Sun Eater and now whatFollow

i will say yes and no. that being yes you will be getting spell damage for sta but at same time since we loose salv haveing a spell damage weapon over avoidance would help alot more on threat and give that much more ablitie for the dps to burn named/trash down. that being said no one really knows for sure untill we get to see it in person. i for one think i'm gonna keep rolling with spell damage weapon and if i need more avoidance i'll pick up even more warrior style gear. seems they have more dodge/parry.

It maybe even use spell damage weapon when on trash or oting, then use avoidance with maybe 40 SD when tanking. who knows?

Well firstly it's quite possible that there was no Warrior present seeing as how it drops in a 5 man. In that case, there is no issue. And I can't even remember the last time I saw a Warrior TANK a 5 man ... Always Paladins and Druids. Most Warriors I see looking for Heroics are Fury spec (not that that has anything to do with using this weapon, but still =P).

Secondly this whole argument may very well become null and void once Wrath hits. That still remains to be seen, but we're getting a new skill that deals 100% weapon damage as Holy damage making a Warrior type weapon far more attractive. Also the talent converting our stamina to spell power means we don't have to stack spell power from our weapon and we'll be getting much more from melee stats then we currently do.

Blizzard is wanting to cut down the amount of "specialized" gear so I would be willing to bet the intent is to get Warriors and Paladins to use the same weapons for tanking and leaving the spell weapons to the caster classes. It may not come to this, but again, we'll have to wait and see (unless someone has been tanking in the beta and cares to share ;)).

Edited, Jul 31st 2008 3:50pm by Maulgak

I was thinking about that, and you're right, this may become a common tactic: use spell weapon and cast Avenger's Shield, then swap to a "Warrior" weapon and continue the fight. I'm not sure I could get myself into that habit though. I tried with Librams, but that didn't work out (before the change to where item swapping caused the GCD).

Yea, I was hoping to get into Beta too, but alas, no such luck =/

One thing that's kinda been bothering me, and I haven't seen it mentioned yet: what does anyone think about the change to the daze portion of Avenger's Shield? Increased from 3 seconds to 10 seconds. I don't really liek this change. It could be good for (lawalProtIn) PvP, but it is generally very annoying in PvE with groups greater than 3.

Thanks, I didn't know that :) I'll keep my fingers crossed then, but I wont' hold my breath ;)