Replacing Heavy Clefthoof VestFollow

BoJ reward, Vestments of Hibernation

Also, Heavy Clefthoof Boots are better tanking boots than the Barkchip Boots from heroic UB. You're trading armor, stam, and def rating for Agi and Str.

Edited, Feb 25th 2008 7:59pm by AstarintheDruid

I'm slowly learning this lesson, too. I can think of a few instances of "damn I shouldn't have sold that" from vendoring pieces I'd thought I'd upgraded out of. Usually there's some reason or another I should have kept them, that comes up sooner or later, at least for special situations. It's usually because ANOTHER upgrade increased my stamina but sacrificed def rating so I wanted that other piece back. It's a situation unique to 70 where the stats are more complex and ya run across lots of sidegrades. I've also learned that gem slots are VERY valuable because you can customize pieces as necessary when you upgrade in other slots.

My recommendation: stash "old" items in the bank until you need the slots. That way if you think of a use for them you're good to go.




Do you have trouble holding aggro? The more common problem I have is, ya know, "dying." So until you are feeling indestructible but having trouble holding aggro, armor/stam/agi rock the house in my book anyway.

Thanks for correcting my flawed thinking. Now that I think about it as long as I'm in a competent group I don't have problems with threat. But every now and then I get a little worried when my health plummets after a couple lucky crits.

Looks like I'll have to go buy some new kicks.

Thanks for all the help

S3 BP is nice. Personally, I used Barkchip over my cleft hoof. In heroics, threat generation is important, since most of the time you wont be tanking one thing. So don't sweat it. I used barkchip until I replaced them with Badge tank boots.

I use the Zierhut's Lost Treads, which drops from trash in Kara. Those replaced my Heavy Clefthoof boots, gemmed with 18 stam and 4 def rating, enchanted with 12 stam. Mine are enchanted with 12 stamina and are used for both tank and DPS sets.

Now to replace my Heavy Clefthoof chest, I may hold onto it until 2.4 comes out, of which I will consider replacing it with the T4 or with a badge gear, enchanted with the defense rating enchant coming in 2.4.

Edited, Feb 27th 2008 3:34am by soggymaster

For tanking, there really aren't a lot of alternatives. There are really only a few leather pieces with part of their item budget spent on extra armor. But druid tanking gear is specific to druids, where Prot Warriors and Pallies can use some of the same pieces. For Cat DPS gear, we use most of the same armor that rogues do, although we don't need as much hit rating.

THat haste rating on new badge gear is really not very smart. Haste is actually bad for tanking, since the faster you attack, the more chances are that you'll get parried. All those new tanking* pieces, seem more of a dps pieces.