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What would you let me tank with my gear?
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skumbananer
Interesting (for me) question, geared like i am, what would you let me tank:
http://eu.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Aerie+Peak&n=Skumbananer
I have tanked large chunks of Ulduar10, 2 (3rd doesnt count) bosses in Toc10, eoe10 and naxx10 ofc like this, am i being a jackass to my healers for not using more conventional gearing and gemming?
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Kramp
Get the Black heart form norm toc and Essence of Gossamer from H AN.
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Post by
Zakkhar
What you might hear is that your HP is not effective...your gear is good, gemming for exp is usually reserved after your hit cap (8%?)
I am afraid you are wrong. Expertise is twice as valubale as threat stat than hit before 26 expertise in skill (dodge cap), its also party a mitigation stat - less boss parries, less damage taken.
All your skills beside Thunder clap and Taunt use expertise and hit.
You shouldnt however sacrifice stamina in order to get exp. The strategy of putting purples with exp/sta into red slots is my own. But i cant understand putting gems without any sta or def into your gem slots. STR, Exp, Hit. Wtf?
You seem to be not aware of the fact you may not go after socket bonus (and actually you shouldnt).
Post by
Porcell
I feel you are doing yourself a huge disservice by having 0/3 in focused rage. It is a LOT of rage you are missing out on.
Use the Defense Enchant on your shield instead of Titanium Plating (which isn't very good). This will also allow you to use the Stamina + 2% Armor meta gem, which is far superior to the Defense + SBV.
Oddly enough, you are pretty much (kinda) gemmed correctly. Expertise/Stamina in red sockets with a stamina socket bonus would be correct for you. The only problems I have is with the yellow socket choices. Go with Defense/Stamina if you want to match the socket bonus.
You are focusing a bit too much on offensive threat stats. Also, what's with the trinkets? I understand if you got caught in your "Heroic Mode" gearset; I use DPS trinkets and full Block Value gear for heroics too. For running normal stuff you will want at least one Stamina trinket (Black Heart from normal ToC), and can use either Essence for the second one or an avoidance trinket.
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skumbananer
With my crap avoidance, will focused rage really matter? When tanking a boss, my rage bar is always half full-almost full even if i hs every auto-swing (which i always do). So i dont feel i need it. In heroics or solo i often lhave low rage though.
2% armor+stamina meta better than +5% bv? with 5% more bv my shieldslam will hit for more, and damage shield scales with blockvalue. Will the increased ap from armed to the teeth being higher due to more armor outweigh that?
(Im just kidding... maybe, but will it?) I really like to dps while tanking, pushing 3k while tanking a boss like patch10, malygos, deconstructor10 or similar spam-abilities-until fingers-bleed would be so sweet. With a little less gear than i have now (2 pieces more t7 instead of the t8 tier i have now) i could do 2,3k dps, so i should be atleast at 2,6k now (i hope).
(My guild has proper tanks also, i generally just offtank or tank encounters when theres needed more threath, like Malygos, i like that role)
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Porcell
For me the 2% Armor gives me 506 extra armor. For boss tanking this is certainly better than 5% Block Value, especially since you shouldn't have a whole lot of block value on your "good" gear.
Not to mention 32 Stamina is certainly better than 21 Defense Rating.
I'm not saying you can't use the Block Value meta for your heroic gearset. I'm using my old T7.5 helm in my BV set (153 extra block on it) with the BV meta. I'm at 2985 Block Value on my character sheet in my heroic gear.
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