Gear List: Warrior Tank, New 80

Gear List: Warrior Tank, New 80
Current Wowcraft build: 3.3.2.

[If you see this message in brackets here, it means I do not consider this post complete. This will take a while to finish.]

Some people believe that gear lists put blinders on players, leading them to believe that ONLY this gear is the right gear and you need to have all of it in order to be a good insert-class-spec-here. If you put blinders on yourself because of this list, it's your own fault. I'm going to assume you're intelligent enough to make good gear decisions; the purpose of this (and any other) gear list is to give you an idea of where to go to get what you need.

Gear List: Warrior Tank, recently 80. Primary goal: obtain defense plate.

Preface note: do what you can while leveling to get your Argent Crusade rep to at least Honored and your Wyrmrest rep to at least Revered and if possible (though perhaps difficult unless you're planning ahead) Ebon Blade to Honored. If you plan from at least level 74, you can accomplish this before you ding 80. If you do not, you should at least guarantee yourself to have Friendly standing so you can purchase the appropriate tabard and run lvl 80 regular or Heroic dungeons until you gain the appropriate rep.


Quest Rewards - to be acquired and retained while leveling
[to be added soon; accepting suggestions (with wowhead links) in the comments!]


Reputations
Argent Crusade (Wowhead link)
Need Honored for Pants: Special Issue Legplates - 14 defense

Wyrmrest Accord (Wowhead link)
Need Honored for Cloak: Cloak of Peaceful Resolutions - nearly 9 defense
Need Revered for Chest: Breastplate of the Solemn Council - 15 and a half defense
Need Revered for Feet: Sabatons of Draconic Vigor - nearly 12 defense

Knights of the Ebon Blade (Wowhead link)
Need Honored for Feet: Toxin-Tempered Sabatons - 7 defense


Tourney gear - bought with Champion Seals
Al of the faction vendors in the tent on the east side of the Tourney grounds have the same basic gear list; only the faction-specific items like mounts and pets and tabards vary.
Feet: Stanchions of Unseatable Furor - nearly 7 defense, 10 seals
Shield: Teldrassil Protector - [defense], 25 seals


BOE Items - likely to be found cheap on your AH
[to be added soon; accepting suggestions (with wowhead links) in the comments!]


Crafted Items - find a guildie to make it, or be prepared to shell on the AH
Tempered Saronite gear is an attractive starting point for plate with Stam, Str, and Defense, especially if you find yourself nearing 80 and haven't done much other preparation for setting up a tank set.
Tempered Saronite Legplates, Tempered Saronite Belt, Tempered Saronite Breastplate, Tempered Saronite Boots, Tempered Saronite Shoulders, Tempered Saronite Helm, Tempered Saronite Bracers, Tempered Saronite Gauntlets.
The Saronite Bulwark
[to be added soon; accepting suggestions (with wowhead links) in the comments!]


Regular Original Dungeons (needless to say, if you see any of this drop while leveling, even if you're leveling as dps, try to get it, and then keeeeeep it.)

Old Kingdom -
Jedoga, Chest: Battlechest of the Twilight Cult - 12 defense

Azjol-Nerub -
Anub'arak, Ring: Signet of Arachnathid Command - 3 and a half defense

Drak'Tharon Keep - nothing tanky here.

Violet Hold -
Erekem, Cloak: Screeching Cape - 7 defense
Xevozz, Shield: Riot Shield - 4 and a half defense
Zuramat, Pants: Void Sentry Legplates - 11 defense

Culling of Strat -
Meathook, Feet: Slaughterhouse Sabatons - 7 defense
Salramm, Cloak: Flowing Cloak of Command - 5 defense
Mal'Ganis, Shield: Leeka's Shield - 8 defense

Gundrak -
Gal'darah, Ring: Gal'darah's Signet - 7 defense

Halls of Stone - nothing tanky-with-defense here.

Halls of Lightning -
Volkhan, Sword: Eternally Folded Blade - 4 and a half defense
Loken, Trinket: Seal of the Pantheon - 13 defense. Bolded because this is the trinket you will be running regHOL a million times over to obtain.

