I spotted this thread on the WoW tanking forums and it brought up something I haven’t post on in a while: weapon enchants. Believe or not, a lot has changed and weapon enchants are a bit murkier now than they were a few months ago. Let’s talk about each of the major contenders.
Mongoose/Exceptional Agility
Up to the early days of ICC, Mongoose had an uptime of about 52% for us, which was damn good. These days, thanks to the retooling Ret got to defang Bryntroll for them, it’s down to as low as 25%.
Mongoose generally is, as Dirgen says in his epic enchants thread on Maintankadin, no better than Exceptional Agility now in terms of average Agility gained. And unlike EA, Mongoose might not be there when you need it. If you want an enchant for armor, I would go with Exceptional Agility.
Blood Draining
I’m a fan of Blood Draining right now because of the content I’m currently tackling and will be tackling in the near future. The beauty in BD is that it’s a free heal when you need it the most, under 35%. And, not to mention TBtL makes its crits 30% more effective. While we can’t stack it as fast without bleeds, having an extra oomph to the heal is a worthy trade-off, I would wager.
Accuracy
For farm content, threat sets, and sets you need to be hit capped for. The best threat enchant, but obviously weak for survival needs.
Conclusion
If feasible, I recommend keeping a stable of three weapons. A slow dps weapon with Accuracy, a tanking weapon with Blood Draining (for dangerous bosses), and a tanking weapon with Exceptional Agility (for less mortality-inducing encounters).
Ditch ‘goose, the RNG has won this battle.
WHAR IS BLAID WARD????? ITS LIEK MY FAVORITE ENCHANT EVAR!
Millions of Tankadins, crying out for Blade Ward, not a one of them seems to understand that it’s a junk enchant.
It’s like the modern version of Parry gems.
Since I switched from Mongoose to Blood Draining, I have been a huge supporter of any Tankadin in high end content using it. Absolutely right, once again, Rhidach.
I still don’t know if I’d put Agi on my armor weapon (the togc10 sword) over Blood Draining. I know we discussed this over email but…. hmm.