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Post by
ownhammer
So I am a Prot Pally tank and I have been reading and listening to a ton of other tanks online and would like to see if I could get some proper help in determining how I should be geming and spec'ing.
Armory Link:
http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Wildhammer&n=Ownhammer
I have been using a program called Rawr lately to break down my mitigation overall to see what items will be best in slot with the proper tanking gems. In this I have found that with me focusing on mitigation I have lost my focus on Stam which both benefits my SP and HP of course. I went form 30k HP to 27k
The question I mainly have is my mitigation is way above the standard with my current gear, but obviously will get better over time as I get new gear which I have been trying to get. But my HP has dropped to a level making me feel like a noob tank. but I have made it so I take much less damage over the entire raids in turn making it easy for healers to heal me.
I am starting to wonder if I should focus more on gemming stam as a prot tank and just keep my mitigation at a proper level and not strive to be focusing on 100% mitigation.
Any thoughts or suggestions are welcome. I am open ears :)
Post by
ownhammer
I should note I have been farming fro new bracers.... they have yet to drop for me :( and I am also farming Argent Crusade rep for my Helm enchant.
Post by
PureGold
So I am a Prot Pally tank and I have been reading and listening to a ton of other tanks online and would like to see if I could get some proper help in determining how I should be geming and spec'ing.
Armory Link:
http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Wildhammer&n=Ownhammer
I have been using a program called Rawr lately to break down my mitigation overall to see what items will be best in slot with the proper tanking gems. In this I have found that with me focusing on mitigation I have lost my focus on Stam which both benefits my SP and HP of course. I went form 30k HP to 27k
The question I mainly have is my mitigation is way above the standard with my current gear, but obviously will get better over time as I get new gear which I have been trying to get. But my HP has dropped to a level making me feel like a noob tank. but I have made it so I take much less damage over the entire raids in turn making it easy for healers to heal me.
I am starting to wonder if I should focus more on gemming stam as a prot tank and just keep my mitigation at a proper level and not strive to be focusing on 100% mitigation.
Any thoughts or suggestions are welcome. I am open ears :)
(I had a long thing typed but this should sum it up more.)
Mitigation/Avoidance sets have low stam.
You lose stam to Mitigation/Avoidance
You won't miss it.
There you go.
Edit: Made it pretty.
Post by
James
1/2 Imp judgments.
No reckoning.
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Post by
ownhammer
But the question is... Is mitigationt he best thing to focus on or is a mix of mitigation and Stam good?
My guess being a tank is getting close to 100% mitigation and 0% chance to hit me over having 2-4k more hp :)
Post by
PureGold
But the question is... Is mitigationt he best thing to focus on or is a mix of mitigation and Stam good?
My guess being a tank is getting close to 100% mitigation and 0% chance to hit me over having 2-4k more hp :)
102.4% is what you need. (If I remember correctly)
You will lose...~4-5k health for being "uncrushable".
You won't miss it at all. Meaning that you will be blocking anything that you don't dodge or parry.
The best way to start out tanking is by getting uncrittable then just focus firing on stam. If you want to get "uncrushable" it takes gear...really...nice...gear. IMO its the most fun way to tank and healers will love you for barely ever taking damage equal to one hit....
Its all pref. though on which one you want to do. Have fun and do what you like.
Edit: Armor and Block Rating/Value are mitigation. Dodge and Parry are avoidance. Difference is mitigation reduces damage taken from a hit and avoidance takes no damage from the dodged/parried hit.
Edit 2: lol I helped.
Post by
zoomie
1/2 Imp judgments.
Stop giving bad advice. Stay 2/2.
Post by
PureGold
1/2 Imp judgments.
Stop giving bad advice. Stay 2/2.
If he wants to get 2/2 PoJ its good advice, otherwise I agree.
Post by
ownhammer
Well my avoidance is at 109.3% but I am now trying to lower my block % and put it in parry and dodge now :)
Post by
zoomie
I have never been block capped at level 80. The only time I am above 102.4% is when redoubt is procced. I always went after avoidance rather than block. Tanks at my same gear level might be block capped, but I have 6-7% more avoidance than they do... and theres only a 1 or 2% chance for me to take a full hit. So yeah theres that 1-2% chance that I take a full hit (1200-1700 more damage, big deal) but I have a 6-7% more chance to completely avoid an attack, one that could hit for 15k.
Thats just me though. I never found being block capped that useful in the current content because if your not block capped, you might take more damage but the damage is so small your healer will probably never ever notice an attack that you didn't block.
I have 39-40k health fully raid buffed. I doubt my healers will notice an extra 1200 on a normal melee swing. My healers do say that I take less damage than the other tanks though.
Post by
blademeld
ITanks at my same gear level might be block capped, but I have 6-7% more avoidance than they do... and theres only a 1 or 2% chance for me to take a full hit.
That doesn't make sense unless they invested their points in other stats.
6-7% dodge in itemization = 234-273 rating = 15-17% block
If you are 1-2% from being hit then you are at ~100% avoidance/mitigation.
The other paladins would be at 117% avoidance, 15% above the unhittable mark.
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