FletusSanguine wrote:
It's definitely a good piece to get, and should be on your list of things to get as a prot tank. No, it will most likely NOT be what makes or breaks your gruul or mags attempts. Regardless, it should be something you get as soon as possible. It's an amazing piece for stacking block value for your heroics set.
If you're trying to compare what would be a larger upgrade, your chest or the blocker, I'm sure we'd be more than happy to help with that as well, but we'd need to know what you're using as your chest piece at the moment to make a comparison.
/agree
imo, the tank neck (brooch of deftness) is a better overall upgrade to tps and a better tanking trinket, as it offers 49 stamina, some hit and some expertise, both of which impact all of your abilities and not just shield slam.
however, if you find that your mitigation and stamina are lacking, i would pick the chest. i'm currently wearing the vindicator's hauberk, and switching to the 75 badge chest would give me another 500 armor and 500 health... but since i already have a decent amount of hp/ac unbuffed (13.5k/14.8k), i'm going for the neck piece first... shield slam/devastate/white hit/hs missing or being parried/dodged really suck.