[Guide] What to do when you just hit 80.

[Dark_Angel]

Well, I searched this, and didn't find anything, if there is a guide like this, Shame on me for being a moderator! /knock

Anyways, this guide is what to do first when you just hit 80. The main priority at this point is what: GEAR. There are many ways of getting gear and stats, but when you first get there, you don't know which one to pick!

Player vs Player -

Wintergraps

Alright, the first topic I'd like to begin with is Player vs. Player, or other known as PvP, this as of right now, is a quick and easy way of getting some epics/blues. Wintergrasp battles are amazing for getting honor at 80 right now and the honor points for the dailies are going down by the day, so take advantage of it now! If you haven't done wintergrasp, let me explain the battle. The team that has the fortress defends it with catapults and turrents, while the other team who are attacking try to capture the base. When you first arrive (By portal or flying) I would first ask in General chat to get into the raid that someone else has already started, if there isn't one then start one. Grab your dailies and start killing the oppisite faction. The dailies and the killing gives you a ton of honor, and wintergrasp starts every 3 hours. The new Season 5 armor sell for a quiet of bit of honor, so stack up as much as you can before going to go buy them at your main city. The new gear for wintergrasp is coming up with the next upcoming patch, so save your marks!

Related Links and Guides-
http://www.mmowned.com/forums/wow-gu...ommentary.html

Arena

The other PvP form is Arena (Also BGs, but not going to get into them at this moment). Arenas can be hard for beginners, especially going up against a team that has more skill in it and better gear already. First, find the arena master (located in Dalaran sewers) and start up a arena team with your best pals that are actually GOOD at PvP, because you'll need it. To begin with this, you must practice a LOT before you get decent. The gear is so much more worth then the Wintergrasp gear, and requires you to have a good rating (Winning and losing ratio). Well anyways here is the gear rewards: (Yes, I stole this from somewhere and the link is below it.)

Warlock Season 5 Arena Armor

• Hateful Gladiator’s Felweave Amice
• Hateful Gladiator’s Felweave Cowl
• Hateful Gladiator’s Felweave Handguards
• Hateful Gladiator’s Felweave Raiment
• Hateful Gladiator’s Felweave Trousers

Holy / Discipline Priest Season 5 Arena Armor

• Hateful Gladiator’s Mooncloth Gloves
• Hateful Gladiator’s Mooncloth Hood
• Hateful Gladiator’s Mooncloth Leggings
• Hateful Gladiator’s Mooncloth Mantle
• Hateful Gladiator’s Mooncloth Robe

Shadow Priest Season 5 Arena Armor

• Hateful Gladiator’s Satin Gloves
• Hateful Gladiator’s Satin Hood
• Hateful Gladiator’s Satin Leggings
• Hateful Gladiator’s Satin Mantle
• Hateful Gladiator’s Satin Robe

Mage Season 5 Arena Armor

• Hateful Gladiator’s Silk Amice
• Hateful Gladiator’s Silk Cowl
• Hateful Gladiator’s Silk Handgaurds
• Hateful Gladiator’s Silk Raiment
• Hateful Gladiator’s Silk Trousers

Feral Druid Season 5 Arena Armor

• Hateful Gladiator’s Dragonhide Gloves
• Hateful Gladiator’s Dragonhide Helm
• Hateful Gladiator’s Dragonhide Legguards
• Hateful Gladiator’s Dragonhide Robes
• Hateful Gladiator’s Dragonhide Spaulders

Restoration Druid Season 5 Arena Armor

• Hateful Gladiator’s Kodohide Gloves
• Hateful Gladiator’s Kodohide Helm
• Hateful Gladiator’s Kodohide Leggards
• Hateful Gladiator’s Kodohide Robes
• Hateful Gladiator’s Kodohide Spaulders

Balance Druid Season 5 Arena Armor

• Hateful Gladiator’s Wyrmhide Gloves
• Hateful Gladiator’s Wyrmhide Helm
• Hateful Gladiator’s Wyrmhide Leggaurds
• Hateful Gladiator’s Wyrmhide Robes
• Hateful Gladiator’s Wyrmhide Spaulders

