You said that you have to be 80-85 to get heirlooms. On my first char ever (undead rogue) i played a lot of random battlegrounds and i got the pvp shoulders. It takes time but it was totally worth it :D. And btw great guide.
You can smooth the hard edges of a selection by feathering. Feathering blurs edges by building a transition between the selection and surrounding pixels. This blurring can cause some loss of detail at the edge of the selection.
STEP 9. Create a new layer, name it âhighlights baseâ and ALT-click between it and the layer below it. Set its Blending mode to Soft Light, hit D, then X. Grab the Brush Tool (B), set its Hardness to 0% and Opacity to 40% and paint the soft highlighted areas.