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A couple questions on tanking.
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Quest
Your
healers
are doing a good job, not you frankly. Your spec tells me youre not even doing the tanking rotation and you need to read the tanking stickies.
You gemming for parry means you're a bad tank. Be a good tank, gem for Defense/Agility/Dodge/Stamina. Match your gemming up for bonuses. Yellow for defense, blue for stam, red for str or agility, purple for agility/stam, etc. Plus always have this in a problem slot to get the bonus and make the meta reqs easy;
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=49110
When deciding what you want to stack (never gem parry) take your dodge%, and minus 10 from that, then take your perry % and minus 10 from that as well, then divide the numbers. if its over 1.88 get more parry. If its under 1.88 get more dodge.
For example:
30% dodge 20% Parry
(30-10) / (20-10) = 2 MORE PARRY PLZ!
24% dodge 18% Parry
(24-10) / (18-10) = 1.75 A BIT MORE DODGE B4 PARRY KKTHX.
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44284
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Quest
def minimum. <3
Btw, you can drop about 15 defense for more stam and avoidance. dodge > defense past 540.
Not really true. There are several 'jump points' in def that are better when DR and all that is considered. No need to lose def at all.
Ill try and find the jumppoint numbers on def.
Found them.
728,787,846,910,969. These are good def ratings to stay around. If you can sacrifice
equal number ratings
of parry/dodge for defense and hit one of these numbers youll be optimum for avoidance.
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nephthyswanderer
Paladingod explained where your spec is off, that's why your optimum cycle is off.
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Quest
The issue is youre not doing the rotation, because you cant. Youneed at least 1 point in improved judgments else it all gets out of wack. Sure you can still hold aggro, but youre limiting your tanking while filling out skills in prot that no one needs really.
/castsequence reset=5 Holy Shield,Hammer of the Righteous,Consecration,Shield of Righteousness,Judgement of light,Hammer of the Righteous,Holy Shield,Shield of Righteousness,Consecration,Hammer of the Righteous,Judgement of light,Shield of Righteousness
If you spam something like this, it should have absolutely zero wait time. Its better to have the skills separate, but this is useful on many things. You cannot get more threat while keeping HS up 100% of the time than this, but as I said, you need improved judgements for it to work properly.
If youre not waiting at all, then I guess you have major lag issues, and I can understand that. If youre 350< ping though, fraction of a second to you is maybe half a second, and if youre waiting half a second every few skills, youre losing alot of threat and falling behind. You can gain at least 10% TPS doing it properly, probably more.
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Squishalot
A fraction of a second is potentially 9/10 secs?
Lag is generally the root cause of people who think they're rotating properly, and people who are actually rotating properly.
With 350-450ms lag (according to the little computer in the toolbar, though that seems unreliable at the best of times), I can generally get the full rotation through in about 9.5 secs (noting that I'm basing it on when HS is about to fall off) if I'm paying a modicum of attention to what I'm doing, no macro spamming. If you don't have Improved Judgements, then by definition, it's going to be at least 10 seconds, and Holy Shield will definitely fall off for a short period at some point in time.
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Quest
Basically the GCD is the lag equalizer. People that have over 1500 ping are the ones that will feel it (like me qq), otherwise youll do just about as well as anyone else mostly. Spam away
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