[Turel]

Seems looking up the mob on Wowhead answered my question.

[wartanker]

What kinda enchant would u put on Heroes' Dreadnaught Pauldrons - Item - World of Warcraft / Heroes' Dreadnaught Pauldrons ??

And what gem would u put in??

[Karilyn]

Source: wartanker What kinda enchant would u put on Heroes' Dreadnaught Pauldrons - Item - World of Warcraft / Heroes' Dreadnaught Pauldrons ?? And what gem would u put in??

If you are an inscriber, use Master's Inscription of the Pinnacle, otherwise Greater Inscription of the Pinnacle is the only option.

If you are a Jewelcrafter like me, use a Solid Dragons Eye to get the socket bonus with a stamina gem. If not, use a Red/Purple/Orange gem that fills whatever stat you are missing the most so you get the socket bonus (The game no longer favors stacking pure stamina, but rather staying well rounded)

Good stats for a warrior to chose in gems:
Red Stats: Dodge, Expertise, Strength
Blue Stats: Stamina
Yellow Stats: Hit, Defense

Pick whichever Stat (Or two stats), that you are lowest in, and use the gem that gives you those stats. I'd personally probably use a Strength/Stamina Gem... Unless my Expertise was really low, then I would use an Expertise/Stamina gem... Unless I was just barely over 540 Defense, where I would go with Strength/Defense... Unless both my Expertise and Defense were low, where I would go with Expertise/Defense...

Starting to see a pattern?

[wartanker]

Thanks Karilyn, yes starting to make sence...

Denfence is 540 these days then?

What about the stats for expertise, strength and hit, what numbers should I aim to get here? What is considered to be low, cap and such.

Thanks for help

[Danegrim]

Hail, fellow warriors.

Prior to the patch, I leveled as a duel wielding fury warrior. I never seemed too comfortable and wasn’t sure I had a firm grasp of the spec. At level 70, as planned, I respecced to protection.

My tanking experience and guild had only gone as far as Karazhan, and a boss or two into Zul Aman prior to the expansion.

I was anticipating having to respec back to fury to level again, but was pleasantly mistaken and have since leveled to 80 now as protection.

The thing of it is, I almost never leave defensive stance and I don’t really know enough about the utility of the other stances in relation to protection spec to know weather this is a bad habit or not.

I am aware of the concept of “stance dancing” but really only have the vaguest idea of it, mostly because I am not sure what relevance or utility the skills resident to the other stances offer to the protection warrior.

Is this a vital or useful technique to a protection warrior, particularly one that has not talented into Stance Mastery?

If so,

What stances and skills and to what situations would they best be applied in regards to trash clearing, boss tanking, grinding, and PvP?

Are there any exercises anyone would recommend that I can solo to better understand some points of the technique and practice when to apply them?

Any advice or a link would be appreciated.

[Blueduck3285]

Hi,

I am a Nub tank, also a Nub DK. I am making the switch to tanking from being ranged dps for the whole of my wow career (around 4 years). I have a few questions that hopefully will help less'en my Nub'ness. I am almost there in regards to understanding Defence/Rating and the importance there of.

What I would like to know is what exactly needed in regards to Hit/Experties. My understanding is that Hit helps with the whole "miss" thing... K. Experties helps with the whole being dodged and parried thing. As a tank, first comes defence, then comes hit?, but what about this experties thing. I understand that not missing is important but what about the whole not being parried or dodged?

As far as itemization goes... I understand its about the same as warrior plate tank gear with a few tweeks here and there to find gear that doesnt have the wasted +block value on it seeing as, well, I cant use it. But other than def, hit, and stam, should I be trying to grab some AP seeing as everything I do scales from that? Threat gen is one of the key items every tank must have to be successful. So I would imagine that AP would be my friend. I know that there isnt a set Order for stating with the exception of Def, but seeing as I cant board, should I be finding dodge and parry items to make up for the lack of a huge freaking table strapped to my arm?

