Pre-Kara Gear ListFollow

Just what is says, a list of gear for Restoration Shamans to shoot for to get ready to heal Karazhan.

Gavel of Pure Light
Stormshield of Renewal
Headdress of the Tides
Choker of Fluid Thought
Mantle of the Sea Wolf
Cloak of the Everliving
Harness of Deep Currents
Primal Surge Bracers
Fathomheart Gauntlets
Stillwater Girdle
Oceansong Kilt
Wavefury Boots
Ancestral Band
Cosmic Lifeband
Lower City Prayerbook
Scarab of the Infinite Cycle

Most of these pieces are obtained through either reputation or regular level 70 instance runs.

A few of the pieces are obtained through heroics, with about half of the heroics being the "easier" heroics, and the other half being some of the tougher ones.

If you aren't having any luck getting the Scarab to drop, feel free to purchase and equip 2 Prayerbooks, however I highly recommend getting the Scarab as the 2 Prayerbooks will share a cooldownm while the Scarab's proc will be independent of the Prayerbook's cooldown.

I did not include any Heroic badge gear, as most of the older badge gear really isn't worth it if you are starting in Kara anyway. The badge shield can be replaced by the shield from Chess. The badge trinket isn't that much better than the Prayerbook or Scarab. And the badge ring/cloak have multiple items in Kara itself to replace it. Also you will really want to save your badges for...

...the new badge items released in 2.3, as they are phenomenal pieces of gear and are well worth getting, however you will probably have cleared Kara a couple of times before you have enough badges to get any of it.

Finally a quick stat breakdown for this gear. These stats are solely what is gained through the gear itself and does not take into account any bonuses added by your talent spec.

Healing: +1174
Int: +277 (4155 more mana than you have naked, not taking into account Ancestral Knowledge, which you may or may not have)
MP5: 84 (again not taking into account the ~50 MP5 you get from always having Water Shield up and expiring, although this will hopefully be changing with the next patch to a straight 50 MP5)

If anybody has any questions or suggestions, feel free to post them or send me a PM.

Edited, Dec 7th 2007 9:11am by Bigdaddyjug

Again, pretty self-explanatory. This is the list for Enhancement shaman to shoot for to get ready for Karazhan.

I included the Gladiator's weapons available with honor points because there simply aren't any weapons you can get from 70 instances or Heroics that even come close to the DPS on the Gladiator's weapons.

I also freely admit that I am not nearly as familiar with Enhancement shamans, and if anybody has any suggestions for gear, please post it up or PM me and I will make the changes.

Again, I included only mail gear, as this will serve you better when farming or doing dailies.

Gladiator’s Cleaver x 2
Helm of Desolation
Skeletal Necklace of Battlerage
Pauldrons of Desolation
Netherfury Cape
Hauberk of Desolation
Vindicator's Linked Bracers
Gauntlets of Desolation
Vindicator's Linked Girdle
Greaves of Desolation
Vindicator's Linked Sabatons
Veteran's Band of Triumph
Vindicator's Pendant of Triumph
Bladefist's Breadth
Hourglass of the Unraveller

With this set of gear you should end up with approximately 950 attack power, 90 hit rating, 25.5% to crit, and about 8,000 HP.

Edited, Dec 8th 2007 7:38pm by Bigdaddyjug

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TBH, the majority of gear on the Enhancement list won't get you anywhere.

The Abacus is not very good, the Bladefist trinket is still better for its crit rating and the attack power boost every 2 minutes.

A lot of the bosses in Kara have AoE, you WILL need stam for Kara, Rapid Striking is a Hunter chest, the necessary shaman stats are simply not high enough on that piece. Same goes for the bracers, belt, and helm.

As a Kara shaman, you want around 8k health, 1k AP, 100 Hit Rating, and around 20% crit UNBUFFED MINIMUM.

Honestly, forget the Pauldrons of Desolation and farm the honor for the Gladiator shoulders and if you must get the set bonus replace the Dream-Wing Helm with the Helm of Desolation.

Edited, Dec 7th 2007 10:54pm by TheYardstick

Wrong.

Taken straight from the Elitist Jerks Theorycraft thread the order of importance in Shaman stats goes more or less as follows: Strength, AP, Crit Rating, Agi, THEN hit rating.

The reason being that we a rare occurence in which we have 2 abilities that are hit capped and that we have the most hit % in our talent trees than any other class in the game. In fact, many Shamans raid with UNDER 100 Hit Rating. Most of the items that we get with hit rating just have that stat tacked on as an added bonus.

