Sweet!  Thanks Dethe...

I have the 30 knothide leather.  I'm working on a quest chain for a tank reward atm but afterwards will start farming for the rest of the primal shadow needed as well as the two cobra scales and get back with you if that's cool.  Very exciting!

If you're bored, here's my progression thus far and my plans (should I decide to actually stick to them).

I'm not very good at putting together gear sets and to be honest, other than putting together the tier 0 and getting all but one of the the first post expansion dungeon set I've never spent any time putting together a gear set.  I just roll on the stuff that drops for me that will improve first crit and secondly spell damage - somewhat taking into account spell hit.  (I'm talking Kraygien's stuff here of course.)

Realizing I'm not going to get a free ride anymore for Carnero's epic flight form I decided to get him geared up, but since I'm no good at putting together gear sets I'm following a posted recommendation.  So for I have everything on that list except for:

Stylin' Purple Hat
Umberhow's Collar (Working on this quest chain - Cipher of Damnation)
Mark of Tyranny (UBRS quest reward, gotta' decide if I'm gonna' get this)
Badge of Tenacity (From depleted badge, like yeah, SURE! lol)
Glyph of the Gladiator (I think I'm revered and can just buy this)
Inscription of the Knight (I'm friendly with Scryer, need at least revered)
Clefthide Leg Armor
Several enchants (that I hope Kray can do)

So, I still have a long way to go in the HUGE long Cipher of Damnation quest chain, LOTS of Scryer rep grinding to do and have to decide if I'm REALLY going to try for the Depleted Badge which has a .1% drop rate.  I also have some farming for mats to do as well.  We'll see if I can get done with all this before the expansion so Carn can have his epic flight form!  I'd rather get it done before being level 80 just makes it &quot;EZ Mode.&quot;

From memory I think in unbuffed bear form Carn's at 13,500 health, 22,000 armor, 13% dodge and uncrittable.  I'm way over the uncrittable mark so I can still substitute defense/resilience for other stats as I come across other equipment.  Not too bad a start toward tanking heroics, eh?

Then when I'm done with all this I'm going to be totally broke and will need to run dailies until I'm ready to commit suicide! lol