How to gem your tankadin at 85
I first did a gem flowchart last year, and then revised it later when epic gems came out. Cataclysm is a bit easier to decipher when it comes to what to gem and where, if only because the socket bonuses are much better and typically worth it. This is especially true until Cata epic gems come out, when skipping bonuses might become more worthwhile to push more stats out of the gems you can feasibly socket.
Moreover, gemming holistically will give us avoidance and mastery stats from the socket bonus that should be much more desirable this expansion pack, rather than the cram-stam ethos of Wrath.
Like I said, very straightforward: stam for blue, mastery/stam for yellow, and parry/stam for red. The dodge/stam gems are also yellow, but we’ll be getting more value out of mastery (until block capped), so stick with Puissants before Regals.
As for the meta, the Austere is much better than the Eternal Shadowspirit Diamond. This is because the latter is currently bugged to only give 1% more block value.
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@thorianar
6 December 2010 at 12:01 pm #
If Blizzard fix the Eternal Shadowspirit Diamond tomorrow, should that be preferred over the Austere?
At a guess – and right now it’s only a guess – the armor meta gem will be preferred until block cap, and the block value meta gem will be preferred after block cap, even “bugged” at 1% more BV. I’m guessing the 5% is a tooltip error, and 1% is intended.
@Rhidach
6 December 2010 at 12:46 pm #
That’s my suspicion too. 5% BV is way too powerful to be correct.
Thank you so much for all these awesome posts so I don’t feel completely clueless upon entering the Cataclysm raiding scene. :)
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Awesome stat-links within the powerpoint flowchart. You should do this professionally!
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@Rhidach
6 December 2010 at 1:41 pm #
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@Saandstorm
6 December 2010 at 1:51 pm #
Thank you so much for the awesome flow chart. I tend to be a visual person and since most player guides are walls of text, this helps me immensely.
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@Rhidach
6 December 2010 at 2:20 pm #
If only I could flowchart more things! I agree, they are so much more handy than a block of text.
Again thanks for the list, pretty damn simple flowchart of a list. makes shopping easy.
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