Utgarde Pinnacle -
Svala, Bracers: Svala's Bloodied Shackles - 5 and a half defense
Gortok, Chest: Reanimated Armor - 9 defense
Skadi, Neck: Amulet of Deflected Blows - 5 defense

Oculus -
Mage-Lord, Belt: Girdle of Obscuring - 6 defense
Eregos, Helm: Helm of the Ley-Guardian - nearly 14 defense
Eregos, Ring: Dragonflight Great-Ring - nearly 8 defense


Heroic T7 Dungeons - The Heroic versions of the dungeons that shipped with Wrath, organized roughly in increasing difficulty as my memory supports.

Heroic Nexus -
General, Cloak: Cloak of the Enemy - 8 and a half defense
Telestra, Helm: Arcane-Shielded Helm - 7 defense
Keristraza, Shield: Bulwark of the Noble Protector - 6 defense

Heroic Utgarde Keep -
Keleseth, Sword: Infantry Assault Blade - 6 and a half defense
Ingvar, Ring: Unsmashable Heavy Band - 6 defense

Heroic Violet Hold -
Ichoron, Gloves: Gauntlets of the Water Revenant - 11 and a half defense
Cyanigosa, Pants: Bolstered Legplates - 16 and a half defense

Heroic Drak'Tharon Keep -
Trollgore, Feet: Terrace Defence Boots - 8 defense
Tharon'ja, Chest: Ziggurat Imprinted Chestguard - 10 defense

Heroic Gundrak -
Drakkari Elemental, Shoulders: Pauldrons of the Colossus - 6 defense
Moorabi, Helm: Ground Tremor Helm - 12 and a half defense
Gal'darah, Gloves: Horn-Tipped Gauntlets - 10 defense

Heroic Culling of Strat -
Salramm, Bracers: Bindings of Dark Will - 5 and a half defense
Chrono-Lord, Pants: Legplates of the Infinite Drakonid - 9 defense
Mal'Ganis, Neck: Pendant of the Nathrezim - 5 defense
Mal'Ganis, Shield: Royal Crest of Lordaeron - 10 defense

Heroic Halls of Stone -
Maiden, Ring: Woeful Band - 5 defense
Sjonnir, Chest: Sun-Emblazoned Chestplate - 12 defense

Heroic Halls of Lightning -
Bjarngrim, Shoulders: Iron Dwarf Smith Pauldrons - 7 defense

Heroic Utgarde Pinnacle -
Skadi, Belt: Skadi's Iron Belt - 8 defense
King, Sword: Red Sword of Courage - nearly 8 defense. THE sword you want to farm for. Hit up HUP every day until this drops, and put Mongoose on this baby. This will be what you start raiding with.

Heroic Old Kingdom -
Nadox, Ring: Nerubian Shield Ring - 4 defense
Jedoga, Neck: Shadowseeker's Pendant - 6 and a half defense
Volazj, Bracers: Bracers of the Herald - 6 and a half defense

Heroic Azjol-Nerub -
Hadronox, Trinket: Essence of Gossamer - 111 stamina. Technically no defense. Pick it up anyway if it drops. Stam is yummy!
Anub'arak, Belt: Ancient Aligned Girdle - 9 and a half defense

Heroic Oculus -
Drakos, Ring: Band of Torture - 5 and a half defense
Varos, Axe: Cloudstrider's Waraxe - 6 defense
Eregos, Pants: Ley-Guardian's Legguards - nearly 16 defense



Why I'm not including TOC, HTOC, and the T10 dungeons on this list:
This list is aimed at new 80s. Yes I have the harder heroics on here, and no you probably won't be tanking those right off the bat. But this is, almost entirely, a list containing ilvl 200 gear with defense on it. The primary purpose of this list is to show you that there is TONS of defense gear available to new 80s, and that you should probably use AtlasLoot's wishlist function to make your own, smaller, in-game list of gear you desire to pursue.

Tanking is, in my opinion, the best job in the game. But you HAVE to have 535 defense to tank Heroics and 540 to tank raids. Hopefully this list will point you in many good directions of where to go to get what you need to do what you want to do.