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Dephiance
Hi all,
I have a few questions about tanking as a frost. Some people say gem and enchant stam. while others say gem and enchant avoid., I have problems getting into heroics because they say my health isnt high enough. So I come to you aksing for help. I know some of my gear needs to be replaced with epics, but imo I feel its good enough for heroics. Thank you all for reading this and responding. heres my armory link
http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Perenolde&n=Dephiance
also please excuse any grammer errors as I am getting used to these posts, thanks again
Dephiance
Post by
Darksoul1719
Hi all,
I have a few questions about tanking as a frost. Some people say gem and enchant stam. while others say gem and enchant avoid., I have problems getting into heroics because they say my health isnt high enough. So I come to you aksing for help. I know some of my gear needs to be replaced with epics, but imo I feel its good enough for heroics. Thank you all for reading this and responding. heres my armory link
http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Perenolde&n=Dephiance
also please excuse any grammer errors as I am getting used to these posts, thanks again
Dephiance
TBH, I think your hp is fine to tank heroics, I had like 22-23k when I started tanking them, and yes I went thru the same stuff as you as for tanking, everybody had a fit about my hp being quite low, and it got annoying to me. My way around this was I tanked the lower end heroics like UK, Nexus, AN, stuff like that, while I ran as a DPS for the higher end stuff collecting badges as I went towards the badge gear, in the end you get badges either way to help you with your gear. I wouldn't waste enchanting any blue gear, as it will soon be replaced later on. So if you get with any groups that don't think your hp is high enough, remember after buffs, and such you're hp will go up as well.
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Nystali
You're over expertise soft cap, but you're way under hit soft cap. If you were to gem anything other than Stam, then it would be hit.
Don't listen to Skeletorian, DKs are still good to tank with. And your stamina is more than adequate to do all heroics. The only problem is that a lot of healers are quite pitiful lately with poor spell selection and mana efficiency. As a result, they go crazy when they see a tank with <30k health because they personally can't cut it.
And again, don't listen to Skeletorian, because your spec looks fine (unless you've changed it since original post).
Also, don't listen to Skeletorian, because if he has more stamina than you currently have listed in the armory, he's using PvP gear to dps with.
While you do want to keep building up stamina, you don't need to stack it at the detriment of Hit. Nowadays, not having enough hit may be causing problems of threat generation when you have pug dpsers who are better geared than you.
As to gemming concerns, I don't think you should ever gem for avoidance. Gem for Stamina yes, but also throw in some hit until the 8% soft cap, expertise to 6.25% soft cap. You'll get avoidance through gear upgrades.
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parnasistis
your gear is good enough for any heroic except totc heroic(this instance is painfull if u are under 30k hp unbuffed),secondly to the guy who says dk tanks are bad maybe you have no idea of dk tanking.your avoidance is good enough for heroics too and dont worry your hp 25k is no problem to start with i had 23k when i started heroics and now after doing lots of heroics and raids i reach 35k.healers who dont choose a tank with 25k hp are just disable to proper heal,for god shake it's ridiculous to ask a tank to have 30k for a single heroic!your gear is good for totc normal so go for it as many times as you can and pick up every drop from there.change your chest when you get the required emblems.dont forget to run brewfest boss as many times u can everyday for the trinkets.you only need a better 2hand.you can start in tournament to get the 2hand(it's not good for tank but it's a solution) until u get the marrowstrike.
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Dephiance
Thank you all for your replies. to mention I had no idea purple counted as a red gem..thanks. have a good day all
Dephiance
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