I've been overwhelmed with emblems, obviously. Today's Googling popped up
a post over at Gray Matter from about a week and a half ago, however, that nearly ends the trouble. It's a list of 'kin raiding gear, ranked by what Graylo thinks is the appropriate DPS for each piece.
Now I realize he says...
This list is a tool, not a blue print for how to gear. I’ve never intended these lists to be the definitive guide on how to gear a raiding moonkin.
... and I get it. But I just don't have the time to do this right. Let's cherry pick from the excellent research and posting Graylo and Cowtarus have done to see what direction a part-timer should go with their emblems.
So though he says not to, I'm going to pretend that Graylo's lists are hierarchical BiS lists (BiS, I've learned, meaning "Best in Slot") so that I can save some time. I really don't have the energy to figure out how close to accurate he is. He's done better than I could by miles and miles, and I'm happy enough as is.
I'm taking Graylo's list and only including items that fit one of these "part-timer accessible" categories.
- Bought with emblems that you can grab from 5-man dungeons.
- Craftables that aren't BoC (ie, items you could find in the AH)
- Fall from a 5-man instance, heroic or normal.
- Rep rewards (though I think the ICC (Icecrown Citadel) rep is beyond us).
- The Kirin Tor will sell it to you for enough gold to buy most of Shattrath.
EoT items are in bold. I'll try to clean up the html at some point.
Legs
Head
shoulders
Chest
Hands
wrists
This is an interesting slot, as Graylo explains that if you can get this to drop, from the top of the list, that you, as a boomkin, shouldn't have too much competition for the piece. Bad in that there's nothing on this list that's from EoT or EoF. The Bejeweled Bracers look like about it, as I think you could swipe a crafted pair from the AH.
There's also
limited evidence that you can bag the Bracers for playing Bejeweled, or at could at one point (man, that'd be nice, but I don't see it corroborated anywhere). Note also that the mats for those gloves require 60 EoT themselves! (15 EoT times four
Crusader Orbs).
belt
boots
back
neck
trinket
From Graylo:
Disclaimer: I urge you to view the trinkets with some level of skepticism. A lot of the trinkets have proc with unknown rates and cooldowns. Additionally, the trinkets that proc mobs to fight for you are hard to evaluate.
Rings
Off-hand
Main hand
Two-handed
Fun to see that I've already got the Blood Boil Lancet. I'm on the list!
Idol
From Graylo:
At this point you should only be thinking about two idols. The
[Idol of Lunar Eclipse] is the best and it is purchasable with Emblems of Frost. However, you may be saving your Emblems for your Tier Set or another item. In such a case you should at least have the
[Idol of Lunar Fury]. It is purchase able with Emblems of Triumph. Since it is incredibly easy to farm EoTs at the moment, using anything less then the Idol of Lunar Fury is pretty stupid.
Wow. Graylo's list is wonderful. And I'm also able to quit irrationally leaving out slots that I usually ignore, like rings and trinkets. So now I'm not so interested in shoulders and gloves anymore -- those are the only things I could even get enough EoF to grab at the rate I'm going. They're tabled. Although the following back item:
... is probably the first thing to grab with Frost. It's the only cloak on Graylo's list that fits part-timer accessible gear.
After some thinking, I'm down to a ring or a helm.
Here's the comparison. The order shouldn't matter too much; it's the same number of emblems (duh) no matter what I buy first. Since I already have 43, the question is if I'd rather have neither for three days, max, or the ring for those three extra days and the helm later.
Ring gives me 58 Int, 39 Sta, 50 Spi, 50 Haste (1.52%), and 56 Spell Power over what I have now for 35 emblems.
The helm gives me 92 Int, 56 Sta, 313 Armor, 13 Crit (0.28%), 72 Hit (2.2%), 31 Spell Power, and 1 Socket over what I have now for 50 EoTs.
I'm tempted to go helm. 92x15 mana is nice, and that's 34x15 more mana than the ring. Extra hit, a little crit, and armor is also nice. Downside is minus 15 spell power and a little haste. Yeah, I think I go helm (though I should've given idols more thought).
What a waste of time. Sheesh. How can this possibly be fun?! ;^)
2 comments:
Some alternatives (a bit less Hit, a bit more regen):
Moonshadow Armguards
Surgeon's Needle
Handbook of Obscure Remedies
Argh. You had to complicate things! ;^)
The armguards look worth pursuing via LW, and the needle is enough to start running the Pit a bit. 30% isn't a bad rate, and I just bagged a decent off-hand item with spellpower.
The calculations never end. When I was level grinding I think I finally gave up and just kept grinding until 80. I should probably do the same with emblems at some point, and just pursue T9 and T10 as quickly as possible.
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