Pre Raid Gear, tips and tricks.Follow

Is it only me or is it absurd to recommend gear available at SSC/TK level for a pre-raid gear list?
While this belt is nice, and now somewhat easy to obtain (~1k gold I'd guess when you want to buy the vortexes), it is in no way needed to get ready for raiding (read: for doing tier 4 content).

While there is a lot of gear now avaible, I'd not include every item in here. You can get ready for Kara & Gruul with a lot less gear.

while it might be primaraly a pre-raid gear list i have found it extremly useful for ideas on how to improve my character outside of raid nights and for that i'm very greatful to aethien. my raid group is far from the best and attumen is the only one who has ever dropped me anything in kara, but the first time I clear kara I want to be with them. i'm therefore limited to items i can obtain outside of raids and this is one of the easier ones to obtain for a survival hunter. i ran heroic ramparts five times and shadowlabs twice before murmur dropped his belt. the crafted one cost me 500g in mats 100g crafting fee, 3 hours grinding primal air and a favour from a mate for the windscales. I would tend to agree that an item of this quality shouldn't be easier to obtain than the pre kara blue i was trying to obtain before this became available, but blizz are in dumbing down mode so that's the way it is.

Update! wooh!

No more fancy colours so i can keep the list updated on here as well as on TKA without havin to redo my work
Aaaaaaaand, added links to warcrafter.net for the optimal gearsets so you can check if i did well and picked the right items ;)

What are your feelings on the Sun-Forged Cleaver from MgT its one hand and not unique so you can get 2 and it looks nice.

Ah okay right now im using Sonic spear with +35 AGI. I got the axe 2 nights ago and the leather boots from kael (major improvement over what i had). Been using polearms since grimloks charge and wanted to change things up a bit .

I have yet to step in the arena but i recently joined a 3s team with my guild mates so hopefully i can get the 1k points in a decent amount of time. The team is Resto druid demonology lock and me BM hunter

At 1.96 attack speed i used a 3:2.. not optimal but its close.

ok , sorry if this is a noob question but where should i use the epic gear outside of raids , since raids is really pve , or am i mistakeing ? since it's not pvp gear , i wondered where i should use it...
thanks

tyvm , asked this because i was a little confused because none of that items were listed as best for a diff spec hunter.
all the best

sufooted does indeed give 3% +hit and also doesnt show.

As for gear, you need to gem and enchante the whole thing.
Might cost you a few hundred gold, but so will raiding anyway.


Hell, I'm 4/9 BT, 4/5 MH and i dont have an epic flyer ;)

Hey Aethien, are you going to update this for S4 or is S2 not really that great for Kara like S1 is? Just wondering as I think it'd be easier to get some S2 instead of trying to get heroic epix to drop with some of the low drop rates reported.

I think it is obvious that if S1 gear was good and had the little !! next to it, the S2 gear would be even better (besides you can't get S1 anymore can you?)

Edited, Jul 1st 2008 8:07am by zebug

Hey Aethien, I was checking to see what I could do with the tons of Spirit Shards I have lying around, and I noticed a little gem of an epic ring called Band of the Exorcist.

I don't see it on the list, but it's a pretty nice ring for 50 spirit shards. Sure, it has a bit of resilience, but it's a nice side-grade to Ring of Arathi Warlords if you need a little bit of extra hit.