ok my situation here, im tanking The eye, SSC, ect.
i have a few items with a gem slot of each colour, with a bonus 6stamina for right gems. what i do atm is a 12stam gem, a 4defence +6stam gem, and a 8dodge gem. this gives me the extra 6 stam.
the big question is if i would be better off with just scrapping the bonus stamina and just use 12stam gems in all slots.
atm i have about 16k health, 17k armour and 37% dodge+parry.
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Shouldn't you know that by this point in the game? Ebay'd accounts are bad. It's safe to socket for the set bonus in that sort of case. Here's to hoping you don't wipe the guild.
aww. aparently sumone is in need of a hug.. but if you cant respect people trying to learn new details about maximizing their performance i guess your another 12 years old on a PvP server... atleast i hope so for you.
No he has a valid point. If your that progressed you should know already. So your either a) an ebayed account b) lying about your progression or c) retarded. Either way we rated you down.
It's actually not a horrible question. I have my badge pants with that gem set up. A guildie tank, our better geared tank, actually suggested I replace my gems with Star of Elunes.
I then brought up that I had 1 SoE, the +6stam/def + the +6 stam = 12stam+6def, and finally +8 dodge.
So it's trading +12 stam for +8 dodge, and gaining +6 defense. He said 'oh yeah, carry on'.
If not paying attention to it, it can be overlooked (since most people think SoE FTW always).
OP it was kind of a rhetorical question, but not flame material IMO.
Edited, Jan 28th 2008 12:50pm by GYFFORD
I then brought up that I had 1 SoE, the +6stam/def + the +6 stam = 12stam+6def, and finally +8 dodge.
So it's trading +12 stam for +8 dodge, and gaining +6 defense. He said 'oh yeah, carry on'.
If not paying attention to it, it can be overlooked (since most people think SoE FTW always).
OP it was kind of a rhetorical question, but not flame material IMO.
Edited, Jan 28th 2008 12:50pm by GYFFORD
i could honestly not care less about my rating here..
i ask questions if i find them valid.. i know alot about some aspects of the game, how to play amongst em.. the fact that i am unsure of the calculations of which is marginally best for this new stage of my progression (and of which i have gotten diferent advice from other tanks)does not in any way meen that i do not know how to play my class, or have a general lack of mental capacity.. and its not that i would dismiss any discussion of my desitions, but if people cant keep it civil and adult there is no point in any argument
Buzak
i ask questions if i find them valid.. i know alot about some aspects of the game, how to play amongst em.. the fact that i am unsure of the calculations of which is marginally best for this new stage of my progression (and of which i have gotten diferent advice from other tanks)does not in any way meen that i do not know how to play my class, or have a general lack of mental capacity.. and its not that i would dismiss any discussion of my desitions, but if people cant keep it civil and adult there is no point in any argument
Buzak
There is a quote on someone's sig saying the following:
I personally stack almost all my slots with SSoE. I'm still in early Kara and might not know everything but that's what I've been doing.
Quote:
The focus is not on taking as little damage as possible, but being able to take as much damage as possible
I personally stack almost all my slots with SSoE. I'm still in early Kara and might not know everything but that's what I've been doing.
Nice gear Scolariman. You're right you sure do stack the SoEs lol. I actually like to see what I can get to fit the gems for the +parry and +dodge bonus. Maybe that's why my Dodge is 24.5% and parry is 18.07% lol. I was laughing about Void Reaver fight the other night. Managed to tank him the last part, looking thru my log it was Parry, dodge, dodge, hit, parry, dodge. I need to filter out the other peoples damage and take a screenie of that. I was laughing pretty hard.
I wish I knew a happy medium on Evasion % and HP. I think I'm at 19.5k fully buffed... I can't remember, and 42.57% evasion. What I'm lacking on is +hit. I miss a lot more than I should. I'm just waiting on that Kings Defender... Exaulted in rep, and have not seen it drop once
, also, Gruul again tomorrow... only seen the shield with +hit drop 1 time, 2 months ago :/
I wish I knew a happy medium on Evasion % and HP. I think I'm at 19.5k fully buffed... I can't remember, and 42.57% evasion. What I'm lacking on is +hit. I miss a lot more than I should. I'm just waiting on that Kings Defender... Exaulted in rep, and have not seen it drop once
, also, Gruul again tomorrow... only seen the shield with +hit drop 1 time, 2 months ago :/I was talking with the Healer who usually is assigned to me about my relatively low HP compared to my mitigation stats and he said he thought I was easier to keep up than the tank with less mitigation. I could give up some mitigation for stamina but except for Prince, we haven't had trouble with me going down early in a fight and the Prince problem we seem to have solved with having two Healers dedicated to me during the second phase. We'll be doing Kara for a while until we all get better geared so there is no push for me to get geared for stuff beyond Kara just yet.
I do want more stamina and I plan on getting some through some needed enchants that I haven't gotten around to. I also need more +hit though which I'm looking into seeing how best to get that without sacrificing the mitigation and stamina that I need.
Going high stamina does work for tanks but it's not the only way to go. Your Healers probably are the best judge of what seems to work best since it's their job to keep you alive.
I do want more stamina and I plan on getting some through some needed enchants that I haven't gotten around to. I also need more +hit though which I'm looking into seeing how best to get that without sacrificing the mitigation and stamina that I need.
Going high stamina does work for tanks but it's not the only way to go. Your Healers probably are the best judge of what seems to work best since it's their job to keep you alive.
Do the @#%^ing math. Stam is superior in terms of post-10 man raids. If you have a blue and a yellow socket and a +6 stam socket bonus, how the hell do you think you should gem? It's not rocket surgery, and you should be able to figure this out as a SSC raider. It's HP... you learn that game mechanic at level 2.
Edit: Bullbeetle.
Edited, Jan 28th 2008 10:32pm by Utarius
Edit: Bullbeetle.
Edited, Jan 28th 2008 10:32pm by Utarius
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