The War Within F2P Baseline Guide

[orcgazmatron]

wanted to show some cool drops i had...extra socket on belt im pretty sure and chest went rare and upp'd the base ilvl. i also wanted to say for plate, the 4 set of doom is quite worth it...i've ran several tests and the proc rate/uptime of the +str proc is right around 60% uptime. scales real nice with twin crusader.

Nice EPic upgrade on the Exarch's chest. Don't agree about 4p Doomplate set.
The strength proc is nice, but it really just fills in the blank from the sockets you sacrifice by equipping the full set;
& it's irregularity rarely lines up with other similar boosts.
Better to go with 2 piece ( shoulders & gloves) for the +12 crit, & augment sub stats loss via enchants if so desired.

Would that we had access to a few of the lvl 25 req dungeons in TBC., particularly the Arc & Morass.
would make everyone's kit far better & more complete.

 

[EKJMNY45]

Is this guide still valid for Str gems? Or is there something better/easier? I am a little lost.

yes

 

[Calligraphy]

Nitpick: the main bulk of Chops' video is right (if PvP gems don't work, you're going to want to target Northrend epic gems and sink a bunch of time into them), but warbanks allow for QoL perks like parallelizing the use of long CDs and keeping dedicated profession alts instead of having to profession shuffle. Also the ability to shuffle items between characters means that stormjewels are less of a wild shot in the dark, because one dropping for any character works instead of having to hope that the one you want drops from that toon's daily bag.