In the last installment I went through the armor sets available for your priest, along with bracers, boots and belt, now it’s time to cover the remaining items you can wear and the PvP-specific item enhancements.
Cloaks:
The first item available for this slot is the generic crafted caster cloak, the Cloak of Crimson Snow. (Hit up your friendly neighbourhood tailor for this item).
The first epic tier of cloaks are the Deadly Gladiator range, which are all purchased for 38,000 honor points (and occasionally drop in VoA). Level 213 epics, they were introduced in arena season 5. There are five variants, one “vanilla” cloak with Spirit, and four others with Haste, MP5, Critical Strike, or Hit Rating.
Deadly Gladiator’s Cloak of Deliverance
Deadly Gladiator’s Cloak of Subjugation (haste)
Deadly Gladiator’s Cloak of Salvation (MP5)
Deadly Gladiator’s Cloak of Dominance (critical strike)
Deadly Gladiator’s Cloak of Ascendancy (hit rating)
The next tier is the Furious Gladiator range, which are the season 6 items, which are purchased for 47,400 honor points (and occasionally drop in VoA) . They also have a personal and team arena rating requirement before they can be worn.
Furious Gladiator’s Cloak of Deliverance
Furious Gladiator’s Cloak of Subjugation (haste)
Furious Gladiator’s Cloak of Salvation (MP5)
Furious Gladiator’s Cloak of Dominance (critical strike)
Furious Gladiator’s Cloak of Ascendancy (hit rating)
Amulets:
Again, the first item available is crafted, the Sky Sapphire Amulet. This level 200 blue will tide you over until you can afford to buy an upgrade.
The first tiered of amulets are Deadly Gladiator items. These level 213 purples are purchased for 38,000 honor points (and also drop in VoA).
Deadly Gladiator’s Pendant of Deliverance
Deadly Gladiator’s Pendant of Subjugation (haste)
Deadly Gladiator’s Pendant of Salvation (MP5)
Deadly Gladiator’s Pendant of Dominance (critical strike)
Deadly Gladiator’s Pendant of Ascendancy (hit rating)
The second tier are Furious Gladiator items, and are purchased for 47,400 honor points each. These items also have a personal and team arena rating requirement.
Furious Gladiator’s Pendant of Deliverance
Furious Gladiator’s Pendant of Subjugation (haste)
Furious Gladiator’s Pendant of Salvation (MP5)
Furious Gladiator’s Pendant of Dominance (critical strike)
Furious Gladiator’s Pendant of Ascendancy (hit rating)
Rings:
This time we start with two crafted items. The Savage ring has a useful red socket, but the Runed band possesses higher stats. One of each makes a good start for your PvP gear.
Savage Titanium Band (item level 187)
Runed Mana Band (item level 200, unique-equipped)
The epic rings have less of a selection – there’s only one in each tier for casters, and each is unique. The Furious band also has a personal/team arena rating requirement to be met before it can be purchased and equipped.
Hateful Gladiator’s Band of Dominance (30,400 honor points)
Deadly Gladiator’s Band of Ascendancy (38,000 honor points)
Furious Gladiator’s Band of Dominance (47,400 honor points)
Trinkets:
Now you have more of a selection. PvE trinkets can also be of some use, especially once you have sufficient resilience to allow more freedom with your other stats. I’ve included some that have been used by disc priests in high-end arena, thanks to the research done on the Penance Priest blog here.
Resilience trinkets:
Medallion of the Alliance (49,600 honor points)
Flow of Knowledge (25 Wintergrasp marks)
Platinum Disks of Swiftness (25 Wintergrasp marks)
Platinum Disks of Sorcery (25 Wintergrasp marks)
Medallion of the Alliance (62,000 honor points*)
Non-resilience trinkets:
Battlemaster’s Accuracy (49,600 honor points)
Battlemaster’s Avidity (49,600 honor points)
Battlemaster’s Bravery (49,600 honor points)
Battlemaster’s Hostility (49,600 honor points)
Titan-forged Rune of Accuracy (25 Wintergrasp marks)
Titan-forged Rune of Alacrity (25 Wintergrasp marks)
Titan-forged Rune of Audacity (25 Wintergrasp marks)
Titan-forged Rune of Cruelty (25 Wintergrasp marks)PvE trinkets:
Forethought Talisman (Heroic Naxxramas)
Spark of Hope (Ulduar – Normal Kologarn)
Spirit-World Glass (Normal Naxxramas)
Living Ice Crystals (Heroic Eye of Eternity)
Je’Tze’s Bell (World drop)
For your weapon, off-hand and wand you’re out of luck for PvP items unless you’re doing arena, as all three pieces have personal and team arena rating requirements - you’ll have to use PvE items in these slots when you start.
The wands and off-hand each have a single tier, with wands possessing one variant with critical strike and one without, and off-hands being available with spirit, spell penetration, and critical strike. The weapons have a low-level and high-level variant for each piece, the differences being the item level and the arena rating required before you can purchase and equip the item.
Dagger:
Furious Gladiator’s Spellblade (1850 arena rating)
Furious Gladiator’s Mageblade (2350 arena rating)
Mace:
Furious Gladiator’s Gavel (1850 arena rating)
Furious Gladiator’s Salvation (2350 arena rating)Staff:
Furious Gladiator’s Energy Staff (1850 arena rating)
Furious Gladiator’s War Staff (haste – 1850 arena rating)
Furious Gladiator’s Focus Staff (hit rating – 1850 arena rating)
Furious Gladiator’s Battle Staff (critical strike – 1850 arena rating)
Furious Gladiator’s Light Staff (2350 arena rating)
Furious Gladiator’s Combat Staff (haste - 2350 arena rating)
Furious Gladiator’s Acute Staff (hit rating – 2350 arena rating)
Furious Gladiator’s Skirmish Staff (critical strike – 2350 arena rating)Wand:
Furious Gladiator’s Touch of Defeat (critical strike - 1950 arena rating)
Furious Gladiator’s Baton of Light (1950 arena rating)Off-hand:
Furious Gladiator’s Reprieve (1850 arena rating)
Furious Gladiator’s Grimoire (spell penetration – 1850 arena rating)
Furious Gladiator’s Endgame (critical strike – 1850 arena rating)
Lastly, these are the PvP enchants available which are suitable for a priest.
Arcanum of Dominance (40 Stone Keeper’s Shards)
Arcanum of the Savage Gladiator (exalted Alliance Vanguard)
Arcanum of the Savage Gladiator (exalted Horde Expedition)
Inscription of Dominance (30 Stone Keeper’s Shards)
Greater Inscription of the Gladiator (10,000 honor points)
Earthen Leg Armor (crafted)
Enchant Chest – Exceptional Resilience (crafted)
In the next (and last) part of this guide I’ll start putting this all together. I’ll look at gems, make a recommendation on what pieces of gear to buy and in what order to buy them, and what enchantments you should be looking at.
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