5-Paladins New 80s - which Heroics?

[OzPhoenix]

Thanks all - some very good suggestions there. As I noted, I'm not dis-heartened by the wipes, as I knew what to expect (though the gold drain, at 65g a wipe is an issue... lol). I hadn't considered ICC normal, and I'm now slapping my head about it too since so much of the kit in there would be upgrades. I'll definitely try that out once this 24-hour maintenance is over.

I did actually try normal ToC and after a few goes figured out the jousting well enough, but then got absolutely slammed by the first 3-boss team. I'll have to look into that, as I had counted on that as a gearing path to replace low level gear.

I've got all the smithing crafted epics on, as well as the i245 pieces, but legs, belt, hands, neck, trinkets, rings and librams are trashy i150-i187 greens and blues, which I think is holding them back.

I was actually surprised we didn't have a "new 80s gearing guide" around, and if it weren't so close to Cata, I'd happily make one. I guess what I will do is take some time to record my own path to gearing up, and post it here once I'm over this "new 80" hump.

Seal of Light also didn't occur to me for Meathook, which is poor form on my part I think, I'll run it past him too once this maintenance is over.

PvP I'm avoiding just because it's really absolutely not my thing any more, and I want to try and gear up without it if I can. Pre-gearing the tank is something I'd considered (in fact, my prot pally tank on my first team is still active and super geared), but I'm trying to avoid that too, in the vien of "what if this were my only team" sort of thing.

I'll start keeping some notes on my progress and throw it back up here as a guide for however short time we have left to Cata.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

PvP I'm avoiding just because it's really absolutely not my thing any more, and I want to try and gear up without it if I can.

Yeah, same here, as I'm not set up for FTL or fast leader-switching, so fears and other problems would be more difficult for me to deal with. Though I'm slowly changing my mind with the cheap cost of a few of the upgrades honor and WG marks would provide my guys.

[OzPhoenix]

Yeah, same here, as I'm not set up for FTL or fast leader-switching, so fears and other problems would be more difficult for me to deal with. Though I'm slowly changing my mind with the cheap cost of a few of the upgrades honor and WG marks would provide my guys.

I'm (currently) so anti-PvP, there could be free sets of Tier10 inside the starting cave in 80 and I still don't think I'd do it... lol.

I've now got H UK, OK, and DTK on farm, so the badging is starting to progress now. Of course, as I add more gear, it becomes easier to add more gear, that ol' "new-80-hump". Haven't even had a chance to try any others outside of AN, HoL, HoS and CoS and GUN, so there's still quite a few options for picking off bosses if not whole instances to go - and of those I mentioned, I think at least CoS (and possibly GUN) could be done with some of the strategies I've gleaned from this thread as well.

So, while I'm not exactly piling up the badges left right and centre, I'm making decent headway. Rets are now up to about 2k dps, with the prot hanging around 1.7k.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

Heh. Go run Garfrost normal for your Two-Ton Hammers. That'll put your weaps up to 212dps (plus a gem slot) and will be a nice boost. Lucky Old Sun from Bronjahm in FoS should be easy enough to farm, too, though it takes longer as there's more trash in there to get through. You have better gear starting out than I did at that point.

[OzPhoenix]

Heh. Go run Garfrost normal for your Two-Ton Hammers. That'll put your weaps up to 212dps (plus a gem slot) and will be a nice boost. Lucky Old Sun from Bronjahm in FoS should be easy enough to farm, too, though it takes longer as there's more trash in there to get through. You have better gear starting out than I did at that point.

I'm hoping to get some time in ICC this weekend. In between Argent Valiant series + the Argent dailies, heroic randoms, farming UK/OK/DTK and the weekly raid Slats and I did tonight, I just haven't had time yet... hehe.

Bought my first Triumph piece, the T9 Hands. 9 Frost badges so far as well.