Gear Babble: Retribution Edition

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Suicidal Zebra's picture
September 3, 2008
lo Keiya. I'm being a bit cheeky here as I know you haven't asked for any advice, but I just wanted to make sure you were aware of some alternative gear options. 1) Check out RetPaladin.com's gear advice page here. It's not fully up-to-date with all the 2.4 stuff, but it's there or there abouts for the Tier4/5 level. 2) If you are doing the arena/can be bothered to, the Brutal Gladiator's Scaled Gauntlets are v. nice, and don't require rating. Vengeful once are also nice, and even cheaper. Both are quite a bit better than Justicar's. 3) If you are open to crafting then Vengeance Wrap or Cloak of Darkness and the Red Belt of Battle are very, very good is you can find the crafters to make them. 4) While it may not look it at first glance the Shattered Sun Rep DPS Necklace is pretty much the best in-slot pre-Sunwell, and easy to get if you are grinding out the rep anyway. 5) Weapon is Key ;). Weapon Enchantment is less so. You'll generally be after Mongoose, but even Savagery is okay till you can spare the Void Crystals. 6) RED is the only true Meta. Gemming for it is a little difficult but the rewards are quite significant in terms of pure DPS. 7) Most obvious: get as close as you can to that hit rating cap. I hope that's in some way useful. It depends on how serious you want to get with gearing to in Ret, but if you are badge-poor then alternatives are always handy I think. Have fun Ret-ing it up ;)
Keiya's picture
September 4, 2008
Awesome advice, thanks! Hmm you know, I think I had the SSO DPS necklace in my inventory at some point and sold it -_- /rebuy.

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