Gear shuffling, help me check for errorsFollow

As the title says, I'm looking at shuffling some gear around, and a double-check that I'm not missing anything would be helpful. For background, I currently have Kara/ZA/Badge access, current tanking gear is in my sig.

So what I'm considering:
Replace Veteran's Dragonhide Bracers with Band of the Swift Paw. (Very nice upgrade, but I lose resilience)
Replace Heavy Clefthoof Vest with Vestments of Hibernation. (Good upgrade, lose defense/some stamina for armor and agi. Another option coming soon (see below).)
Replace Stag-Helm of Malorne with Vengeful Gladiator's Dragonhide Helm from my dps gear. (Necessary to remain uncrittable, break 4-piece Malorne, would need to enchant for tanking, not dps.)

Overall that's a tanking upgrade, but it has to be all three, as the helm makes up for the loss of defense/resilience on the bracers and chest. Alternatively, as I haven't bought the chest or bracers yet, I can wait for about 3 weeks when I should get Vengeful Gladiator's Dragonhide Tunic for the chest, and then play with the other slots.

Any thoughts/things I missed?


Edited, Feb 6th 2008 12:58pm by selebrin

Edited, Feb 6th 2008 1:05pm by selebrin

Was bored waiting for SSC to get together the other day, so I was playing around with Defense Rating and Emmerald's List.

Enchants
KoT Revered Enchant: 16 Def
Scryer Honored Enchant: 13 Def
Bracer Enchant: 12 Def
Meta Gem(or one Def gem):12/8 Def
53 Def

Armor
Juggernaut Neck: 22 Def
Slikk's: 16 Def
Exalted Violet Eye:19 Def
Unyielding Force: 22 Def
Slabs Def Trinket: 32 Def (or the JC one)
111 Def

Neck, Back, Both Rings, One Trinket

111+53=164(160 with a regular Def gem), therefore crit immune. The Juggernaut Neck is only another 25 Badges, the bracer enchant is 6 Arcane Dust, and the Def Trinket comes from regular Shadow Labs. The neck won't be replaced until Kael'thas and you can get a replacement Def Trinket from Hydross. From this set-up, you can wear whatever you want in your other slots.

It comes down to whether you'd rather have more constant mitigation/threat generation (achieved through more gear freedom in itemization points) or a second emergency button on top of Badge of Tenacity.

Emmerald puts the S3 helm at 60 mitigation points above T4 on his High Gear list and 115 mitigation points above T4 on his Regular Gear one. The 4pc is evaluated at roughly 150 mitigation points.

In my opinion; keep your S3 helm for dps, keep your 4pc T4, get a Def Trinket, get some Def enchants

Edit: I had the Armor and Enchants next to each other and spaced apart, but when I threw the post up they got all squished together

Edited, Feb 7th 2008 3:54am by Whatsit