Rogue Season 5 Arena Armor

• Hateful Gladiator’s Leather Gloves
• Hateful Gladiator’s Leather Helm
• Hateful Gladiator’s Leather Legguards
• Hateful Gladiator’s Leather Spaulders
• Hateful Gladiator’s Leather Tunic

Hunter Season 5 Arena Armor

• Hateful Gladiator’s Chain Armor
• Hateful Gladiator’s Chain Gauntlets
• Hateful Gladiator’s Chain Helm
• Hateful Gladiator’s Chain Leggings
• Hateful Gladiator’s Chain Spaulders

Enhancement Shaman Season 5 Arena Armot

• Hateful Gladiator’s Linked Armor
• Hateful Gladiator’s Linked Helm
• Hateful Gladiator’s Linked Leggings
• Hateful Gladiator’s Linked Spaulders
• Hateful Gladiator’s Linked Gauntlets

Elemental Shaman Season 5 Arena Armor

• Hateful Gladiator’s Mail Armor
• Hateful Gladiator’s Mail Gauntlets
• Hateful Gladiator’s Mail Leggings
• Hateful Gladiator’s Mail Spaulders
• Hateful Gladiator’s Mail Helm

Restoration Shaman Season 5 Arena Armor

• Hateful Gladiator’s Ringmail Armor
• Hateful Gladiator’s Ringmail Gauntlets
• Hateful Gladiator’s Ringmail Helm
• Hateful Gladiator’s Ringmail Leggings
• Hateful Gladiator’s Ringmail Spaulders

Death Knight Season 5 Arena Armor

• Hateful Gladiator’s Dreadplate Chestpiece
• Hateful Gladiator’s Dreadplate Gauntlets
• Hateful Gladiator’s Dreadplate Helm
• Hateful Gladiator’s Dreadplate Legguards
• Hateful Gladiator’s Dreadplate Shoulders

Warrior Season 5 Arena Armor

• Hateful Gladiator’s Plate Chestpiece
• Hateful Gladiator’s Plate Gauntlets
• Hateful Gladiator’s Plate Helm
• Hateful Gladiator’s Plate Legguards
• Hateful Gladiator’s Plate Shoulders

Holy Paladin Season 5 Arena Armor

• Hateful Gladiator’s Ornamented Chestguard
• Hateful Gladiator’s Ornamented Gloves
• Hateful Gladiator’s Ornamented Headcover
• Hateful Gladiator’s Ornamented Legplates
• Hateful Gladiator’s Ornamented Spaulders

Retribution Paladin Season 5 Arena Armor

• Hateful Gladiator’s Scaled Chestpiece
• Hateful Gladiator’s Scaled Gauntlets
• Hateful Gladiator’s Scaled Helm
• Hateful Gladiator’s Scaled Legguards
• Hateful Gladiator’s Scaled Shoulders

(Stolen from Season 5 Arena Armor | Zug Gaming)

Heroics and Dungeons

Heroics and Dungeons is kind of Self explanatory, but for those who don't know ANYTHING about these, here comes the guide! Anyways, In my honest opinion, this is the best way to start out at level 80 to get some decent gear. Purples and Blues drop of the bosses, along with tokens (Emblem of Heroism) + dailies that you can use to get some of the tier 7 gear with by going to dalaran and finding the vendor who sells it. Heroics can be started by finding the daily heroic in dalaran at the Violet Hold, then searching in the LFG addon. Heroic difficulty can be selected at your portrait if your group leader. After you do tons of heroics and almost filled with level 80 blues/purps you can move on to the next thing..

