Lolret, Roflret, Retdpslols, Your guild carries you to Illidan

Ah yes, Retribution, a path that few think about following, fewer take, and the fewest gear right.

Ret PvE gear often comes at the price of plate dps instance drops, where Int becomes a luxury and the set bonuses are a joke.

With so many percentage based talent, ret scales well with gear, the catch becomes though where do we get that gear.

Todays look will be at easily attainable gear to quickly allow for raid utility to be brought into a raid. Without Further ado, I give you, the items!

Head:

[item]Furious Gizmatic Goggles[/item]Perhaps the easiest of all as I have been working on it since I came back to this server at level 46 and started leveling again. The Plate DPS goggles from engineering provide a well balanced helm that will last for a long amount of time. Plus a great pvp rogue finder and pve primal finder.

Neck:

[Mithril Chain of Heroism] This lovely piece out of the Chess Event in Karazan provides for a lovely set of stats for those who like smashing things :D Also remember Ret paladins when specced for PvE gain 2.2 AP per 1 Str.

Shoulders:

Craftable, the [Ragesteel Shoulders] are good shoulders for being a blue. These shoulders have hit, crit, stam and str as well as 2 yellow sockets and a crit socket bonus. These could last until a T4 shoulder drop (T4 LOLZ) or possible later PvP Item. It is still questionable whether even the Gladiator Shoulders would be an upgrade.

Back:

WTB [item]Vengeance Wrap[/item] PST! Other things that might last until Vengence Wrap would be Royal Cloak of Arathi Kings or Cape of the Dark Reavers.

Chest:

My Current Chest Piece is an extremely good one. And Will last Until Glad S1 or T4 at the earliest :D

T4=[Justicar Breastplate]

S1=[item]Gladiator's Scaled Chestpiece[/item]

Bracers:

One of the weakest pieces of gear at the moment. The [Bladespire Warbands] off HKM or the crafted [Black Felsteel Bracers] are both lovely.

Gloves:

No point in going out of the way for these. The Faster I hit 1125 arena points the faster the problem is solved. The S3 Ret Gloves ARE The best ret gloves in teh game at the moment hands down no questions asked.

[item]Vengeful Gladiator's Scaled Gauntlets[/item]

Belt:

[Red Belt of Battle] Pweety Please. Me Loves you longtimes :D If you can make this and hav the vortexs for it, I think I have a majority of hte mats barring some primal fire in my bank :D

Legs:

T4 or any of the arena legs here

T4=[item]Justicar Greaves[/item]

S1= [item]Gladiator's Scaled Legguards[/item]

Boots: ("Butt-Kicking for Goodness" ~Minsc)

Another one of my much better pieces atm. Need Either the Boots outta Kara or the Vindicator Boots to upgrade pre SSC

[item]Ironstriders of Urgency[/item]

[item]Vindicator's Scaled Greaves[/item]

Rings:

[item]Ring of Arathi Warlords[/item] (25 badges)

[item]Mithril Band of the Unscarred[/item]

[Ring of a Thousand Marks]

[Garona's Signet Ring]

[item]Violet Signet of the Master Assassin[/item]

Also I can replace my current green ring I am wearing by completing Shattered Halls for a quest

Trinkets:

[item]Bloodlust Brooch[/item]

Hourglass of the NeverDrops (aka of the Unraveller) [item]Hourglass of the Unraveller[/item]

[item]Darkmoon Card: Crusade[/item]

[item]Berserker's Call[/item]

and of course Dragonspine Trophy of the Everyone Wants one. [item]Dragonspine Trophy[/item]

Libram:

20 Badges [Libram of Divine Judgement]. First thing to get via badges

Sorry for the long blog, but i wanted to provide a cohensive account of easily obtainable epics in a reasonably quick amount of time assuming blizzard is feeling generous Loot wise (lol never happens amirite)

Comments, Concerns, Boobies and Cake can all now be left for public amusement :D