Improved Righteous Fury and HeroicsFollow

Imp RF is just a basic -6% damage. You could still be crushed or critted, but you'll take 6% less damage from them. You don't add it to avoidance, it's just a nice bit of extra help.

And you need the extra threat.

At a bare minimum when you go into heroics you want to be uncritable. That means 490 defense. It *looks* like you're only one point away right now, but when you swap your sword out it's going to make that gap even bigger.

Your gear isn't terrible nor are your stats but they're not where I would be comfortable being in heroics (heck I still go down like wet tissue on a regular basis in them).

A brief checklist:

Your stam/health is OK, not great but ok (which means any changes you make to the rest better not cause a drop in that - or more pointedly don't just change your gems/enchants around and swap out stam gems for dodge gems and spell dmg enchants)

Your spell damage, you already know, is very poor. I have 170 and I drink a lot of Adept's Elixirs and the like. What I'm saying is you're going to at least want to slap the +40 Spell Dmg enchant on the Continuum Blade.

Your armor (the actual value of it, not the armor itself ) is fine.

Your avoidance? Not so fine. I've run Heroics when I wasn't uncrushable so you don't necessarily need to have that solid, but not as low as you're at. You really, really need to work on stuff that ups your block rating (not value, rating) and dodge.

The thing is though it's going to feel like 2 steps forward and 3 back in some ways - you'll trade +def for avoidance on some items and then have to make up the +def - pally tank gearing is all a stat dance.

Check out Thel's defense and mitigation sticky. Some ways down the list he has a gear list for prot pallies. It may be somewhat out of date now (don't know) but it's a good place to start.

Oh, and go do the quest and pick yourself up at least some of the Shatari Wrought bracers and ditch the green ones :-)

Edited, Dec 3rd 2007 2:20am by Celcio

Nitpick: 485, heroic mobs are level 72 not 73.

Personally for heroics, I don't think Uncrushable is important at all. Instead I go for minimizing damange all together. If I lose 2% in block for 1% in dodge or parry, thats a good thing. Most things in heroic are still going to hit hard. Ill take less damage with one dodge, than with 2 blocks.

Which is why I stated that you don't have to be uncrushable to run heroics. However if you move toward that, chances are you're going to up your avoidance (which the OP definitely needs to work on) which is going to help a lot. The thing though is that you DO want to be uncritable for the level (darn pickers of nits). Why?

An Example - The OP has 10.5K health or so unbuffed. He runs Blood Furnace and gets into that hallway/ramp with the uppercutting demon guys. 3 regular hits (within something silly like 3 seconds) on me were for between 3-4K*. 1 crit on those after a regular hit and that's a dead tank before the healer can even complete a follow-up heal or hit the Oh Sh*t button.


*This was from ONE of the two, the other one was trapped effectively.

You're not the only one.

And perhaps I should clarify - when i say uncrushable I mean.... uncrushable. Not "Oh lordy where am I, let me just do some quick math here relative to my surroundings and see if I'm uncrushable" i mean, in any given current situation, you're uncrushable. Which, oddly, is the meaning of the word yes? It's not "relatedtothesituationuncrushable", who's the pedant now, huh!

(and *cough* it's pedantic, not pendantic. God this is turning into a dork slap-fight. Let's please stop.)

* Wonders to which mobs he is referring, the heroic mobs or all mobs, as I've stated my standard is all mobs. With that as the criteria I can only imagine that he's intentionally trying to obfuscate the conversation in an effort to obscure the irony of trying to describe himself as pedantic only to use the wrong word. *

Physics > tank.

Actually, Tank > Physics... Tank can take a hit from a 100-ton Dragon eater, wheras a person using physics rules would get destroyed by such a punch, no matter how shiny his armor was.

[wowitem=29184]Timewarden's Leggings[/wowitem] > [wowitem=23518]Felsteel Leggings[/wowitem]

You can get more stamina, and you get dodge rating which is always nice. The things that you lose like armor and defense rating can be made up somewhere else.

Just put 3 +12 stamina gems on those pants and the NetherCleft Leg armor for +40 more stamina and you got yourself a peice of pants that have 133 stamina on it!

Edited, Dec 3rd 2007 3:02pm by CapJack

*refrains from pointing out that if could be bribed to put one level 74 boss into Sunwell Plateau uncrushable there isn't the same as uncrushable anywhere else just to spite everyone*.

Uhm OK. I'll stop now, I promise.

*Realizes that this is relevant to his interests.*



Doesn't everything on the Allakhazam WoW Boards?

ok so is it the 100-ton dragon eater the one hitting you or is it the dragon?? cause if it's the dragon i dont see how they really punch, if it's the 100-ton dradon eater, i think the person useing physics would also use reason and hear it comeing and run his **** off to get away. not to mention how fast could a 100-ton dragon eater swing a punch and how hard would it be to dodge it? or have it change direction of it's punch??