Tanking Weapon Enchant?Follow

Mongoose .

Get it for tanking. The proc rate is based off your slow attack speed. You blast an instant every GCD. I haven't done mine yet but I have heard the proc is all most always up.

If not the goose then yes good old +35 Agility. They are putting in a +75ish Stamina chant soonish I have heard which could be valid also depending on specific gear needs.

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Edited, Dec 18th 2008 1:44pm by Horsemouth

I've had the goose for about a week.

It is like I enchanted my weapon with sex.

Oh, that's too perfect to not get sig love.

No, goose is still +120 at 80. I checked one time shortly after getting the chant done.

I want a new WotLK tanking enchant but that is a pipe dream for now. The +xx stamina would be nice if it was cheap and I could have gotten it a good while ago but I am trying to build avoidance now not stam.

Isn't Agility better anyway?

I mean, I love Stam and all that, but it's basically just a buffer of how long it takes before you die, no? As a general rule, I thought mitigation had priority. I dunno how much Dodge is granted by 120 Agility, but it's gotta be decent, not to mention the crit for added rage generation (though I suppose that's not much of an issue against bosses).

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GhostCrawler wrote:

Had this enchant gone live it would have become THE enchant for nearly all tanks. It would not have been an interesting choice. We would have had to keep introducing higher tiers of the same enchant, or else players would just keep using this version for perpetuity. We put Stamina already on many items. We don't think your weapon needs one as well. I received messages from several tanks for very prominent guilds asking us to please not go forward with this enchant. They understood why it was bad for the game.

Death knights have access to superior enchants in part because they do not have a shield or ranged weapon slot and the stats provided by those items.

Just posted by my favorite crustacean. Personally, I still like the AGI enchant. I thinks it's that faint green glow I like..
..I still have yet to play with goose on a weapon...
...I wonder what new stuff they will come out with...





Edited, Jan 17th 2009 5:14pm by GryphonStalker

I can see how goose would probably be overall better for kitty DPS, but as a bear, does it proc frequently enough to make it worth losing out on the steady dodge and AC you'd get from constant +35 AGI?

No doubt Berserk is better for pure dps, but one caveat that's been noted on EJ forums is that you better have a separate tanking weapon with goose or agi if your raid is going to expect you to pick up impromptu off-tanking duty. -25% to armor is no joke.

Bear uptime with mongoose is actually significantly higher than cat uptime. Based on 1 proc per minute a 1 sec attack speed (kitty) gives a 1/60 chance per attack to proc. Bears 2.5 sec attack speed gives you a 1/24 chance to proc.

A bear will have the regular 24 attacks (white/maul) plus an attack every 1.5 secs (mangle/lacerate/swipe) which is a total of 64 attacks a minute (no haste), giving you 2.66 procs per minute on average.

A kitty will have the 60 white attacks plus about 15 yellow attacks (10 energy/sec for 60 sec, very rough average 40 energy/attack). Throw in an OOC proc or two and you have maybe 77 attacks per minute giving you 1.28 procs per minute on average.

Thats very rough napkin maths but i'm pretty sure I included most of the important stuff. Haste will improve the proc/minute in both forms nicely, but not enough to make haste a very valuable stat for us.