Comments on: Tanks, what 3.2 means to you

By: Danny Ocean

Danny Ocean — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 00:25:45 +0000

Excellent summary. Props to Honor for linking this post.

So, now that the 3.2 Tankadin changes are sorted out, Honor brought us up-to-date on jems, build issues are being discussed… Is anyone discussing glyphs?

By: elvendude

elvendude — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 21:40:39 +0000

How very interesting. I’ve gleaned a *lot* of information from just this post, and realize that I don’t know much at all about paladin tanking.

My paladin just hit 80, and I haven’t even reached def cap yet, so I’m very new to the game. Can anyone recommend a guide to avoid being the paladin tank who stacks parry? (I had no idea until just now it wasn’t a good stat.)

By: [Patch 3.2] Tankadin Talent Spec | WoWphiles: The WoW Community Blog for players of World of Warcraft

Fri, 31 Jul 2009 15:08:17 +0000

[...] If you aren’t up to speed on the new changes coming, I recommend Rhidach’s excellent write up “Tanks, What 3.2 Means to You.” [...]

By: Aureilie

Aureilie — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 05:05:46 +0000

This is the perfect summation of 3.2. Thank you!

By: Logan

Logan — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 16:47:44 +0000

@Moogle: Yup, doesnt matter if the BOSS 1-shots you, you will be “reset” at 30% of your HP. then again, if we get 1 shot we fail….

By: Ohmymoogle

Ohmymoogle — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 09:50:59 +0000

Yeah that more or less summed it up the tankadin changes.

As for Sanctuary, instead of complaining about the stamina loss from kings, people will be bemoaning the loss of the other stats that comes with kings as you mentioned …. Makes me wonder if i rather have this change, or keep the old and get another pally to BOK me while i sanc myself without losing out o_O;

So for argent defender, let me get this straight, your saying when the cooldown is used the normal passive mitigation when health is below 35% that didn’t work during timer debuff was actually a bug ? Then this is good news.

But what do you mean about going to 0hp it will bounce back to 30 ? what happens if the boss does 50% do i still bounce back to 30% health for the AD cooldown proc ?

By: Logan

Logan — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 18:38:52 +0000

@Cassini: Not to mention the fact that we were not exactly the best option for a Brez IF we died since we would have to spend around 5 seconds re buffing with RF, Blessing (Kings or Sanc), AND our Aura, so these changes don’t make me yell : NO! Save the Brez for theother tanks!!! OMG WTF! you DID waste it on me….

AND, 5 seconds of a boss fight with a dead tank is A LOT

By: Rhidach

Rhidach — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 14:30:47 +0000

I admit nothing!

By: Cassini

Cassini — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 12:08:08 +0000

Hoo-ray for not having to remember to recast Righteous Fury! There’s nothing worse than not having anything to blame for the wipe other than being an idiot and letting it drop. Come on – I can’t be the only one that’s done that? :)

By: The Renaissance Man

The Renaissance Man — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 21:32:41 +0000

Defense was the best avoidance stat prior to the dodge nerf too. Verenitio wrote up a very good summary back in December.

http://www.tankingtips.com/2008/12/12/how-good-is-defense/

The gist of it was that the gap in avoidance between dodge and defense was miniscule, .04% for every 41 points. By sacrificing that .04%, you gained .33% block, and avoided diminishing returns on dodge. The deeper you got into dedge from gear, the more valuable defense becomes, and with such a small differential between the two, defense overtook dodge in terms of effective avoidance pretty much as soon as you got a full set of Heroic gear. Now that dodge is being nerfed, this gap simply becomes more readily apparent.