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