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#1 Dec 20 2008 at 11:45 AM Rating: Decent
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It's been awhile since I've seen a prot build. Just making sure that I'm going the right direction. Adding the 5/2/3 to the 5/58/6 build.

Final build.

Thanks.
#2 Dec 20 2008 at 3:08 PM Rating: Good
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Divine Guardian is generally not a tanking talent, unless you're into raiding and are not actually tanking when you use it.

There's been a few times I would have been happy to have Stoicism, but I'd personally not pick it up.

You have everything that's important, though. Cheers for not taking Kings. It's not worth the points unless you're ret and have the 5 to waste.
#3 Dec 20 2008 at 10:27 PM Rating: Decent
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Or how about this?
#4 Dec 20 2008 at 10:40 PM Rating: Decent
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I'd drop PoJ and Vind in Ret and fill out SotP in Holy and you're good to go.
#5 Dec 21 2008 at 12:52 AM Rating: Decent
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so then something like this for end game raiding? http://www.wowhead.com/?talent=sVZ0xVA0uGteIRGogc
#6 Dec 21 2008 at 1:05 AM Rating: Decent
trollover wrote:
so then something like this for end game raiding? http://www.wowhead.com/?talent=sVZ0xVA0uGteIRGogc


Personally, for raids I would drop Heart of the Crusader. Chances are fairly decent you'll have a ret pally in the group that will have that as part of a dps build, and there are potentially better uses for the talent points in a raid tank build. You could take those 3 points and put one into Improved Judgements (I highly, highly recommend doing so) and put the other two into Benediction, filling out Reckoning, or even put them into Stoicism.

With Seal of Vengeance the current tanking mainstay, Reckoning isn't as useful to prot pallies as it used to be. The next time I go into an easier heroic, however, I'm going to mess around with a seal rotation and see if Vengeance -> 5 stacks -> Righteousness until a few seconds before the Vengeance stacks fades and then restart the rotation can produce a noteworthy boost to threat without draining my mana pool. I know that in some fights, I'm taking so much healing that mana is never, never an issue, but some other fights have me OOM at a frightening rate. If you've got a packed threat rotation as it is, rotating seals might not be much of a benefit, but if I can make it work, Reckoning could be worth a serious boost.

Edit: Scratch that. Buffed with only RF and BoSanc, auto-attacks on Reanimated Crusaders in Icecrown with only SoV was doing roughly 700 tps (average). Rotating seals pushed the average up to 900. Even raid buffed, I'd say that rotating seals isn't really worth the effort for such a marginal gain. I'd rather toss a HoSalv on a dps that was pushing the line than try to keep a seal rotation going that would a) involve accidentally losing the 5-stack of SoV on the target b) bork my normal rotation c) suck mana faster than necessary and/or d) shift my focus from watching the battleground to watching the SoV stack timer. With that in mind, I'm going to review my talent build tomorrow and probably drop Reckoning altogether if I can.

Edited, Dec 21st 2008 1:25am by AureliusSir
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