I am in an itty-bitty guild composed of some gaming friends of mine. Our guild goals at the moment are to see all of the Outlands 5-man instances, run some heroics, have fun on the battlegrounds from time to time, and maybe even get a peek into Karazhan before the next expansion comes out.
Here's a stats snapshot (in tank gear -- see below), self-buffed with Mark of the Wild plus an Earthen Elixir and an Elixir of Greater Agility.
It's already out of date, since I managed to grab new pants for her when I was logged into my bank/auction house alt earlier today. The new pants should get her over 415 defense, the magic number -- for druids with 3/3 Survival of the Fittest -- to be uncrittable. I'll also be able to re-gem some of the other gear, so my health should also go up.
My armory is here, but since there's no guarantee I'll log out in tanking gear (it's much more likely to be my mismatched cat gear, with my solo trinkets), I thought I'd give a rundown of what I have, and what my goals are. I don't expect to end up with Kara gear, though I'd like to be ready to jump in to a Kara PUG someday even if my guild as a whole doesn't make it there.
Head
Stylin' Purple Hat - I bought this on the Auction House. The only likely replacements are a 50-badge helm, Cowl of Beastly Rage, and the arena season 1 helm, Gladiator's Dragonhide. Since I currently have zero badges and zero AV marks of honor, a replacement is months out.
Neck
Necklace of the Deep - I bought the Shadow Pearl off the AH, and farmed/fished the Motes of water on the Elemental Plateau, and a guild jewelcrafter made this for me, just in time to tank Sethekk halls. Likely upgrades -- a 25 badge reward, Necklace of the Juggernaut.
Shoulders
Shoulderpads of Assassination - I was lucky enough to get this drop on my second run of Sethekk halls. Currently socketed with defense gems; those will be replaced with stamina/agility once I get my new leggings, I expect.
My first run was kind of frustrating -- ran with a guild group and PUG'd a fifth man; a rouge who was very much in a hurry. I was actually glad the shoulders didn't drop that run -- he really pushed the pace. As soon as the leader marked the sap target, off he went. Luckily we didn't run into mana problems, but we did wipe once.
Second run went much more smoothly (though I'm more sure than ever I need to rebind my tanking hotkeys). The only other leather-wearer was a balance-specced druid, so there was no question these were mine. Our fifth-man was a DPS-specced (retribution, I guess) Paladin. He was a little damage-meter happy, and stole aggro a bit (partly my fault; I am a very new tank), but as he was wearing plate, I didn't worry about it too much. No wipes this time, and the boomkin was able to save the day on the final boss by battle-rezzing the priest. We need to concentrate more on all running behind the SAME pillar during the boss AoEs...
Upgrades: Once we're running heroics, I can look for Mantle of Shadowy Embrace; or run AB and AV for marks and honor and get Gladiator's Dragonhide Spaulders, the season 1 arena shoulders.
Cloak
Bogstrok Scale Cloak - Farmed this with a mage and a healer from my guild. Only took about four runs where I had priority. (A guild prot warrior happened to be along the first time it dropped). The most fun run was the one where the mage misinformed us that if we jumped off the bridge into the water, we'd break the paths of everyone we ran by on the bridge, and could shorten the run. This is NOT the case; and we ended up pulling about 12 mobs at once. This did not work well.
Upgrades - Resolute Cape if it ever shows up on the AH, or if I can beg enough for it in the Trade channel... but epic flying mount training comes first; or Thoriumweave Cloak once my guild gets to that instance; or Slikk's Cloak of Placation for 35 badges.
Other slots
Guess those will be future posts. It's demon-killing time.
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