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.
Click on the Fuzzy Select tool's icon in the Toolbox window (it looks like a magic wand), then click the part of your image you'd like to make transparent (for instance, the background). GIMP will attempt to grab this portion of the image-you should see a dotted border around the part of the image you clicked on. You should see an Opacity meter appear below. 2  By adjusting the opacity to a level below 100%, you can use the eraser tool to paint parts of your image with partial transparency. 3  Make an entire layer partially transparent. 4  Open the Layers tab in your Dialogs window (by default, it is the first tab).