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Really think I need more threat? I handle myself and my threat pretty well in instances and heroics...
Answers my other question though... If spikes and stam stack :-)
Any dps'er in equal gear can pull threat off of a tank without any trouble. In places like Kara you will find yourself in DPS fights where everyone is burning cool-downs to drop a boss.
Every tank should always be worried about threat. Do you ever lose a mob in heroics? Even once? If so, then you need more threat generation. Once you have "enough" armor and stamina to survive most encounters for you level, the next most important stats for every tank are expertise and hit -- precisely because they help with threat. If you look at the badge gear, you'll notice lots of expertise on the tanking gear. It's there for a reason. Stam is greater than all most of the time, but you can't ignore threat either.
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I'm having a hard time convincing ppl that I feel ready for kara and I tell them that Skill > gear!
''But because I wear blues -> I can't play'' is one of the stupidest overall thoughts I ever heard
That's because it simply isn't true.
Any raid will take a tank in t6 gear over a tank in blues precisely for the same reason they'll take a healer with 1700 healing over one with 700.
It is not that skill is not important, it is. But to say it's greater than gear ignores the fact that this game is built on a progression scale. Kara and every 10 and 25 man above it, contain gear check encounters that a raid that is inadequately geared will simply fail at, regardless of skill.
When Kara was new, people did enter it in blues. But they didn't complete it in blues. Those raids did it as progression content, getting so far, then having to stop there as the raid increased their gear level across the board, then progressing to a new gear check and doing the same thing. After multiple raids, the "all blue" team was in plenty of purples as they finished the content.
You are ready for OT'ing in Kara, but you won't tank Prince or Nightbane, or probably even Curator, in what you have and live, no matter how skilled you are. Raid tanking is not 5-man tanking, there is still a skill element, but it is as much about being geared for the encounter as it is being intellectually up to the challenge.
Edited, Aug 11th 2008 11:49am by kingpatzer