Trying to Upgrade ArmorFollow

You do realize that you don't have to match every socket color, right? I always thought that when gemming it should either be str/armor pen (later)/hit (and then a gem that fits the meta gem requirement -- I used a nightmare tear for my relentless earthsiege to get all 3).

Oh, and there are some BoEs that you could get crafted, although it could be fairly expensive. I just got Belt of the Titans made for about 2.5k (including materials cost). You could get a Darkmoon Card: Greatness for about 1k. I understand that DMC: Death is a decent card if you can find it for cheap (definitely better than your green trinkets).

Oh, and your frost resist pieces are pretty bad, yeah they give you a few sockets and a lot of stam... but a ton of waste itemization on frost resist. You would probably be similar/better off with just the savage saronite set or something like that.

Edited, Sep 9th 2009 9:54am by Anobix

Regarding the Darkmoon cards: The Greatness card is an excellent card that will last you through till Ulduar at least. If the Strength flavor of the card is way out of your price range, you can try one of three things:
1. Find a Nobles deck. This deck, when turned into the Darkmoon Faire, becomes the Greatness card of your choice (in the case of DK, a Strength flavor).
2. Assemble a Nobles deck. You will need an Ace through 8 to make a Nobles deck.
3. Have a scribe manufacture cards for you. You will need the following mats to make cards (making cards is completely random; you'll get 1 of the 32 possible cards this way) - 3x Eternal Life, 3x Ink of the Sea, 6x Snowfall Ink and 1x Resilient Parchment (can get them from a vendor for no more than 50s each). They are NOT cheap to make.
You could also get a scribe to help you make the inks. You will need a significant quantity (many stacks) of herbs from Northrend. The herbs with the best yield of pigments that make Snowfall ink are Adder's Tongue, Icethorn and Lichbloom. 10x Ink of the Sea may be traded for 1x Snowfall ink at Jessica Sellers in the Inscription center in Dalaran.

The best way I've found is to keep an eagle eye out on the AH and trade for people selling specific Nobles cards, or trading certain cards. That's how I assembled my (currently my only) Nobles deck. It should be cheaper than buying the deck flat out (although I did find a deck cheaper than I could buy the 8 cards at one time, I flipped that for a tidy profit), but also watch the price on the completed deck too. You may cut the price of your deck significantly if you've got cards you bought cheap and sell later if you find a cheap deck.

To be honest, and I'm speaking from personal experience (and I AM a scribe, to boot)... I've assembled two nobles decks, one to use and a second I sold. It was much faster selling herbs on the AH for gold, and then buying the cards individually when the price seemed reasonable (or sell more herbs and buy it when it wasn't reasonable). It was a good 2-3 thousand gold cheaper putting the deck together by buying the individual cards, and the chances of getting a nobles card (and later, the nobles card you need) is so low, that you end up wasting tons and tons of mats, which you could have sold. Yes, even being able to make the cards myself, it was a better use of my time to sell herbs and buy other people's cards.

Basically farm gold, and buy it.