• Head: Forgotten Shadow Hood – Her Strat
• Shoulders: Runecaster’s Mantle – BoE Her UK
• Back: Shroud of Moorabi – Her Gundrak
• Chest: Robes of Crackling Flame – Rep Reward with Kirin Tor
• Hands: Gloves of Glistening Runes – Her Nexus
• Feet: Sandals of Crimson Fury – Rep Reward with Wyrmrest Accord
• Ring: Band of Guile or Annhylde’s Ring or Signet of Hopeful Light. I recently got Ring of the Frenzied Wolvar out of Her UP which could serve me for a while.
• Trinket: The Egg of Mortal Essence – 40 Emblems of Heroism
• Main Hand: War Mace of Unrequited Love - I’ve run Her Nexus a couple times and haven’t seen this one yet. Since I’m at revered with Wyrmrest Accord I’m thinking of grabbing Gavel of the Brewing Storm for the time being.
• Range: Rod of the Fallen Monarch – Her A/N

Notes:
• Any of the above items could be replaced by another item that drops for me and is an upgrade.
• Given that there really isn’t that much attractive Heroism Badge loot I’d probably spend badges after the trinket on the T7 Robes and Gloves. I’m not sure if I’m going to buy any alts Artifact items or not.
• I haven’t met the Sons of Hodir yet so a WotLK shoulder enchant isn’t available to me yet. I can slap on the lesser Scryer enchant just to have some extra stats.

Matt wrote up an article about gearing a fresh level 80 Priest. I’ve decided to use his advice as a starting place for gearing up. Many of his suggestions are fairly easy to come by and I have obtained a couple items  already.

It wouldn’t be a status report on one of my characters without a to-do list. Here is my to-do list for the priest:

• At the moment I am Championing The Wyrmrest Accord. I will continue to do so until I hit Revered.
• Level Tailoring to 415 so that I can make Moonshroud cloth. This will allow me to obtain Frostmoon Pants and Aurora Slippers.
• Work on leveling Enchanting as I have the materials. I had been selling all the items I had come across in order to make a bit more money. Since questing will now give gold for XP I’ll resume disenchanting all items I get.
• Get to Exalted with the Kalu’ak so that I can get Pengu and move on to other Daily Quests.
• Get to Honored with Kirin Tor for the Shroud of Dedicated Research. Maybe I’ll Champion them for a dungeon or two to speed this up and then go back to Wyrmrest Accord.
• Obtain an epic flying mount. Gold investment in trade skills will probably be minimal until this is completed. Slow flyer seems even slower in Northrend.
• Work on the Feast of Winter Vale achievements.

The Headless Horseman event helped. I ran it around level 66 and was able to get a pair of rings that I put in the bank. I was also able to run Karazhan at level 68 and get a pair of boots and an off-hand. At 70 I rounded out my gear by purchasing the blue-quality faction PvP gear.

To do before WotLK:
• PvP for the Merciless Gladiator’s Mooncloth Mantle. I love this model and have wanted a set of these shoulders for a while.
• Purchase an Essence of the Martyr.
• Raise my Shattered Sun Offensive rep to Exalted. This will allow the purchase of K’iru’s Presage and Shattered Sun Pendant of Acumen.
• Raise my Scryer rep to Exalted.
• Raise my Sha’tar rep and Keepers of Time rep to at least Honored to purchase Heroic Keys.
• Complete both Tailoring and Enchanting Professions.
• Save up at least 2000 gold. I had originally thought about trying to get Epic Flight, but I’m not sure there is enough time.

Note: I had intended to participate in NaBloPoMo but I neglected to post on the first two days. All isn’t lost though! I hope to put up a post a day for the rest of the month.

My thinking is that I’ll choose Balance as my main spec and Feral as my secondary spec. With multiple sets of gear I will be able to fill the roles of spell caster, tank, and (perhaps) healer. This will allow me to play whichever role is needed on a particular night.

The other motivation behind choosing the Druid is his current skill level. It will very easy to max out cooking and fishing. The trade skills of Herbalism/Alchemy are generally always in demand and can help defray the costs of raiding. He is also in a good position to get an epic flyer before the expansion hits.

Check out the Armory and you will see that Blizzard has assigned a name to the spec you have chosen. In most, if not all, cases it’s the name of the tree where the majority of your points are spent. If you don’t take enough points in any one of the trees your character is simply marked as Hybrid.

My suggest is that Blizzard should move this title into the game and attach it to your class name as a prefix. So my Shadow Priest would show up as such when someone saw me and they would know that I probably wasn’t a healer.

So for the last few weeks I’ve been leveling my Blood Elf Priest to 70. She was 26 when I started out and is 46 when I last left her. I had thought about running up and Undead Priest, but at 26 I figured many of the painful levels were behind me. So why start over? Now I just need to do some daily quests to defray the cost of an epic riding chicken at 60 and I’ll be all set.

For professions I took up the typical Tailoring/Enchanting. I won’t be making the Frozen Shadoweave clothes again though. (I say that now!) My plan is to PvP for gear and hang tight for the expansion pack which I hope will be released sooner rather than later. I’m kind of keeping an eye on Inscription to see if it will be worthwhile for me to take up and which character I think it’ll benefit the most. Polymorph: Penguin anyone?