Emblems of Conquest

Broach of the Wailing Night
16 emblems, (If you got the Favor of the Dragon Queen, you can skip this one)
Belt of the Twilight Assassin
22 emblems, pretty much best in slot, if you’re maxed in experise you might wanna go for the leatherworking Death-warmed Belt
Leggings of Wavering Shadow
32 emblems, there are better legs in Ulduar, and be careful with loosing your T7-bonus, personally, only buy when you’re really unlucky with drops
Gloves of the Blind Stalker
23 emblems, the Frosted Adroit Gauntlets are better, and there is that bonus again. Think carefully!

Leatherworking

Death-warmed Belt
A bind on equip (boe) recipe and belt, so with luck its available quite soon. Drops from Kologarn in Ulduar, could be it drops from more bosses. The not soulbound 6 Runed Orbs will be expensive! You can get a Runed Orb for 15 Emblems of Conquest, but it’s gonna be a while before you get those together. If you’re expertise capped, this belt is better than Belt of the Twilight Assassin
Footpads of Silence
Best in slot and boe. Just gotta wait for the recipe to drop on the server. And those Runed Orbs of course.

Ring

You can buy the Inscribed Band of the Kirin Tor on patch day. It is better than the Ring of Invincibility. Stil, the Surge Needle Ring and Strong-handed Ring are better than this one.

Gems

If you haven’t maxed fishing yet, you better start now. Delicate Stormjewel and Rigid Stormjewel is a reward for the new fishing dailies in Dalaran. The gem is unique equipped and bind on pickup (bop), so you gotta do the fishing yourself. The new dailies seem like fun though and there are plenty more rewards. Not to mention fishing your own food saves a lot of money! More information on El’s Professions.

Enchantment

No new enchantments, but Unholy Aura is changed to a personal buff. The 15% movement speed will be missed. It might be better to use the Cat’s Swiftness enchant instead of Icewalker.

Glyphs for mutilate spec

For mutilate there some good new glyphs, Glyph of Hunger for Blood and Glyph of Mutilate. Sofar it seems these two glyphs together with Glyph of Rupture are the best. Optionally a talent point can go from Precision the Improved Slice and Dice, to keep snd from dropping.

Talent spec for mutilate

Master of Poisoner is reworked, making it an interesting option for mutilate: increases the bonus chance to apply Deadly Poison when Envenom is used by an additional 45%. It’s a replacement of sorts for the short lived Glyph of Envenom. Optimum muti build seems to be 51/13/7, moving from Turn the Tables t Master Poisoner and 1 point from Precision to Improved Slice and Dice.

Assassination (51 points)
5/5 Malice
3/3 Ruthlessness
2/2 Blood Spatter
3/3 Puncturing Wounds
5/5 Lethality
3/3 Vile Poisons
5/5 Improved Poisons
1/1 Cold Blood
5/5 Seal Fate
2/2 Murder
1/1 Overkill
3/3 Focused Attacks
3/3 Find Weakness
3/3 Master Poisoner
1/1 Mutilate
5/5 Cut to the Chase
1/1 Hunger For Blood

Combat (13 points)
5/5 Dual Wield Specialization
1/2 Improved Slice and Dice
4/5 Precision
3/5 Close Quarters Combat

Subtlety (7 points)
5/5 Relentless Strikes
2/2 Opportunity

Leveling up to 70, doing the heroic dungeons, getting the Karazhan attunement and gearing up for the first runs, it really felt like a huge commitment.

In Wrath, i entered Naxxramas fresh the day i dinged 80. I had’t set foot yet in a heroic. Two weeks later we had cleared the whole instance and i was decked in a lot of epics already. At teh time it was a bit too fast really. I had to learn the new gems, the new enchants, the new builds.

Most of my information i got from the elitist jerks Pocket Guide. After a short time reading up i kinda left it where it is. Yeah, i got lazy.

