...So what did I do?

In my last post, we talked a lot about the Evoker's Silk PvP set and geming it out, listing out all the blue and green quality gems that I like for mages for some reason or another. So, what did I do with my set? Well, I'm glad I asked on behalf of you all. Let's look, shall we:

Evoker's Silk Cowl:
Insightful Earthstorm Diamond
Runed Living Ruby

Evoker's Silk Amice:
Radiant Talasite
Mystic Dawnstone

Evoker's Silk Raiment:
Runed Living Ruby
Gleaming Dawnstone
Great Dawnstone

And just for your information, here's my other socketed pieces that go along with this set at the moment:

Shattrath Wraps:
Potent Noble Topaz

Frozen Shadoweave Boots:
Gleaming Dawnstone
Radiant Talasite

My principal in socketing these items was 1) to follow the gem type to get the socket bonuses, 2) to try to balance my stat progression so that I didn't just pour everything into one pot, and 3) to avoid breaking my bank. The Runed Living Ruby's were expensive on AH at 60g a pop, but other than that, everything was pretty reasonable. I was able to snag the meta for an 80g buyout which was nice considering that the next auction of the same gem was at 150g. Yeah, saving money. Sure there are some better gems I could plunk in this, but for a couple hundred gold, it isn't a bad way to bling out the set. I took it into an AB immediately after socketing the set to see how my performance had changed. It was hard to tell since it's been a while since I PvPed, especially with nar, but, playing almost entirely on D, I got a large number of kills, was not insta-nuked as I had been accustomed to, and was able to hold my own against a majority of players. I felt like I contributed to the team, so all was good for this mage.

Next up on the block, Rahr re-enters the PvP scene with some newly purchased Blues to compliment his other three epic pieces and we'll see what kind of difference that will make for him. Of course, he's a lock, so he's already OP, right? But we'll be taking a look at him very soon to see what benefit some extra resil, stam, etc can do for this scary dude.