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If you studied my Excel usage patterns, you would be able to easily predict when a new patch is scheduled to drop. As soon as the release date is relatively fixed, I start working on my gear acquisition plan. My rogue takes priority when it comes to gearing up quickly. Ill spend as much gold or as many valor points as necessary to make sure Im ahead of everyone else.
I typically spendmy holy paladins first batch of available valor points on the BoE valor piece for my rogue. Healers dont need gear anyway, right? If I can get my gear ster, my raid will be able to down bosses ster, and Ill get my hands on theFangs of the Father sooner. Its a win-win scenario Herald Citizen, and so when it comes to my rogue, I spare no expense. Please note that there are now three different levels of gear available, with the introduction of theRaid Finder difficulty level. The gear is identical between all three tiers and is simply scaled up or down appropriately.
The developers love to switch up our method for acquiring tier gear with every new tier, and patch 4.3 is no different. Our tier set will only be available via killing bosses in the Dragon Soul raid instance. Luckily for those rogues who arent raiding today, you can actually PUG the bosses via the new Raid Finder to get your tier set. Youre still going to have to spend a couple of hours in Dragon Soul, but its easy work and still yields some great gear. If you arent able to even run the Raid Finder, your options for gear will be limited to the loot that drops in the three new dungeons in this patch.
When were looking at our five tier slots, we typically have two options. We can either pick up the set piece,gw2 gold or we can grab the non-tier piece. The choice typically comes down to how the pieces of gear are itemized. Since we want toacquire our set bonuses in tier 13, we will want to wear four pieces of our tier set, which leaves us with the ability to wear one non-tier piece in one of the core five tier slots. Your choice of non-set piece will likely be determined by your luck with drops, to start. When it comes to buying valor point pieces, I typically like to save up my points. By waiting a few weeks before any purchases, I get to see more raid drops, reducing the chance of buying a piece of gear with valor points only to receive a similar piece from the raid soon after.
Helmets are irly straightforward for us, mirroring what we saw last tier. OurBlackng Battleweave Helmet isnt perfect, but the set bonus makes it worth using. The token for our helmet drops toward the end of Dragon Soul. The alternative is usingNocturnal Gaze, which we can buy for 2,EverQuest II Goes Free-To-Play In A Different Way. 200 valor points. For our shoulder slot, the non-tier pieceUnderdwellers Spaulders are perfectly itemized for assassination rogues, and they drop from the first boss of Dragon Soul. OurBlackng Battleweave Spaulders drop off of the second boss in Dragon Soul, so its likely that well be getting one or the other very quickly.
The chest slot matches our helmet slot, where our non-tier pieceShadowbinder Chestguard is purchasable for 2,200 valor points and our tier chestBlackng Battleweave Tunic drops from a later boss in Dragon Soul. The tier chest is a haste/mastery combo item, so it fits perfectly into an assassinatWorld of Warcraft US Goldion rogues setup. Our non-tier glovesLightfinger Handwraps come from the vendor again Titan Gold, and our tierBlackng Battleweave Gloves come from the token from the third boss. Because of the high expertise on our tier gloves,Maple Story Mesos. these may be the piece we leave out of our four-piece combo.
For our leg slot, we actually have a new option available. TheBladeshadow Leggings are crafted by leatherworkers, and their 397 item level will make them valuable to rogues at every level. They requireEssences of Destruction to craft, and so expect to pay a premium for these unless your guild furnishes them. Our tier leg token, which we redeem forBlackng Battleweave Legguards, drop in the middle of Dragon Soul. I would recommend crafting the leatherworking pants, which have great itemization, and saving your DKP or rolls for a different tier slot if you can.
Youll notice that most of our gearing options so r come from the valor points vendor, either via valor points or token turn-ins. Blizzard has put a ton of gear onto the valor points vendor in this tier in an effort to remove some of the randomness of gearing up. For our bracer slot, we actually have three different options. We can have a leatherworker craft us someBladeshadow Wristguards, we can acquireShadow Wing Armbands from late in Dragon Soul, or we can buy the valor points item runescape gold maker,Bracers of Manifold Pockets. Notice that the valor points bracers are BoE, as usual, so yo