Post by Blightman
drop tailoring. Engineering can get you a great
tank helm (better than felsteel), JC has some good
trinkets1st Buy the Felsteel set and the cloak like YJMark said, you can PvP to get the
S2 mace instead of the sword. the sword is better for crit/crush but the mace has tons of spell damage and some hit rating. the biggest difference is you may not be able to find the sword on the AH but you will always be able to PvP for the mace.
After getting the stuff from the AH start gathering the stuff from instances/quests
For boots there is a soloable group quest for boots that are roughly the same value as the flesh metal:
http://wotlk.wowhead.com/?item=32866run BM a lot to get rep with Keepers of Time so you can get:
http://wotlk.wowhead.com/?item=29186 and
http://wotlk.wowhead.com/?item=29184run STV for
http://wotlk.wowhead.com/?item=27804run Mech for
http://wotlk.wowhead.com/?item=28262do the SSO dailies every day till exalted, lots of money and you can buy both
http://wotlk.wowhead.com/?item=34676 and
http://wotlk.wowhead.com/?item=34675 (yes you want both) when exalted
Take the money you made and buy/have crafted:
http://wotlk.wowhead.com/?item=23538 Easy to get ring:
http://wotlk.wowhead.com/?item=30006 and very powerful despite it's color