Gear upgrade question

[crowdx]

Hi all,
so I have been farming badges and hopefully by the end of the weekend I will have about 75 - 80 Emblems of Triumph. My question now is what should be my first upgrades? I am thinking my tank could benefit the most right now as my healer is pretty much epics from Naxx and some badge stuff.
Anyone wanna take a look at my pally tank and advise what they think would be the best use of the emblems I have gotten so far?
Btw my Tank is this toon http://www.wowarmory.com/character-s...&cn=Divinemace
Thanks for the help.
My 5 Man team

[heffner]

Upgrading from any blue item would probably be the largest upgrade. If it were me I would probably go for the chest first, legs and then shoulders. However, if you want the 2 piece bonus now you would just upgrade what you can based on your emblems - like shoulders and gloves or helm.

You should consider running heroic ToC and normal/heroic ICC instances. There will be a lot of upgrades from drops for your team while you farm emblems.

You should consider the rep weapon from the tournament as well for your paladin.

[Stav]

I agree with Heffner, upgrading the blue slots first will give you the boost from your emblems. Chest, Legs, Shoulders, Ring, Gloves, and then the 75 Emblem helm would be my upgrade path. Personally I was not impressed with the 2 piece paladin tank bonus, at least not while multiboxing, but if it's attractive to you the shoulder and leg order could be swapped to get the 2 piece bonus sooner, however I'm really enjoying the 4 piece bonus.

[heyaz]

Hi all,
so I have been farming badges and hopefully by the end of the weekend I will have about 75 - 80 Emblems of Triumph. My question now is what should be my first upgrades? I am thinking my tank could benefit the most right now as my healer is pretty much epics from Naxx and some badge stuff.
Anyone wanna take a look at my pally tank and advise what they think would be the best use of the emblems I have gotten so far?
Btw my Tank is this toon http://www.wowarmory.com/character-s...&cn=Divinemace
Thanks for the help.
My 5 Man team

My gear was similar a few weeks ago, I grabbed the conquest legplates and the triumph shoulders right away, then went for the triumph ring. They were all huge upgrades and I had the same blues you do now.

[crowdx]

Cool I will take a look at the Conquest gear. I was looking at my druid and there are only a few items that are a huge upgrade for him due to him running both 10 anmd 25 man Naxx pus lots of Heroics which he got Emblems of Heroism from (he has 99 sitting on him at present and not sure what to spend them on apart from the BoA gear)

My issue at present I think is that my dps guys have started to outgear the tank and on most fights pull aggro on the highest toon

[crowdx]

BTW, is it worth getting the badge chestplate with the Blacksmithing Knights Chestplate being sold in the AH (last saw at 10k gold)

[thinus]

BTW, is it worth getting the badge chestplate with the Blacksmithing Knights Chestplate being sold in the AH (last saw at 10k gold)

10K sounds really high, saw it for 4-5K on my server.

I think it depends entirely on whether you want to spend the gold or not, how fast you can aquire badges and what your objectives are with the pally. I am not overly impressed by the 4 piece set bonus so there is really no reason to wear more than 2 of the triumph gear pieces. Getting enough Frost emblems for 2 of the frost gear only from running the daily random heroic may take a while.

Personally I will probably go for the whole set even though it isn't BiS available via 5-man.

Click on the vs links for a WoWHead comparison.
www.wowhead.com/?item=Liadrin's Faceguard of Conquest (50) vs www.wowhead.com/?item=Headplate of the Honorbound (75)
www.wowhead.com/?item=Liadrin's Shoulderguards of Conquest (30) vs www.wowhead.com/?item=Shoulderguards of Enduring Order (45)
www.wowhead.com/?item=Liadrin's Breastplate of Conquest (50) vs www.wowhead.com/?item=Breastplate of the White Knight (crafted)
www.wowhead.com/?item=Liadrin's Handguards of Conquest (30) (best in slot till frost?)
www.wowhead.com/?item=Liadrin's Legguards of Conquest (50) vs www.wowhead.com/?item=Pillars of Might (crafted)

If I had badges and gold to burn I would probably pick the gloves and shoulders for the set bonus and go with the crafted legs and breastplate and round it off with the Honorbound head piece.

[crowdx]

With heroic ToC and normal/heroic ICC how much harder are they? I am just getting to grips with the current Gundrak, UK, HoL etc. I burned down Loken earlier and just healed through his AoE. Would I really be successful in ICC?

[Gadzooks]

With heroic ToC and normal/heroic ICC how much harder are they? I am just getting to grips with the current Gundrak, UK, HoL etc. I burned down Loken earlier and just healed through his AoE. Would I really be successful in ICC?

You won't get through the Black Knight easily with your gear, but you should be able to farm the first bits. I've been putting it off, because I HATE mounted combat, I'm just no good at it.

ICC, go try it. I did. I went into the first instance on normal, and got hammered by the third pull so fast I havent had a single urge to go back.

You might be a better player than me, so who knows? Give it a shot! Repairs are easy!

[thinus]

I did the first ICC on normal up to the first boss after I got it through the random LFG. My gear is still pre ToC and I got through the initial trash without too much problems.

First boss I pulled aggro before I was ready really and just attempted it once. Couldn't get the pink globe DPSed down and figured I will need to up my dps quite a bit so I'll be back after ToC probably.