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Post by
PTsICU
From the paladin forum on this site, in the helpful links sticky near the top....
Cataclysm Paladin Pre Raid Gear Guide (4.3)
Post by
MrSCH
Run normal Cata dungeons until your eyes bleed. Get some 378 tier gear with your JP, run the Elemental Bonds quest for a cloak, do one day of molten front dailies for a neck.
Go farm some cash, buy BoE 397 Wrist and Boots.
Reforge and gem your gear properly at least, enchant if you can.
Run heroics till your eyes bleed. Buy VP Trinket (Deeps) and Relic, I think. You get the picture.
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1007593
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Post by
MrSCH
The fastest way to get ready for heroics is to craft yourself the 377 PvP-Gear.
Socket, enchant it pve-wise and you're good to go.
Good advice for seasoned character, sure enough.
The fact the OP asks this question tells me he's somewhat new to this side of the game, though. I'd advise against this - better you do it the old fasioned way, learning to tank better and learning mechanics more thoroughly than jumping into HoT dungeons - easy as they may be - while not having the greatest amount of skill.
My opinion, though. Craft the PvP gear if you think you can handle it, and handle the occasional kick! Esp. for tanks and healers, the PvP gear means you're going to be missing either dodge or mastery on most items.
Post by
Nooska
Also, using pvp gear as a tank is a terrible idea, you are loosing half the secondary stats (roughly) to un-reforgable resilience - and unlike dps and healers, its really the secondary stats that help you survive - dodge, parry, mastery.
Unless you want to end up on a lot of healers ignorelist (and barring you from having them as healers in LFD) do not, do not, use pvp gear for tanking to get into the dungeons faster - you will die, and you will be the one all the others will blame.
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MrSCH
Also, using pvp gear as a tank is a terrible idea, you are loosing half the secondary stats (roughly) to un-reforgable resilience - and unlike dps and healers, its really the secondary stats that help you survive - dodge, parry, mastery.
Esp. for tanks and healers, the PvP gear means you're going to be missing either dodge or mastery on most items.
:P
Post by
Fetzie
Resilience gear is ok for filling out a single slot, say if you have a green item and you need the item level for HoT 5 mans. If you get a PvP item, make sure it has Mastery as the stat accompanying the Resilience.
Post by
atomicwolf22
Resilience gear is ok for filling out a single slot, say if you have a green item and you need the item level for HoT 5 mans. If you get a PvP item, make sure it has Mastery as the stat accompanying the Resilience.
If thats the case then only the Chest has Mastery as the main stat.
I agree that the pvp Crafted set should never be used for Tanks but I would also say that it shouldn't be used for Healing. I have been in alot of Dungeons and Raids where people have failed to do there role because they where restricted on want stats they could have.
I have see alot of Dps in Full CP Gear do great dps even with the Secondary Stat issues.
There are 2 possible things to do.
1) Pick up a dps spec and que as a dps. Ques are a little longer but the thing about that is there are very few tanks that need gear from the HoT Dungeons so that would allow you to pick up some peices and be able to tank when you get around 3/4 geared.
2) Bust you butt and get gold and farm mats and get some of the Starter Epics made. The 359 Tank shield is nice to have and so is the belt. And the mats for the most part aren't to bad. There are some other peices that can be made to help you along the way.
On most WoW Servers never buy items that are already Crafted unless you compare the mats Cost Items and see want the mark up is. Sometimes your be sockets on how unreal some people mark up items Compared to what the mats cost + tip.
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