Now that the craziness of the Holidays are over and I’ve done a little bit of skiing, snowmobiling and relaxing, I’m here to present to you part two of the gearing guide for new tanks in Wrath of the Lich King. This series started with Beginning Your Tanking Career, Getting 540 Defense and, as promised (though a bit late), here is the loot from heroics and badge items that you should be on the look out for now that you’re decked-out in all of your beautiful blue gear.
Note: “Badge” in this case refers to Emblems of Heroism, not Emblems of Valor of Badges of Justice.
Items Without a Badge Replacement
If I were you, these are the items I would focus on getting every day while accumulating badges to purchase other items. This is especially the case if you don’t have a lot of play time.
Weapon: Run Utgarde Pinnacle until you’re blue in the face and pick up the Red Sword of Courage.
Bracers: Head over to Ahn’kahet: The Old Kingdom and get yourself a pair of the Bracers of the Herald. Just make sure you didn’t do what I did and bring a Death Knight who wants to tank; they will win the roll and force you to come back nine or ten more times to get your own pair. As an aside, I’m not bitter. Really I’m not.
Ring: At the end of Drak’Tharon Keep is the most boring boss in the expansion, Prophet Tharon’ja, but he drops Keystone Great-Ring so it’s not all bad.
Pants: Violet Hold is where you’ll find the Bolstered Legplates which drop off of Cyanigosa.
Shield: I hope you enjoy the Culling of Stratholme since you’ll want to run it every day until you get the Royal Crest of Lordaeron. Not only is this an awesome shield but it looks amazing as well, one of Blizzards best-looking models ever. Note: there is a badge-shield available but unless you got really bad luck with the drop from Stratholme, I don’t really think of it as a replacement, per se. Plus this shield looks amazing while the Badge one looks like some hairy skin pulled over a metal frame.
Items With a Badge Replacement
Belt: You can find the Ancient Aligned Girdle clutched within Anub’arak’s talons at the end of Azjol-Nerub.
Gloves: And finally in Gun’drak you’ll have to beat a silly troll named Gal’darah senseless to get him to drop the Horn-Tipped Gauntlets.
And Finally… the Badge Gear
I’m not really going to bother repeating everything that Veneretio over at TankingTips.com has already said. Go read his Emblem of Heroism article entitled, The Badge err… Emblem of Heroism Pick Order. It should have everything you need to make an informed decision on what pieces of gear to get next.
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