Basically I am looking to make a thread on gear people should start pvping with, assuming they have newly dinged 80.

To explain better, this will help you get the crafted and easily obtainable PVP gear that you can use to get the better PVP items.

If I have made any mistakes or this needs updates please do post here and let me know.

All the below gear are sets, the set bonus for every set is:

4 pieces: +75 Stamina.

6 pieces: +50 Resilience Rating.


I will start with Physical DPS gear:

Plate DPS

Set: Savage Saronite Battlegear

Materials for whole set

102 Saronite Bars
2 Eternal Shadow
2 Eternal Water
2 Eternal Air
1 Eternal Earth
1 Eternal Fire

Mail DPS

Set: Swiftarrow Battlefear

Materials for whole set

84 Heavy Borean Leather [504 x Borean Leather]
8 Eternal Air

Leather DPS

Set: Eviscerator's Battlegear

Materials for whole set

84 Heavy Borean Leather
13 Eternal Air

Physical DPS Rings

Savage Titanium Ring

4 Titanium Bar

4 Eternal Fire

Scarlet Signet

2 Titanium Bar
1 Scarlet Ruby

Cloak

Frostguard Drape

4 Bolt of Imbued Frostweave

4 Iceweb Spider Silk

4 Eternal Earth

Neck

Emerald Choker

1 Titanium Bar

3 Forest Emerald


And now on to spell power gear



Plate Spell Power Gear

Set: Ornate Saronite Battlegear

Materials for whole set

102 Saronite Bars
2 Eternal Shadow
2 Eternal Water
2 Eternal Air
1 Eternal Earth
1 Eternal Fire

Mail Spell Power Gear

Set: Stormhide Battlegear

Materials for whole set

84 Heavy Borean Leather
8 Eternal Water

LeatherSpell Power Gear

Set: Overcaster Battlegear

Leather for whole set

84 Heavy Borean Leather
8 Eternal Water

Cloth Spell Power Gear

Set: Frostsavage Battlegear

Materials for whole set

27x Bolt of Imbued Frostweave = 54x Infinite Dust + 54x (Bolt of Frostweave = 270 Frostweave Cloth)
33x Crystallized Fire
33x Crystallized Earth
16x Eternium Thread

Spell Power Rings

Savage Titanium Band

4 Titanium Bar

4 Eternal Fire

Runed Mana Band

2 Titanium Bar

2 Twilight Opal

Cloak

Cloak of Crimson Snow

4 Bolt of Imbued Frostweave

4 Iceweb Spider Silk

4 Eternal Shadow

Neck

Sky Sapphire Amulet

2 Titanium Bar
2 Sky Sapphire

Starting Weapons

For all you peeps who want to have a nice fat two-hander I give you!

There is a nice axe that drops in Halls Of Lightning Heroic mode,

Here is a link: http://www.wowhead.com/?item=37852

Titansteel Destroyer

Saronite Bar (8)
Titansteel Bar (8)
Frozen Orb (2)

And the rogues, we all know you like to rip peoples spines out! May I suggest this bad boy?

Titansteel Shanker

Saronite Bar (6)
Titansteel Bar (6)
Frozen Orb (2)

Also there is a nice dagger that drops off the last boss of Halls Of Stone Heroic mode,

Here is a link: http://www.wowhead.com/?item=37667

For all the casters who want to shoot big fireballs or slowly kill their targets and watch them in pain with DOTS, I give you!

Titansteel Spellblade

Titansteel Bar (6)
Infinite Dust (6)
Frozen Orb (2)

For those of you that want to keep a DPS up while you sit back and try not to get feared or manaburned I give you!

Titansteel Guardian

Saronite Bar (6)
Titansteel Bar (6)
Frozen Orb (2)

There is also a nice Mace that drops in The Nexus on Heroic Mode,

Here is a link: http://www.wowhead.com/?item=37169

I can not seem to find a damage spell caster weapon that drops in a heroic, if you can find one let me know and I will add it.

Ok here are some tips for PVPing,

believe it or not, you may have been playing wrong on your main! :)

So firstly we will start with wintergrasp.

Firstly if your faction win Wintergrasp you get three Wintergrasp Mark of Honor

If you loose you will only recieve one.

Wintergrasp

I would like to thank Shadowdancer on the Hellfire server for this link on wintergrasp, hopefully others find it useful too! : http://www.wintergrasp.co.uk

Attacking

Ok if you are on the attack and want to take over the enemy fortress and get your sweet epic pieces from the PVP vendor or you want the chance to get into the Vault of Archavon to have a chance at taking the Stone Watchers PVP items here is the Key.

Personaly I never wait at the portal in Dalaran in the PVP section for three reasons

The first being, you will most likley get some cheeky mage that sticks up a portal and half of your raid end up in Thunder Bluff or Exodar.

