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Post by
bwirum
So, after running around as blood dps for a while, picking up leftovers for my tankset, adding on a few things from rep and quests, I've obtained the following equipment:
http://www.wowhead.com/?profile=17880541
Is it good enough to start running some easy heroics?
I'm closing up on enough triumph badges from dailies to get me the 245 tanksigil, considering rerolling skinning for jewelcrafting, but not looking forward to the whole leveling process of it as I've done it once before on another server, and it's tedious at best. It'd give me the opportunity to make the def
ring
and
amu
though, as well as the nice jc only gems.
One more thing I want from normal dungeons is the
Seal of the Pantheon
from HoL, but it's bloody hard to find a group for it on my server.
And how does my frost spec look? Room for improvement? Thoughts on glyphs?
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Post by
bwirum
Thanks a lot guys, some awesome advice here.
I've made myself a very shortterm goal gearwise, based on leveling up JCing:
http://www.wowhead.com/?profile=17893261
Will take me another 4 daily hc's to get the last 8 triumphs I need for the shoulders, by that time I should have enough conquests for the sigil of deflection too. I'm going to have to go on a low level mining spree to get some mats for leveling. Might have to buy the ring and amu, but I guess it's worth it, saving up the badges to buy the recipes is going to take a wee while, esp. as I need recipes for other jewels as well.
With some luck I'll get some other gear while trying for the black heart too :-)
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Zorrah
Great info...thanks a ton. Leveling a DK now and hitting Northrend after the realms come back up this afternoon.
Can't wait to start tanking...!
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Post by
bwirum
Meh, 21k health is actually just fine for the easier heroics. totc hc can be done with 24k.
Beside the fact that heroics are easy only if you outgear them, 21k health is really low. If you find 4 other ppl geared like him, I don't mean bad geared, just geared "enough" for heroics, you will really have a lot of problems.
I'd really want to see how you manage a TotC5 HC with a 24k tank: only if you are lucky... VERY lucky you can do it (or some of the ppl in your group are outgeared).
Well, I'm taking the advice from both of you to heart, and will up my hp a bit and fix some stuff before attempting the heroics :-) Do you think I could tank normal TotC5 with the gear I have now?
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parnasistis
sure you can do totc normal.go ahead!you can do also os as dps i used to do that when i wasnt good geared for raids and incase you win the tokken for gloves give it for tank item:) i also joined voa classrun as dps so i won pants with this tactic for tank:) (i hope you have a basic dps gear to do that).
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bwirum
Well, I'm new to tanking with DK and new to tanking in Wrath, but I -did- tank quite a bit in BC with a druid tank. So I'm sorta used to tanking per se, but since it's quite a while ago, and in a different game so to speak, I'm sure you can rightfully call me a noob in the area =)
However, I'm going to take you both up on your advices anyhow and go get me a wee change in spec, some new shoulders and a bit more stam, not to mention try out some normals first, while going for a few heroic AN's and dailies as dps ;-) I'm sure it'll all be just good once I get up to 26-27k unbuffed.
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On another note, I'm working on the questline to get to Sons of Hodir now, plan to get them to honored ASAP for some shoulder enchants (and eventually exalted for the good ones), have Ebon Blade, Wyrmrest and Argent Crusade at revered, Kirin Tor and Kalu'ak at honored. Aside from the JC recipes I need to be exalted to get, any reason to prioritize any particular factions?
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Post by
bwirum
Glyph of pestilence is unnecessary, as a frost tank with howling blast glyphed, you will forget that spell even exists, we use a single-disease AoE rotation, blood runes are used for blood boil.
Overlooked this earlier, what to use instead then? Blood tap?
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