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Squishalot
Unfortunately, you're not stacking the Defense for avoidance, it's the basic requirements to remain uncrittable.
If you're picking up gear in H ToC, generally, they'll have enough stamina that the swap over won't be too painful. You'll be going from
1) Moderate Stamina, High Defense, gemmed for Stamina
to
2) High Stamina, Moderate Defense, Moderate Avoidance, gemmed for Defense
And overall, it'll be an improvement.
As a suggestion - what about running N ToC for a while to gear up first? You should be able to breeze through that over and over.
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Mileron
If swapping gems doesn't appeal, try and pick up
Seal of the Pantheon
. It'll give you a nice cushion and is much easier to swap in and out.
Keep in mind it'll be a pain in the neck to get a group to repeatedly run regular HoL.
I too had this problem when I started getting ToC upgrades to my tanking set, and I ended up just holding 2-3 pieces until I could gather the funds/materials for enchants/gems/etc and upgraded several pieces at once.
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Felet
Alright, finally on a good computer. Thanks so far for the input and suggestions. Basically what I'm looking to replace are...
Unsmash
for
Mark
Water
for
Royal
Bolstered
for
Wyrm
Ancient
for
Shield
Square
for
Aurous
That's a total loss of 36, not including a new cloak, bracers(cause they cost so much), or a helm and chest(saving up triumph emblems). I guess I didn't look at the whole picture before I really tried to figure it out. Thanks. Also, is the loss of one of my existing trinkets worth gaining the necessary def or should I just gem for it? With what I listed above, I'm only losing 36 def rating. I have a little to spare so it would be 1 epic def gem? Seems doable. Any suggestions for some good bracers that maybe don't cost 60 emblems of conquest(traded down)?
You lose 36 defense, but you gain well over 100 stamina (24+ 40+ 24+ 28+ +47) from these new items. That means you can gem for defense rather then stamina and still maintain over 28k hp.
Good bracers:
Bracers of the Herald - AN hc
Bracers of Dalaran's Parapets - Buy off of AH for as low as 800g
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zoomie
It's amazing how well geared scrubs can get now by simply doing heroics. heroics - the new welfare! GG blizzard. GG for putting in different emblems for different tiers of content so people who run heroics can't get the same gear the hardcore raiders get, then saying $%^& it and making everything drop conquest emblems. GG by supplimenting a lack of skill with free gear to people who are too terrible to know what to do with it. GG for giving people free gear, when they are so terrible they have to post on wowhead because they don't know how to do their own theorycrafting and are too stupid to figure out how to stay above 540 defense. That free gear your going to get won't make you run out of fire any faster. You're still going to spend most of the fights as a corpse on the ground because your an idiot, with better gear.
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Squishalot
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What you're really saying is, "GG for taking away our lazy way to tell who's a good player and who's a scrub".
If you don't want to group with scrubs, then don't pug with them. Simple as that.
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TheJohan
waah
waah
waah
waah
I don't get why people keep complaining about these things.. You do realise that if they did not do these kind of changes, people starting new chars (even the ones who know how to play) would have to spend countless hours of raiding "old" content to be able to catch up to their progressing friends.
So a few nubs get their hands on epic gear and think they are the shizzle. So what? You'll still be able to spot them because they chose to gem/enchant str for their meleehunter , spirit for their holy pala, spellpower on DK's and ret talentbuilds with Eye for an Eye because "i dont allways do heroics, i solo alot".
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