Frost Badge updgrade

[crowdx]

Hi all,
so I have been saving my Frost badges on my tank and now I am close to having 95 badges from running the daily. My question is, should I go for the chest piece or spend it on two items? When I hit 60 I tried the trinket for tanking and I did not think it was worthwhile as it really did not feel that much of an upgrade. Now I am looking at the chest piece but also concerned about bang for buck. On the rest of my team I have just bought primordial saronite and so really want to get some gear upgrade for the tank.
Any thoughts?

[Greythan]

No science here but if it were me I'd go STA trinket and back before the chest.

[Powerwar]

For me the upgrades are the tanking belt and cloak. The chest is not that big upgrade from normal emblems T9 chest.

[crowdx]

I have the crafted belt which seems to be a good belt and I have been thinking about the cloak but again not really sure if it is worth the badges.
The stamina trinket on a pally also helps with spellpower? correct?

[Multibocks]

Make sure at some point you do get the chest just in case you raid ICC and win a token. Legs and gloves you can get from VoA.

edit: if you plan on PuG raiding make sure you upgrade whichever slots gives the most GS. I hate the addon, but you gotta be smart about it.

[Multibocks]

I have the crafted belt which seems to be a good belt and I have been thinking about the cloak but again not really sure if it is worth the badges.
The stamina trinket on a pally also helps with spellpower? correct?


No it was changed to strength that affects spell power.

[crowdx]

So I hit 100 badges last night and I am now thinking of swapping out my libram or the stamina trinket and my cloak.
How is the libram for a pally? I have the lower libram and wondering if it is worth upgrading to.
The rest of the gear seems lackluster :(
The upgrades above would bring me to around 4900 gs if I drop in my other trinkets which I normally do not use.

[Multibocks]

The libram only gives you like 20 more dodge rating that the T9 one, you sure you want to waste 35 frosts on that?

[MiRai]

This may seem like common sense to most but I'll post it anyway...

Not all the frost emblem gear can be purchased from the vendor in Dalaran. The actual tier pieces are inside of Ice Crown Citadel itself. I only say this because you say that most of the gear seems lackluster. I feel the same way about the armor on the vendor in Dalaran but I'm looking forward to having all of T10.

[crowdx]

Well that is good info, I did quickly look at the vendor in Ice Crown but never checked it enough to see the additional pieces. I will take another look this evening :)

[Starbuck_Jones]

I would recomend looking at what you can attain, and buy the items that are least likely to get upgraded. So first off do you pug ICC at all? If you do, I doubt any guild that lets you pug grab an T10 upgrade token. In 10 man ICC for the first wing your looking at a weapon, neck, chest, shield, ring, legs and wrists as drop upgrades. VoA drops gloves and legs. Last item I would spend tokens on are legs. Also you can build legs with the primordial saronite so there is another strike against legs. Most guilded raiders im aware of are getting 2 peice T10 and thats it. Upgradeing thoes and the rest just get drop upgrades. Cataclysm will be out before anyone has a full set of T10 as well as upgrade tokens etc.

My first purchase was the T10 Gloves, This was before VoA came out but oh well. I do raid 25man ICC so I needed at least one T10 item to be eligable for a token drop as a guild rule and the gloves were better than the shoulders. My next upgrade will be the STA trinket. I have the black heart and the gossimar trinkets right now. I do have higher iLv trinkets like the one from onyxia and Ick, but I cant give up 230ish stanima for 100 dodge and parry just for a higher gearscore. My next upgrade will be my boots with the crafted saronite ones. I will have enough primordial saronite to make them by tomorrow from my alts. After that my next badge upgrade will either be the belt or another T10 item if I win a token. Im also on of two MT/OT in our guild now with the other being a druid so tanking plate all goes to me right now.

[crowdx]

Unfortunately I do not pug anything at present. Outside of boxing it has been a long time since I have tanked solo and so a little nervous of doing that :P . I do want to do some pugs of runs that I cannot box but in most 10 mans I do not have a high enough GS and I am not in a guild, and even if I was, raiding is very time sensitive for me :(
Currently I am having issues letting go of my current low level trinkets :( , the loss of theprocs and stats is hard to move on from.
My pally is Divinemace in my signature, for some reason I have not got his libram loaded, most likely from when I was swapping badge gear last night lol

[SideWays]

Get rid of your defense trinket! The other one isnt worth keeping either.. Get the Black Heart from ToC heroic and the stamina trinket from Azjol nerub heroic (2nd boss) until you can afford the iLevel 245 trinket from triumph badges..

[Starbuck_Jones]

Upgrades you can get on your own.
Helm -245 badge item
Neck -Lich king heroic HoR
Back - Falric Heroic HoR
Weapon - Rimefangs claw H-PoS
Shield - Heroic HoR
Trinkets- Black Heart from normal ToC and the Essence of Gossimar from the spider in Azjol-Nerub. +237sta is far better than 3570 armor for 20 seconds and if you like block, get the libram that gives you like 400 block everytime you use sacred shileld.

I would also try and do some rep runs in ICC with your group and get a fantastic ring upgrade, also if you get Honored you can get the crafted boots and legs pattern but primordial saronite is about 2000-2300 a pop on my server so getting all of it can be spendy.