Where does he get all those wonderful toys?

Much like Forrest Gump, I am not a smart man.  Unlike Forrest Gump, I cannot play the Hell out of Ping Pong.  I do like playing the Hell out of World of Warcraft though, which means making the most of my character.  All roads lead to gearing, plain and simple.

There’s three ways to gear up in MoP – Heroic Dungeon drops, Raid drops, and Valor points (well, four including questing but you can practically fall into that equipment).  Each has their own gateway to the goods.  Heroics means getting in there, getting your ass kicked, hoping your loot drops, and then hoping you win the random roll for it.  Raiding provides better gear, tougher mobs to get through, tougher bosses to drop, hoping your epic loot drops, and THEN praying to the RNG gods that you beat the nine to twenty-four other people who may be rolling on it.

Valor gear has its own grind, mostly involving rep.  Blizzard has spread out Valor gear across several Pandaren reputation vendors, and tucked most of them in behind the sexy Revered tag.  This makes it potentially more time consuming to get Valor geared up.  Oh joy.

So where do you go for what?  Well, over at WoW Insider, Daniel Whitcomb posted an excellent article on Rep gear for Death Knights in Mists of Pandaria.  Since I’m a huge fan on not reinventing the wheel, I thought it’d be easiest just to use that list to find the appropriate rep gear. By all means, head over to the Lichborne post too for some great background information and just clever writing. I’m sure they would appreciate the page hits too…  all both of those hits that would be coming from this site.

The August Celestials

Honored:

• Ribcracker’s Cloak (DPS)
• Cloak of the Silent Mountain (Tank)
• Leggings of Ponderous Advance (DPS)

Revered:

• Braided Black and White Bracer (DPS)
• Battle Shadow Bracers (Tank)
• Streetfighter’s Iron Knuckles (DPS)
• Gloves of the Overwhelming Swarm (Tank)
• Tankiss Warstompers (DPS)
• Yu’lon Guardian Boots (Tank)

Golden Lotus

Honored:

• Serrated Forearm Guards (DPS/Tank)
• Triumphant Conqueror’s Chain (DPS)
• Gorget of Usurped Kings (Tank)
• Mogu Rune of Paralysis (Tank/Frost DPS)

Revered:

• Dawnblade’s Chestguard (DPS)
• Cuirass of the Twin Monoliths (Tank)
• Ring of the Golden Stair (DPS)
• Alani’s Inflexible Ring (Tank)
• Stonetoe Spaulders (DPS)
• Shoulders of Autumnlight (Tank)

The Klaxxi

Honored:

• Chestplate of the Stone Lion (Tank/DPS)

Revered :

• Bloodseeker’s Solitaire (DPS)
• Paragon’s Pale Pendant (Tank)
• Kovok’s Riven Legguards (Tank)
• Legguards of the Unscathed (DPS)
• Klaxxi Lash of the Rescinder (DPS)
• Klaxxi Lash of the Consumer (Tank)

Exalted:

• Amber Espada of Klaxxi’vess
• Amber Flammard of Klaxxi’vess

The Shado-Pan

Honored:

• Wall Breaker Gauntlets (DPS)
• Signet of the Slumbering Emperor (DPS)
• Thunderstone Ring (Tank)

Revered:

• Yi’s Least Favorite Helmet (Tank)
• Voice Amplifying Greathelm (DPS)
• Yi’s Cloak of Courage (Tank)
• Cloak of the Dark Disciple (DPS)
• Iron Belly Wok (DPS)
• Lao-Chin’s Liquid Courage (Tank)