We should however make sure we get hit rating capped through our gear stats as this ensures our threat spells do not miss which they will if your hit rating is not good. It also doubles up to increase our threat. By this i mean over a long period.

For instant threat, we get that from our block, a good example of this would be using Lavanthors trinket then using our shield slam ability which gives nice high instant threat.

Simply put, Hit rating is more about not missing on your spells and keeping consistent threat throughout the encounter.

As for expertise, i am not saying it doesn’t help at all, as it does give you threat, but the benefits is very negligible so tankadins in general avoid the stat altogether as we aim for better itemized gear with more valueable stats.

You would not want to get a stat that has little to hardly any benefit over the other superior tanking stats, and that is the reasoning we just simply avoid them altogether.

But sadly, whether we want it or not, Blizzard is stuffing it into our gear …. Anyway comparing 10man Freya’s Tank helm versus my Valor helm, Frey’s is much better even despite having the expertise, as the other relevant stats totally put the Valor helm to shame.

So basically, just ignore expertise when looking at gear, and just see the other stats whether they are better then your current tank gear to know whether to get it or not.

I mean it makes sense that we wouldn’t since most are “melee spells” and to a lesser degree holy damage isn’t resisted as most others. But lots if not all of our attacks are melee and even Avenging Shield and Righteous Defense works off hit to some degree (so I’m told?).

If not then yeah that was a poor choice :x