Warrior Heirlooms

Welcome to the Warrior Heirlooms Guide for Legion. This post will cover all three of the Warrior specs, including the optimal enchants. Please keep in mind that heirlooms are designed for leveling, and the choices of which pieces of gear to use as well as which enchants are designed towards leveling rather than raiding. In many cases the choices are the same, but if something seems odd then I’ve likely chosen it for a reason. Feel free to ask if you’re confused or care to offer other comments or suggestions. In the long run, as long as you’re wearing heirlooms with the right primary stats on it, it doesn’t necessarily matter which ones you choose.

Arms (DPS)

Slot	Item Name	Enchant
Helm	Polished Helm of Valor	N/A
Neck	Eternal Emburfury Talisman	Gift of Critical Strike*
Cloak	Worn Stoneskin Gargoyle Cloak	Gift of Critical Strike*
Shoulder	Polished Spaulders of Valor	Greater Tiger Fang Inscription
Chest	Polished Breastplate of Valor	Peerless Stats
Legs	Polished Legplates of Valor	Angerhide Leg Armor
Ring 1	Captain Sander’s Returned Band	Gift of Critical Strike*
Ring 2	Dread Pirate Ring	Gift of Critical Strike*
Main Hand	Bloodied Arcanite Reaper	Crusader
Off Hand	None	None
Trinket 1	Swift Hand of Justice	N/A
Trinket 2	Swift Hand of Justice	N/A

If you don’t have access to the enchants mentioned above, you may choose others. Your stat priorities are as follows (from Icy-Veins.com):

Strength > Crit > Mastery > Multistrike > Haste > Versatility

Fury (DPS)

Slot	Item Name	Enchant
Helm	Polished Helm of Valor	N/A
Neck	Eternal Emburfury Talisman	Gift of Haste*
Cloak	Worn Stoneskin Gargoyle Cloak	Gift of Haste*
Shoulder	Polished Spaulders of Valor	Greater Tiger Fang Inscription
Chest	Polished Breastplate of Valor	Peerless Stats
Legs	Polished Legplates of Valor	Angerhide Leg Armor
Ring 1	Captain Sander’s Returned Band	Gift of Haste*
Ring 2	Dread Pirate Ring	Gift of Haste*
Main Hand	Bloodied Arcanite Reaper	Crusader
Off Hand	Bloodied Arcanite Reaper	Elemental Force
Trinket 1	Swift Hand of Justice	N/A
Trinket 2	Swift Hand of Justice	N/A

If you don’t have access to the enchants mentioned above, you may choose others. Your stat priorities are as follows (from Icy-Veins.com):

Strength > Haste > Crit > Mastery > Haste > Multistrike > Versatility

Protection (Tank)

Slot	Item Name	Enchant
Helm	Burnished Helm of Might	N/A
Neck	Eternal Talisman of Evasion	Gift of Critical Strike*
Cloak	Ripped Sandstorm Cloak	Gift of Critical Strike*
Shoulder	Burnished Pauldrons of Might	Greater Tiger Fang Inscription
Chest	Burnished Breastplate of Might	Peerless Stats
Legs	Burnished Legplates of Might	Angerhide Leg Armor
Ring 1	Captain Sander’s Returned Band	Gift of Critical Strike*
Ring 2	Dread Pirate Ring	Gift of Critical Strike*
Main Hand	Bloodsoaked Skullforge Reaver	Crusader
Off Hand	Flamescarred Draconian Deflector	Vitality
Trinket 1	Swift Hand of Justice	N/A
Trinket 2	Swift Hand of Justice	N/A

If you don’t have access to the enchants mentioned above, you may choose others. Also, while Mastery is higher on your stat priority list than Crit, you don’t actually benefit from Mastery until level 80, which is why I suggest Crit enchants on ring, neck, and back rather than Mastery. If you want to switch the enchants out at level 80+ feel free to do so, but I personally reuse my heirlooms because I level an army of alts as well, so I prefer to get the most bang for my buck by benefiting for as many levels as possible rather than getting maximum effect for only 10-20 levels and nothing for the previous 60-80.

