ding to 73. Is there some sort of level control about the NR dungeons? SO far i have had 4 Utgarde Keeps, 3 Nexuses, and the one with the giant house flies where you run around on a web. As you get higher level do others become available? Or is it just the luck of the draw?
Yeah. If you look in the specific dungeon finder, you’ll see that some of your possible choices are green (easy), some are yellow (medium), and some are brown (hard); the random finder preferentially puts people in yellow instances. You’ll probably stop getting UK now, and various other dungeons will start to open up.
Wanderers, it’s determined by your level. UK and Nexus are the lowest-level Outland instances, so you’ll get those more frequently at first. As you go up in level you’ll start getting others.
If you open the RDF and select “specific dungeons” from the menu, you’ll see the ones you’re eligible for. The green ones will be just below your level of ability, the yellow ones at your level, and red ones slightly above. Dungeons you are too high or too low for will not appear.
ETA: or, what Tom Scud said.
Thanks guys,
I only have time for one a day so I have had no reason to use specific dungeons yet, as I want to build up those emblems!
Others do become available, and the RDF seems to take into account your level even within the ones you can do. So you’ll go through a spat where all you’ll get is, like, the Nexus (shudder) or something.
Well, I wasn’t expecting “instant”, - I’ve never gotten that - but my previous GM tickets have all been answered and waiting for me when I logged in the next day (including a cooking recipe restoration), so I was just a little surprised. In any case, my missing wand was restored yesterday evening. I did get a canned response in the mail along with the wand, letting me know that players only get a limited number of item restores and encouraging me to be more careful in the future. Uh, it wasn’t a matter of me accidentally disenchanting or vendoring the thing - the loot distribution bugged and I never received it in the first place.
The closest I’ve gotten to an “instant” response was when I submitted a ticket about a bugged quest - WowHead research indicated that the quest was indeed bugged and that GM intervention was required. It was a quest in Icecrown where you have to meet an Argent Crusade officer and then help him and his troops kill a giant elite undead. The Argent Crusade guy wasn’t spawning, so a GM needed to go in and reset the quest. I got a response and a fix within a couple hours.
I already knew that was your answer when I posted the question 
My toon’s a human female, so she already looks “fat” 
Still, it looks pretty good on her, and matches her Raging Behemoth’s Shoulderplates.
Fat-bottomed girls you make the rockin’ world go 'round …
Finished the day chain-running heroics on my mage, and got another 50+ Triumphs, and bought the T9 pants, so now she’s got her 4-piece set bonus!
Unfortunate bit of individual-player drama in my mage’s guild last night. 12-year-old girl with a lvl 80 DK crying (literally, IRL, apparently) that she can’t get a boyfriend or even friends (some older girls/women in the guild told her, “You’re 12 - you don’t need a boyfriend”), and getting very upset because people in-game were making fun of her and calling her “fail” and nobody would come help her. I’m not sure what kind of help she wanted (maybe for some of us to come and speak sternly to these other players?), but she eventually yelled “Fuck this game!” in gchat and logged out.
I guessed a bit of the in-game problem from things she’s said before, and after she logged out I suggested to the guild that if she comes back, maybe she needs to be encouraged to stop hanging out in Goldshire trying to duel people, because PvP dueling random people really isn’t the way to make new friends and meet nice people. Alas, I just looked her up on the Armory, and it appears she’s quit the guild. Sigh.
Seeing your paladin makes me want to cry(and curse gearscore), please, please, please get another trinket, you’re 155 hit rating above the cap, your first trinket slot might as well be empty. 
How do I see my char sheet online like that?
Realm = Darkspear (EU)
name = Barrygary
I would love to get some input on where I am screwing my gear up.
Go to the WoW Armory and search for the toon.
http://eu.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Darkspear&cn=Barrygary
You’re level 73. Your gear is fine. 
Seriously, most people don’t worry that much about gear until they hit 80, because they’re stuck with whatever ragtag collection they can get from questing, running dungeons, and the occasional AH piece. I’m no expert on warriors by any means, but I don’t see any glaring problems with your gear.
Yeah, you don’t worry too much about stat balancing until you hit max level, because your gear is just changing too much. Just get the best piece you can for that slot at that time.
When I hit 80 I will be on your case for Prot Warr stat balancing 101!
That’s easy. 
Stam, stam, stam, stam, and… oh, yes. Stam.
