Defense or Stamina, cant decideFollow

I don't know if you are level 80 or not, so I am not sure if that 550 defense is at the level cap. I would suggest the following:

If you are level 80, your defense is fine, and your avoidance isn't bad either for ANY of the current content, so go for more stamina any way you can get it.

If you aren't level 80 yet, your defense will not stay as high as it is. Don't look at your defense, look at your defense rating. Defense rating of 679 at level 80 will give you 540 defense which will make you uncrittable and is what you want to shoot for.

Higher stam will give you more health, and higher spellpower for more threat. However, cloak doesn't have a great way of getting stam on it. For your cloak, you may want to go with defense (steelweave or a better version of steelweave if it exists now) and then use stamina enchants or item enhancements on other pieces.

I personally love http://wow.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?witem=38376;source=live on a lot of my armor. They are a cheap way to add 18 stamina to almost anything once your defense rating is at least 679.

I also have an enchant-related question if anyone wants to take a shot at it... for chest armor, it +8 to all stats better for a Prot Pally than a cheap +18 stamina, or is it pretty much a wash? I know that strength adds to our threat now (but so does stam) and Int would give us just a bit more mana (but we don't really need it) and adding 8 to any of the other stats seems pretty useless. I am personally leaning towards a heavy borean armor kit on my chest (+18 stam) rather than +8 to all stats, but it seems like a bit of a toss-up to me.

Sorry for the edit-fest today, but this is what I am leaning towards personally for enchants or item enhancements at 80:

Head = Defensive glyph (whatever the WotLK equivalent is to the old KoT one)
Shoulders = Defensive glyph (WotLK equivalent to Aldor)
Chest = Defense (if needed) or +18 stam armor kit
Cloak = Defense or Dodge
Wrists = +18 stam armor kit
Gloves = Armsman (+2% threat and 10 parry rating)
Waist = Eternal Belt Buckle with +Stam gem
Legs = Frosthide Armor Kit (+55 Stam, +22 Agil)
Feet = +18 Stam armor kit
Weapon = Potency (+20 Str)
Shield = Defense or Stam


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