Some examples of gear that drops:

Gloves of Glistening Runes
Greed
Royal Crest of Lordaeron
Plague-Infected Bracers
Limb Regeneration Bracers
Overlook Handguards
Leggings of the Winged Serpent
Gored Hide Legguards
Horn-Tipped Gauntlets
Sash of Blood Removal

Raiding

Raiding, you can begin raiding immidiatly if your in a good guild who raids, or wait after you do heroics. Easy Raids such as Vault of Archavon and Obsidian Sanctum can be completed easily and probably a guy full of greens could raid this. Vault of Archavon is a raid inside the Fortress of Wintergrasp, and you MUST have control over wintergrasp to be able to raid this. It is a easy one boss raid. Obsidian Sanctum is located under Dragon Temple in Dragonsblight. This Raid consists of a Dragon queen surronded by 3 other nether dragons. Each Nether dragon left alive increase the difficulty of the Queen dragon, and with all 3 dragons out you get a achievement and a rare drop of a epic flyer if you kill the queen dragon. This Raid is a little more Difficult then VoA, but still veryly easy if you kill all 3 dragons. There is a more indept stradegy but your raid will most likely go into that when you get there. The last 2 Raids that cause trouble for guilds and are very long are Naxxaramas and Malygos (Eye of Eternity). There is some debate on which are harder, but both can be easy with a good group. These raids you will most likely not be able to get in without at least some good gear. Naxxramas can take up to 3 days to finish the entire run (Not all run together, just seperated into different parts and times.) At the end you kill Kel'thuzad, who drops VERY good gear, along with tier 7.5 tokens.

Here is the tokened gear:
Rogue: Valorous Bonescythe Battlegear
Hunter: Valorous Cryptstalker Battlegear
Warrior: Valorous Dreadnaught Plate
Druid: Valorous Dreamwalker Garb
Shaman: Valorous Earthshatter Garb
Mage: Valorous Frostfire Garb
Priest: Valorous Garb of Faith
Warlock: Valorous Plagueheart Garb
Paladin: Valorous Redemption Plate
Death Knight: Valorous Scourgeborne Plate
(Please note, there are more on this list such as DPS and Tanking gear, but don't feel like adding all the variations.)

Related Links: http://www.mmowned.com/forums/wow-gu...?highlight=hit

Tips of my Opinion

1. Socket ALL your armor that you can.
2. Clothies GET stamina + intelligence + spellpower, Plates GET Strength + Attack power, AND Leather get Agility (Dps only) along with hit, haste, crit, mp5, defence rating and spirit sockets.
3. IF your a warlock, GET SPIRIT, fel armor now increases your Spell power by how much spirit you have.
4. Horn of winter is your best friend as a Death Knight!
5. (By Skaya133): Retri paladins have a good use of haste. More hits = more Seal of Blood/the Martyr hits, which deals alot of damage(My friend critted 11k with seal of the martyr).
Spirit/Mp5 can be important as a healer, or You'll get out of mana at the start of a boss fight, instant wipe!.
Tanks(except druid) needs defence rating to be crit immune, and stam can be usefull as tank unless you want to be 1-shotted.


If you have any tips of your own, then tell me what you think we need to add. AND, if you noticed my related threads part, if you have anything to do with that subject and it's a guide, please tell me and I will post it here. I also was very tired writing this guide, so give me some slack, took me awhile.

wall of text crits you...

~Dark_Angel

[Ketty]

2. Clothies GET stamina + intelligence + spellpower, Plates GET Strength + Attack power, AND Leather get Agility (Dps only).

Wrong, you haven't said anything about hit, haste, crit, mp5, defence rating and spirit sockets.
You have to be hit capped, and it's pretty hard getting hit capped before you raid without sockets.
Retri paladins have a good use of haste. More hits = more Seal of Blood/the Martyr hits, which deals alot of damage(My friend critted 11k with seal of the martyr).
Spirit/Mp5 can be important as a healer, or You'll get out of mana at the start of a boss fight, instant wipe!.
Tanks(except druid) needs defence rating to be crit immune, and stam can be usefull as tank unless you want to be 1-shotted.

And I think the Hateful Gladiator gear is season 6, not season 5, season 5 is Savage Gladiator's. <- wrong i guess

You also made a typo in 4th tip. It's Horn of Winter, and you can't stack it with with Stenght of Earth totem, which will most likely be used in raids. You can't keep it up all the time while it's overwriten.

