your hitsFollow

If by hits you mean hit rating or hit % then I would have to guess mine is really really low like 2% hit or something equally bad. Expertise flowing out the *** though.

i should specify. i meant hit points. i heard bear tanks have more then warriors or pallys.

Yeah the other tanks in my guild are better geared than me (full 226+, 245s now of course as well, I still have an ungodly number of 200s) and I eclipse their health easily. Where they end up beating me is avoidance, I have just over 40% but our pally has like 65% self buffed and the DK has 50-60 or something.

Edited, Sep 11th 2009 3:03pm by Norellicus

Ya bears love stam. I'm north of 30k un-buffed, but bear is off-spec and a work in progress; so most of the good bears will blow me away there.

I'd say I'm usually a bit higher on armor then the other tank classes, but fairly far behind in avoidance.

My favorite part is hitting Survival Instincts. Threw our priest for a loop the other night, she just recently started healing, and I popped SI during a fight. Afterwords I hear:

"I looked up and was like OMG, when did Sun get 60k HP!"

still rofl about that one :)

As I have found out recently, stam is only one part of the tanking equation (sounds obvious I know). My disc priest has been doing a LOT of reg TotC runs lately in all sorts of PuGs. The worst tanks to heal were DK's with high stam - they took so much damage I can only assume they have stacked stam instead of avoidance. I've had much lower health DK's and other tanks who were much easier to heal. In a raid, it isn't as much of a problem (better gear to start with) as the strain is spread over more healers, but in a 5man, the healer has to spam everything on the tank and it is tough on mana and also on managing to handle raid damage as well.