Secondly, everyone will be spamming their AOE skills and this will lag like hell.

And lastly, you sill have to load in when you click the portal and then mount and run to the workshops.

I always start flying to Wintergrasp about five minutes before it starts and get to the Horde and Alliance NPC's in the area, you can find them in different areas on the map, when the game starts, kill them, you sometimes go up a whole rank by killing one, but usually you get one kill towards your rank. So kill a few and you will be able to get your vehicles.

The best place to fine the enemy faction is at the workshops, I would not reccomend going alone as there will usually be alot. So go to the workshops and don't stand infront of the main Wintergrasp gate as this sometimes proves to take a while to get your rank.

So when you go up the ranks, your first upgrade you will be able to pilot "light vehicles" which are the catapults, do not bother with these, they are easy to destroy, don't do alot of damage but are very fast. And they also take up a "vehicle slot" for the other bigger and badder vehicles such as Seige Tanks.

When you are the max rank, go buy yourself one and get a gunner for your turrent. Try not to make the same mistake as most people do usually and go head on for the front gate, because this of course will be the most hevily defended area. So I suggest get a few siege tanks with gunners and go in through one of the side walls as these are relitivley undefended so by the time you are on the last wall and the enemy notice you it will be too late.

Break through the fortress door and boom you win. Marks and honor all around.

Defending

Ok, so you are sitting down chatting with your pals and the next thing you notice, you are underfire by the enemy siege!

So, first thing is first, get your troops and make a defensive parimiter! Get people into those turrets and some casters up on the balcones with a few healers. They can hold their own for a while.

and get a few small squads of troops (I would say three 5 man groups with 2 healers each and 3 DPS each) and get your ass out to the workshops, take them as fast as you can and fend off the attacking faction, this will give you two bonuses:

1: you get your pilot rank so you can drive the vehicles

and 2: you get the workshop to create the vehicles.

As soon as you can, get yourself a siege tank and a gunner and get your ass south to blow up the towers, this will give the enemy less time to attack your fortress and take over it. When your done, get to the enemy workshops and destroy them ASAP, this will stop them building vehicles to get into your fortress. And if there is no vehicles the enemy can not get through your walls and thus the fortress remains yours.

When you get the towers and workshops drstroyed get back to the fortress and fend off the rest of the attackers and use all means availible to keep them back and let the time run down.

When the timer reaches 0, guess what, yes! you have just won!

Granted, Defending is actually alot harder than attacking but it is very doable.

There are also several weekly quests you can do for Wintergrasp, some specificly for attacking and some for defending. But there are the ones for both such as (kill 10 enemy players)

I would recommend doing the quests where you have to loot items suchk as herb bags, as you can still kill the mobs to get the bags even when there is no enemies around, it is very simple to do and takes a few minutes, for 3k honor and 10 stone keepers shards, it iw a far trade off.

All the weekly quests give 3k honor and 10 stone keepers shards.

Ill be putting up more PVP info my next update. And as always if I missed anything please let me know.

nice one dude, that'll come in handy when i get ta 80 on the alt :)

So does no one have freshly dinged alts that would apprechiate this?

If you like this, do reply and request a sticky.

Yes well my DK is newly dinged i will farm the mast and you can make the gear for me ha and i get marv to make the cloak

Im having a look, just starting out pvp really, will look into getting some of the gear here, thank you

No problem,

Sorry I Have not added the weapons or random parts yet, busy in work :<

I must say mail and leather armor got the shortest straw there. When you add the 3 Heavy Borean Leathers you need to buy each of the recipes one set of armor will take 648 Borean Leathers. That's a huge grind compared to the 204 saronite ores that are pretty fast to farm in Sholazar Basin especially if you have a fast flier.

Nice one, this will be useful for when my mage dings 80 :D

Soon 80 with some new alts and are rerolling with a friend on another server. Really usefull thread, thanks idd :D



+ Rep from me

Yes I liked the guide myself also =) newly dinged 80 on my paladin and gonna go retri as pvp with dual specc. May I sugjest go do wintergrasp? for few Wintergrasp tokens u can get epic pvp items such as helm/chest/legs+ trinkets

My brother should soon be newly dinged...this will be a great help for him xD

sticky this i'll be using it next week :P

this is exactly what i just came on here to find out....:D

been 80 for a while, but just decided to dabble in pvp a bit, and was wondering should i go in my pve gear or get the savage saronite stuff.

thanks heaps...should defo be a sticky.

I wish I had this when I still had my 80lv char. Definitely useful for freshly dinged characters.

Nice guide bro, I'll sure use if I ever again can be arsed to level any character to 80.

Great guide. I will use this for my druid when I hit 80 any moment now.
And seeing that the OP is from same server as me, I have to give you a thanks in game whisper aswell ;)