Post by SquireKel
Have you considered the use of websites like
www.askmrrobot.com/wow/gear or
www.maxdps.com? I know there are others out there as well, and hopefully another site member can point you towards those ones, but it can tell you what enchants to use where, as well as gems & reforge suggestions, based on preset weighting of stats or customized weights that you set up.
Post by Nathanyal
The Protection Paladin CompendiumThat'll show you which enchants to use. You'll want to get to 102.4% CTC. After that you can either trade mastery for parry/dodge or stack more stam. For DS you'll want more Stam.
Post by Fetzie
10. Item Enhancement
10.1 Enchanting
Head Arcanum of the Earthen Ring
Shoulders Greater Inscription of Unbreakable Quartz
Cloak Protection
Chest Greater Stamina
Bracers Dodge
Gloves Greater Mastery
BeltEbonsteel Belt Buckle
LegsDrakehide Leg Armor
Boots Mastery
Weapon Windwalk
Shield Mastery
10.2 Gemming
Meta Socket Eternal Shadowspirit Diamond
Austere Shadowspirit Diamond
Blue Socket Puissant Dream Emerald
Puissant Elven Peridot
Solid Ocean Sapphire
Solid Deepholm Iolite
Yellow Puissant Dream Emerald
Puissant Elven Peridot
Fractured Amberjuwel
Fractured Lightstone
Red Defender’s Demonseye
Defender’s Shadow Spinel
Fine Ember Topaz
Fine Lava Coral
Prismatic Puissant Dream Emerald
Puissant Elven Peridot
Fractured Amberjuwel
Fractured Lightstone
Solid Ocean Sapphire
Solid Deepholm Iolite
My personal preferences are the
Eternal Shadowspirit Diamond, the
Puissant Elven Peridot in blue and yellow sockets and
Defender’s Shadow Spinel in red sockets. However, when you reach full CTC which will probably happen when you are around full 378 item level, I would recommend turning the mastery in your gems into stamina. This means
Solid Deepholm Iolite in blue sockets,
Puissant Elven Peridot in yellow sockets and
Defender’s Shadow Spinel in red sockets. Avoidance and Mastery socket bonuses can be ignored so long as you retain full CTC, in which case place a
Solid Deepholm Iolite in the gem socket.
The
Eternal Shadowspirit Diamond pulls ahead of the
Austere at about the point at which your combined dodge, parry, miss and block chances add up to 75% (about half 346 blue and half 359 epic gear). Before this point the Austere meta gem provides a higher damage reduction.
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