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Post by
zoomie
How did you get def capped?
Post by
Artikona
Armory link please so we can see what can be upgraded, but id recomend reg ToC farming until you get all possible upgrades from there, but I'd have to see your armory before I can say which heroics to run.
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421271
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Post by
blademeld
Please don't use gear below ilevel 200 or 187 for heroic tanking, try hitting up a couple regular instances or use another spec to build up tanking gear in heroics.
There's a gear guide in the helpful threads and this also happens to be a database.
Post by
Quest
How did you get def capped?
/smack with 50lbs trout <><
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84594
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Post by
slasher0161
Balls out and spend 5g on some NR gems... seriously BC blue gems WTF!
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Quest
Balls out and spend 5g on some NR gems... seriously BC blue gems WTF!
Wat, they are
in
this fall season.
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180600
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Post by
Quest
hay, i c wut u did thr.
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119627
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161566
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Post by
blademeld
I think 23k health is not bad at all. If i remember correctly, when I hit 80 I did NOT have that much health.
FYI, it was 20k when this thread started.
Although the OP isn't doing too shabby considering that.
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161566
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Post by
zoomie
People "expect" a lot from tanks now. Honest to god I saw someone barking out "LF tank, heroic daily, must have 35k unbuffed HP". I've lost how many people I've called morons (or any variation).
I have seen this quite a bit as well. In fact I remember when WOTLK first released, I read an article on tankspot that basically said the minimum a warrior or paladin tank should have for 10 man naxx was 20k armor, 20k health, and 30-33% dodge+parry. Now people expect nearly double the health just for HEROICS! It is all because of the emblem change (and the 2 brewfest trinkets). People can get 2 pieces T8.5, the neckpiece, belt, pants, gloves, and relic with emblems of conquest. They can buy a cloak bracers ring boots and 2 pieces T7.5 with valor emblems. The only gear they can't get with those emblems is shoulders, 1 ring, 2 trinkets, shield, and a weapon. Even then the emblem of heroism shield and trinket are pretty nice, and theres plenty of BOE rings on the auction house,
Can't get good shoulders? Heroic 5 man toc. Can't get a good weapon and can't get one from UP? Heroic 5 man toc. Can't get a good 2nd ring to go with the valor emblem ring? Heroic 5 man toc.
Plus so many tanks just
appear
to have a lot of health because they are running around with two brewfest trinkets that give more stamina each than heart of iron, except that there is no good use on those trinkets.
Blizzard seriously made the game extremely easy. There is basically no need to do naxx anymore, at all. None. If you farm heriocs and get all the conquest/valor emblem gear and get the few pieces out of 5 man TOC, you are good enough to go straight into 25 man ulduar and do a few of the easier hard modes. It makes me sick because I left for about 2 months the week that TOC released and I had 35k health unbuffed and I was one of the only 10 people on my server to kill Algalon. When I got back I blended in with the terrible dumbass tanks because EVERYONE had 35k health unbuffed, and my server has so many bad people that nobody even knows what a starcaller title is or where it comes from. Little by little I am getting in on my guilds farm nights picking up 1-2 pieces of gear that the other tanks don't want until I am geared enough for heroic mode.
Post by
Quest
Indeed they #$%^ed things pretty good with the whole heroic 5 man = zomg emblems. If they were smart they would of made the daily heroic a weekly and just reward you with a gear token and be done with it.
Post by
MischievousLoki
You're fine to tank heroics gear-wise. But you should upgrade your gems to wrath blue quality and you need to enchant your pieces of gear that are missing enchants (+40 to bracers and an armor patch for your legs will increase your health by a lot).
Also, never socket strength for tanking.
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blademeld
I socket strength/stam for my threat set (red sockets)
:D
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