Gearing up your Ret Paladin as fast as possible with time restraints

[Veritable]

So I wanted to write up something about ret paladins, because I decided to play mine this expansion as opposed to my other toons, so I thought, what better way to help out this community than to put together a short list of what I did myself to gear up for LFR on release.

So LFR requires an iLevel of 460 to queue up, and with a few of the changes they made since release this is a lot easier to gear up than it was on launch.

First things first, get to 90. Second thing, you need to get your iLevel up to 435 so you can do heroics. This is easy.

Gearing Up For Heroics

Items you can buy from crafters:

Cloak - Stormscale Drape - Ribcracker's Cloak - Item - World of Warcraft

20 prismatic scales, 1 Spirit of Harmony (Leatherworking 550

Ring - Lord's Signet - Lord's Signet - Item - World of Warcraft

2 Primordial Ruby, 6 Serpent's Eyes, 1 Jewelers Setting (Jewelcrafting 575)

Quest Rewards:

Helm - Quest: Sha of Hatred - The Sha of Hatred - Quest - World of Warcraft - Palewind Helm Palewind Helm - Item - World of Warcraft

Shoulders - Quest: The Mariner's Revenge - Quest - World of Warcraft - Coldbite Shoulders - Coldbite Shoulders - Item - World of Warcraft

To get these, just go to this quest giver: Deck Boss Arie - NPC - World of Warcraft
And do the chain, they're fairly short and simple, and at the end is the shoulder quest.

Chest - Quest: The Point of No Return - The Point of No Return - Quest - World of Warcraft - Palewind Chestpiece - Palewind Chestpiece - Item - World of Warcraft

For this, goto this quest giver: Ban Bearheart - NPC - World of Warcraft
And do the quests until you get it. There's only 5 to do and they're easy and fast.

Finger - Quest: Terror of the Dread Wastes - Terror of the Dread Wastes - Quest - World of Warcraft - Battlefront Band - Battlefront Band - Item - World of Warcraft

This starts at this quest: Breach in the Defenses - Quest - World of Warcraft
8 steps in (not completing the chain even) you get this ring. The end quest has a 429 cloak if you're stuck with that.

Trinket - Quest: Chasing the Storm - Chasing the Storm - Quest - World of Warcraft - Lorewalker's Insignia - Lorewalker's Insignia - Item - World of Warcraft

Quest starts here: It Was Almost Alive - Quest - World of Warcraft
And is on the 6th step

Vendors with New Rep Changes:

Golden Lotus - Little pool below Mogu'shan Palace - Trimphant Conqueror's Chain - Triumphant Conqueror's Chain - Item - World of Warcraft
Golden Lotus - Same place - Serrated Forearm Guards - Serrated Forearm Guards - Item - World of Warcraft

The other slots:

I wanted to put this into its own area. Because these are harder to find if you're not doing dungeons or mass questing and choosing the rewards. Most cases, people will just buy the crafted pvp gear for these slots now, especially since they are dirt cheap at the moment. I have seen some of these for only 100g.

They are the Contender's Reventant pvp season 12 crafted items

Gloves - Contender's Revenant Gauntlets - Item - World of Warcraft
Belt - Contender's Revenant Belt - Item - World of Warcraft
Legs - Contender's Revenant Legplates - Item - World of Warcraft
Boots - Contender's Revenant Boots - Item - World of Warcraft

You can buy the rest of the set pieces if you have money, but ... some people don't.

Now, you can run Heroics. Get all of the 463 items you can muster. Get a group of friends and gear up together for best results (ninja needers abound especially tanks who are dps and want the dps gear).

[Dante]

Good i suppose! Or you buy items (contender) on the AH for 1.5k crafting materials ! XD

[Veritable]

Ya, they're getting cheaper, but some of the other pieces are still 1k gold on my server, and not everyone has that (new players might not) so.