zepoodle wrote:
Improved Hammer of Justice on a raid spec? ...improved Devotion Aura?
One point in Stoicism. It actually looks like he's trying to PvP as prot.
No really it just looks like he doesn't know he can (or doesn't know how to) split trees. I've known some mages like that "Fire mage means full fire" etc.
As far as the gear - seems like he's also fallen into that purple pixel thing. I see so many people do that. Blues are better than my green, purple is better than my blue. Doesn't matter about the stats for spec, it's the rarity that matters. It works ok with some pieces for DPS but PVP gear for tanking, no matter the pixel color, is pretty near useless. Well, unless they make tank/healing gear for healers... that would rock.
As far as chood's idea? Well it would be quite telling. But if he's going on about his threat and whatnot then he's probably got quite the swollen e-peen and I'm not sure doing a comparison sort of deal would be useful. Well it would be useful but it would probably put him on the defensive.
Maybe, instead of that, say something like "Oh dude I found this good site with a gear list and stuff. Made me realize that I was doing some things wrong and that while threat is a good thing I don't generate threat when I'm DEAD"
OK, don't caps that. But if you're after actually changing things and keeping the peace say that you learned a lot and point him to the gear list here or elsewhere and leave it at that. If he doesn't get the hint he's not going to and then you're going to have to decide what you want to do.