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I am deciding whether to get a wow.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?witem=31858 or a http://wow.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?witem=31856.

My situation is this. I am lvl 70 and prot spec, def 507, 11,490HP, 5433 Mana, 204 spell dam and 83% avoidance all unbuffed (no libram yet). I have been doing non-heroic instances and just finished my Kara key. I have been noticing that in all encounters other than the tougher bosses I am not taking enough damage. Now while this may sound funny this is causing me to run low on mana and have to drink between pulls and fights (which can be a hassle in zones like Black Morass). Do many of you swap out def gear for mp5/int gear while doing trash and easier bosses, or am I missing something? Running BoW on myself doesn't seem to help a whole lot and also becomes an issue with my second problem.

I just started playing again after a 6 mth hiatus and most of the other people in my guild have been running Kara for a number of months, Kara is not on farm status so I will not catch up gear wise for a while and I am finding it hard to keep threat on single mobs when I grp with the better geared guild members. Doing a reg BM the other night the two druids just used auto attack and no talents to make sure I kept threat. I want to get into one of the guild groups that regualarly runs Kara but if the DPSers have to tone it down when I tank that will be hard. Also due to the mana issue I am not judging SoR continuously which may be a slight problem. Is this threat issue always going to be an issue until I get better gear or do I just have to work on my technique as threat is fairly much maxed?

Now back to the trickets. One gives the 51sta and a ~100 dam proc when I am hit 10% of the time. This would be good for AE tanking but other than the stam seems weak in other situations as one proc every 10 hits against a boss means very little. The other gives a +8 spell dam buff that stacks 10 times eveytime I damage the mob, now if the holy shield, ret aura, BoSalv and other passive damage sources cause it to proc I can get +80 spell dam fairly quickly and am thinking this would increase my threat when I tank single mobs. Any advice would be appreciated, I am in the armory(the only Kanguran) if you want to look at my current gear.

Thanks

Kanguran



Edited, Jan 3rd 2008 1:47pm by KANGURAN

Simply put, there isn't a trinket in the game that is better for a protection paladin than the vengeance card.

went up a hill,
arguing Holy and Prot.
Maulgak's quip about ret
made Celcio laugh
but Tommyguns it did not.

I really tried to forget that one when it popped into my head upon reading that. But I couldn't. So now you must all suffer with me.

So most say the wow.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?witem=31858 is the best trinket in the game for a prot pally? I looked at this item many times. I even found it on my server for 1500g, the complete deck. I haven't seen many with it.




Mike

Edited, Jan 4th 2008 8:04am by hamletarcher

I have 4 of the cards... the other 4 are always like 300-400g but I check every so often to see if someone accidentally forgot a 0 when putting in their price.

Well next time i see it i will pick it up and wait for the Fair to come to town. I probably won't use it yet, http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Norgannon&n=Mikeman

My defense is only 501 and avoidance is 89.4 with Holy Shield up.

But im getting closer.

Mike

Rate-ups all around for teh Polderan!

Epic win.