Your stat priorities are as follows (from Icy-Veins.com):

Strength > Bonus Armor > Mastery > Crit = Versatility > Haste > Multistrike

 

Death Knight Heirlooms

Welcome to the Death Knight Heirlooms Guide for Legion. This post will cover all three of the Death Knight specs, including the optimal enchants. Please keep in mind that heirlooms are designed for leveling, and the choices of which pieces of gear to use as well as which enchants are designed towards leveling rather than raiding. In many cases the choices are the same, but if something seems odd then I’ve likely chosen it for a reason. Feel free to ask if you’re confused or care to offer other comments or suggestions. In the long run, as long as you’re wearing heirlooms with the right primary stats on it, it doesn’t necessarily matter which ones you choose.

Blood Spec (Tanking)

Slot	Item Name	Enchant
Helm	Burnished Helm of Might	N/A
Neck	Eternal Talisman of Evasion	Gift of Mastery*
Cloak	Ripped Sandstorm Cloak	Gift of Mastery*
Shoulder	Burnished Pauldrons of Might	Greater Tiger Fang Inscription
Chest	Burnished Breastplate of Might	Peerless Stats
Legs	Burnished Legplates of Might	Angerhide Leg Armor
Ring 1	Captain Sander’s Returned Band	Gift of Mastery*
Ring 2	Dread Pirate Ring	Gift of Mastery*
Main Hand	Bloodied Arcanite Reaper	Rune of the Fallen Crusader
Trinket 1	Swift Hand of Justice	N/A
Trinket 2	Swift Hand of Justice	N/A

* While Mastery is the best stat that you can get for survivability, Multistrike is also a very good option for you. If you find that survival is not an issue, switch to Multistrike.

If you don’t have access to the enchants mentioned above, you may choose others. Your stat priorities are as follows (from Icy-Veins.com):

Balanced: Strength = Bonus Armor > Multistrike > Mastery > Haste = Critical Strike > Versatility

Survival: Bonus Armor > Strength > Mastery > Haste > Critical Strike = Versatility > Multistrike

DPS Oriented: Strength > Bonus Armor > Multistrike > Critical Strike > Mastery = Versatility > Haste

Frost (DPS)
For Frost, there are different enchants depending on whether you are going to dual wield or use a two-handed weapon because of how your attacks and passive abilities work. While dual wielding you want to prioritize Mastery, where using a two-handed weapon you’ll want to prioritize Haste. I’ll note that below with [2H] for the two-handed enchant and [DW] for dual wielding.

Slot	Item Name	Enchant
Helm	Burnished Helm of Might	N/A
Neck	Eternal Emberfury Talisman	Gift of Mastery[DW], Gift of Haste[2H]
Cloak	Worn Stoneskin Gargoyle Cape	Gift of Mastery[DW], Gift of Haste[2H]
Shoulder	Polished Spaulders of Valor	Greater Tiger Fang Inscription
Chest	Burnished Breastplate of Might	Peerless Stats
Legs	Burnished Legplates of Might	Angerhide Leg Armor
Ring 1	Captain Sander’s Returned Band	Gift of Mastery[DW], Gift of Haste[2H]
Ring 2	Dread Pirate Ring	Gift of Mastery[DW], Gift of Haste[2H]
Main Hand	Bloodsoaked Skullforge Reaver	Rune of the Fallen Crusader
Off-Hand	Bloodsoaked Skullforge Reaver	Rune of the Razorice
Trinket 1	Swift Hand of Justice	N/A
Trinket 2	Swift Hand of Justice	N/A

In Legion, Frost DK’s are forced to dual-wield one-handed weapons instead of having the choice between dual wielding or using a two-hander. This guide has been updated to reflect that, removing the Bloodied Arcanite Reaper from this list. If you’re reading this guide pre-Legion then you still have the choice of either option, but personally I would get started in preparation for Legion right now since the patch is rumored to be dropping on 7/19/2016.

