It's Not Orange, But Close

I recently made a discovery for myself about the Bind on Account gear. Below I have everything listed with links and its only the PvE gear, so nothing from the wintersgrasp vendor. I thought this would be an interesting post. Most people have their main toons geared and ready for the next patch, or are currently gearing a lvl 80 alt. But for those of us that are slower to lvl an alt or want to start over or what ever, I am highly recommending the Bind on Account gear.

The shoulders grant a 10% XP bonus for killing mobs which is always nice for anyone lvling and you can't get shoulders til around lvl 20 and you can't get good shoulders til mid twenties at least.

Then for any physical dps class you can't beat a good weapon. Let's face it, having a good weapon lets you kill things faster but especially when you are starting out your abilities are pretty lame and cost more than they benefit in terms of downtime.

Of course for any caster I would hold off before getting the spell power staff or mace and just invest in as good of wand as you can and update it constantly. It will do far more damage per mana effcieny compared to casting spells.

Basically, these weapons though they aren't orange as in Legendary status but they are legendary for there lvl. I mean these weapons are godly compared to at level items plus it's a lot less work to get them.

Weapons:Bloodied Arcanite Reaper (2H Axe)Balanced Heartseeker (1H Dagger)Venerable Dal'Rend's Sacred Charge (MH Sword) Charmed Ancient Bone Bow (Bow)Dignified Headmaster Charge (Staff)Devout Aurastone Hammer (MH Mace)

Armor:Polished Spaulders of Valor (Plate)Champion Herod's Shoulder (Mail - Hunter)Mystical Pauldrons of Elements (Mail - Shaman)Preened Ironfeather Shoulders (Leather - Caster)Tattered Dreadmist Mantle (Cloth)

Trinkets:Swift Hand of Justice (AP Trinket)Discerning Eye of the Beast (SP Trinket)

I was messing around on an alt pally. She was decked out with bind on account gear (Bloodied Arcanite Reaper and Polished Spaulders of Valor.) Well I had just hit level 40 and trained plate. So I run to the bank and grab my Polished Spaulders of Valor and put them on, previously I had been using the mail hunter shoulders (Champion Herod's Shoulder) since I couldn't wear mail yet. Then I venture down to STV to do some more quests and come across a lvl 32 pally with the Arcanite Reaper, but also sporting the Polished Spaulders of Valor the plate bind on account shoulders.

WTF!! How is a 32 wearing plate? He road off before I could inspect him... so I send my shoulders to my bank toon who happens to be a lvl 1 pally. He was able to equip the shoulders. How you may ask? Well as it just so turns out when he put them on they were considered mail. Lame and now I feel like an idiot. I just wasted 40 emblems of valor on mail shoulders and leveled 40 levels with them on.

Luckily I have my shaman that still needs to level and since he is enhancement he will used them, but I still feel dumb for not figuring out that I could use the plate shoulders all along. This doesn't seem to be common knowledge because when I just started my toon and was about level 8 in Elwynn Forest I saw a low lvl warrior sporting the leather dps shoulders (Stained Shadowcraft Spaulders)

So for all those out there that want to lvl fast and efficiently farm the emblems on your main and hook your alt up. Go out and level and good luck.