Head
Planetary Helm http://www.wowhead.com/?item=37849 (Halls of Lightning)
Chitin Shell Greathelm http://www.wowhead.com/?item=37237 (Azjol-Nerub)
Neck
Gold Amulet of Kings http://www.wowhead.com/?item=37397 (Utgarde Pinnacle)
Necklace of Arcane Spheres http://www.wowhead.com/?item=37861 (Violet Hold)
Shoulders
Back
Cloak of the Gushing Wound http://www.wowhead.com/?item=43406 (Violet Hold)
Chest
Breastplate of Undeath http://www.wowhead.com/?item=37722 (Drak'Tharon Keep)
Engraved Chestplate of Eck http://www.wowhead.com/?item=43310 (Gundrak)
Bonegrinder Breastplate http://www.wowhead.com/?item=37612 (Old Kingdom)
Wrist
Bands of the Stoneforge http://www.wowhead.com/?item=37668 (Halls of Stone)
Golden Limb Bands http://www.wowhead.com/?item=37217 (Azjol-Nerub)
Hands
Gauntlets of Dragon Wrath http://www.wowhead.com/?item=37363 (The Oculus)
Gauntlets of Capture http://www.wowhead.com/?item=37874 (Violet Hold)
Waist
The General's Steel Girdle http://www.wowhead.com/?item=37826 (Halls of Lightning)
Flame-Bathed Steel Girdle http://www.wowhead.com/?item=37171 (The Nexus)
Legs
Legplates of Steel Implants http://www.wowhead.com/?item=37675 (Culling of Stratholme)
Staggering Legplates http://www.wowhead.com/?item=37193 (Utgarde Keep)
Legplates of the Oculus Guardian http://www.wowhead.com/?item=37263 (The Oculus)
Feet
Rift Striders http://www.wowhead.com/?item=37150 (The Nexus)
Ring
Mobius Band http://www.wowhead.com/?item=37685 (Culling of Stratholme)
Band of Frosted Thorns http://www.wowhead.com/?item=37151 (The Nexus)
Hemorrhaging Circle http://www.wowhead.com/?item=37642 (Gundrak)
Trinket
Meteorite Whetstone http://www.wowhead.com/?item=37390 (Utgarde Pinnacle)
Sphere of Red Dragon's Blood http://www.wowhead.com/?item=37166 (The Nexus)
Incisor Fragment http://www.wowhead.com/?item=37723 (Drak'Tharon Keep)
Weapon
Colossal Skull-Clad Cleaver http://www.wowhead.com/?item=37852 (Halls of Lightning)
Sword of Justice Sword of Justice http://www.wowhead.com/?item=37653 (Halls of Stone)
Hammer of Grief http://www.wowhead.com/?item=38618 (Halls of Stone)
Mojo Masked Crusher http://www.wowhead.com/?item=37733 (Drak'Tharon Keep)
Edge of Oblivion http://www.wowhead.com/?item=43281 (Old Kingdom)
Saliva Corroded Pike http://www.wowhead.com/?item=37861 (Violet Hold)
This list is a work in progress. As a general rule of thumb, decide to upgrade gear based on 1) hit, 2) strength, 3) attack power, 4) crit, in that order until you are hit capped. Haste is useless for a Death Knight, and armor penetration isn't worth gearing for. This doesn't mean that items that have those are worthless, but you don't want to look for gear specifically for that.
The hit cap varies depending on your talents, but if you have 3/3 Virulence from the Unholy tree, it should be around 295. I can't stress enough how important it is to be at or at least near the hit cap.
Also, try out Rating Buster. This add-on makes it dead simple to figure out if a piece of gear is worth upgrading to or not. http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/in
Gems
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=39996 Bold Scarlet Ruby
Go strength all the way, unless there's a really good socket bonus, and in that case try to still gear for strength, crit or hit.
Enchants:
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=44149 Arcanum of Torment (Head, Ebon Blade)
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=44131 Lesser Inscription of the Axe (Shoulders, Sons of Hodir)
Head
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=41386 Spiked Titansteel Helm (Crafted)
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=44412 Faceguard of Punishment (Quest)
Quest giver in Utgarde Pinnacle. Very easy.
Legs
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=37066 Ancient Royal Legguards (N Utgarde Pinnacle)
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=41347 Savage Saronite Legplates (Crafted)
Neck
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=37096 Necklace of the Chrono-Lord (N Culling of Stratholme)
Waist
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=37088 Spiked Metal Cilice (N Culling of Stratholme)
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=42882 Thorim's Grasp (Quest)
Feet
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=37068 Berserker Sabatons (World BOE Drop, AH)
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=44306 Death-Inured Sabatons (Rep Ebon Blade)
Hands
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=44399 Gauntlets of the Culling (Quest)
You get these for clearing Culling of Stratholme. Quest giver is in the instance.
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=41349 Savage Saronite Gauntlets (Crafted)
Back
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=37647 Cloak of Bloodied Waters (BOE drop H Gundrak)
Pretty much best in slot until raids, pretty rare on the AH.
