My 80 Mage’s Starter Kit

My mage finally made it to 80 this weekend. But I feel a little sorry for her. Because after spending all this time and energy leveling, I am a bit burnt out on what comes next. You see, she’s 80 number four for me. And at this point, I am more than a little tired of the gear-up-the-alt grind, to be frank. So she is going to have to suffice for now with the entry-level gear kit I assembled for her. Everything she’s wearing I was able to craft or purchase cheaply on the AH, with the exception of the trinkets, which were courtesy of our Brewfest boss farming.

Crafted

• Hat of Wintry Doom
• Ebonweave Robe
• Frostmoon Pants
• Aurora Slippers
• Spellweave Gloves
• Ring of Northern Tears
• Titansteel Spellblade
• Iron-bound Tome

Cheap AH Purchase/Lucky Drop

• Dragon Prow Amulet
• Mantle of the Extensive Mind
• Sash of Jordan

• Wraps of the Astral Traveler (bought with badges for which my main had no other use)
• Twisted Puzzle Ring
• Mithril Pocketwatch
• Ancient Pickled Egg
• Reanimator’s Cloak
• Gwyneth’s Runed Dragonwand

She still needs level 80 rings, but it’s not a bad start. I won’t be embarrassed to bring her on headless horseman farm runs, and guild heroics. Which is good since realistically, given my work schedule + our raid schedule + having another alt ahead of her for gearing out, this is as good as it is going to get for a while.

I assembled the gear over the course of about a month, with the most expensive item being the Spellblade (tho I mined all the ore and used my + guildies’ titansteel cooldowns), and only bought the Sash of Jordan because it was up in the AH for under 150g. That was too good a price to pass up. The shoulders were a lucky drop in Naxx some time ago which I held on to as incentive to get her to level cap.