Replacing gear already?

The first thing I've done with my gear in Northrend is replace my Nexus-Guard's Pauldrons with Cobalt Shoulders. Those shoulders were the worst piece I was wearing, and the only one that was inferior to the low crafted stuff (or at least, will be inferior once I go back to Shatt and grab an inscription for the new ones).
Hopefully get my hands on that neck soon (might pug UK tonight)...


I'm still wearing full Felsteel, so I expect to start replacing things in a level or two.
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My beta experience tells me there's no upgrade for me until level 76. And even there, it's only a necklace, rest of upgrades are all from heroics.
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Uord - Prot Warrior
Darkworldie - Death Knight

Tanking... srs business

I replaced the stoic guardian chestplate with a 73 blue from the 2nd spider instance. Name is confusing to remember.
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maaan I was hoping to replace my bright yellow pants with something. the rest of me is brown and silver.
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Ilara Horde RETIRED
Ilara Alliance / Caelestrasz
Other
Zephyruss / Druid / 56 / Caelestrasz

A good tank is one that can acknowledge their limitations. A great tank is one that can properly use the tools at hand to overcome them.

Yeah, I got that neck. I'm keeping my ZA shoulders for now (granted, I kinda like 'em).

However, I'm looking for new pants. Badge pants, while nice, are ugly.
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The Pauldrons of Stone Resolve still seem like a slight upgrade over the Tundra Shoulders:


http://www.wowhead.com/?item=33481

http://www.wowhead.com/?item=43184

At level 70 if you could stay block capped with them, the Tundra shoulders are a minor upgrade to the T5 and a clear winner over the ZA shoulder. Don't forget the extra armor when looking at the pieces.

Assuming 2 +15 stam gems the ZA shoulders have 17 stamina, 21 BR vs 7 BV, 4 def, 25 dodge, and 109 armor.

Now that we are leveling the BR on the ZA shoulders will likely keep them our prefer choice.
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Majiben
If we wanted Ret to be a joke, we would have just left the tree as it was, and maybe kicked it a little for good measure. -GC

Where is the npc that gives the Tundra Shoulders Qst and is it a questline? I've been avoiding the chaos that is questing but I'm still in blue laj shoulders and have completed Nexus a couple of times already without realised there were any useful quest rewards.

Tuindra Pauldrons come from the only Nexus quest that isn't on a chain, it's given by a female mage at Transitus Shield in Coldarra, quest is "Have They No Shame". It involves picking up a book off the floor next to the frozen horde/alliance.
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I've already replaced 2 piece of my tanking gear:

Hammer of Quiet Mourning replaces The Brutalizer, and Battlechest of the Twilight Cult replaces my hard earned Lightbringer Chestguard. There's simply too much defense for me to not bank my T6 chest.
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