Okay, it gets a *little *more complicated than that, especially in the beginning. But not by much.
Honestly, you don’t even have to worry about stat balancing until a ways after you hit maximum level; your first 200 or so Triumphs will go towards buying your T9 armor set and a couple other items, and in the meantime you’ll fill the rest of your slots with whatever appropriate purple items you can find. Only after that point do you really get into stat-balancing.
That I get the sort of scenario I struggle with is
item 1 +60 stam +20crit +100 armor rating
item 2 +52 stam +15 agility +10 def rating
I don’t know whether to just go for the best stam, or if the other characteristics on item 2 mean I should be going for the lesser stam
Not entirely accurate. There are still some basic caps you’ll always want to keep in mind. A tank can never drop below 540 Defense (unless they have Resil to make up the difference); a DPS should try their best to stay at their Hit cap even when they’re gearing up.
These days, it’s Stam, Armor, and HP uber alles (these are the stats that contribute to what’s called “Effective Health”). ETA: So you’d want to go with item 1.
You don’t care that all much about agility, though it’s not useless. (Druid tanks love it.) If you’re not def-capped, you care about Def; if you are def-capped then it’s not useful. Plus item #1 has armor rating which is nice.
One And Only Wanderers, here’s a rundown of useful stats for Prot Warriors:
Best:
Defense to cap: Prevents you from being critically hit by a raid boss. Essential.
Stamina: Increases amount of damage you can soak.
Armor: Reduces incoming physical damage by a percentage.
HP: Same as Stamina, but doesn’t scale with buffs like Kings.
Good:
Defense: Increases your chance to dodge, parry, or be missed.
Dodge: Increases your chance to completely avoid an attack.
Expertise: Decreases your chance to be dodged, parried, or blocked. Mostly a threat stat; also avoidance for those rare bosses who still parry-haste (i.e., swing faster for the next hit after they parry you).
Strength: Increases your damage, especially your Shield Slams.
Parry: Increases your chance to completely avoid an attack.
Block Rating: Increases your chance to block an attack, shaving a set amount of damage off of it. Because it deals with set amounts, Block is overpowered on weak enemies (like trash) and underpowered on strong ones (like raid bosses).
Block Value: Increases the amount of damage you shave off a successfully blocked attack. Also increases Shield Slam damage.
Hit: Increases your damage and helps ensure that important things like taunts land.
Okay:
Agility: Increases your chance to dodge and crit.
Attack Power: Increases your damage. Does not scale with buffs like Kings.
Armor Penetration: Increases your physical damage.
Anything in the “Okay” category is something you might find on a piece while leveling but will never see on max-level Plate tanking gear in Wrath.
Hey, i didn’t get it for the gearscore :mad: I picked it up before I even knew what the hit cap was (or even what “hit cap” meant). Problem with trinkets is … what’s available is what’s available. The Triumph vendor only has two DPS trinkets - the other one also has +128 Hit on Equip, with a “Use: Increases haste rating by 512…” instead of the “Use: Increases attack power by 1024…”. I figured the AP was more useful than Haste. All the other trinkets are tank or caster stuff. Nothing better has dropped for me in all the heroics I’ve run. I don’t remember what trinket I had in that slot previously, but it was worse than the one I have now. I’ve been keeping that Oracle Talisman of Ablution, my second trinket, because I like its effects, rather than try to upgrade it.
But yeah, I know I’m way over the hit cap. But all this pally gear just keeps giving me more! (The +20 Hit Rating gem in my weapon is there because when I switched to my PvP set my HR was dropping to something like 77.)
And boots. I want some new damn boots. I’m wearing PvP boots because they’re better than anything else I’ve been able to find unless I want to pay 15000g on the AH for those iLvl 264 BS crafted boots :mad: I was wearing iLvl 226 PVE DPS boots (crafted, Battlelord’s Plate Boots), so I wasn’t going to find an upgrade in heroics, except maybe in the heroic ICC 5-mans (iLvl 232 stuff), but just about all the plate drops in there seem to be tank and healer stuff too.
A great resource for this kind of thing - though I don’t know if there are any good options listed for a ret pally trinket specifically - is hitting wow-loot.com. They have dungeon-running loot drops listed by class, with specific spec notations listed. For you I’d scroll down to the bottom of the page (where the high-end dungeons are) and check out the normal and heroic dungeon options.