Enhancing your gear in only four dungeons
We all have different definitions of the term and judging by the comments in the last post, others’ definition of casual is more severe than mine. I’ll get into casual vs. hardcore and the ridiculousness of those classifications in another post. For now, I hear you loud and clear, so let’s refrain from diving into that now.
I digress. As I was writing last week’s article I had this sneaking suspicion that I already wrote several articles on gearing your non-end game enhancement shaman. In fact I had written articles many moons ago, and they are all on my neglected blog, Big Hit Box. Time for a revisit.
The dungeon loot list
You would think that a dungeon gear wish list wouldn’t have changed much since March 2009, considering that only four new instances were released after that list was published. But those four instances cover nearly every slot with ilevel 219 and 232 gear, whereas the previous 12 dungeons drop ilevel 200 gear.
The TL;DR version of gearing up your enhancement shaman outside of raids is: grind the heck out of Trial of the Champion, Forge of Souls, Pit of Saron, and every tank’s favorite, Halls of Reflection. And yes tanks, that’s sarcasm; I know firsthand from my bear druid how nasty that place can be.
I wanted to title this post “A loot list for enhancement shaman who do not have regular or significant access to ICC gear, and may or may not consider themselves casual” but I didn’t think that would fit in the address bar. And, after filling out just a few items on the list, I realized just how easy it is to gear yourself up running only the four new instances. It’s almost a joke to create a loot list, but I will anyway in case you have a particular slot with a green quest reward still plaguing your character screen.
Enough preamble, on to the loot! I do include some normal versions of the instances, which technically makes this list eight dungeons instead of four, but you get the idea. Use this list to target areas for specific upgrades. Click the header link for an amazing Wowhead filter.