What Should I buy first with my Valor Points? Frost Mage True Story

[Taurrus]

Well as we all know we have the t11 bonus, now focusing only on frost mage spells, the t11 bonus do the following for us:

t2 bonus: 5% crit on ice lance ->

So that is like the frostbolt glyph, not sure if it will multiply with the shatter bonus. But still isn't that appealing to me.
I mean I do use them often when ever i reach 2 finger of frost and i have Deep freeze on cd and there is no brain freeze proc.

t4 bonus: Reduces the cast time of Frostbolt 10% ->
Being my spam spell whenever there is no proc (orforcing a proc with my pet), looks acceptable but still not that awesome look like for a 4p bonus.

I'm aware that the heroics will usually surpass the off tier pieces, but this is my situation:

I'm looking forward to get all epics on my mage:

T11 gloves: I've already got the reputation gloves with earthen ring
t11 chest: I've got lucky and got an epic chest on stonecore, quite awesome btw.
t11 pants: Well I'm a tailor quite near to get 525, and already got 5 dreamcloth so I'll be able to make either epic pants or get the belt.

So those are the only ones that can be purchase through valor points, so I wonder if getting something else might end up a better solution or the t11 is mandatory.

Thanks in advance.

http://us.battle.net/wow/en/characte...smita/advanced

[Swizzle]

Get any piece of T11 except the head. I'd say start with the pants since they have a healthy dose of hit on them making gearing up for heroic raiding a bit easier.

[Frenzylol]

Chest first imo. You can always get gloves/legs from Baradin Hold.

[Taurrus]

I was thinking of it too, but that would mean that my 2 tailor pants are not that worth it?

This is the comparison between t11 pants, tailor #1 and tailor #2:

t11
Intellect 301
Mastery rating 0
Critical strike rating 0
Haste rating 228
Hit rating 188
Sockets 2

Tailor #1
Intellect 321
Mastery rating 0
Critical strike rating 214
Haste rating 216
Hit rating 0
Sockets 1

Tailor #2
Intellect 321
Mastery rating 241
Critical strike rating 185
Haste rating 0
Hit rating 0
Sockets 1

So should I sell the pants I'm going to craft?, I mean they both grant me crit which is important for frost, I'm planning on getting the hit trinket with rep. So my question still remains.

Is t11 mandatory for frost?

[Swizzle]

4 piece T11 is BiS for all specs, with the Sinestra Helm/Engineering Goggles being BiS for the respective levels of raiding.

I still say get the pants, sell your crafted stuff for a profit, enjoy being hit capped, save points for your next piece.

[Taurrus]

4 piece T11 is BiS for all specs, with the Sinestra Helm/Engineering Goggles being BiS for the respective levels of raiding.

I still say get the pants, sell your crafted stuff for a profit, enjoy being hit capped, save points for your next piece.

Alright then thanks, I'll do that then

[takolin]

Get any piece of T11 except the head. I'd say start with the pants since they have a healthy dose of hit on them making gearing up for heroic raiding a bit easier.

Wouldn't the chest be better as the legs can drop from Argaloth though it's a loot lottery.

[Imnick]

Wouldn't the chest be better as the legs can drop from Argaloth though it's a loot lottery.

The legs are better for stats, and relying on RNG from Argaloth's huge loot list and then hoping there's no other mages isn't really ideal.
Just because something can drop doesn't mean that it will.

[Swizzle]

Wouldn't the chest be better as the legs can drop from Argaloth though it's a loot lottery.

Legs are a better choice simply because they free up other gearing options due to the Hit they have on them and the item budget on legs is usually higher than other pieces. If you want to rely on a boss you might not always do for a chance of a drop that might not happen, go for it.

[littlepanda]

i would say get the chest first because the pants have a chance to drop from argalon

[Swizzle]

i would say get the chest first because the pants have a chance to drop from argalon

Sigh. Really? That was discussed already in the thread and overall pants are still a better choice than the chest.

[Taurrus]

Too bad that my first epics I have occupy the t11 spots that can be bought through valor points.