Nearly finshed the warrior quest Cyclonian, I just need 16 more of the emblems you get from killing elementals. What do I get at the end of all this? A new weapon or a new move or something?
Pretty good weapon, looks like.
I checked on thottbot and couldn’t find anything specific. The quest itself talks about the heart of the cyclone being instilled in a weapon or something. If it turns out to be a 2 handed weapon, i’ll cry.
Want some kleenex? 
BTW if you do decide to finish the quest, either get some help or buy some kind of nature protection potion at the AH, because the Cyclonian is really, really tough to solo.
oh for the love of…
I’m a damn prot warr tank. I need my shield.
It’s a quest chain you get immediately after learning the Berserker stance. Naturally it’ll be a DPS weapon.
I’m not very selective when it comes to quests. if they’re offered, I take 'em. Maybe I need to review this policy…
Take 'em. They’re xp and money. There’s no law that says you’re required to equip and use the quest reward item.
though it is nice to get equipment upgrades. It seems ages since i last picked up some good kit.
Just wait 'til you get to Outland. You’re gonna cry so very hard. The equipment was itemized back when all Paladins used caster stats like Spellpower, including Ret and Prot ones–there’s not a lot of Plate that has straight-up melee DPS/tank stats. You will become well acquainted with the phrase, “Ugh, MORE Pally trash!” 
On the plus side, Cataclysm should fix all that.
Sell all the quest rewards to vendors then check out the AH for upgrades and, obviously, always pick the weapon\item that is worth the most gold if you’re not equipping it.
True, it’s essentially the same, but the thing that really speeds up grinding packs like that in prot spec is Reckoning. And Holy Shield, but I’m pretty sure that’s available to all paladins.
Unfortunately Holy Shield is a Protection talent. I just use Retribution Aura and Consecrate, with judging and auto-attacks while I keep healing myself when I get to 50% health. The no-pushback-on-heals talent is brilliant.
One thing that drives me nuts are what I call “crossgrades”. That’s where two or more quests in the same zone offer rewards of the same type of weapon or the same armor type and slot. But the rewards are all the same iLvl, so the stats are often almost identical and the only difference might be that one gives a bonus to Haste Rating while another gives a bonus to Crit Rating. You basically end up choosing which one to use based on how it looks on your toon rather than on the stats. One particularly egregious example of this was when my blood elf paladin was questing out of Agmar’s Hammer in Dragonblight; no fewer than five quests there offered plate shoulders as the only option useful to a paladin (or warrior or DK too, I suppose). That’s five different shoulders with minor variations in stats, all from the same quest hub. What’s up with that? C’mon, Blizzard, mix it up! At the point I was questing out of there I think my pally had been wearing the same leg armor she’d picked up from an early Howling Fjord quest shortly after arriving in Northrend. She was due for an upgrade there, but none was forthcoming because the questgivers at Agmar’s Hammer kept shoving shoulders at her.
Alternatively, you can buy your gear on the AH, and it’s going to end up being better than anything you can get from quests at the same level, so picking a quest reward becomes a matter of looking to see which one you can sell for the most gold.
Anyway, speaking of my belf pally, Keliraeda, she was the beneficiary of some extremely good/lucky timing on the AH. On Wednesday I decided to spend some time flying around Icecrown actively farming herbs. She ended up with three full stacks of both Icethorn and Lichbloom, neither of which had been selling for all that much (~17g/stack and ~35g/stack, respectively). She mailed them off to Chimtahna, her banker, and he went to the AH, where he found very few auctions for Lichbloom. There were only three full stacks plus one guy selling ten or so individual herbs. But the thing is, the full stack auctions had buyouts of ~100g, and the individual herbs had 5g buyouts. So Auctioneer assigned an undercut price of 96g/stack to my auctions. When I checked the mail yesterday, I was rather surprised to discover that somebody had actually paid that price for them; nice easy almost 300g for me! Yesterday evening I went to post two more stacks I’d farmed up, and the going price was back down to 38g. Like I said, very lucky timing.
After much thought, last night I cleared out some of my Cairne toons. Gone now are Jenlek, my lvl 22 troll priest, Wossname, my lvl 23 undead mage (both had been BDL members), and Rikka, my lvl 13 tauren druid (who never got around to joining BDL). It had simply become obvious that I wasn’t going to be playing those toons. My attempts at priests always seem to falter right around lvl 22; it doesn’t seem to matter what race/faction they are. Wossname … I’ve realized I just don’t enjoy playing an undead character. And druids, well, I’ve said enough in the past about how druids and I don’t mix. So I stripped 'em all naked, sold everything they had (D’oh! I just now realized I only sold what they were wearing/had in their bags, and forgot clean out their banks), and mailed their gold, guild tabards, and Jenlek’s four 14-slot Runecloth Bags to Keliraeda (Wossname had soulbound Netherweave bags and Rikka only had 6- and 8-slot basic bags, so those were all sold).
