by AntiI needed to make a list of items I was going to try and get to gear myself up for 25 man raids, so I figured I would post it here so that everone can benifit from my work.
These are not the “best in slot” items by anymeans, they are just the best items I could find out side of 10 / 25 mans and items I feel I can obtain in a relativelty short amount of time. I have tried to steer away from too many “get exhaulted with X” items but the’re are still a few, as really you should be running heroics when gearing up so you may as well be gaining rep at the same time!
Hope some people find this of use, I am more then happy to add / amend the list if people can suggest better / alternative items.
Head
- Hat of Wintry Doom – Crafted through Tailoring Mats:
- 105 Frostweave
- 2 Eternal shadow – Farm the Shadow Revenant while your fraction controls Wintergrasp or Wandering Shadow if they dont.
- 14 Infinite Dust – Ask in Trade or by from the Auction House
- 4 Iceweb Spider Silk – Farm the Trapdoor Ambusher in Zul’Drak
- 1 Eternium thread – Bought from tailoring supplies
Neck
- Necklace of Taldaram – Drops from Prince Taldaram in Heroic Ahn’kahet: The Old Kingdom
Back
- Deathchill Cloak – Crafted through Tailoring – The recipe if the reward from Loremaster of Northrend but it is BOE so you should be able to buy one if not a tailorMats:
- 75 Frostweave
- 6 Eternal Fire – Farm the Flame Revenant while your fraction controls Wintergrasp or Raging Flame if they dont.
- 4 Eternal shadow – Farm the Shadow Revenant while your fraction controls Wintergrasp or Wandering Shadow if they dont.
- 10 Infinite Dust – Ask in Trade or by from the Auction House
- 1 Siren’s Tear – Bought from Ahurglgr for 100 Winterfin Clam
- 1 Frozen Orb – Buy on the Auction House or go run some Heroics!
- 1 Eternium thread – Bought from tailoring supplies
Shoulders
- Mantle of the Tribunal – Drops from the Tribunal Chest in Heroic Halls of Stone
Chest
- Ebonweave Robe – Crafted through Tailoring Mats:
- 210 / 105 Frostweave
- 16 / 8 Eternal shadow – Farm the Shadow Revenant while your fraction controls Wintergrasp or Wandering Shadow if they dont.
- 28 Infinite Dust – Ask in Trade or by from the Auction House
- 1 Frozen Orb – Buy on the Auction House or go run some Heroics!
- 1 Eternium thread – Bought from tailoring supplies
Wrists
- Savage Wound Wrap – Drops from King Dred in Heroic Drak’Tharon Keep
Hands
- Ebonweave Gloves – Crafted through TailoringMats:
- 180 / 90 Frostweave
- 8 / 4 Eternal shadow – Farm the Shadow Revenant while your fraction controls Wintergrasp or Wandering Shadow if they dont.
- 12 Infinite Dust – Ask in Trade or by from the Auction House
- 1 Frozen Orb – Buy on the Auction House or go run some Heroics!
- 1 Eternium thread – Bought from tailoring supplies
Waist
- Girdle of Bane – Drops from King Ymiron in Heroic Utgarde Pinnacle
- Plush Sash of Guzbah – bought for 40 Emblem of Herosim – you should be getting a few of these while running heroics =P
Legs
- Woven Bracae Leggings – Drops from Loken in Heroic Halls of Lightning
Shoes
- Sandals of Crimson Fury – Bought from Cielstrasza for 28g 45s 12b but requires The Wyrmrest Accord – Exalted
- Slithering Slippers – Drops from Slad’ran in heroic Glundrak
Weapons
Main Hand
- Flameheart Spell Scalpel – bought from Archmage Alvareaux for 74g 12s 9b Requires Kirin Tor – Revered
Off Hand
- Ward of the Violet Citadel – bought for 25 Emblem of Herosim – you should be getting a few of these while running heroics =P
- Telestra’s Journal – drops from Grand Magus Telestra in Heroic The Nexus
Trinkets
- Sundial of the Exiled – bought for 40 emblemd of heroisim
- Forge Ember – dropd from Sjinnir The Ironshaper in Halls of Stone
- Mark of the War Prisoner – Drops from Cyanigosa in heroic The Violet Hold
Rings
- The Prospector’s Prize – Drops from Krystakkue in heroic Halls of Stone
- Band of Guile – Drops from Dark Runed Chest in heroic Culling of Stratholme
- Ring of Northern Tears – Crafed through JewlcraftingMats:
- 2 Titanium Bar– Crafted through mining, requires 2 Titanium Ore
- 1 Eternal water– Farm the Water Revenant while your fraction controls Wintergrasp or Glacial Spirit if they dont.
- 4 Northsea Pearl– Bought from Ahurglgr for 30 Winterfin Clam
- Titanium Spellshock Ring – Crafed through JewlcraftingMats:
- 2 Titanium Bar – Crafted through mining, requires 2 Titanium Ore
- 4 Eternal water – Farm the Water Revenant while your fraction controls Wintergrasp or Glacial Spirit if they dont.
- 4 Eternal Air – Farm the Tempest Revenant while your fraction controls Wintergrasp or Whispweing Wind if they dont.
- 4 Dragon’s Eye – Buy on the Auction House or ask a Jewl Crafter
- 1 Frozen Orb – Buy on the Auction House or go run some Heroics!
Hope you have enjoyed reading through my sugestions, the list is not completly finished yet as i still need to add some information to some of the items, and as i said earlier, if there is any suggestions to other items, let me know and ill add them to the list.
Thanks
Anti…
P.S.
Got a couple of things to sort from the comments below
-Proper intro about what is / isn’t included and how to chose your gear
-Gear colours
-Gems
-Enchants
-Alternative Items
-Link to talent / rotation threads (will not be included in this guide only links)
Will update with these things over the next couple of days
Thanks!Thanks!
