Monday, February 1, 2010

312: Ready for ICC?

Over the weekend and got a lot of playing in. My tank set is basically done for now. I'm in full epics, mostly i232+ with just a couple i200, i219 left. It's more than enough for heroics and VoA which will be the main places that I'm tanking for pugs. In addition I've almost completed my kitty set as well. I farmed reg ToC5 a bunch last night and finally snagged the ArP trinket. This gives me enough ArP from gear to make it the best stat to gem for, which is a huge step because I was trying to hold off on gemming too much of my kitty gear because I knew I'd have to replace all that agility with ArP pretty soon.

My cat set isn't quite complete though, there are still a couple items that I'm looking for from the new ICC heroics:

Needle-Encrusted Scorpion from FoS. This will be tough because there is almost always one other person rolling on it and I haven't even seen it drop yet.

Band of Stained Souls from PoS.

Choking Hauberk

Barbed Ymirheim Choker from PoS or Broach of the Wailing Night from badges. The Choker is slightly better but if I don't see it drop soon I'll just buy the badge one.

Chewed Leather Wristguards
from PoS.

There are a couple other minor upgrades from some of the reg ICC 5mans (upgrading my i200 to an i219 but I don't think they're worth the effort. According to wow-heroes my gear is ready for ICC10 so hopefully I'll start running that and fill in a couple of the worse slots.

Picking up those last few items mentioned above will give me the following profile:
http://www.wowhead.com/?profile=20767916
These items were obtained almost entirely through 5mans. The only exceptions being my weapon (from XT 25) and my gloves (from ToC 10). Both of these have suitable replacements - there's actually a better weapon in H HoR and plenty of decent gloves replacements. There are only a few "bad" items - the cloak and belt are in serious need of upgrades and the boots are "kinda bad". But in general the gear is good enough to progress through the newest content in the game (on a 10 man level) and enough to not contribute some even on a 25man level.

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