty quick. We just took out the four bosses in the Lower Spire. We only had a minor hiccup on Deathwhisper when our DPS wasn’t watching threat and pulled her. We lost about half our DPS right there. Boston and I got it back under control and we rezzed one of the dead DPS. We still one shot her despite that. I didn’t feel any of the fatigue I had felt during Anub’arak, so maybe it was just a one night thing. More than ever I want to get back in there and finally kill that bug.
Next we went over to Naxxrammus for the weekly quest. This week on Altar of Storms, it's Patchwerk. It was kind of funny being back in Naxx again. We all remembered cutting our raiding teeth in there back when iLevel 213 was the hot stuff. Gear inflation has just been crazy this expansion. I have nearly one and half times more health than I did in those early days. Patch went down ridiculously fast.
With the Frost Emblems from last night I'm getting close to my next Emblem purchase. My wish list for Emblems is the Kraken gloves, Cat chest, T10 shoulders and T10 Helm.
As I look over my gear my Boots, Gloves and Shoulders are my last 232 pieces. We are a 10 man guild still a little ways from Arthas and Hard Modes. That puts an effective cap of 251 on any gear we get from drops. My alts are going a great job of slaving away for Primoridal Saronites and by Thursday I should have the last Saronite I need to get our friendly neighborhood guild Blacksmith to craft some Boots of Kingly Upheaval. Once I have the Boots made, I'll get my alts cracking again on the Saronites for the Pillars of Might. I could replace the Shoulders but I'd lose my 2pc T9 bonus. 2 piece Tier 9 is nice but I'm not sure it's needed. The 5% damage increase is probably negated by the strength upgrade I'll get from the rise in ilevel. The shorter CD on taunt is nice but since we have 2 taunts it should be fine. Plus, I will have to live without it as some point anyway.
One thought would be to go for the Chest since it's the most expensive thing I'm after at the moment, but the other line of thought would be the replace my weakest pieces first. I would get Shoulders over Gloves since I can hope to get lucky and get the Gloves from VoA. But I won’t get my hopes up. For some reason VoA only seems to drop Mail for our group.
While I know this shouldn't be a factor, I'd love to get some T10 gear, just so I can start looking like a T10 Paladin. I think I'm on the only Paladin on AoS without his T10 Shoulders.
Next we went over to Naxxrammus for the weekly quest. This week on Altar of Storms, it's Patchwerk. It was kind of funny being back in Naxx again. We all remembered cutting our raiding teeth in there back when iLevel 213 was the hot stuff. Gear inflation has just been crazy this expansion. I have nearly one and half times more health than I did in those early days. Patch went down ridiculously fast.
With the Frost Emblems from last night I'm getting close to my next Emblem purchase. My wish list for Emblems is the Kraken gloves, Cat chest, T10 shoulders and T10 Helm.
As I look over my gear my Boots, Gloves and Shoulders are my last 232 pieces. We are a 10 man guild still a little ways from Arthas and Hard Modes. That puts an effective cap of 251 on any gear we get from drops. My alts are going a great job of slaving away for Primoridal Saronites and by Thursday I should have the last Saronite I need to get our friendly neighborhood guild Blacksmith to craft some Boots of Kingly Upheaval. Once I have the Boots made, I'll get my alts cracking again on the Saronites for the Pillars of Might. I could replace the Shoulders but I'd lose my 2pc T9 bonus. 2 piece Tier 9 is nice but I'm not sure it's needed. The 5% damage increase is probably negated by the strength upgrade I'll get from the rise in ilevel. The shorter CD on taunt is nice but since we have 2 taunts it should be fine. Plus, I will have to live without it as some point anyway.
One thought would be to go for the Chest since it's the most expensive thing I'm after at the moment, but the other line of thought would be the replace my weakest pieces first. I would get Shoulders over Gloves since I can hope to get lucky and get the Gloves from VoA. But I won’t get my hopes up. For some reason VoA only seems to drop Mail for our group.
While I know this shouldn't be a factor, I'd love to get some T10 gear, just so I can start looking like a T10 Paladin. I think I'm on the only Paladin on AoS without his T10 Shoulders.
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The other items I still have which are below the 251 level are: back, shoulders, helm, and that shield. If things go my way I will try and get the last 10 frost badges I need for the shoulders tonight from the weekly, a random, and 10 and 25 man VOA. Which would put me at a fresh start for this weeks raids. After that I will be working towards my helm for the 2 piece t10, before the back and lastly the chest. My alts are hard at work on collecting the saronites required for the crafting of the pants. If I finally get the shield, I will effectively be done with tanking drops from ICC10, other then possible weapons to play with.
The question then becomes "What to do now?"
-Teurion
I just can't bring myself to "upgrade" the gunship-25 shoulders to the tier10-264 shoulders
My Paladin has 2p t9 bonus from hands and legs but as soon as Saurfang or VoA drops my pants, I'm getting rid of the gloves, maybe even sooner.
"The other items I still have which are below the 251 level are: back, shoulders, helm, and that shield." No, seriously? 264 cape from frost badges was the second item I bought after the hyper-stamina trinket, because the cape beats all the alternatives hands down.
Last night I finally broke my pattern and bought the t10 shoulders over the cape. This was done as I wanted a piece of t10 for the off chance that I get a token from running 25 man. I am not a 25 man raider but I do find the odd pug that has the chance of making it past Saurfang, and therefore providing a decent upgrade. The t10 shoulders were a very minor upgrade over the 245 ones, but I did not want to be stuck in the event that the pug only allowed people with a current piece of gear that can be upgraded to roll.
My next purchase will probably be the t10 helm to finish off the 2 piece bonus, leaving the cape until last before the 264 chest and crafted legs. Some people might ask me why I would wait to get the cape. If my group is lucky enough to get the drop from Festergut 10, I will most likely get his cape first as my normal OT is a druid who already has the badge cape, if i don't end up buying it before then.
I think my thinking was sound, and I have had many discussions with Honors and the other tanks in our guild about loot priority and the such. It may not be perfect but it has allowed me to have a very well geared out tank able to comfortably tackle the content my group is working on. Now if only I can get that shield!