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Comment by djlethal

Incredible tanking enchant for all tanking classes. It was about time they put this in the game :P

Comment by zanchez

Bought from Vanessa Sellers in Dalaran for 5x Abyss Crystal in patch 3.0.8

Materials for the enchant itself.
12x Dream Shard

Comment by 274287

Why cant i see her selling this item?:S
do you have to be 450?

Comment by Immortares

There is some discussion going on what Weapon Enchant would be best for Level 80 Protection Warriors. The word "best" should in my opinion be defined in this case by 3 criteria:

Survivability by health, mitigration (or Damage Reduction) or Healing
Threat to keep aggro
Damage (least important)

The reason I make this overview is that some Protection Warriors see the Mongoose still as a compulsory Enchant. However since patch 3.0 Protection Warriors benefit more from Strength now, because most abilities scale with Attack Power or with Block Value.

The Enchants that at least some upgrade for a Protection Warrior are:

For Level 80 Warriors these Enchants provide the following statistics:

Lifeward : Chance on hit ("sometimes") provides 140-160 Healing on self
Battlemaster : Chance on hit ("occasionally") provides 180-300 Healing on nearby party members
Mongoose : Procs on average 1 time per minute Lightning Speed => +1,92% Critical chance & +3,05% Dodge chance & +240 Armor for 15 seconds per each 60 seconds => +0,48% Critical chance & +0,76% Dodge chance & +60 Armor on average overall (compare it with 30 Agility)
Exceptional Agility : 26 Agility => +0,42% Critical chance & +0,66% Dodge chance & +52 Armor
Potency : 20 Strength => +2,86 White DPS & +10 Block Value or +3,03 White DPS & +13,8 Block Value with Vitality and Shield Mastery talents
Superior Potency : 65 Attack Power => +4,64 White DPS
Executioner : Ignore 840 Armor (DPS increase depends on the amount of armor of the mob and its debuffs)
Titanguard : 75 Stamina => +750 Health or +795 Health with Vitality talents

Additional notes:

Mongoose has (with an average Tanking Weapon Speed of 1.8 second) 3% chance to Proc. On White damage it would hit once every minute for 15 seconds. However on Bosses there is a chance the attack will be parried, dodged or missed. But on the other hand Mongoose also has 3% chance to Proc from instant Weapon ablities like Revenge, Devastate or Concussion Blow. In most cases these abilities will be used more often per minute than the amount of parry, dodge and miss and therefore the Lightning Speed buff will be up slightly more often than just once per minute on average.
Potency will slightly increase the Attack Power and the Block Value which will also result in more damage and Threat from abilities like Revenge, Shield Slam, Thunder Clap and Heroic Throw

Overall I think Titanguard will provide the most Survivability and should be used if Threat is no longer an issue anymore for the tank. Potency and Mongoose both provide a nice combination of Threat, Survivability and Damage. Battlemaster will provide little Threat and no Damage, but has the advantage of healing the entire party (if in range) and might be very useful for Offtanks.

I hope this will ease the choice a bit! Good luck! :D

Regards,

Immortares
(EU - Twisting Nether - Alliance - Aeternitas)

Comment by 291814

Yeah in this expac theres no question, Titanguard is the best enchant for a tank... and threat should never be an issue due to the fact its become incredibly easy to hold threat.

Comment by 2333

This enchant is gone in 0.0.8 (9438).

Comment by Megasaxon

I hope this doesn't disappear, i was looking forward to having a reasonable tanking enchant for my druid.

Comment by 270242

Wow this is gonna be life changing for DK and pala tanks... poor bastards have such a low hp buffer..

Comment by 249381

Enchant removed in current PTR build...no notification yet if it will return..waiting for blue reply on PTR forums

Comment by adamb10

The enchant is removed in the latest patch.

Comment by 164084

Looks like I need to go back to ZA and farm the Mongoose enchant after all.

you'll be farming for a long time, mongoose drops from kara.