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Just wanted to add a note toJust wanted to add a note to let people know I haven’t forgotten about updating the guide,
Just had a lot of work on the last couple of weeks and haven’t found the time, also been busy in game with the holiday achievements!
Will try and update the guide this weekend,
Cheers
Anti…
Lol, honj93.
The code I useLol, honj93.
The code I use is really simple, I just use [ color=blue ] and [ color=purple ]. It’s not *exactly* the right colors for rare and epic items, but it’s close enough and I don’t have to muck about with RGB colors finding the right shade.
SuggestionsThat’s a pretty nice list. EJ has [url=http://elitistjerks.com/f75/t37146-best_non_raid_mage_gear/]a similar thread[/url] and most of the items match. Some comments though:
For the neck slot, [url=http://www.wowhead.com/?item=42647]Titanium Spellshock Necklace[/url] is better, especially when you’re near the hit cap.
For the shouldres, [url=http://www.wowhead.com/?item=37673]Dark Runic Mantle[/url] is also better. It is a BoE drop from Halls of Stone, so it can usually be found on the AH for a decent price.
For the wrists, [url=http://www.wowhead.com/?item=37884]Azure Cloth Bindings[/url] are better too. They drop from Cyanigosa, the final boss in VH heroic.
Also, once you reach the hit cap the T7 parts that you can buy with badges are superior to the Ebonweave items.
Finally, you left out the wand 🙂
I would recommend either [url=http://www.wowhead.com/?item=37238]Rod of the Fallen Monarch[/url] or [url=http://www.wowhead.com/?item=37177]Wand of the San’layn[/url].
Good plan, will look at thatGood plan, will look at that with my next update 🙂
(see above and sorry)(see above and sorry) 🙂
Yes Kostada has alreadyYes Kostada has already writen a similar guide but that was for gearing for heroics, i saw this as the natural next step, and like i said, i was going to be making a list for myself so i might as well share!(didn’t mean to step on your toes Kostada, sorry if i did =) )
Ill look into adding the gems and i think i might look and enchats too, however i was not planning on talking about builds / rotations as this was really focused on gear.
Thanks for the input
Anti…
Thanks for the input, andThanks for the input, and yes maybe i should state that this was aimed mainly at the Frost tree as thats how im currently spec’d.(still in leveling / grinding spec at the moment) And this list was not really meant to be a be all and end all but more of a list of things to look out for, so thats why if you got Everything, yep you probably will be over on you Hit. I put down as much hit gear as possible as i find it seems a bit harder to find and it is the best stat to stack until capped for dps increase, but you are totally correct, if you had all of the gear you would be over.
As for the Trinket: Flow of Knowledge, i just put that down as it seemed like an easy trinket to get while gearing up, but i think it might be a bit confusing so i’ll remove it =)
Thanks
Anti…
Looks niceIt looks really nice, though I can’t check because I’m not very experienced in mage raiding.
One small suggestion though, you could format the text so that epic items are written in purple like in Jiramby’s resto druid guide. It is more easy to find the best items this way. I’m sure he (sorry, she :)) can tell you how to do it. 🙂
As saidAs said before this is a Pre raid guide and the one Kostada wrote is a pre Heroic guide so in basic you can use the guide Kostada wrote then use this. About gems and rotation I agree that it would help a whole lot since your dps depends to 75% on specc and rotation in my opinion.
Wise things get said,
but Few get understod
Unless I’m smokingUnless I’m smoking something, Kostada already wrote a guide on this. But anyways, I’ll give you a couple suggestions.
[list]
[*]Add gems that can be socketed.
[*]Talk a bit more about rotations, builds, etc.
[/list]
Other than that, good guide 😉
Maybe remove…Would suggest removing the Trinket: Flow of Knowledge. Since it’s totally useless to have Resilience while raiding. My favourite two is “Forge Ember” and “Sundial of the Exiled”. Well depending on specc but the easiest specc to start raiding with is frostfire in my opinion. The gear you get will quite much make you get to the Hit cap (maximum Hit rating that will improve the %, after that it wont make a difference how much more hit you get) which is 17% not totaly certain about it but I got around 355 (around 13% + 3% from Frost Talants. The 3% from frost don’t show when you check you hit rating but it’s there. )Hit rating and don’t really need more for Heroic (25 man) Naxxramas. This gear would make you end up around 408 Hit rating without gems and enchants and not having Mark of the war prisoner as trinket.
I’ve also done some research for arcane specc to and it seams like this gear isn’t very well suited for that since you need a very high mana regen while in combat. (What I’ve heard from other mages around 900+ Mana per 5 seconds is a minimum for not going out of mana on boss fights.)
If you planing on getting this gear I would suggest stacking up Spell Power and Critt if your a fire mage and as arcane I’m not very certain this gear would work at all.
ps. All of this is from my own and other mages from my guilds experience so feel free to correct me if I’m wrong.
Wise things get said,
but Few get understod
Isn’t your guide aIsn’t your guide a pre-heroic gear list while this is a pre-raid gear list. While they may share some items I doubt that everything is equal, and neither list takes away from the usefulness of the other.
I already wrote a guide likeI already wrote a guide like this.
Thanks =)
Title changed, andThanks =)
Title changed, and yep, was trying to keep a “universal” feel to the guide and keep it consistent =p
(and also stole the images to save me having to upload another set to the site =P) so thanks to murphyslaw(Best items outside of raids for Balance Druids) who i stole them from!
Cheers
Anti…
Format looks good (I seem toFormat looks good (I seem to recognize it 😉 ), though I can’t speak for the content since I am clueless about mages.
The title of the page needs to be capitalized.
Anyway, good job 🙂