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Tanking question - switching from survival to threat stat priority
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Porcell
In a 5 man, you should try and get 6% hit and 24 Expertise on your character sheet. You'll end up taking a couple percent more damage, but it is WELL worth it in the added damage you do (reducing fight times) as well as making it that much easier for you since threat problems should be nonexistant.
Just looked at your armory. You are in full epics, there's no reason for you to be trying to use full survival gear. That said, Bedrock Talisman is horrible. Pick up the License to Stay trinket from Justice Points and use that to bump your hit rating up.
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Porcell
Regarding expertise, I wonder if the cap for 5-man is smaller, since the bosses are only 87 level vs 88 level, and with human, I am getting 3 expertise racial when using swords - which helps a lot.
I already told you, the expertise cap for heroics is 24. That's 6%. Furthermore, level 87 mobs do not have increased parry chance, so 6% / 24 Expertise is a hard cap. Level 88 bosses are 6.5% dodge (26 expertise) and... 15%? whatever parry chance. Getting expertise capped for parry against bosses is no longer even a concern, which is why I don't remember the number off the top of my head. No mobs have parry-haste anymore.
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Porcell
14% parry chance or 56 expertise.
I actually used to have that much in Wotlk, when there was no reforging present and i was "lucky" with the avoidance/exp pieces.
I just commented about this in our raid last night that I ended up with like 46 Expertise back in the ToC days because everything was stacked with it. It came up because last night I got both
Uncrushable Belt of Fury
and
Cracked Obsidian Stompers
.
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533681
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Post by
cosmicguen
Check out
Porcell's profile
. That'll give you the short version on gemming/reforging, and a place to get started.
I know there are some online reforging tools out there, such as
Reforgemaster
. Basically it allows you to do all your reforging and see the results without you actually spending the gold. Note that I've never used this tool, so I'd suggest you check the tutorial before you start, but it looks fairly straightforward.
It's nothing to be intimidated by really. If you go in with an idea of what you're doing it's very very difficult to get wrong. And it doesn't cost anywhere near as much as a night of idiot pugs in ZA/ZG either.
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Post by
WTBaggrodump
Porcell's profile shows him stacking Mastery. Could someone explain the pros and cons of that for a Prot Warrior over other options (stacking Stam or equally stacking Dodge, Parry, stam?).
Mastery for a warrior is like a godsend. Not only does your chance to block go up but so does your chance to critically block! In other words, you block for
double
the normal block amount. Say you get punched by a big baddie and you block 5K of the incoming damage (15K). Critical Block? That's 10K instead. It's abosolutely epic.
As for stacking stam, even in Wrath, I was /facepalming at all the schmucks doing it and going waaaay overboard. That extra stam is only good for absorbing magical damage, really. Everything else is physical. That's the stuff you wanna avoid, aka dodge, block, or parry. For magical fights, putting on some stam trinkets and whatnot is prefectly fine. For everything else, there's Masterca- Er, the other stats. Not, for gemming, if it's a blue socket that gives you dodge, parry, or mastery, pop in a mastery/stam or whatever else you might be needing. Listen to
Porcell
, the guy knows what the hell he's
typing
about!
AKA, Mastery is great for physical fights but doesn't do much on magical ones. That's the only place Stam really shines. I'm not certain on how closely your Dodge and Parry are supposed to be (I know one needs to be like 200 rating higher than the other or so), but you'll definitely want it where you can get it. You want to avoid damage where you can, not get beaten and take it like a paid-for punching bag.
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WTBaggrodump
Thank you. This is very helpful except now I want to leave work, go do some reforging and regemming. Curse you WOWHEAD FORUM MEMBERS!
<3
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