So far so good, let's aim for a target of 1k AP, you have plenty of crit to give up for AP and hit rating is right where it should be.

Trust me, you will have plenty of crit raid buffed, I jump from 24% to 33% crit raid buffed, and I can hit upwards of 2.2k AP raid buffed.

This is just in mixed blues and epics.

The Hourglass is definitely a must, I have seen it used into BM. It has a high proc rate, essentially you'll have the 300AP buff for entire fights.

I'm not too familiar with the easy-to-access Enhancement gear seeing as I got all my PvP gear fairly quickly.

I have a few items though.

Helm Of Desolation
Talon Lord's Collar (I think it's called that)
If you can't get the Abacus or Hourglass, go for the Core Of Ar'kelos, it's a VERY easy item to get and is rewarded from a small chain in Netherstorm.

I'll suggest more items once my memory comes back up to speed.

But, I feel ya man, I know nothing about stat importance for Ele or Resto ><

Oaken, I agree.

In fact, that's exactly what I did as resto, only I didn't have to "wipe through" so much since the rest of the members of my group were pretty well geared.

I think I started Kara as restoration with barely +800 healing and barely 8k mana.

I'm not saying to go into Kara and be successful you need EVERY piece of gear on this list.

I'm just pointing out that, especially for resto and ele, these are the best pieces of gear you can get without raiding.

I do, however, disagree about the "old" badge gear, especially for ele and resto spec.

Most of the old badge pieces aren't any better than things you can get in Kara. In fact, some of them are worse.

You would be much better off saving any badges you can get until you can get some of the "new" badge pieces. I know for a fact with the resto bracers, you could end up using those as your guild is killing Illidan, as there are only 1 or maybe 2 sets of bracers better than those, and there's no guarantee they will drop or you will win the bid/roll for them.

If you're at the point where you've purchased all of the "new" badge pieces and you have extra badges left over, by all means purchase any of the "old" badge pieces that may still be an upgrade.

The tidefury set bonus is great but there is much better gear to get with just a little questing and grinding. For instance you can get the shoulders from Heroic slave pens which are epic, have better damage and higher crit then the tidefury shoulders.

The shamanistic helm of second sight is great reward and you will keep it for a lot longer then you would the tidefury piece. While doing the quest for this helm you also have the chance to get one of the better rings to drop which will be used up til SSC unless you find a world drop.

I have a question? So in order to be somewhat prepared for KZ these are the minimum stats ? "950 attack power, 90 hit rating, 25.5% to crit, and about 8,000 HP".

I am 69 have, have one peice of the gear listed and have 1150 base AP, 22.56% crit, 31 HR (9% from Talents) but only 6061 HP. Now when I hit 70 I will eventually have 2x Merciless Gladiator's Cleavers (already have 1) which will bump my HR, Crit Rating, Health and AP not to mention overall DPS. I also have a few slots to fill with either enchants or enhancement such as socketing my helm with the Relentless Earthstorm Diamond, getting the head enchant, the exalted shoulder enchant, putting Cobrahide Leg Armor on pants (will get the nethercobra when I get pants worth putting them on).

So my question would be do you think when I hit 70 that my stats would be good enough to enter KZ?? I know my HPs are low, but they will jump at least 400 from the axes, and a few with gaining the last lvl and adding some chants, etc. So I am sure I would be 6500-7000 by then.

UMIKO's Armory Page

Edited, Aug 5th 2008 9:01am by OKCToolguy

respec'd enhance after a 1-70 run as elemental. I got tired of lightning bolt spam in heroics so decided to switch.

Here is what I picked up in the last 2 months. I average 625-725dps depending on group makeup (again read: salv)

http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Thorium+Brotherhood&n=Gavinitis

It's not perfect, but he's been up to and including curator with no problems. I would have taken him to full clear but the times didn't line up. Anyway I did 705dps on that first half of kara.

Yeah, my trinkets are my weak spot, obviously took elemental quest rewards on the way up so they are kinda worthless to me now. I have the recipe for the SSO Alchemists stone, just slowly working on getting the mats together now for it. I was helping a crew through regular BM the other day on my hunter and the hourglass dropped for him. So I decided to run BM 3 more times on my shammy. No trinket. *cries

I do think I'll go pick up Core Of Ar'kelos though, thanks for pointing that one out Yardstick.