[Snackpants]

Snack's armory: The World of Warcraft Armory

A disclaimer: I believe I normally have 24.6K unbuffed health and I do have the Crescent of Brooding Fury - Item - World of Warcraft. With it, my defense is 551. There's also a re-spec to 15/5/51 in my near future, but I burned my bank account to the ground leveling JC.

I hit 80 last week, and since I'm well over the crit minimum, what enchants/gems should I be using now? I'm a JC, and so far I've gemmed primarily for +def and +stam, but can make almost anything.

I've left my cloak and bracers unenchanted for the moment. The gems in the trinkets are placeholders until I figure out what I need. Getting my little hands on the Red Sword of Courage - Item - World of Warcraft is going to be a priority in my near future. I don't know if I should bother with the Armor Plated Combat Shotgun - Item - World of Warcraft or making any of the titansteel tanking rings except maybe for the sockets.

So my question is: where do I focus next? Even more stamina? Block, dodge, parry? Expertise? Crit? Strength? Our uber-casual family/friends guild plays for fun, so it's not like I need to be Ulduar-ready anytime soon. However, I am quickly gaining a reputation as a first-rate tank, and I'd like to deserve that reputation, plus my close friend just dual-spec'd with prot (The World of Warcraft Armory), and I need to be much better than he is!

Thanks, guys!

[Kazeyonoma]

Wrong forum, read rules.

Moved.

[VikingKong]

Hit and Expertise.

Get hit capped and begin to boost your expertise.

[Giliandrix]

Getting your hands on the Armor Plated Shotgun is a great upgrade. Adds Def + Stamina etc. It was the BiS before 3.1.

Your rings could use some work as well. I'd recommend running heroics to try to replace some of your blues and greens.

Keystone Great Ring drops from H Drak Keep
Bolstered Legplates drops from H VH
Bracers of the Herald drops from H OK.
Ancient Aligned Girdle drops from H AN

The monarch crab is nice, but also try to get Essence of Gossamer which also drops from H AN.

Basically run all the heroics till you get what you want! H UP drops that amazing sword, H CoS drops another great shield etc.

When you get your Emblems of Heroism you should make a couple of purchases. The dodge Trinket is really good and the belt is amazing as well. You should eventually save up emblems for Tier pieces as well.

Not gonna grill you on your spec because you said you'd be changing them soon. With regards to gemming you have some interesting choices. Since you're a JC now +41 stamina is your best friend. Gem it anywhere where a blue slot is not present. Anywhere else +24 stamina is cool.

Another alternative is gemming for hit and threat if you find yourself losing out on threat. going 15/5/51 helps a lot with threat but if you are, try to get at least 8% hit (the cap), and at least 6.5% Expertise to throw dodges out of the table.

Once you get better gear, don't be scared to throw amazing enchants on them. +40 stam on bracers, Accuracy on your weapon (Or tit weapon chain much cheaper). Stamina/Defense on everything.

Hope this helped somewhat!

Edit: The Titanium Guard Neck/Ring pieces are pretty good till you start hitting Naxx. 10man OS, also drops another great ring.

[Snackpants]

Source: Kazeyonoma Wrong forum, read rules. Moved.

Oops, sorry. It was a toss-up between Armory & Talent vs. Gear & Enchanting. Although I led off with an armory link, I figured that since I was asking how to upgrade my existing stuff and how I should enchant it in the future, I'd go with the latter. Sorry about that.

Thanks for the feedback, everyone. I'm just getting started on heroics now, so I'll keep working at it.