Better Late Than Never Friday, 8/28
I originally intended to do the next part in my “Characteristics of a great tank” saga, but then last night I forgot to run over to Elwynn to take some screenshots, and dammit that article is crap without accompanying pictures. So no part two this week, unfortunately.
For newcomers to this blog, BLTNF is when I pull search terms that brought people here from my Google Analytics and answer what they were originally looking for.
vindication 3.2 work on raid bosses now?
Yes, and it’s glorious. While warriors and other classes need to expend a global cooldown to apply their attack power debuff, ours happens automatically. Vindication is a serious mitigation talent and any tank worth their salt should take it.
how to get the new paladin mount in 3.2
Buy it from the Crusader’s Quartermaster in the Crusader tent at the tourney. It costs 100 Champion’s Seals.
shard of the crystal forest good for tankadin?
It’s not terrible, but the neck off of Kologarn-10 or the Malygos-25 neck quest are both better. Especially the latter with a Solid Majestic Zircon socketed.
what do protection paladins gem
I need to update my classic flowchart, but you can basically follow this: Use Endurings until crit capped, then gem Solids. The only time you are not gemming a Solid Majestic Zircon is if you want the socket bonus, which you should only go for if the bonus is +9 or +12 stamina. Ignore all other bonuses. Also, you’ll need one red gem for your meta (assuming you’re using Austere) which you can get from socketing a Shifting Dreadstone.
“greater inscription of the gladiator” defense cap
The Glad inscription gives you .18% crit reduction, so you need 5.42% from defense. I just wrote a lot of fractions in front of me to figure out how much defense skill that is, but I ran out of stickies and have no answers to show for it. I think it’s somewhere around 538 or so. Just refer to your character sheet to make sure your crit reductions add up to 5.6% or more.
Also (sorry, as a tank on the intertubes I am legally obligated to say this) there’s no such thing as a “defense cap”. Defense minimum!
how much defense = dodge
41 defense is 1% avoidance, or .33% dodge, parry, and miss. 123 defense rating is 1% dodge, parry, and miss (so, 3% avoidance).
2 bindings of the windseeker one clear
If this is true, I hate you. With all this Door Boss nonsense I’ve severely fallen behind in my Bindings farming. It’s kind of stressful thinking it’s going to be impossible to get Thunderfury once Cataclysm hits, so I have a very limited window (less than a year possibly) to farm these pieces. With a theoretical 52 tries remaining, each week lost to Door Boss’s cold, icy reticence is one week too far.
3.2 is hit rating important for protection paladin
Not so important you should gem or enchants for it, but it is definitely nice to have. Hit means more (consistent) threat and more successful taunts.
3.2 seal of righteousness tanking seal?
No. Maybe for quick-dying trash, but if you have enough time to apply a 5-stack of SoV, you should be using it.
are socket bonuses that good?
Depends on the socket bonus. +block rating, +hit, +expertise, +dodge, etc., are all bust. Only +9 or +12 stamina are worth going for, because if you’re gemming an Enduring or Shifting, you’re invariably losing 15 stamina. However, if the bonus reduces that then 3 or 6 stamina is a good trade for 10 agility or 10 defense rating.
Armory Feed
“3.2 is hit rating important for protection paladin”
When you get into T8 content, you will be more than likely at or very near the 8% hit… so… dont sweat it…
@ Logan: That’s true.
@Logan: But if you take a look at the T9 gear, they are almost completely void of hit. I see that whenever I get an upgrade from Coliseum, my hit rating drops.
@Arnax: I know, but you get Craploads of expertise on top of obscene ammounts of +defense and avoidance stats, so i guess it gets “kinda” balanced, I mean, I know i only have the T9 gloves and the relic (almost 4% dodge for free), but I´m over the hit cap and trying to get it down…
The only time my taunts miss is…4H. *scowls*
Fsking hit.
@Rhidach
31 August 2009 at 12:03 pm #
Haha that seems to be really the only time taunts miss.
Out of the top 6 Paladin tanks on my server, i am the one with the most hit rating. And as Arnax so rightly points out, as you get better gear particularly colliseum, your hit rating from gear drops. This is an eventuality we will face.
I am somehow fortunate that my health, mitigation and threat specs are more or less balanced compared to the top 10. But i too will drop in hit rating the better the gear i get :p