Gear and readiness?Follow

Yesterday night I tanked OH for the very first time and we beat it on our first try. I respecced to prot from ret about 2 weeks ago and I've been loving every minute of it! Through one run i went from nuetral to halfway to honored! I have the crystalforged sword which I scored the other day but I am going to get the continuum blade and pants from rep there.

We only wiped once and that was on epoch but we came back and ended up me and one other person were the only surivors of the next try. But we won! hehe.

I was wondering, now that I am used to tanking and I did well here, what else should i be doing? I have 491 def and still need a good red slot gem and enchant for my gloves and weapon. Spelldamage is going on the wep but what of my gloves, spell damage there as well for more damage / increased threat?

Prot is pretty cool- I only lost aggro like.. I think under 5 times in the whole instance.. It's insane how good your defense is when you go past 470 into the 90's. Check out my gear, I know my shield sucks =p. What instances should i be doing now? (new to these last instances). I kinda want the devilshark cape and the adamantite figurine as well as a good tank ring to put me around 500 defense. Suggestions??

http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Gul%27dan&n=Inforce

First off, don't bother at all with Continuum Blade if you already have Crystalforged Sword. 3 more Intellect over 11 Block Rating FTL! It's the best Paly tank sword until SSC.

That said, the Defense and Mitigation sticky should have all the gear info you need. Quick points though: you have 490 Defense, start getting raw mitigation stats. Dodge, Parry, but mostly Block will do you more good now than more Defense. Try to get the combination of those 3, plus Miss chance while Holy Shield is up, to be 102.4%. Again, you should be able to find how to calculate this in said sticky. Once you reach that number, get as much Stamina as possible.

Couple things to go for: Sha'tar rep, I am still using the exalted shield until the Kara shield drops off Nightbane. As you stated Keepers of Time rep for the legs and their tanking Glyph. And replace everything you have with Resilience/Agility/Attack Power. It positively does jack for a tank. It's good gear, so keep it just in case, but for tanking get those replaced first.

Look at Thels' sticky for detailed (as much detail as you could possibly want) gear upgrades.

Alternatively you can look at my armory, as there are a few pieces that I have that are better than yours and all of it is pre-kara.

Link in sig.

I'm a big flip-flopper apparently lol.

No this is what happened:

Me: I'm going to try healing, I'm going to go to SH.
Group in SH: You are awesome join our guild!
Me: OK Sure.
-----Join guild, do runs, get Kara ready healing gear-----
-----Leading up to Kara-----
Me: I used to be a tank.
Guild: We have only 1 tank.
Me: I will go back to being a tank then.


And having better gear than the other tank (also a Paladin), I ended up being the MT for our Kara run yesterday.

I also ended up getting uncrushable by accident when I finally got my Jade-Skull Breastplate and SH-Tanking-Trinket-That-I-Forget-The-Name-of.

Oh I still will, until I catch up to you which will probably never happen until the expansion, when everything gets reset again.

well an update to my old thread! heh. Been tanking up a storm in Shattered halls and can finish it usually 1 wipe or none. 1 more run an i get my key. Im excited.. It's cool to get compliments on Paladins being great tanks after doing so well. I have a few pieces of gear to replace, and also have a ring of impenetrable defense in my mailbox! score!

Looking at my gear (im on gul'dan) and the fact that ive been running SH without a hitch do you think I should try heroic ramps when i get my key ? Defense is at 494 and spelldamage is well above 200 so holding aggro isnt a problem.. and ive survived some particularly nasty stuff in SH. Before i go and jump into heroics I am going to replace my shield, and my veterans boots - and throw on that new ring i have. My defense should be over 500 at that point or at 500ish.

I rrrreeeally want some of those badge turn ins!

Yah ive been running nonstop for the past 3 weeks since i respecced from ret- and its been a long haul. Fun though. I didnt dare start tanking-tanking till a few days ago, didn't want to cause wipes (i wish more people would be courteous like that.. and dont go in things when theyre under or not geared right for something).

Yah I'll work on my block and get a new shield as well. I feel the limitations of my shield as it is- its at least 1k armor lower than the good ones and the stats are less.. though its stam is nice.

Well tonight i'm farming for the ring of impenetreble defense in my mailbox. Ill replace the spelldamage horseman's signet with it.. so ill have a delicate eternum / roid ring combo.

