Prot Pally/MM Hunter Gear

[Hosom]

Asking more for my relatively new Hunter than for my Pally, but figured I would kill two birds with one stone. Much of my Hunter's gear isn't enchanted/gems because a lot of it will be replaced through heroics still, and for the gear that won't be I just haven't had time to fly out to Hodir on my main....

Anyway - Hosom: Only thing I personally see is with PoJ build I should drop the Tuskarr's Vitality enchant and get a 22 Stam, I've been putting that off for a couple days now.

WoWArmory

Llilae is a different story--technically speaking she's only just now becoming geared enough to be spec'd MM, but has been for a while. I should drop one point from Focused Aim now that I'm so close to hit cap... and if the ring at the end of Heroic Pit of Saron ever drops I'll have a non blue ring.

WoWArmory

Feel free to suggest most anything, my guild clears out 10/12 Heroic ICC 10 each week and are close to our 11/12... we also kill Halion and will be HM RS soon, so difficulty from 10 man really isn't an issue. We're 10 man only though, so most anything from 25 man is ruled out because we generally pug about 12 people for our 25 man runs, and if anyone here is from Draka, you know that Draka pugs are half as good as the worst pugs on some other servers lol.

If anyone wants to see the Holy gear that goes with the Holy OS on my pally let me know and I'll see if I can't remember to log out in my Holy gear.

[Eanae]

Cataclysmic Chestguard and the Crafted BS legs will most likely be better than using full sanct tier. Prot paladin tier doesn't really "shine" until the 277 level. This in turn also makes the four set only really "worth it" with three or four pieces of 277 tier. Also the crafted BS feet are an amazing piece you may want to consider. The 264 libram is a minor upgrade, get it if you have nothing else to spend emblems on.

[Falaras]

Cataclysmic Chestguard and the Crafted BS legs will most likely be better than using full sanct tier. Prot paladin tier doesn't really "shine" until the 277 level. This in turn also makes the four set only really "worth it" with three or four pieces of 277 tier. Also the crafted BS feet are an amazing piece you may want to consider. The 264 libram is a minor upgrade, get it if you have nothing else to spend emblems on.

I actually disagree with that, while 4 piece T10 is situational at best you really don't lose anything by getting it. Also by the fact he is Socketing Hit, Not hit capped, and in a 10 man guild like I am I am willing to bet he has some Hit problems which T10 hands are really one of the only options for fixing. Also he is a little over the needed amount of Expertise for dodge capping, so Cataclysmic Chestguard is probably not the best idea out there.

I do agree with getting the crafted legs, they are pretty much godly (although losing defense can really suck). The crafted feet are less amazing than the legs, but definitely a nice piece to look in to assuming you can keep defense capped with them.

Other suggestions: Since your Head is a +12 Stam socket bonus if you throw in an AGI/STAM gem or something you really only lose 3 Stamina but gain 15 AGI. I'm a pretty big fan of Vindication especially in 10 man builds, I would recommend dropping those two conviction points for it. Reason being: There are a lot of fights in ICC that you solo tank and won't have the second tank to apply the debuff. Of course if you have a Feral Druid or a Fury Warrior this may not matter as much, maybe just to save them the hassle.

[Eanae]

Glyph taunt. Hit cap isn't that big of a deal really. Have hit cap for Saurfang and maybe Festergut and you're golden.

[Falaras]

Glyph taunt. Hit cap isn't that big of a deal really. Have hit cap for Saurfang and maybe Festergut and you're golden.

Never found the taunt glyph to be worth using. At the 30% buff I'd much rather focus on stats that will increase my threat than my already ridiculously high HP pool. With the retardedly high TPS good Fury Warriors and Fireball Mage's can put out it's pretty important. I personally have never met a tank that didn't have to work like hell to keep threat off my Mage or a few good Warriors I know, and that's not including Shadowmournes.

[Kaylia]

Never found the taunt glyph to be worth using. At the 30% buff I'd much rather focus on stats that will increase my threat than my already ridiculously high HP pool. With the retardedly high TPS good Fury Warriors and Fireball Mage's can put out it's pretty important. I personally have never met a tank that didn't have to work like hell to keep threat off my Mage or a few good Warriors I know, and that's not including Shadowmournes.

Eh...you're only losing glyph of HoTR..it doesnt really help your threat.


It doesnt matter in every fight obviously, but shit, a missed taunt often lead to a wipe if your guild isnt roll facing the place already. Just take Arthas fight for example. A single miss during soul reaper mean the other tank might get insta jibbed. If your hit rating isnt capped, and you're not using the glyph, you have around 95% accuracy...that's one miss per fight at least. It often make the difference between a dead dps and one that barely survived. You rarely get a second chance to taunt.


If you're confident to react immediatly with your other taunt, go for it, but most tank I met think otherwise.

[Falaras]

That's definitely a good argument, I guess it really just has to do with how comfortable you are without the Glyph.

[Hosom]

The 1 hit gem is to keep me hit capped for additional threat. I am hit capped during guild runs because I'm in a group with a draenei and also run with hit food.

I also change the glyph of HoTR to Salv on hard hitting boss fights, so I'm not sure about glyphing taunt.

[Hosom]

I also don't have Vindication because our Ret pally has it. I don't think it stacks, but if it does I'll go ahead and pick it back up.

[Eanae]

People still taunt during soul reaper? What? We never taunt during it, and have never had a tank death to it. (gogo 30%)

[Falaras]

Probably talking HM. And fuck alliance and their draneis, to bad you guys don't get berserking so hah! and yeah vind doesn't stack.

[Hosom]

HMs, not Soul Reaper.