Pre-Kara Paladin Healing Gear

Okay, so when my paladin first hit 70, it was hard to find the gear I needed to be able to go into karazhan prepared. So Im going to list a few items for each peice along with a link. All the gear I list will be NON-Heroic gear, if you are able to do heroics, then do so because heroics give better gear.

The starting stats for Karazhan for a Holy Paladin is about 900-1200 +healing, if main healing I suggest 1200ish and also a LARGE mana pool. You will probably only get around 8000 mana with the gear I list which will be enough to do most of Kara.

Armor:

HELM- My favorite, and coolest looking, is the Mask of Penance from the second boss in steamvaults. http://thottbot.com/i27790 (This is actually a set which resembles teir 2 armor, but purple, and is probably the coolest looking paladin peices in the game)

CHEST- Breastplate of Many Graces - Drop in shadow labs from third boss. Amazingly good pre kara chest. http://thottbot.com/i27897

GLOVES - Fathomheart Gauntlets - Drops in Steamvaults. http://thottbot.com/i27806 (yes i know they are mail, but they are very good for PVE pre kara) ***ALSO, a lot of people don't like to use arena gear, but the healing gloves are actually very good, and cheap. I would look into getting season 3 gloves, the +2% critical to flash of light is mighty nice.

SHOULDERS - http://www.wowhead.com/?item=28250 - Aside from them being cloth, are good starting shoulders. Good shoulders are hard to get pre heroics so these would be your best bet.

LEGS - Starcaller's Plated Legguards - From a quest reward in Netherstorm http://thottbot.com/i30299

BOOTS - Boots of Resusciation - Drop from Magisters Terrace, this place is new and a little harder than normal instances but still do-able. http://thottbot.com/i34707 Also if these arn't appealing to you, then go for the PVP vindicators boots.

BRACERS - Primal Surge Bracers - From Black Morass http://thottbot.com/i28194 (and once again, can fill with vindicators until you can get better)

NECK - Sethekk Oracle's Focus - From a quest in Sethekk Halls http://thottbot.com/i29334

BELT - Girdle of Divine Blessing - BOE, Usually on the Auction House for fairly cheap, 30 gold or so. http://thottbot.com/i31202

RINGS - Ring of Convalescence from Honor Hold(Revered). And I would get a pvp honor ring until you get the karazhan ring. http://thottbot.com/i29169

TRINKETS - There are a few different options for trinkets. Lower City prayerbooks 2x are very popular. Lower City(Revered). http://thottbot.com/i30841

Scarab of the Infinite Cycle - drops from black morass, very good also http://thottbot.com/i28190 '

WEAPON - The Essence Focuser - BOE from AH. There are better weapons, but with the same plus healing and just minor int stats. http://thottbot.com/i31304

SHEILD - Cystal Pulse Sheild - BOE, Auction House. http://thottbot.com/i31292

LIBRAM- Blessed Book Of Nagrand - Quest in Nagrand from Nessingwary http://thottbot.com/i25644 Personally I use FOL more then anything else, so this one benefits me the most.

Okay, so thats the gear. Now you get into the enchants.

HEAD ENCHANT - Glyph Of Renewal - Revered with Honor Hold/Thrallmar

LEGS - Either Golden or Silver spellthread - BOE on the Auction House

SHOULDERS - Depends if you are Scryer or Aldor - If you are Scryer then get Greater Inscription Of the Oracle(or normal if you arn't high enough rep) and Aldor get Greater Inscription of Faith (same, get normal if not enough rep).

Now for real enchants- I'm not going to tell you exactly what to get, but it's common sense that you want to even out your stats, you don't want to have to much plus healing and only 7k mana, so use enchants to boost what you feel you are low in. Mainly Intellect/MP5/Plus healing.

Remeber not to go too overboard with the best enchants because it would be a waste of money. The first time you go into kara you could get half your gear replaced by better items. Good luck and I hope this helped.