Transmogrification: Bold Armor as Bandin's New Protection Set

Armor sets continue to be something that are getting talked about an awful lot around the World of Warcraft forum and blog environment. Everyone is rushing to collect the very best looking sets they can before patch 4.3 hits, and I am no exception. While most players seem to be gravitating towards older tier sets for their transmogrification needs, I've been spending lots of time in Outland farming dungeon sets that I think look just as awesome.

After a lot more farming than it took to gather Bandin's new healing set I have finally got all the pieces for his tanking gear:

This armor set is officially known as the Bold Armor and can be found in normal and heroic versions of Outland dungeons. Each piece has a drop rate of about 15-20%, so it takes a bit of luck to get them all quickly, especially the pieces that come from heroics where you only have one shot per day.

Once again, I found the set from the extremely helpful WoW Roleplay Gear website. It was much easier to know where to look for each piece using their already very well done research. All of the pieces of the main armor can be found in Outland dungeons, but the shield is a drop from a Northrend heroic, which took me the longest of anything to actually get to drop. The sword is one I found on the auction house. I wanted a simple weapon that looked like something a tank would use to "get the job done" so to speak. I think the dark steel appearance of the sword fits that idea perfectly.

Here is an item by item breakdown of each piece:

• Warhelm of the Bold
• Shoulderguards of the Bold
• Breastplate of the Bold
• Gauntlets of the Bold
• Legplates of the Bold
• Lion's Heart Girdle
• Eaglecrest Warboots
• Devilshark Cape
• Scorpion Sting
• Royal Crest of Lordaeron

There is one disappointment with this gear set. The helm looks awesome, but currently for whatever reason it is in the game entirely mis-colored. I submitted a help ticket about the issue and was told that the developers are aware of the issue. That's as much as I could find out. So, for now I have to operate without the helmet visible, but someday it will probably get fixed and I can use it then. 

I'm still not sure what mount I will use with this gear, but I may stick with the Argent Charger I'm planning to use with my healing gear set. I might still find something better though. Possibly even the normal paladin Charger which fits the color scheme a little better, but admittedly doesn't look quite as cool. 

Also still looking for a good tabard, but haven't found anything yet, so for now I'm going to stick with the Storm Sons guild tabard. Up next in the Transmogrification series will be the gear I currently have picked out for my Retribution spec.