I've seen people with upgraded shields for the paladin set, but I know that takes far fewer books. I hope you can complete all 9 books this patch. After all it's only ilvl 100 you are upgrading to, and supposedly the next big patch will increase that to 110 and make the stats customizable. Although this leads to more questions, if they do in fact make it customizable, will you have to grind more books to switch around your stats?