Tanking Weapon Question.Follow

Don't spend badges on a weapon. KD is a fine weapon for threat. Not the greatest, but good.

Very little of a tank's threat comes from damage. Most of a tank's threat comes from the innate threat values of our special abilities, and the threat multiplier of being in defensive stance along with talents that increase threat.

If you're really having threat problems, put a shield spike on your shield, get the 2% threat enchant on your gloves, and get some threat trinkets like the gnomerean auto-blocker (60 badges I think) or the shard of contempt, pick up the broach of deftness that has +hit and +expertise (though the strength loss might make that a wash). Consider picking up a pvp shield, it will up your block rating.

Also consider regemming some of that dodge into +hit. Your dodge is quite nice, but if you want threat, getting hit capped will help alot (and it will also help you generate more rage, which means more heroic strikes, which means more threat).

Don't under-estimate the importance of expertise and hit rating -- they, more than theoretical dps on a weapon, really will help keep threat up. Make sure you're at (or as close to) the soft cap on both as you can be. You're under the cap on both. Get those up and you'll see a lot more threat increase than you'll see from changing weapons.


Edited, Jul 29th 2008 12:16am by kingpatzer

AP and Crit are DPS stats. It's not that they aren't important, but generally speaking, the AP values you will get from normal gear stats will be sufficient for tanking purposes.

Hitting what you're tanking is far more important than doing a lot of damage when you hit it :)

A good article on threat is: http://www.tankspot.com/forums/tankspot-library/35313-generating-threat.html

*edit: added link

Edited, Jul 29th 2008 12:24pm by kingpatzer