Then Keliraeda mailed 100g, a tabard, and the Runecloth Bags to my new mage, a male troll named Flambé. He’s going to be a fire mage (duh, with a name like that), and I was able to give him an appearance I thought was perfect for a fire mage: completely bald, and the black & white face paint that makes it look like something blew up in his face 
So I need to get him an invite to BDL so he can put some color into that plain gray guild tabard he’s wearing now.
Keliraeda finished up her Valiant quests for Orgrimmar yesterday, then went to the orc/troll noob zone and did enough quests in Valley of Trials and Sen’Jin Village to get her Org rep to Exalted. So now she’s “Exalted Champion” of Silvermoon, Undercity, and Orgrimmar. Interesting bit: after 15 days of Valiant questing (3 factions x 5 days each), on the “A Worthy Weapon” daily she’s only gotten the Drak’mar Lake version once. The other 14 days were all either frog-kissing or freeing the dryad from the block of ice. I’m very glad I made a macro for the frog-kissing. It is rather interesting, though, that the Maiden of Drak’Mar, a troll (one would assume a Drakkari troll), is wearing a Warsong Offensive tabard. The comments on that Wowhead page do offer a bit of explanation, but still …
My other lvl 80 pally, Eilyssana, finally, finally was able to dump her Venture Co. Libram of Retribution, which she’d been stuck with forever. I’ve had her doing the Wintergrasp quests you can get when your faction has control of WG, and between the Honor Points she gets from those plus what she’s gotten doing Warsong Gulch, she was able to pick up the Furious Gladiator’s Libram of Fortitude. Much more useful, and equipping it also got me the Superior achievement
Oh, and on the advice of Shot From Guns I parked my night elf druid (I never play him, either) in Moonglade. Yesterday he was able to purchase the Green Wedding Hanbok from that dress vendor. Auctioneer said it was worth something like 3800g on the AH, though I’m taking that with a huge grain of salt.
Heh. I once had a frost mage troll named Haagendasz.
Very doubtful. They just don’t show up at auction very often, so the numbers will be skewed. The other limited-quantity clothes on that vendor still show up pretty frequently–it’s just the 50g Formal Dangui that’s super-rare. And I’m guessing that you couldn’t even make money with that one at auction, unless you happened to catch a real item nerd at exactly the right time. Your best bet would probably be to advertise that you have one on the realm forum, if you manage to get one and want to sell it instead of keep it.
I blew the dust off Gnocchi - my level 80 gnome warrior on Windrunner. He was my first ever character to level 80, but I got him to level 80 before Blizzard implemented the random dungeon finder. Because of that, he hasn’t run any instances (heroic or otherwise), and is sadly under-geared as a result.
Fortunately though, he’s at least geared enough to join random heroics; I ran him thru Gundrak, Azol’Nerjub, and The Culling of Stratholme, so got him some emblems. Of course, I also managed to get the Reins of the Bronze Drake drop in Stratholme (everyone else in the group already had it), even though I’m thousands of gold short of what’s needed to purchase Artisan flying. Oh well.
But man, I’d forgotten what it was like to just be using blues and greens. His DPS was pretty poor - even though as a Fury warrior he’s dual-wielding Runeblade of Demonstrable Power. At one point another DPS said “Gnocchi, even the tank is out-DPS’ing you”. I apologized and told them I’d just started running heroics. That led to many tongue-in-cheek suggestions from the rest of the group (“You should run ICC 25 man - that’ll get you better gear :-)” ) for the next few minutes.
Anything 1.5k DPS or higher is fine for the original Wrath Heroics (that’s probably a bit low for ToC5, and *definitely *too low for the ICC 5-mans). Anything under 1.5, and you’re essentially counting on the group to carry you, and you should stick to regular dungeons until you get better gear.
Also, if your gear is pretty low, you’ll actually get better DPS out of Arms. Fury is better once you get to a certain level of gear, but before then, it’s Arms all the way. I’m not sure exactly where the cutoff lands these days, but if you’re still in blues and greens, Fury is definitely going to be a DPS loss for you.
Of course, that doesn’t factor in if your goal is to play the way you want, regardless of whether you could be doing more damage, as long as your numbers are high enough for the group role you want to fill.
Bollocks!
heroics r srs bsns