World of Warcraft Tips & Secrets

If you’ve recently hit 80 or are coming up on it soon, you’ll should start deciding what gear you want to get and how you’ll get it.  If you want to take a look at ALL the gear go to wowarmory.com and do a search for the weapon/armor or whatever that you’re looking for.

The best way to do a search at wowarmory is to go to the ITEMS tab at the top… select the category of items that you want to search…  then on the next screen click on the SHOW ITEM FILTERS tab, which will allow you to narrow the field for gear that’s just right for your character.

It will show ALL the gear available, so make sure you narrow it down to class, and level.  So if you’re looking for twink gear for a 29 hunter, do a search for Hunter, levels 20-29, pvp gear, and any specific item you may be looking for.

You’ll notice when you do a search for the level 80 gear, that it will show you all the best gear first, the Naxxramas raid drops.  But you can’t exactly go running into Naxx right away, so head down the last few pages, and start looking at what you can get your hands on.  If you’re big in pvp, chances are you’ll still want to get some decent gear before you save up enough for good pvp gear.

First do a search for the crafted items, a lot of crafted items will be a big upgrade from your leveling/instance gear that you currently have.

Then one of the best ways to start getting gear is by Championing Reputation for faction rewards.  The idea here is simple.  Look at the factions below, and find some gear upgrades that you’d like to work for, then purchase a tabard from that faction.  Start doing the daily quests for the faction, and anytime you’re running a level 80 instance with their tabbard on, you’ll receive rep for them and not the “instance’s faction”

Wrath of Lich King Factions:
Argent Crusade
Kalu’ak
Kirin Tor
Knights of the Ebon Blade
Sons of Hodir
Wyrmrest Accord

From here I’d say start getting into Heroics, and then Raiding.  It’s a lot easier to squeeze into Heroics earlier if you’re DPS, but if you’re a tank or healer, you’ll want to spend a little more time getting the gear that you need to be better at what you’re doing.  But no matter what role you are if the rest of the group is strong enough, and knows about your weakness, you can easily be carried through most Heroics to start getting you gear.

Usually Guildies don’t have a problem helping you through a few Heroics to get you geared.  But I’ve ran quite a few Pick Up Groups like this to get gear as well… after all, it is just a game.

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