I want to get heroic quality tanking gear for Goldsong about as soon as I hit 70 so I might need to start working toward revered for Strength of the Untamed. I have some rep and some unidentified plant parts to turn in from grinding for Sporeggar honored and getting my Petrified Lichen Guard.

Natasha’s battle chain and Thalodien’s Charm have 10 more stamina but no dodge. I like dodge. However these two don’t require level 70 or a rep grind.

I’ll definitely try to pick one of those up before hitting 70 in order to tank before I can wear the CE neck. But I think the CE neck will be the one I need for heroics because of the dodge. With over 8,000 health now I’m not really worried about getting to 10-11,000 by the time I hit 70 so I doubt the extra 10 stamina will make a huge difference when I am ready for heroics.

I’ll also need KOPT revered for Timewarden’s leggings I guess. I don’t have to worry about that one just yet. I do have to figure out if they are much better than felsteel legs or Legguards of the Resolute Defender (which don’t require 70) – either of which would save me a rep grind… But it looks like the KOT legs win with stamina and dodge. And I need KOT rep anyway for the head chant.

Well if you check out Goldsong, you’ll see he is now level 64 and IMO well geared with stuff from ramparts, the engineering helm (now complete with meta gem – 10% shield block and 12 defense – and with enduring talasite – 4 defense 6 stamina), and the Sporeggar shield.

The rest of my gear has cheap gems from the guy in Thrallmar but since things like light-touched breastplate will be replaced long before my goggles, I decided to go cheap on their gems and spend on my meta gem in the helm.

It has been a busy couple days, pugging Ramps a few times, but I think I’ll see a difference when I go back into the BGs with my extra level and improved gear.

As for pugging ramps, it wasn’t too bad. I think part of that was because I was tanking. We had some funny hunters on one run – one dude explained his sucking by saying he was on a friend’s toon – the other dude’s bow broke before the final 2 bosses. We didn’t end up wiping until that stupid dragon and we had him down to 20% or so. Well there was the one time the feral druid decided to pull like 20 guys when no one was ready. A simple “I pull” solved that issue and then we didn’t wipe until the dragon at the end.

Anyway, I know from playing Gnometosser that you don’t need to be super skilled to dps as a hunter. And I’ve done enough healing on Goldsong to know it is 10 times easier than tanking. So being the tank makes it easier to PUG because if I keep aggro off the healer he’d have to be amazingly sucky not to heal me (though that did happen when I was pugging Zul Farrak way back). And the DPSers can shoot their arrows or whatever as long as they don’t go AFK or something.

Pretty soon I’ll be pugging Blood Furnace. I think with my upgraded gear (didn’t have the meta gem and some other things for Ramps) I am 100% ready. My talents are messed up – will probably respec when I go do my 64 training – then do Blood Furnace.