11-01-2006, 10:31 PM
I hadn't looked seriously at the items because I felt that rank 13/14 was pretty far out of reach. Here is my perspective - I'm a resto shaman currently on C'thun/Ouru/Anub. I plan to level fairly split between Elemental and Enhancement.
2H Axe - looks better then my Herald of Woe, which is what I was planning to use. There are big upgrades from C'thun, Patches, and Kel, but there are a couple of MS warriors ahead of me for those.
1H Melee - pretty good. Roughly equivalent items come from the Armaments, which are strangely not in top demand in my guild. There are some upgrades in Nax but it will probably be tough to pry them out of the hands of other classes
1H Healing - pretty good. I'm first in line on the scepter of the false prophet, I think, so that's my plan for right now, but it might be worth picking up one for an offhand healer.
1H Spell dam - Looks like the best in the game at the moment. Might want 2.
Staff - I think I prefer the dagger.
Shield - Meh. I think I'll go wormscale.
Armor - AQ40 items are better, but it's close.
Make no mistake, these are relatively easy purples. (please do not derail into weather or not that is too easy). 1 2h weapon, 5 1h weapons and a full suit of armor is about 170k honor. Assuming 10 to 1 honor change, that's the equivalent of 1.7 million. It is not unheard of to hit 1mil in a week. I could certainly hit 500k if I stopped raiding, meaning I could get better items in 1 month of PvP then I have in 1.5 years of raiding to this point. More to the point, after that month, I'd have no reason to go back to PvP.
2H Axe - looks better then my Herald of Woe, which is what I was planning to use. There are big upgrades from C'thun, Patches, and Kel, but there are a couple of MS warriors ahead of me for those.
1H Melee - pretty good. Roughly equivalent items come from the Armaments, which are strangely not in top demand in my guild. There are some upgrades in Nax but it will probably be tough to pry them out of the hands of other classes
1H Healing - pretty good. I'm first in line on the scepter of the false prophet, I think, so that's my plan for right now, but it might be worth picking up one for an offhand healer.
1H Spell dam - Looks like the best in the game at the moment. Might want 2.
Staff - I think I prefer the dagger.
Shield - Meh. I think I'll go wormscale.
Armor - AQ40 items are better, but it's close.
Make no mistake, these are relatively easy purples. (please do not derail into weather or not that is too easy). 1 2h weapon, 5 1h weapons and a full suit of armor is about 170k honor. Assuming 10 to 1 honor change, that's the equivalent of 1.7 million. It is not unheard of to hit 1mil in a week. I could certainly hit 500k if I stopped raiding, meaning I could get better items in 1 month of PvP then I have in 1.5 years of raiding to this point. More to the point, after that month, I'd have no reason to go back to PvP.