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Don't let the numbers dazzle you though. The actual damage reduction is much, much more important in Cataclysm. At least for paladins you can actually stop gearing for stamina other than the natural...

Ask them why they don't want you to tank.

No, not really. Typically if you want a high-threat fight, you keep spare dps pieces to mix with the normal tanking gear, but in general the content doesn't call for it. Aggro dumps and early threat...

And towards the avoidance, it's not exact, but there are diminishing returns.
For example: If you have 13% parry and 10% dodge, gaining 1% parry is more expensive than gaining 1% dodge. Thus you try...

Your threat stats are expertise(dodgecap) > hit > expertise(parrycap) >>>>>> strength.
On survivability, mastery is master (pun intended), so reforge mastery from avoidance and threat when you can....

There's not a single talent point that beats Bone Shield...

For those saying that tank dps does not count, think of it like this:
If the tanks survive well, do threat well, and one does more dps than the other, why WOULD they take the lower dps one?
Bonus...

You don't need 26 expertise. It's a goal, but not one worth gemming for. Strength, Arp and Crit all beat expertise point-for-point for unholy DKs. WHERE are you weak on dps? Remember affliction...

"kill {skull} first"
"don't aoe till {skull} is dead"
Asking gently is easy. Making them listen isn't.

The paladin threat generation and cooldown usage are very laidback in comparison. None of our routinely abilities are reactive, and you don't have two usable cooldowns.
The threat generation will...

Seal of Command only shines if you have reckoning. Otherwise it's difference over sov is not worth the talent point.

dr can be simplified as this
1) Your avoidance percentages grow slower as you get more
2) Each avoidance has a different curve, so sometimes you're better with dodge, and sometimes you're better...

Both together aren't 6k health.

Why do you say it shouldn't count? We are there and our threat is damage. Of course it should count. It should count for what a tank dps is worth, not for what a dps dps is worth. Even then you...

I said the same about paladins and bt/sunwell, but hey... It's what happened.

Strictly speaking, as soon as your threat is greater than the threat the group will generate to kill a mob, you don't need to generate more on that enemy. It takes some experience to get by with...

The rotting thumb is rather weak... Black Heart + Glyph are good enough on their own for an EH set.

Parry and strength gems aren't recommended. If you're really gunning for socket bonuses, dodge or expertise will probably fit better. Professions can grant you at least 40 iPoints worth of stamina(or...

Stam, DefStam, AgiStam. Whether or not you want to match socket bonuses doesn't change what gems you should shoot for.

Correcting then: Armsman is something to ignore. Accuracy to weapon is better. Expertise to gloves is better. There just are better enchants than 2% threat. If he was doing 4k tps, armsman puts him...

969 rotation, 1/2 SA, Divine Plea(make sure you have Guarded by the Light), Sanctuary. These alone should keep your mana up in just about any situation.
On the rare cases mana income is still low....

There are buffs that give you sp and can't really be replaced by str/ap, food buffs provide both ap and sp. There are a few things that do indeed show the double scaling, so I don't think it can be...

Huh? If you halve CB damage and double it's threat, you're doing the same tps as before. I don't think they upped the threat by 50%.

Yes, most of our attacks scale of both AP and SP. The ups is that almost any raid buff will improve our performance. The down is that they will, individualy, do less than they could to us compared...

I don't recommend Armsman for threat. 2% more threat is far too small based on how far we push our threat compared to our dps. And Accuracy to weapon isn't a bad enchant.

Gemming for threat...