Protadin Sword post 3.0Follow

I'm liking this one. Inuuro's Blade. I don't have an enchant yet. I tanked UB Heroic the other night and with a Mage and geared Rogue I kept agro by at least 3k above others. I had two times where I was fighting for agro with the hunter, but he had omen too and after one "um, watch your agro" comment I had no problems. I'm still sitting at 488 def :-( but we only wiped once.... pulled to many of those flying bugs things after the second boss by accident.


*edit for afterthoughts... Also, I'm only running 220sp. I understand that more = more threat and more damage, but honestly... it's not needed. Tanking heroics, HH, or even pve I'm always on top of the Omen Meter. Will I get more? Most likely, but I'm not in a hurry. I'm more intrested in getting my avoidance up to 102.4%. Yeah, I know that they took and moved crushing blows to +4 bosses... but I'm guessing that WotLK is going to have just that, +4. I'm also trying to regear with more stam and strength. Have to say though, mahlerite has something going The Blizz hud keeps telling me that HotR is a high threat hit. 3 mobs with some high threat is always good.

One more thing... (now I'm ranting and you can stop reading if you want) I think that as I read over the boards we are losing track of what a Prot Pally is all about. Taking the hits, keeping the agro (and watching T.V.) WE ARE TANKS. Not dps, not mages, not warriors. We bring auras, seals, blessing to the table. With 220sp I'm keeping agro with a t5/t6 fire mage. Why take more? Like to see a thread along the lines of "How can I max out my stam so I can watch more tv while tanking five mobs!" and enough with the "more damage". We have all the tools. WE ARE THE BEST MULTI MOB TANK IN THE GAME. And we have the tools to be one bada@@ MT thanks to 3.0. With very little tweeking, you can keep your sp over 200 and still keep agro (it's all over the forms). Guess my point is, and the answer that needs to be put into words is...
Get a fast HIGH DPS sword, get the gear with Stam then Str. Forget the spell power and get your stam up!!! I mean it. I don't have one enchant, or one piece of gear with +sp. My stam is 734. With Touched by the Light that is 220sp. Because of our new wonderful talent, you don't NEED more sp. Get more stam (and you'll get more sp)! Here's a prot pally with 1095 stam (that's 327sp)His total? 354. Crank up that Shield Block! Stam and Strength boys and girls that's the ticked. I remember the day when Prot Pallys were spit on and laughed at as tanks. Now is our time to show them. Ahh, more rum!



Edited, Oct 29th 2008 8:13pm by Simskin

If you only have 734 Stamina, (and 220 spellpower) with 488 defense, something is wrong. It is pretty easy with the quest rewards and AH items listed in Losie's Sticky to have over 490 defense and over 900 Stam (at least 270 spellpower) just from quest rewards, a few regular (non-heroic) dungeon drops, and stuff you can buy on the AH.

If you were Ret or Holy for a while after you hit 70 and already did some of the quests in Losie's sticky for other rewards, I could see your stam being kinda low, but probably NOT below 800. Do you at least have the cheap +10 stamina armor kits on all of your equipment that is not otherwise enchanted? At most those should cost 10-15g per kit and would increase your stamina by quite a bit I imagine.

I would have to see your armory to analyze why your Stam is so low, but definitely check out Losie's sticky again. 102.4 avoidance may not be totally necessary after 3.0.2, and a spelldamage weapon/enchant isn't needed anymore, but 95% of what is in that sticky should still be gospel for Paladin tanks.

@ Simskin

The Dawnforged Defender is a good shield, but the Sunward Crest is still better for a Prot Paladin. I didn't look at your shield enchant, but +18 stam is cheap and a nice one for getting your Stam up.

The HH ring is cool, but should be replaced by a tanking ring, although that isnt a hurry.

If you are Aldor and can get your hands on at least 2 Fel Armaments to turn in for Holy Dust, you can get a defensive glyph for your shoulder (lesser glyph 2 holy dust, greater glyph 8 holy dust) If you have the rep and the holy dust for the greater glyph, your defense will be over 490 just from that. If you are scryer, they probably have something similar. Farm Fel Armaments over by Death's Door in BEM if you are Aldor.. I get 5-10 per hour killing demons over there on a good day, 2-3 per hour on a bad day. Also Marks of Sargeras by the ton.

Other than that, get the cheap +10 stam armor kits for anything else that isnt enchanted and you are looking fine! Should be able to do Kara post-nerf in your current gear with just a little work (and maybe switching out your shield and one ring).

Edit: If you did Heroic Underbog and it was the daily, that should have been 6 badges (one for each of the 4 bosses + 2 for the heroic daily reward). Also, here is my armory link although it won't help you that much YET since i am in mostly Kara/Badge/T4 gear atm. http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Emerald+Dream&n=arthang

Edited, Oct 31st 2008 11:10am by jeromesimina