So now i try to better my life! Ulduar is on the horizon and i need to be in top shape for what will be the first real Wrath raid instance. I checked the mutilate gear spreadsheet and i was shocked to find out i was still in 3 pieces T7 since i respecced from the subtlety HAT spec back to my original mutilate spec. I had the T7 chest in tha bank, i just didn’t realize that the 4 set bonus ‘Reduces the energy cost of you combo moves with 5%‘ was pretty good for mutilate. Aarghh.

I made a spreadsheet with all my current gear and possible upgrades available. I put the Chestguard of the Recluse back in the bank and hoping for a drop of the T7 hand token from Sartharion. I was already collecting for the Darkmoon Card: Greatness – only one card to go and waiting for the next Darkmoon Faire on March 9th.

The list ready, now its only hoping for those lucky drops! And thinking about taking jewelcrafting as a skill.. hmm.. but that’s another post.

There are many different kind of foods now, giving a specific buff: haste, AP, agility, expertise, armor penetration.

The very first character i made on a server was a human paladin. Think i got her to level 8, which seemed like really far at the time. After that i made a gnome mage, which i even got to level 19. I started to think on what type of server i wanted to play on. At the time i simply picked the first recommended server Eonar. I decided to go for a roleplaying server next, with the vague idea people might take the world seriously and not simply run around through everybody. So i made a character on Steamwheedle Cartel, a rogue.

First record in the warcraftrealms character history of Rada is on July 2: a level 11 in the guild The Ace Lords II Chapter. A typical starter guild with all the drama, guildleader shifting and people coming and going all the time.

The Malvalon Gang was a real roleplaying guild, set to steal from citizens of Stormwind. It was my first introduction with rp in World of Warcraft. As a rogue i could sneak around and eavesdrop on conversations an see what other people were up to. It was kinda fun, but i wanted to level my character to, learn the game and go into instances, which the gang didn’t do at all.

The leader of the Malvalon Gang knew about this other guild which was more focused on leveling and doing other things, the Sisterhood. One morning i was in Stormwind City and saw a woman standing besides the auction house selling flowers and asking for people to join the Sisterhood. I talked to her, we had a short interview and she invited me then into the Sisterhood.

The wedding between Dynahir and LittleKrissy in Darnassus was a big event. I had to find a nice new dress – not the strongest point of a scruffy rogue – and a present for the newlyweds. After the wedding we went back to the Darkmoon Fair in Goldshire and drank beer and danced away on the stage. We also did some roleplaying adventures.

I stayed in the Sisterhood untill i was level 60, only a month before the Burning Crusade was released. I decided to start looking for a raiding guild seriously when i was level 70. This was another game! I joined Gryphon, where i worked on my Karazhan attunement and heroics to get starting gear for doing real runs.

This was so much fun! It was hard work, but the raids were challenging (yes, Kara in the beginning was hard if you had just blues and maybe one or two purples from heroics). Sadly, it didn’t last long. It’s hard to keep a raiding guild together, to build a team and find responsible, dependable people. So one morning when i logged in, i found out the guild disbanded. I joined the follow up, but nothing much came of that.

Around that time 25 man raids started to become an issue. he jump from 10 to 25 was a real struggle. When i joined Divinity i became part of the second team to go through Kara, with the intention to gear everyone up and go for Gruul first. This did take some time, people started to get impoatient and joined a further advanced guild. In the end i did the same and joined Solitude.

Solitude was serious raiding. I mean real serious raiding. We were expected to be in on time, to be prepared and fully committed. It was tough, the fights were tough. We worked on Kealthas for weeks, a phase at a time. We couldn’t run into Black Temple like you can now, you needed the attunement done, Lady Vashj and Kealthas, then Rage in Mount Hyjal. That time still is one of my favourite times from wow, it felt like such an achievement to get all this done (and a server first on Kealthas too!).

Good things don’t last though… but it’s been a good time and happy memories!

I joined the Ascended after Solitude. More on that later. I’ll leave you with my armory link, just to show of some epics and achievements: Armory Rada.