Food, Drinks, and Magic

For self served food you have 2 options Charbroiled Tiger Steak and Eternal Blossom Fish giving 250 and 275 strength respectively. There is also Black Pepper Ribs and Shrimp that give 300 strength and comes from Nicely Packed Lunch, but i have yet to figure out how you get this item.

As for group food we are given 2 options for each of the Pandarean cooking styles a Banquet and a Great Banquet, feeding 10 and 25 people respectively and each give 250 of a stat and may benefit some more than others (what ever that means). We are also able to use Pandaren Banquet and Great Pandaren Banquet which provide 275 stat to 10 or 25 people.

For flasks we have Flask of Winter's Bite which provides 1000 strength. As for potions we have Potion of Mogu Power for a nice 4000 strength boost over 25 seconds.

Item enhancements (non-enchants):

• Angerhide Leg Armor - 285 strength, 165 critical strike
• Tiger Fang Inscription - 120 strength, 80 critical strike
• Greater Tiger Fang Inscription  - 200 strength, 100 critical strike
• Brutal Leg Armor - 170 strength, 100critical strike
• Living Steel Belt Buckle - socket

Item Enchants

• Enchant Weapon - Dancing Steel - sometimes grants 1650 strength
• Enchant Bracer - Exceptional Strength - 170 strength
• Enchant Chest - Glorious Stats  - 180 strength
• Enchant Cloak - Superior Critical Strike - 180 critical strike
• Enchant Boots - Pandaren's Step - run speed, 140 mastery
• Enchant Gloves - Super Strength - 120 strength, 80critical strike

Today I will be going over the reputation rewards relevant to Arms, so that you all know what reps to focus on to gear up.

Rares - purchased with justice points, require honored (as of 10/1 they no longer require honored)
Epics - purchased with valor points, require revered

The August Celestials:

• Tankiss Warstompers
• Braided Black and White Bracer
• Leggings of Ponderous Advance

The Golden Lotus

• Stonetoe Spaulders
• Dawnblade's Chestguard
• Ring of the Golden Stair
• Serrated Forearm Guards
• Triumphant Conqueror's Chain

The Klaxxi

• Klaxxi Lash of the Rescinder
•  Chestplate of the Stone Lion

The Shado-Pan

• Voice Amplyifying Greathelm
• Cloak of the Dark Disciple
• Iron Belly Wok

As you can see the Golden Lotus is one of the better factions to try and shoot for once you hit 90, but remember that unlike previous expansions we no longer have a cap on dailies so you can focus on one faction or go for them all at the same time. But we lost the ability to run dungeons to gain reputation, so it will be dailies or nothing to gain your reputation. And you must gain reputation to spend your hard earned valor tokens.

Also don't forget to start your quests for the Black Prince so you can begin your rep grind for your Legendary. Most of the mobs you need to kill to earn rep are involved with the other factions dailies.

Parenting and WoW

Let me preface this by saying that there a many different opinions on what good parenting is and this is just my way of incorporating WoW and gaming in general in to my new life.

The above image is how I thought my gaming life would be after the birth of my Daughter last December. I couldn't have been more wrong. We are going on 8.5 months of gaming with baby, although I do admit sometimes it can be hard. After the break I will go in to the various stages of gaming with my daughter and offer up some things that make it easier.

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Being a Good DPS in a Raid Setting is More than Just Big Numbers

Continuing the theme of my last post I will be discussing ways to increase your value to your raid group so that you will be more likely to keep a raid spot.

1) Don't Gloat, no one likes the guy that constantly brags about how he out DPS' everyone and tears into everyone for not being more like him. Also if you are gloating about high DPS numbers on fight where you should be doing more than just stabbing the boss, people will start to put you in your place very quickly and you may lose your raid spot for not understanding the basics of a fight.

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Sun's Guide to Being a Better DPS Through not so Common, Common Sense

After taking month long breaks in between a week of play time for the 4 months I have come to find that a) people are just really bad at their classes or b) they just don't care about how they play.

I have joined some raid groups with people that out gear me which I admit currently would be some one if full heroic DS loot, but even in the past when I was not geared the way I am now I always found away to be competitive and push myself to the limit. After the break I will go into a few steps that can help improve your DPS with getting new gear or needing to have better gear then everyone else.

1) Dont stand in the fire, or the cookies tornadoes, walls of death or anything else that cause a insurmountable amount of damage really quickly. Also in this category and it applies to probably 90% of Dragons in the game don't stand in front of or behind the Dragon

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