Caveats:
- This is a simple gear list. I’m going slot-by-slot pointing out things that jumped out at me. You may or may not want a specific piece of gear for a given location. That’s fine!
- Most of this is heroic dungeon gear; a few pieces (Pauldrons of the Lightning Revenant come to mind) are from normal instances.
- You probably won’t want to wear all of this stuff or you’ll be way over the hit cap. Look for plate items that replace hit with crit, attack power, armor penetration (note: mostly for blood-spec), or something else useful to you that’s not haste.
- If you take spell plate, I will personally come to your house and delete your death knight for failing to grasp fundamentals. Don’t be a Death Knoob.
- There’s also some really nice craftable stuff, so I guess there’ll be another post after this one, huh? Badge gear too. Maybe I’ll combine them into one.
- I created my list with the following preferences as far as statting: Strength, stamina, hit, and crit #1; attack power #2; armor penetration #3; agility #4; haste #5.
- Dual wielders will obviously value haste and hit a lot more than two-hand wielders; blood will value armor penetration more than other specs but it’s at least mildly beneficial to everyone.
- Strength, hit, and crit are obvious, as are attack power, but if it comes down to more strength vs. more AP you should probably take the strength: DKs get 2 AP per point of strength, as well as other useful stuff. Strength is generally better.
- Your opinion is valid, and you’re welcome to point out items I missed – some slots just plain don’t have a lot of items!
Now, without further ado, on to the list!
Head
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Neck
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Shoulders
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Back
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Chest
- Wing Commander’s Breastplate
- Forlorn Breastplate of War
- Engraved Chestplate of Eck
- Breastplate of Undeath
- Bonegrinder Breastplate
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Wrist
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Hand
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Waist
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Legs
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Feet
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Finger
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Trinket
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Two Hand
Stop used to be a warlock, then he was a death knight; first he was Horde, then he was Alliance again, and now he's Horde again. For good this time. Lok'tar ogar! 
You, my good sir, continue to be an awesome resource for Death Knight goodness. I will have to bookmark this for when my lowly little knight finally levels.
it would be nice if you incuded the source for each of these on this page.
but thanks for the great work you’ve done. I didn’t mean to sound un appreciative.
@Jaime: I’d be glad to! I’ll try to have that up later today.
great job, i’ve set to work finding said items.
Thx for the information. I see so many things I would like to add to my gear but don’t know where they are. I am in the process of trying to get a good enough rep in ebon blade to get some great feet. Hopefully, I will run across some of these things you mentioned.
What about gear such as crafted items at 80;
Titansteel: Boots, helm and two handed mace.
Just seems like a good idea to get those if you are not short on cash, they are fairly cheap (easy to aqcuire for me before hitting 80, with already having normal cold-flying mount and dual spec) and add alot to an otherwise blue set-up.
Otherwise, an awesome list
Oh my GOD! I apologize for missing the one line;
“There’s also some really nice craftable stuff, so I guess there’ll be another post after this one, huh? Badge gear too. Maybe I’ll combine them into one.”
That makes me look like an idiot haha!
Also, bookmarked for sure, you’re awesome
and I just hit 80 on my first character ever, quit after getting full kara geared on shammy/hunter, but this is going to be so fun.
Also, don’t forget Savage Saronite Pauldrons which have 43 crit rating and 27 resil. on them for shoulder slot.