Huzzah, I will be going out of Cataclysm with more 85s than I had 80s coming in!
When she dinged 85, Ketura was wearing a Transmogrification Template Kit assembled around the Bloodmail Legguards and Sawbones Shirt from Scholomance — a “red shift” outfit inspired by the very cool “Blue Shift” TTK that the Godmother created for her Night Elf Hunter using the same pants.
Helm of Affinity, Drakesfire Epaulets, War Paint chestpiece, Scarlet Belt, Bloodmail Legguards, War Paint gloves and boots, Sawbones Shirt
I have had the War Paint pieces in my bank for a long time already because I like to use them with the Turtle Scale set.
Turtle Scale set with Bog Epaulets, Unyielding Belt, and Lord’s Sabatons; mixtures of Turtle Scale set and War Paint set, with all combinations using the Turtle Scale Leggings — I will probably be using one or another of these combinations as Ketura’s TTK during Winter Veil this year
I plan to use this combination at some point in the future, when I can get all the pieces assembled.
Bloodmail Legguards and Sawbones Shirt with Talhide Shoulderguards, Scarlet Belt, and Battleforge/Blood Knight chest, gloves, and boots.
It also occurred to me that the Bloodmail Legguards + Sawbones Shirt combination might work well with the Dragon-Quake Shoulderguards.
I liked the look of the Barbaric Iron items, but I soon found that I liked the Lord’s gloves and boots even better.
I then tested the Lord’s gloves and boots with the Shamblehide Chestguard/Tracker’s Belt/Scale Leggings of the Skirmisher combination I was already considering for use with these shoulders, and I think I like that kit best of all! The blue-black Master Builder’s Shirt coordinates better with the shoulders than the Sawbones shirt, however. I’ve already farmed up the Master Builder’s Shirt from BRD — a much quicker and less obnoxious farm than getting the Sawbones Shirt from Scholomance! — but I still need to hit up the Outland dungeons for the recolored Beastmaster items.
In the meantime, the Agility head enchant comes from Ramkahen, which means that Ketura will be wearing the bright blue and gold Ramkahen tabard while she runs Heroics. Ramkahen is my favorite Cataclysm tabard, but it doesn’t coordinate with the black and red of the Bloodmail Legguards + Sawbones Shirt at all! So until I can assemble all the pieces for this set that I showed as an alternate for Mog Madness Round 2, I’ll be using the dull gold and blue Deepholm leveling set (also the inspiration for my High-Society Gilnean Mail set) as Ketura’s TTK. Yes, deliberately.
Left: Pauldrons of the Promise, Nexus-Strider chestpiece, Dreadhawk’s Girdle, Nexus-Strider leggings, Radiant Gloves & Boots, Vicious Fur Cloak, Blue Workman’s Shirt, Ramkahen Tabard — the rate-limiting step of completing this ensemble will be getting my Blacksmith’s skill up high enough to craft the Radiant items
Right: Purifying Spaulders, Troggbane Chestguard, Dreadhawk’s Girdle, Groundshort Leggings, Silencer’s Gauntlets, Rockslide Treads, Vicious Fur Cloak, Blue Workman’s Shirt, Ramkahen Tabard
(as an aside: While running Scholomance over and over and over trying to get the black pants and the crimson shirt to drop, I started contemplate what the place would look like all cleaned up and redecorated — or, rather, restored to the grandeur it had before the Barovs sold their souls to the Cult of the Damned.
The fancy wrought iron candlestands can stay — just get rid of the skulls and fill them all with the white candles. All those crypt niches could be filled with books or statuettes or exotic magical devices. I think it could be rather luxurious! Something would really have to be done about that nasty seepage in the subbasement, though.)
Grats on hitting another 85!
Thanks!
That’s an interesting comparison! I think I can say the same…I think I exited Wrath with four 80s (DK, Hunter, Druid, Priest) and am exiting Cata with five 85s, the extra being Fabulor, of course.
I like the outfits you’ve already picked out! Very nice.
Oh, Fabulor, I can’t wait to see what you think of Pandaria!
I also had more 80s coming out of Wrath than I did 70s coming out of BC — but that wasn’t really hard, as Kamalia was my only max level character when Wrath launched.
I’m looking forward to replacing those MogIt mockups with in-game pictures B)
Oh another 85 and a hunter, sounds like someone I know
Congrats Kam! I can’t say I’ve any any more or less than I did in Wrath it’s been 5 both times – mostly keeping up with professions though.
TY!