Anyways, quite useful guide for the new ones. +Rep

[Dark_Angel]

Wrong, you haven't said anything about hit, haste, crit, mp5, defence rating and spirit sockets.
You have to be hit capped, and it's pretty hard getting hit capping before you raid without sockets.
Retri paladins have a good use of haste. More hits = more Seal of Blood/the Martyr hits, which deals alot of damage(My friend critted 11k with seal of the martyr).
Spirit/Mp5 can be important as a healer, or You'll get out of mana at the start of a boss fight, instant wipe!.
Tanks(except druid) needs defence rating to be crit immune, and stam can be usefull as tank unless you want to be 1-shotted.

And I think the Hateful Gladiator gear is season 6, not season 5, season 5 is Savage Gladiator's.

You also made a typo in 4th tip. It's Horn of Winter, and you can't stack it with with Stenght of Earth totem, which will most likely be used in raids. You can't keep it up all the time while it's overwriten.

Anyways, quite useful guide for the new ones. +Rep

Eh, Thanks for fixing my mistakes. I play a warlock + Death knight (DPS) personally. So, thanks for fixing the parts that I was missing on. And I thought Savage was Wintergrasp gear while Hateful is arena gear? Because when you look up the hateful gear on wowhead it says under tags "Tag: Arena Season 5 Set"

~Dark_Agnel

[Ketty]

Eh, Thanks for fixing my mistakes. I play a warlock + Death knight (DPS) personally. So, thanks for fixing the parts that I was missing on. And I thought Savage was Wintergrasp gear while Hateful is arena gear? Because when you look up the hateful gear on wowhead it says under tags "Tag: Arena Season 5 Set"

~Dark_Agnel

Ah, ok, haven't PVPed much actually, so I'm wasn't sure about the Season 5. EDIT: It seems that all the sets Savage Gladiator, Hateful Gladiator and Deadly Gladiator are all season 5.
And i only got one at 80 and it's my DPS DK, and with it I just got a 70 lock, and I've played none of the other classes, except some randoms at 1-20s.

[WeezyFbaby5]

very well orgnaized

[chiparoo1]

quite a nice thread m8 ill plus rep for the effort

[fabled16]

Interesting.. Thanks

[Tink]

if you got any of it right it would be common sense, but most of your tips are bad.

What about rep? rep is the most important aspect in both pve and pvp (enchants for pvp&pve, and starting gear for pve)

[mikki525]

great post

[Mr Barbeque]

You should also add that pepole might start saving their Wintergrasp marks for the new upcoming epic pvp rewarads that will be released in 3.0.8

They can be found here:
http://www.mmo champion.com/index.php?PHPSESSID=b95f68263109a02bf363b57c4bbe066e&topic=30117.0

(replace the space with an "-" (without quotationmarks obviously)

[cladovan]

love it

[vlada111]

Great guide, thanks and +rep for you

[Dark_Angel]

if you got any of it right it would be common sense, but most of your tips are bad.

What about rep? rep is the most important aspect in both pve and pvp (enchants for pvp&pve, and starting gear for pve)

Reputation goes along with Heroics obviously since you now have tabards that give you reputation, but I'll add it in there just for you ;D, but later on today, kind of busy atm.
~Dark_Angel

[Gele]

5. (By Skaya133): Retri paladins have a good use of haste. More hits = more Seal of Blood/the Martyr hits, which deals alot of damage(My friend critted 11k with seal of the martyr).


This is _wrong_! Haste was only good in bc for rets. Now its one of the worst stats you can get. As a ret you want stack up as many str as u just can.

From EJ forums :

"Seal of Blood": ArmorPenetration=0.37, CritRating=0.736, Dps=5.281, Strength=1.681, Agility=0.696, ExpertiseRating=0.796, HasteRating=0.418, SpellPower=0.22, HitRating=1.166, Ap=0.664, MetaSocket=107

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