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As we are getting closer to 80, we've started looking at all of our gear options. One of the big priorities is to get spell hit capped, or at least to approach it somewhat.
Without us having to write up a whole post on spell hit for Mages, go check out Spicy Tuna's post on it. As a matter of fact, since we don't usually have a Boomkin with Improved Faerie Fire, nor a Shadow Priest with Misery, and our Dranei Elemental Shaman is now a Death Knight, we have to rely on our own talents and gear for a 14% miss rate (instead of 17%) with Elemental Precision. That means, that we need in the neighborhood of 368 spell hit to guarantee a spell hit against a boss.
Maybe someone would say we are kidding them. That's a lot of hit! At present we are at 197, and we've replaced very few pieces of gear since 70. What's more, a lot of our stuff is still gemmed for Arcane (Intellect and Mana Regen), so we could regem stuff since we'll either be staying Frost, or more likely going back to Fire with a side of Frost. But we also started looking at items that will help us upgrade quickly once the level restriction on items is no longer an issue.
We're still a firm believe in Rawr, but we've fallen back on MaxDps.com a bit. Although with Rawr's latest patch of 3.1.4, they've put in filters to make it a bit more appealing again. There's still too many combination of gems if you ask me. We're trying to look for the best item to upgrade to; that's the hard part. We'll plunk down whatever money we need to for the gems and enchants after that.
Right now we are not entirely sure MaxDPS has it either. They used to heavily lean on + hit, and now it seems like they're more towards haste. But it's still a good tool to start your search. As soon as you're running Naxx, you'll be replacing gear anyway.
So, with that said, there's a couple things that might be easy for you to get before you start your first raid.
Emeline's Locket is a guaranteed item since it's a quest reward from The Admiral Revealed. Sure you have to get a group together for the quest and it's a fairly long "chain" if you consider all of the Icecrown quests you need to do. But after our recommendation, you were already questing there anyway.
The Dark Runic Mantle is the next item we look at. It's a BoE off the Dark Runic people in Heroic Halls of Stone. You can also pick it up from the AH if you just want to give up the money. There's no + hit on this one, but it's a pretty solid shoulder piece.
As a Mage, the Shroud of Dedicated Research should probably be one of your easiest upgrades. It requires you to be Honored with the Kirin Tor, and we believe we start out as friendly with them anyway. Yes, there's other upgrades, but it's a decently solid item.
We have a few options for the chest piece. We figured we'd start off with the Black Duskweave Robe since we have the mats and need to level tailoring. Then we'll upgrade that to the Robes of Lightning for the + hit (it's a quest reward for running Halls of Lightning). But we'd really like to upgrade the chest piece to the Water-Drenched Robe which is a drop from Ichoron in Heroic Violet Hold.
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