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I dont know, i guessed that the 43 ap extra would carry over.
Without that, i agree its pretty rubbish.
With that, its still rubbish unless you are in 25-mans and a SV hunter =P

And you can switch out trinkets during combat, so you can make a macro that uses the trinket and then swaps it out for some other trinket =P

What do you guys think about the non-set PvP epics? I know that right up at the top of the main post, it says to avoid them since they're not optimal, but they're a bit better than some of the other items listed, and they're relatively easy to obtain, since you're guaranteed to get them if you keep up with BGs, whereas with some of the other pieces, you could run a dungeon a dozen times and never get them.

A said, they arent bad at all.
Note on top is simply a warning so people dont go Raiding in full pvp outfits and go OoM after ~30 seconds.
Because every single piece of PvP gear has comparitively low intellect, using many kills your mana pool.

Besides that, as soon as i go play my hunter again i'll be in BG's to get the S1 X-bow and the PvP belt along with a bunch of epic gems.

I would vote for that.

I would also jump for the stickies being locked and a seperate sticky put up for suggestions to the stickies to keep from having the stickies get cluttered.

>.<


I forgot my glasses at home today, so I am having a massive headache from holding my head 1ft away from the monitors in order to see wtf I am doing...

a useful macro to add would be

/target name of tank
/cast Misdirection

Of course, actually change "name of tank" to the name of the main tank. I find that it is SO much easier to change the macro onces at the beginning of each new group, and just hit the macro- instead of finding the tank on either the party/raid bar or in the group and then casting.

And btw, I just got Hourglass of the Unraveller, and I'm in love with it. It's great for trashmobs because I don't have to wait for a cooldown and remember to hit it. For bossfights I still reequip my bladefist's breadth and use it in conjunction with rapid fire.

Minor update, slimmed down the list to remove useless info and updated the scorpid info to post-nerf.

Edit: added the new heroic badge rewards.

As always, if you have any new info/gear/tips/tricks/whatever that needs to be added or you think something in this list doent belong here, please say so.

Edited, Nov 16th 2007 9:27am by Aethien

WHOOHOO, it finally got stickied!

The 35 Badge Reward Leather bracers are pretty much best bracers a hunter could get pre hyjal. Master Assassins Wristwraps. I get 1.69% to crit with bracers alone. Which is amazing. Not too mention 91RAP.

http://wow.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?witem=33540&locale=enUS;source=live

I have them gemmed and enchanted in my armory.



Edited, Nov 17th 2007 3:53am by Elustriel

Thing is about "int" sacrificing some of it is no big deal when you get such a nice dps up and I frankly have 0 issues with mana anywhere but long raid fights where I drink mana pots anyway and have no issues at all with Hawk always up.

That bracer you linked is not even in the same league compared to the leather one. Well maybe its reversed in the price department from what you have said; since 35 badges are a lot easier to get than 5k gold.

Your bracer 21agil is 0.52 to crit vs 1.69% for leather one. a huge up, wouldn't ya agree? int doesn't directly contribute to your dps. As for haste rating, don't really need it as BM, unless you are using a slow weapon and trying to bring it down, but that haste rating takes away from item budget, things like crit, atk. So you are essentially sacrificing something for that haste. Just so you understand I am speaking from BM perspective only.



Edited, Nov 19th 2007 12:16pm by Elustriel

Compare those two: [wowitem=33540]35 badges leather bracers[/wowitem] and [wowitem=33529]35 badges mail item[/wowitem].

You don't have to do Hyjal / BT to get equally good mail bracers, the same guy who sells this leather stuff also has very nice mail bracers.

When choosing the leather bracers over the mail ones you buy 28 crit rating (assuming a 8crit rating socket) and 1 stamina at the cost of 1agi, 105armor penetration and 19int.

I see both bracers as equally good for PvE and the mail ones as slightly better for PvP.
Armor penetration is a nice thing and the more you get of this, the better it'll get (yay for S3 gladiator gear *g*).

This would be a definite add to the list: Vengeful Gladiator's Waraxe

Especially since it only costs 1000 Arena Points with no Rating Pre-Req.

Edited, Nov 30th 2007 4:02pm by dbernor