Tonight I ran durn and had absolutely no wipes and no problems. Perfect tanking so im pretty excited. I am looking forward to seeing more instances now.

btw any suggestions for my build please let me know- I got the build off one of these threads and just was checking it out but never changed it. seems to work alright but let me know what would be most effective for 5mans/heroics

Yah i have been trying to get bracers of the green fortress.. been spamming/2 for a few days but my server gul'dan has only like 4 raiding guilds so you have to be on at the right moment to score. I think those would be good bracers till something better drops down the line. Right now im gonna go try and figure out ways to get my block up higher.

great job

Edit: were you MTing Attumen or the horse?

Edited, Nov 6th 2007 8:09pm by CapJack

Update* Tonight did Big Bad Wolf in Opera, no problems, 3 people died but i was so far in threat on the wolf and the main healer was alive so it went well.

Tonight we also tried maiden again (this is group 2 of our kara groups, mostly noobs so don't make fun =p ), we wiped, and the OT warrior thought he could do better. I said go ahead and try. He did luckily get maiden down to 80% gone and then he got crushed. I took over and she was downed. However i was in dps gear at that moment so i died when she was like 1% and dps finished her.

Anyways she went down and were doing curator tommorow/tonight. The warrior kinda irritated me because he just joined the guild and I guess doesn't like being an OT so he tries to upstage me whenever he can. The only thing he has on me is health. His defense is well crittable and he is well crushable. I guess he got one more person in the raid to feel the way he does, and on vent before he took his turn on maiden someone other than him started in on "Let the warrior tank" blahblahblah

Jack have you or any of you other tankadins run into warriors with hard feelings? We have 2 groups going.. and i invited him into the guild (320 ish people and a large chunk are raiding). Just irritates me that people are so judgemental. Anyways tonight after the raid I got some new gems, and im getting more so tommorow/tonight at the raid I will have 13k health unbuffed hopefully. or close to it.. Im also gonna run heroics all day.. so when i get to the raid i want to say "Now what?" .. lol

All in all it was a good night, the other day the OT won the Tank belt, which i don't think he should have even rolled on. It was me and him, and if we are to continue on I really need to start getting geared.. but oh well he won it. Im hoping that if we get curator down that i will get the plate pants. In fact i may request that i get them if they drop.. not to be selfish or anything.. but for pure viability I will need them. I was also going to ask you guys if you had any good strategy for downing Curator. Tips are much appreciated as i will go on here and read up before the raid.

Yeah, it happens from time to time. Run combat logs. Use an addon known as xperl (unit frames)... it comes complete with an addon inside of it known as Grim Reaper which shows what damage or healing is received at time intervals and at what % your health is when you roll over your or anyone elses name in the raid.
Very useful for when you drop, someone asks why, and it's all because you didn't receive a heal for a good 10 seconds or more.



Best bit of advice I can offer is that your DPS has to be ready for this fight.
2-3 healers, 1 on the tank should suffice, 1-2 on the rest of the raid.
Bring as few melee as possible... 1-2 if possible.

Tank him in the middle of the hallway somewhat past the 1st set of columns, maybe close to 2nd, i forgot... so it gives your ranged DPS and healers plenty of room to spread out and time to DPS the adds.

As the adds spawn, ALL DPS should be focused on them... no one on Curator at all.

Have a warlock toss up Curse of Doom on Curator at about 1 minute until Evocation.

When Evocation hits and the last add is up, have either everyone DPS the last add, then turn on Curator, or have 2-3 finish off the add, with the other DPS focusing on Curator.

Someone will take Hateful Bolts from Curator, just be sure they communicate that they took them from the healer and have them tossed heals here and there.

Rinse and repeat until 15% at which point you can burn him down as he will no longer spawn more adds at that point.

Use a Flask of Fortification rather than the spell damage for this boss.
Reason being is that you have so much time alone with him, no one should be within a mile of your threat.

Go for the extra HP rather than extra SD.

we have never used arcane resist to take down curator it is not needed.
when we first met him we were afraid to face him for weeks
as we couldn't kill maiden
but the first time we tried Curator went down on the third try
and never wiped on him again
we had curator on farm well before maiden
before we learned the neat little maiden tricks
doesn't matter who the soaker is.
Curator like's people with a high life total.
you'll see this more when you have a shadow priest trying to soak