Probably the most popular post on this site to date is the Minimum Stats for Karazhan post, re-posted from World of Matticus, which aims to suggest minimum stats that people should be aiming for before entering Karazhan. I started expanding the post to also include links to suggested gear that can be accumulated (without raiding) to help achieve these stats.

The entire post has started to become a little cluttered, especially for classes like druids with multiple specs, so I’ve decided to divide it into two separate posts. The minimum stats will remain in the previous post, whilst this new post will link to suggested gear-lists that you can aim for to help achieve those stats. As always if you have any suggestions to add to the list, please let me know in the comments and I will add to the list. At the moment where I have gaps I’ve included links to Kaliban’s Class Loot Lists

The links below should all refer to gear that can be obtained before entering Karazhan. To get an idea of equipment you can be hoping to obtain in Karazhan, along with a view on which class has ‘first dibs’ on particular drops, check out Kaliban’s Karazhan Loot List

• Warrior
  • Tank: Gearing your Warrior from The Care and Feeding of Warriors @ WoW Insider
  • Tank: Polar’s Easy Pre-Karazhan Tank Gear List from TankSpot
  • Tank: Pre-Karazhan Warrior Gear Checklist from WiredAfterMidnight.com
• Druid
  • Bear-Tank: BigBearButt’s guide on Druid Tank Starter Gear
  • Bear-Tank: Adventure’s in Azeroth’s guides for Bear Gear
  • Cat-DPS: Adventure’s in Azeroth’s guides for Cat Gear
  • Feral (Bear / Cat): Full gear selection lists for gearing feral druids @ gurgleblaster.net
• Rogue
  • Rogue Pre-Karazhan Gear @ Parry, Dodge, Spin
  • Wow Forum thread on Gearing your rogue at 70
• Priest
  • Healer: Gearing your holy priest
  • Healer: Galadria’s Holy Priest Raiding Guide - scroll down to section E for the Gear guide
  • Healer: A Dwarf Priest - Best Casual PvE Healing Gear - ranked gear list including pre-raid, heroic, crafted, kara, gruul, mag, zul drops - very helpful
  • Shadow: Shadow Priest Gear - from ShadowPriest.com
• Hunter
  • World of Matticus’ Gearing your hunter
  • BigRedKitty’s Gear up for Karazhan
• Shaman
  • Healer: World of Matticus’ Gearing your resto Shaman
  • sample shaman gear at Kaliban’s Class Loot Lists
• Mage
  • sample mage gear at Kaliban’s Class Loot Lists
  • Mage Level 70 Pre-raid Gear from WoW EU Mage Forum
• Paladin
  • sample paladin gear at Kaliban’s Class Loot Lists
  • Healer: Paladin Healing Gear at Mystic Chicanery
  • DPS: WoW Insider gearing your Retadin Guide
• Warlock
  • sample warlock gear at Kaliban’s Class Loot Lists
  • Affliction Warlock Gear at Mystic Chicanery

Lately, there have been a number of posts detailing account hack horrors, most notably BRK’s guild bank being cleared out twice in the same day and a similarly traumatic account hack incident for Gun Loving Dwarf Chick’s guild.

So in the spirit of new years resolutions and all that, it is probably a good time to highlight Altitis’ guide to improving your account security. I don’t fully agree with all of the points, but if you read the post and also the comments below and apply some common-sense all should be well with the world.

In particular, I’d expand on step 7, that installing addons is generally fine, so long as you download the .zip file and extract it to the addons directory (as per the Lords site addon instructions). Running .exe files or installers can be dangerous and you’re advised to be confident of the origin of the package before running these. People do use WowAce updater and I’ve suggested the use of WUU previously, but just be careful and apply some common sense.

Other points Altitis makes are essential for anyone who owns a PC connected to the internet regardless of whether they play World of Warcraft or not, most notably:

• Get a firewall e.g. Free ZoneAlarm
• Get antivirus software e.g. Free AVG
• Get an ad-ware cleaner e.g. Free Ad-Aware