Of farming, shards, badges and marks etc.

[Jayne]

I just got to cap myself and having a real blast

You'll probably get better tips by the vets here, but I'll just share my own experience.
What I first did was basically just do the normal instances once, to see them (my team are my first 80's) and do all the quests you can for them... I was maybe quite lucky with drops but by the time I had seen all instances I feel pretty OKishly geared, and more than eager to wipe my way in the heroics...
So I went into Drak'Tharon keep since the first boss there is quite boxer friendly and you don't really need to move a lot. Downed him first try but I wiped a bit on the trash, adjusting to healing heroic instances. Then I went to Grun'dark first boss and after a wipe i got him down pretty easily reading the strategies posted on this forum...
Now I'm just doing these two (convienently close by) for badges and trying some other heroics to see if there are other bosses I can kill.

Went in to ToC recently and I got the first boss encounter on farm at least (still need to get the tanking leggings... sigh!)... the others eats me up. But for Crusaders i just Bloodlust and spam heal and when they are down to two it's really a lot easier and you can begin loosen up on healing. Just make sure you kill the champion you find difficult first (rogue & warrior for me)
My team set-up is: Warrior, Ele-Shaman x3 and Resto-Druid.

Cheers!

[thinus]

Welcome to STAGE 2.

You may want to post your group makeup as people could have tips that apply to only certain classes. You will probably need to familiarize yourself with a few gear upgrade tools and web sites that can help you determine upgrades and how and where to find it.

If you can't do heroics yet you will want to limit the upgrades to normal instances and quests first and probably exclude pvp rewards as well.

One of the easily overlooked options is reputation rewards. If you did a lot of questing then you will already have high reputation with some factions and it is just a question of visiting their quartermasters to buy those upgrades.

You can get decent weapons from the Argent Tournament dailies but note that this is a bit of a grind. You first need to do enough dailies with your base faction to become their champion (4 daily quests for 5 days to earn the 25 required items). After you become a champion you need to complete the Black Knight quest line and then do the Champion dailies. After 2 or 3 days doing the new dailies you should have the 25 champion seals required to get the weapons.

A breakdown of the quests, gear and other info here: http://www.wowwiki.com/Argent_Tournament

Note: I specifically list the weapons as it is difficult to get good weapons without a 1800 arena rating.