Upgrades Prior to Heroics for Mart

Have pretty much gotten the best I can get for now. Just missing these pieces.

Waist: Dragonmaw Augur's Cinch (Quest Reward: A Job Unfinished...) [with Runed Living Ruby and Glowing Nightseye]
Ring: Ashyen's Gift (Cenarion Expedition Exalted)
Trinket: Oculus of the Hidden Eye (Auchenai Crypts, Shirrak the Dead Watcher)

Ashyen's Gift loses out a bit of +dmg, but the +hit will more than make up the difference as compared to my current ring.

The trinket can be skipped if I start Heroics & gathering Badges of Honour for Icon of the Silver Crescent.

Speaking of Heroics, would also need Primal Nether for these crafted pieces (& the receipe for the Girdle as well...).

Helm: Destruction Holo-gogs (Engineering Crafted)
Belt: Girdle of Ruination (Tailoring Crafted, BOE)

Badge of Justice

Well, not near Heroics at the moment, but just to note that I'll need to collect 66 Badges. That's a lot of runs...

Orb of the Soul-Eater (25 Badges)
Icon of the Silver Crescent (41 Badges)

Factions after Patch

Not much changes, but added in the new factions to this. Left out the pure raiding one since it looks like tat will be out of the question.

Back

Yeah... Back...

Enchantments

It's time to start looking at some Enchantments since some of the gear are not going to be replaced even past Kara...

Chest: Exceptional Health (8 Arcane Dust, 4 Major Healing Potion, 2 Large Brilliant Shard)
Bracers: Spellpower (6 Large Prismatic Shard, 6 Primal Fire, 6 Primal Water)
Gloves: Major Spellpower (6 Greater Planar Essence, 6 Large Prismatic Shard, 6 Primal Water)
Boots: Fortitude (12 Arcane Dust)

This will be updated as we go along...

Consortium Rep (Part Deux)

Some more details have emerged regarding the new 2.1 content patch.

For one thing, Revered for Consortium will make available a new engineering receipe. It's not too exciting, just another Seaforium type thing, so not sure if it's worth the effort... Anyway, will update the factions page accordingly.

Other than that, the good news is the increased drop rates for leather as well as reduction in thorium requirements for Jewelcrafting. That should save some money and effort.

Consortium Rep

From the Wow website, the new patch will include new content for characters in 'good standing' with the Consortium, whatever that means...

If Honoured is all that is require, then I'm fine. However, I won't be surprised if Revered is required, since that seems to be the level required to open new content (such as Heroic instances). Of course, Sporeggar only required Friendly.

I think I'll put a short hold on the Consortium quests that I have outstanding for now, just to evaluate the situation.

Besides, haven't had time recently, with the grinding of Primal Water and Netherweb Spider Silk for my Frozen Shadoweave Set, as well as my Scryer rep.

Anyway, from the looks of things, it looks like Blizz is really putting effort to include solo and five man content for those who are not inclined to raid (even Karazhan). Good for me, I suppose...