Post soundtrack: “Maniac” by Michael Sembello
In my quest to make my characters look like my characters (as opposed to your average I-pug-for-badges tier-wearer), I discovered a new self-evident truth: when you’re feeling bored and are looking for something to farm, there’s always your class’s Dungeon 1 set. (Ok, in this instance ‘your class’ doesn’t include death knights as they don’t have any item sets in vanilla or TBC content, but who plays a DK anyway?)
Now that I’ve a comfortable quantity of gold under my belt, the lull between dull, dreary old content and ZOMG exciting new content is subject to a little nagging temptation: “Hey, why don’t you spend some of that gold on your alts, with prices for mats and gear getting so low?” Needless to say, it wouldn’t take long to turn that comfortable quantity into a very small pile, regardless of low prices. (Plus with Cata coming Soon™, why spend gold on something soon to be replaced with questing greens?)
The character who’s been tempting me the most has been my warrior tank, Dinglemouse. This is fortunate as she’s not only capable of grinding through old Azeroth content (although pretty much any characters can manage it at level 80 with half-decent gear), but is also an engineer which offers some time-saving abilities when out in the field with Scrapbots to vendor trash (quite inexpensively as well, at a cost of only 2 saronite bars per bot) and Moll-E and Jeeves for extra ways to empty my bags of more valuable items if needed.
First, though, you need to work out where the set pieces drop. Cue this handy table for the warrior items:
| Item | Dropped By | Found In |
| Helm of Valor | Darkmaster Gandling | Scholomance |
| Spaulders of Valor | Warchief Rend Blackhand | Upper Blackrock Spire |
| Breastplate of Valor | General Drakkisath | Upper Blackrock Spire |
| Bracers of Valor (BoE) | Trash mobs, Quartermaster Zigris | Lower Blackrock Spire |
| Gauntlets of Valor (BoE) | Ramstein the Gorger | Stratholme |
| Legplates of Valor | Baron Rivendare | Stratholme |
| Belt of Valor (BoE) | Trash mobs | Stratholme, Lower Blackrock Spire |
| Boots of Valor | Kirtonos the Herald | Scholomance |
Now, three of these pieces are BoE and can be picked up in the AH (usually for a song). However, the gauntlets and belt are easy to pick up in Stratholme while farming Rivendare for the legplates, so purchasing them is likely unnecessary. The bracers on the other hand are worth purchasing if you come across them, as they’re the only item (once you have the belt) that requires running LBRS.
For convenience I started at the north of the continent, running Stratholme until I had the belt and gauntlets – I’m currently waiting for Rivendare to cough up the legplates (although if his mount drops, it might convince me to forgive him). Next will be Scholomance for the Helm and Boots. If I haven’t found the bracers by this stage, LBRS will follow on. And last (but not least) is UBRS for the spaulders and breastplate.
Once I’ve accumulated them all, maybe I’ll look at upgrading them to their Dungeon Set 2 equivalent. We’ll see how it goes, though.
For now? Stratholme awaits!
/wave
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