I undstand that there are DR but as of Wrath, has the DR gone up or are the amounts of dodge and parry still about the same before the + is just wasted? With DR in mind is there such thing as too much Def, if I hit the "cap" of 540 and have excess, would it be best to drop the excess if possible for other stats?

So far (lvl 75 DK) in the reg instance, I can tank any boss just fine. Word is that DK's were designed to best be suited for caster boss's but yet on non caster boss's I do just fine with. I understand the difference between reg and heroic but from my experience (ranged dps) they (boss's/mobs) generally just hit harder and have more HP. Again I am new to tanking but I would imagine any difficulties that might arise from the switch to heroics is simply gearing? With the proper Def, dodge, parry, and HP, shouldn't a DK be suited just fine for 25 man MT?

Sorry for the scatter brain throughout the post, its just kinda how I work.
Thank you for your time and any advice ya'll have to offer.

[Jellyfish]

Can mobs and boss parryhaste in heroics or only in naxx ?

[Morgo]

Every mob and player that can parry can also parryhaste.

[spooner04]

my guild is raiding ZA, Gruuls and some of the other stuff for fun until we all hit 80. I"m wondering what my defense needs to be in order to tank these instances.

My understanding is the the cap scales up as you level capping at 540 when you hit 80. If so is it safe to assume that the cap goes up 5 points every level?

Is that an incorrect assumption? is the def. cap already 540 across the board?
I couldn't find anything on tanking the BC instances post WotLK so figured I'd ask.
Thanks.

[Sunderhorn]

Was going to ask something, but then figured I take 3 secs to just test it...

So yes, popping effects that increase your maximum haleth will increase the amount healed by Enraged Regeneration...went from 462 per tick to 640 per tick with Last Stand

[Blueduck3285]

Was more a thought than a question, DK tanking, DK dpsing (/focus DK tank, Macro /target=focus newline /cast Deathcoil), DK dps healing through blood and DC... DK healers.

DK's are the new pallies, with shitty heals lol. The do it alls of do it yourselfers.

[robbon]

Up to lvl 70 the defence cap is 490 for warriors. At level 80 its 540.

[Pitstarter]

Question - is there any other 'sandbox' sites akin to warcrafter.net?

Seems warcrafter.net is able to pull down your info from Armoury for level 80 stuff, but is incapable of changing gear at this present time. I'm using FF 3.0.4, you select a bit of gear to change, type in the name of the item you are looking for and it just sticks on 'loading' with no end result sadly.

[Arrivan]

Source: Danegrim Hail, fellow warriors. Prior to the patch, I leveled as a duel wielding fury warrior. I never seemed too comfortable and wasn’t sure I had a firm grasp of the spec. At level 70, as planned, I respecced to protection. My tanking experience and guild had only gone as far as Karazhan, and a boss or two into Zul Aman prior to the expansion. I was anticipating having to respec back to fury to level again, but was pleasantly mistaken and have since leveled to 80 now as protection. The thing of it is, I almost never leave defensive stance and I don’t really know enough about the utility of the other stances in relation to protection spec to know weather this is a bad habit or not. I am aware of the concept of “stance dancing” but really only have the vaguest idea of it, mostly because I am not sure what relevance or utility the skills resident to the other stances offer to the protection warrior. Is this a vital or useful technique to a protection warrior, particularly one that has not talented into Stance Mastery? If so, What stances and skills and to what situations would they best be applied in regards to trash clearing, boss tanking, grinding, and PvP? Are there any exercises anyone would recommend that I can solo to better understand some points of the technique and practice when to apply them? Any advice or a link would be appreciated.

As a Prot warrior you have nearly no reason to leave Defensive Stance. In all honesty I can't think of anything that you might need that isn't available to you in Def. Stance thanks to either talents or patch 3.0 changes.

[Jellyfish]

what is the minium DK hit rating I need @ 80 so my yellow attacks do not miss ?

thanks in advance

[Kazeyonoma]

9% total. I believe DKs have a talent that gives them 2% hit? so 7% hit rating, whatever the conversion is =x