For me, as an enchanter, if I don’t see that it’s a significant upgrade for me, it gets immediately sharded and I move on. Even if the new blue is, say, 10 more stamina but 9 less spirit. As for spellpower, I figure the closer I get to 80 the more it will level out, and really, once you hit 80 all the gear that isn’t lvl 80 sucks.

I’ve replaced PvP shoulders, my Kara bracers, and one ring so far. Hoping for more upgrades soon.

_Misa

The interesting thing while leveling is that every level things change, spirit yeilds less mana regeneration (ergo less mp5) and I have one more talent point so perhaps crit is worth a little more (ergo int is worth a little more). As well, the five-man view is different from the raiding view (guess at how much replenishment will come my way, will I have blessing of kings, …). Oh yah, and the cost of gems is a factor, am I willing to ante-up for common, perfect or rare gems (and how much free stuff will come my way from my guildies)?

Interestingly, some of the gear with a lot of sockets and/or mp5 will be replaced but then come back later, when the value of spirit is lower and rare gems are cheaper! Even a peice from my shadow set (waist from Hyjal) will become first-string at level 73.

In short, I know what I want from the various instances and quests at least a level ahead of time. I like knowing 8). That the exercise is futile, as healing this content is a dream for the Lazy Priest and everything *will* get replaced when I gear for the end-game, is lost on me - in a good way.

I have mostly Kara gear with a smattering of badge gear, and my Engineer-Pride-Goggles.

I’ve upgraded (clear upgrades only) my shoulders and my bracers. And my weapon.

And I have enough pieces sitting in the bank to build 1 or 2 sets, of healing and then some tanking… because I love tanking, and I like healing, and we have plenty of tanks right now. So I’m going to try wiggling my fingers and making people live.

Done!

The following information was true before the release of WotLK and probably still is - my pudgy little dwarf turned into a furious whirlwind of doom, however, and thus is loath to test sundering at the moment:
Sunder Armour does not cause damage. Autohitting the shackled mob does. Demoralizing shout causes ridiculously low amounts of threat and can’t cover even a tiny widdle HoT ticking away.

What this basically means is that a tank can set the shackled mob as focus target, use a macro like /cast [target=focus] Sunder Armor whenever there is time for a global cooldown and build respectable threat on the shackled mob. This _by far_ beats shouting at them and also works on sheep and trapped targets (never tried it on a sapped mob and banished/cycloned things are immune, of course).

However, the tank can not safely tab-target the shackle and use sunder armour - any stray autoattacks will break the shackle (and leave the priests unhappy, in my experience). This also does not (at all) work with Devastate, as that ability includes a damage component.

Ah… I knew I was forgetting something. And I didn’t think they were bugged over all but I really use to like the gathering Daily. It just seems to be removed completely for me, that’s the daily I thought was bugged.