If you don’t have access to the enchants mentioned above, you may choose others. Your stat priorities are as follows (from Icy-Veins.com):

Dual Wielding: Strength > Mastery > Multistrike > Versatility > Haste > Critical Strike

Two-Handed: Strength > Haste > Multistrike > Versatility > Critical Strike > Mastery

Unholy (DPS)

Slot	Item Name	Enchant
Helm	Burnished Helm of Might	N/A
Neck	Eternal Emberfury Talisman	Gift of Multistrike
Cloak	Ripped Sandstorm Cloak	Gift of Multistrike
Shoulder	Burnished Pauldrons of Might	Greater Tiger Fang Inscription
Chest	Burnished Breastplate of Might	Peerless Stats
Legs	Burnished Legplates of Might	Angerhide Leg Armor
Ring 1	Captain Sander’s Returned Band	Gift of Multistrike
Ring 2	Dread Pirate Ring	Gift of Multistrike
Main Hand	Bloodied Arcanite Reaper	Rune of the Fallen Crusader
Trinket 1	Swift Hand of Justice	N/A
Trinket 2	Swift Hand of Justice	N/A

If you don’t have access to the enchants mentioned above, you may choose others. Your stat priorities are as follows (from Icy-Veins.com):

Strength > Multistrike > Mastery > Critical Strike > Versatility > Haste

 

Wildstar Leveling: Stalker DPS 1-25

I was originally going to write guides broken up into sections based on the PvP brackets, but now I’m leaning more towards just doing two different versions, which are 1-25 and 26-50. I might change my mind again at some point in the future, but for now that’s the plan moving forward.

In typical Psynister fashion, the the Medic that I was writing about in the previous leveling guide has already been deleted and rerolled, so it will be awhile before I get back to writing about Medic healing. However, since Stalker was my original main class (technically, Engineer was, but I deleted him too), I figured it was time to write about it instead. I also have some friends that have struggled with the Stalker in the teens and twenties, so I wanted to bump this one up in priority to help them out.

This guide will look at which spells to use, how and when to use them, and how to allocate your ability and AMP points to maximize your performance without having to learn a lot of math.

 

Guide to Walatiki Temple

Walatiki Temple is the first battleground, or Practice Ground, that you get access to in Wildstar. It becomes available for play at level 6, with the first bracket being levels 6-14, the second 15-29, then 30-49, and finally level 50. Walatiki Temple is a 10 v 10 matchup against the opposing faction. Each match lasts for 30 minutes, or until a team manages to capture 5 masks.

In this guide, I want to teach you the basics of this map and give you an idea of what PvP feels like in Wildstar. I will talk about some of the basics of strategy, but I don’t plan to go into too much detail beyond which methods of capturing the masks are best for which situation, and how things like guarding your masks is important.

I will cover the different parts of the map, how to utilize them, where to find the buffs, different routes to take for capturing the flag, timers for respawning after death, timers for masks to spawn or despawn, and some basic strategies for playing the game.

 

Are you struggling to level in Wildstar?

Since Wildstar launched, I’ve kept a pretty close eye on the #Wildstar hashtag on twitter for information and feedback from the players. One of the trends that I’ve seen since about the third day of launch is that people tend to have trouble leveling up in Wildstar.

I’m not talking about the whole “get to level 14 and get sucked into housing” thing, I’m talking about people who get to level 10 and then stop playing the game because it’s boring. People who get to level 25 and then feel like it’s just too grindy to push forward. People who think that leveling a DPS Medic offers about as much appeal as sawing off your own leg with a rusty butter knife.

In the past, I have taken this kind of feedback as a challenge, to see for myself whether or not those claims are true, and to see if there is a way around it. So I’m putting a call out to you, readers, to tell me the struggles that you’ve personally had with leveling, and I want details. If you’re having trouble with a particular class, level range, zone, or something else in the leveling process then I want to know what it is.

As I said, I’ve seen a lot of these complaints on twitter. But, the nature of twitter’s 140 character limit means I don’t get much detail, so I want to open the blog to this instead.

This isn’t just a place for you to log every complaint you have about Wildstar in general, I’m looking specifically at struggles you’ve had in the leveling process. If you don’t like how today’s hot fix only included three official fixes for 90 minutes of downtime, I don’t care about that crap. But if you’ve struggled with leveling, I want to know about it.