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=43566 Ice Striker's Cloak
Wrist
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=41355 Vengeance Bindings (Crafted)
Best DPS wrists until 25 man Naxx
Shoulders
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=44195 Spaulders of the Giant Lords (Rep Sons of Hodir)
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=41351 Savage Saronite Shoulders (Crafted)
Chest
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=43209 Breastplate of Jagged Stone (Quest)
You get this from a Thorim quest. You pretty much unlock it in parallel with unlocking the Sons of Hodir faction.
Weapon
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=41257 Titansteel Destroyer (Crafted)
Usually around 1k gold, well worth it.
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=37653 Sword of Justice (N Halls of Stone)
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=44249 Runeblade of Demonstrable Power (Reputation Ebon Blade)
Finger
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=44039 Signet of Bridenbrad (Quest)
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=36979 Bjarngirm Family Signet (N Halls of Lightning)
Trinket
Not a lot of trinkets outside heroics that are worth anything. Hang on to any quest trinkets.
Look guys, here's the deal. When you do dps like Mr #4 here, you ruin it for all of us. He was wearing tank shoulders, belt, neck and chest with no gems in any sockets as well as dual wield with all talent points in frost. But other people don't understand that it's just a nub player, they just see Death Knight on his character screen and generalize.
Best part of it was the question towards the end: "what are Emblems of Heroism for?". How is babby formed indeed.
This game isn't really that hard folks. And for everyone who would condemn me for being an elitist jerk, I probably wouldn't have been bothered if we didn't wipe 7 times during a H Nexus run.
So I was trying to find information on the Mojo SDK for the new Pre.
"Not everyone will receive the Mojo SDK right away."
Not really a good way to gain acceptance for a new platform I've got to say.
Patch 3.2 is going to bring some insane changes to the mount system:
* Regular land mounts trainable at level 20
* Epic land mounts trainable at level 40
* Regular flying mounts trainable at level 60
* Regular flying mounts speed increased to 150%
Holy cow, this almost makes me want to wait to level my alts until this patch hits. Of course who knows who long that's going to be.
Honestly though, the regular flying mounts should have been at a level less than 70 this entire time.
So, we finally linked up the 360 to Netflix. Looking for some random movies to add to our instant queue, I came across this little gem of a movie.
Yay for random movies.
Starting to fool around with manual settings on my camera. This pose was too awesome not to share.
We originally planned to leave Monday morning, but Jackie and I were so excited and wound up at 2am, we decided to forgo sleep and leave. In retrospect, if we had just slept we could have saved ourselves a lot of headache.
On the way to the kennel to drop off the dogs around 2am, I got hit by a trunk driver that swerved into my lane. The damage isn't bad, and it's on our old car. But it's still very noticeable and we're still paying on that thing so it really pisses me off. I had to literally chase the guy down to get him to pull over, which he finally did in the parking lot of a Jack in the Box.
As he stumbled out, he tried to apologize stammeringly and tried to shake my hand. I asked him for his insurance not once, but twice before getting the card in my hand. He tried to get me to not report it to his insurance and just get an estimate and call him later. Yeah huh. After an argument about him being drunk and trying to shake me, I started to call the police to report the accident. Of course he jumped back into his truck and took off. I still have his insurance card, which is no good since the policy was canceled. Way to go life.
I've never been in a real accident like this before. I slightly rear ended a person once, scratching paint, and was backed into at a gas station, but never actually hit on the road. I'm still trying to get a hold of the hit and run detective that was supposed to call me last week, but I really have my doubts about getting any satisfaction at this point. $1000 deductible on our insurance versus dealing with a dent and some scratched paint. Hmmm.
Anyway, the trip itself went according to plan. We stayed up a total of 30 hours or so, catching some sleep when we felt well enough to switch off. Spent a lot of time navigating family politics, eating at the restaurants that they only have there, and seeing how Duluth has no clue how to run a city anymore. It wasn't all bad though: the food is still good and I got to see my dad. Also, Jackie has had her homesickness fixed for another year or two.
The drive back was more exhausting. My home skillet Chris had decided he had enough of his job and Duluth and wants to try to make a clean start down here. So we rented a truck and packed up his stuff and cats and migrated his ass down to the DFW. The truck had no cruise control, no reclining seats and was governed at 75mph. I'll let that speak volumes for itself. However, we survived and got the truck returned today. Chris is settling in and the animals are all getting used to each other now.
I need to take a moment here and point out that we now have 8 animals in our house. Eight. Ocho. Hachi. We're absolutely insane I know, but hey, we don't have kids and cats are pretty quiet most of the time. Dogs aren't, but there's only two of them.
So I'm really excited about having my best bud down here enjoying the lovely Texas heat and getting fat on the fantastic food. The last week has been pretty stressful, but we have a lot of fun times ahead.
Here's to the triumvirate of awesomeness.
The one thing I learned: always take a picture. I look back on what I've taken, and I feel like I could have taken way more pictures. Isn't that always the case?
This has been going on all weekend. Come on.
1) Identify the problem.
2) FIX IT!
3) Repeat as neccessary until it's all FIXED!
I love the bit about "80% of consumers in 2003 will connect using a narrowband connection".
The Ninji and I are taking off for Minnesota on Monday for a week of seeing family and moving The Dude down to Texas.
Over my life I think I've done this trip about 8 times and it never fails to amaze me how painful it really is to ride over 1,000 miles in a car. The one thing you take away from it is: Kansas is really boring.
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