If I would stop fooling around and get busy, I’ll get to Pandaria with two more 85s. My jeweler is being lazy and is around 84 1/2 just doing the dailies in town. She better get a move on or she’ll be left behind.
I’m going to look at every dungeon differently now, with an eye to redecoration!
Eh, do whatever is the most fun for you in the moment! If that’s “fooling around” with Lessismora (or some other toon), then hakuna matata. But yeah, I think it *would* be worth getting your JC at least up that last half level to 85.
SFK is another dungeon that makes me wonder what it would have looked like in its glory days — it has a sort of “little Karazhan” vibe to me.
Congrats. I think I will be in the same boat as well. I had two 80′s when Cataclysm hit. If I put forth a bit of effort I can probably get two more there before Mists hits, or shortly after. The problem is, I’m also looking at my 72 DK thinking…hrm, three more levels and I can boost his blacksmithing portfolio.
I like the Dragon-Quake outfit best, particularly outfit number four, for what it’s worth. But then, in fairness, I’ve never been a big fan of Turtle Scale gear either.
Thanks! Good luck with getting your other two up to max level! But getting your DK up to the next professions level isn’t a bad use of your time, either.
I suppose I have a certain fondness for the Turtle Scale gear because it is crafted and it was a big thing for me to craft it for Kamalia while she was leveling — she made it at about the level she could wear it, and she farmed all the Turtle Scales for it herself. For Ketura’s set, I just bought the Turtle Scales off the AH!
In the long run, after I get my Ramkahen rep up and so forth, I intend to use the Dragon-Quake + recolored Beastmaster set as Ketura’s main TTK. Although I really love how well the red shirt blends with the recolored Beastmaster items, I like the black shirt better when using the Dragon-Quake shoulders because it ties the black tones in the shoulders into the overall appearance.
Dont you have another character that are revered with Ramkahen? Since the enchants are BoA you can just mail it to your hunter. Gratz on the ding
Hmm. I thought I remembered the Cataclysm head enchants NOT being BoA earlier in the expansion (when my DK hit 85). When did they change that?
Thanks
But I’m still going to make the blue & gold outfit to go with the Ramkahen tabard, just because I like that tabard so much
I can really recommend the hunter tier 2 recolor from Burning Crusade dungeons. It looks so great on my hunter alt. But i guess you are more into unique looks which you come up with yourself.
http://wowroleplaygear.com/2011/05/06/dragonstalker-recolor/
When it comes to leather i think this is very nice:
http://wowroleplaygear.com/2011/05/07/bloodfang-recolour/
The green & maroon Outland recolor of Hunter T2 is pretty cool — I particularly love that green dragon helm — but overall, I like the coloration of the Dragon-Quake shoulders from Kara much better than either the original red & purple T2 or the green & maroon recolored T2. There are other pieces of Hunter T2 in a recolor that matches the Dragon-Quake shoulders (http://wowroleplaygear.com/2012/04/11/netherscale-armor/), but I’m not sure if my LW has the patterns, and overall that set is too dark for my taste. So I was very pleased to find that the Outland recolor of the Dungeon Set 1 Beaststalker set coordinates with the Dragon-Quake shoulders quite nicely.
There are some Blizz-created sets that I really like and am happy to use in their entirety. More often than not, however, I only really truly like about half of the pieces in any given set. Then, I prefer to play mix-and-match with a coordinating set until I get an overall appearance that I like better than either of the contributing sets by themselves.
Ketura looks so noble in that mixed Battleforge outfit!
I love how versatile those black pants are. I used them in my shammy’s outfit for the WoW Factor show. Now I’m running Scholomance on my other characters to get full sets of each type before MoP.
And thank you for adding my little blog Stylish Azeroth to your blogroll
Thanks! I hadn’t thought of that outfit as being “noble”, but now that you mention it, I totally see how the red and black with gold trim make it look that way!
I’ve already collected the Scholomance/Stratholme plate set for my DK, and I use it as the Transmogrification Template Kit for her questing gear. I don’t know if I’ll get around to collecting the leather and cloth sets before MoP. I don’t have a leather wearer who both wants the Cadaverous set and is high enough level to solo the place, and my clothies all say “that robe is just a sleeveless version of Arugal’s robe, which is a lot easier to get”. Good luck with your farming, though!
One of these days I’ll get around to doing that “fun new fashion blogs I’ve discovered lately” post — though really I’ve just cribbed most of them from WoW Roleplay Gear’s blogroll
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