Comment by 305359

I love how you downgrade the people that have the correct information. This enchant has been removed from the game. Just because you don't want to hear it, doesn't mean it's not correct. Go to Tankspot.com and read for yourselves.

http://www.tankspot.com/forums/f64/43950-titanguard-removed.html

Comment by 195057

Ghostcrawler has publically adressed that this enchant has been removed from the game under the issue of balance.

Comment by 11695

R.I.P Titanguard

Comment by Immortares

Had this enchant gone live it would have become THE enchant for nearly all tanks. It would not have been an interesting choice. We would have had to keep introducing higher tiers of the same enchant, or else players would just keep using this version for perpetuity. We put Stamina already on many items. We don't think your weapon needs one as well. I received messages from several tanks for very prominent guilds asking us to please not go forward with this enchant. They understood why it was bad for the game.

Death knights have access to superior enchants in part because they do not have a shield or ranged weapon slot and the stats provided by those items.

The PTR is for testing. If you find yourself frustrated that things change between the PTR and live, I would suggest you stop paying attention to the PTR notes. Even if a change like this had already gone live, we probably would have changed it anyway. We did not like what this enchant would have done for the game.

Source:
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=14318707674&pageNo=6&sid=1#104

We'd like to add more interesting tanking weapon enchants, but have to be very careful not to make them fall into the same problem as Titanguard. Ideally we would like to be able to design encounters without the assumption that every tank has X on their blade. It would be nice if even putting something on your weapon to increase damage (and therefore threat) felt like a viable alternative

Source:
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=14318707674&sid=1&pageNo=11#211

Ghostcrawler confirmed in some Blue posts the removal of the Titanguard enchant. Let's hope alternative WotLK Tanking enchants will be implemented soon. If (75) Stamina is too overpowered as Weapon enchant stat, then I would implement for example:

50 Parry Rating, Reagents: Infinite Dust (30), Dream Shard (6), Abyss Crystal (6) (compare Mighty Spellpower)
30 Dodge Rating, Reagents: Infinite Dust (30), Greater Cosmic Essence (10), Abyss Crystal (4) (compare Superior Potency)
30 Strength, Reagents: Infinite Dust (30), Greater Cosmic Essence (10), Abyss Crystal (4) (compare Superior Potency)

Regards,

Immortares
(EU - Twisting Nether - Alliance - Aeternitas)

Comment by Yukazi

Would have been nice for 60 PvP.
R.I.P.

Comment by Immortares

It seems there will indeed be a new Tanking Enchant in Patch 3.1 with Parry Rating (and damage) with the name Blade Ward:

Enchant Weapon - Blade Ward *New Enchant* - Permanently enchants a weapon to sometimes grant Blade Warding when striking an enemy. Blade Warding increases your parry rating by 200 and inflicts 600 to 800 damage on your next parry. Effect can stack up to 5 times and lasts 10 sec. This enchantment requires the wielder is at least level 75.

The Enchant is confirmed by Ghostcrawler and it's also confirmed that Titanguard Enchant will finally get a replacement:

We originally had two tanking enchants: the parry and stamina one. We pulled the stamina one (and let's not revisit that whole discussion please) but that means druids did get the shaft.

The plan is to get a second tanking enchant in 3.1 but I am very hesistant to promise anything.
...

Source:
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=15443451698&pageNo=2#30

On a side note: Titanguard will be the name of a new Tanking sword.

Regards,

Immortares
(EU - Twisting Nether - Alliance - Aeternitas)

Comment by 121958

Titanguard enchanted with Titanguard?
No wonder it got taken out the game.

Comment by Ferel

the pattern says 75 stamina but the spell says 50...

weird.

Comment by Shad0wS0ul

add it back blizz its bad to have a tbc ench on a lvl 80 char.... mongoose

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Formula: Enchant Weapon - Titanguard

Item Level 85
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Requires Enchanting (450)
Use: Teaches you how to permanently enchant a melee weapon to increase Stamina by 50. Requires a level 60 or higher item.
Permanently enchant a melee weapon to increase Stamina by 50. Requires a level 60 or higher item.

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