Another I just dinged 70 threadFollow

As the subject says, finally dinged 70 this weekend. I am somewhat overwhelmed at the amount of work to do to get myself ready for kara or heroics, still have 1/2 of outland unexplored, etc.

I will spare you the request for an audit of my toon since, frankly, he has so much gear to acquire there's no point yet. I do, however, have three questions that I couldn't easily find the answers to. I apologize if they dwell elsewhere on the forum or Emmerald's list and I missed it:

1) I see all the time people say not to worry too much about socket bonuses. Does that mean I should just gem up everything (mainly my clefthoof set) w solid stars of elune to get my sta up, once I hit the defense cap? The socket bonus on the clefthoof looks nice (I can use +dodge right now) but is it worth it?

2) I'm planning to use the S1 shoulders and headpiece for both tanking and dps, and, of course, pvp. What's the best way to gem 'em? I presume with agi and a meta that has some sta?

3) On a related note, since I have those two pvp pieces (and may get the gloves since it seems the verdant gloves will take aeons to acquire), I have some resilience (something like 80). I know that 415 defense = uncrittable. But I imagine that total drops with resilience. Is there a formula for how much defense you need for uncrittable with x resilence?

Thanks in advance.

Terrific, thanks much. Looks like I'm uncrittable already....who knew?

Now just 4k more health, 8% more dodge and 10k more armor to go....sigh....

I think you logged out in your dps gear. But I'll keep checking your armory for when you log in tanking gear, I'd like to see how you gemmed and enchanted. I'm actually pretty close to 19k armor and 13k health after three days at 70 w no enchants yet. I still don't have the smv bracers and I need to farm Durn and Ramps for the tanking rings. But my dodge needs help (a measly 18% last I looked).

Also, for some reason I never find heavy clefthoof leggings on AH. The chest and boots, all the time, but after 3 weeks of searching havent found the pants. I may have to either get to Revered w consortium for their blue pants (http://wow.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?witem=29116;source=live) or farm some clefthoof leather and hire a leatherworker. Both seem unappealing but necessary.

For those of us intimidated at running Arc to get verdant gloves in their first week as a 70...any other good, easily-attainable tanking mitts out there, besides the PvP ones?

If you checked today, then ya, sorry, I did log out in my dps set (which sucks cause I spent so much time on my tanking set LOL)

I normally log out in my tank gear in bear form so that way I'm always available to get checked on the armory and I will make sure I do so again tonight. The big thing about getting the crafted gear is making friends with these people. Find someone on one of your PuG runs or someone a guildy knows that is a leatherworker.

If you become friends with them, 9 times out of 10, they are going to hook you up in one way or another and taaadaaa you are wearing resolute cape(tailor), stylin' purple hat, clefthoof set(both LW) and looking good.

I went for the pvp gloves and shoulders(the shoulders are almost a must) If you don't wanna go earn the honor for the gloves then you can always just pick up the gloves/shoulders blue pvp set from whichever rep vendor has them and use that. It's especially helpful for the resil 2pc bonus for new tanks.

The gloves, shoulders, helm and rings are your base agility usually since heavy clefthoof doesn't have any unless you gem for it. I put the +35 agil on my Braxxis staff of slumber which helps a lot and then after you hit that 13k or so mark on hp I gem with +8 agility gems (+6) if they are overpriced at the time(you can even go with the +agil/+stam gems if they are cheap on your server) and like I said I'm gonna get a few enchants to +agil to the rest of the stuff.

Overall I am very happy with how my tanking gear has shaped up and I am going to start working on getting a little more Agil/stam compared to Def rating/resil since I am way over the cap.

I made sure to log out in my Tanking gear today before I left for work, so you should be able to armory me today and get a good idea of how/what I did to get to where I am.

I tanked Regular Shadow Labs last night and actually had to switch out to my Staff of Natural Fury and change a ring and my boots out to add to my dps/take away from my armor because they didn't hit hard enough and I ended up rage starved a lot.

Anyway Good luck with the gearing up.