I have written a guide for Pre-raid Prot warrior and Death Knights gearing at level 80. This guide is aimed at casual players who just want to gear as much as they can without putting the time and effort into raiding or for people who are preparing themselves for raiding.
The items are listed as Quest rewards, Profession ceations, Rep rewards, World Drops, Heroic Drops, Normal Instance Drops and Heroic Badge rewards. It is a different guide to the one in the sticky since that just focuses on easy to obtain quest rewards, this is everything that is obtainable pre-raiding.
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Two Handers - For Death Knights
Sonic Booster - http://www.wowhead.com/?item=40767
Profession (Engineering)
Indestructible Alchemist's Stone - http://www.wowhead.com/?item=44323
Profession (Alchemy)
Seal of the Pantheon - http://www.wowhead.com/?item=36993
Loken - Instance Drop - Halls of Lighting
Meteorite Whatstone - http://www.wowhead.com/?item=37390
Heroic Drop - King Ymiron - Utgarde Pinnacle (this ones more for dps but good for threat)
Offering of Sacrifice - http://www.wowhead.com/?item=37638
Heroic Drop - Gal'darah - Gundrak
Sphere of Red Dragon's Blood - http://www.wowhead.com/?item=37166
Heroic Drop - Keristrasza - The Nexus (hit trinket for if you don't have much hit on your gear)
Essence of Gossamer - http://www.wowhead.com/?item=37220
Heroic Drop - Hadronox - Azjol-Nerub
Valor Medal of the First War - http://www.wowhead.com/?item=40683
Heroic Badge Reward - 40
seeing as im a DK i find i have little use of your weapon section.
as a DK i tank with a 2H yet theres only 1h in your guide.
for the rest its a realy nice tbh :)
edit:
seeing alot of DKs with trouble getting the def cap can i suggest http://www.wowhead.com/?item=41357 for the glove section? it has 71 defence rating wich is more then on the gloves you listed.
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"Many class changes. You won't like the ones made to your own class but you'll think the changes made to the 9 other classes are all overpowered."
-Tigole
the problem with duelwielding is that the boss will parry you alot more and this means that you keep reseting his swing timer. can get a bit hurtfull without the propper avoidance.
btw if you look at my gear im critimmune without doing a single heroic. could get some stuff from there if you need.
[ Post edited by Nierna ]
"Many class changes. You won't like the ones made to your own class but you'll think the changes made to the 9 other classes are all overpowered."
-Tigole
Q u o t e: the problem with duelwielding is that the boss will parry you alot more and this means that you keep reseting his swing timer.
This statement is true unless you're expertise caped.Once you manage to pull that off you're quite possibly better off with Dual Wielding since one handers often have much better tanking stats.
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This statement is true unless you're expertise caped.Once you manage to pull that off you're quite possibly better off with Dual Wielding since one handers often have much better tanking stats.
You'll be hard set to get expertise capped whilst not gimping the rest of your stats, though, even with the extra tanking stats you'll be getting from dual wielding 2 tanking swords.
Also, for weapons the Mojo Masked Crusher from Drak'Tharon Heroic is very nice - http://www.wowhead.com/?item=37733 - second best tanking weapon behind the axe from HoL, imo.
I think u missed some shoulerds from heroic or norm Gundrak... Pauldrons of the collosus or smth like that.. for me theya re better than epix shoulders from patchwerk in 10 man naxx... It's some lvl 78 blues
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