Trinket?Follow

I'm starting to tank heroics and I need a major overhaul especially in my trinket department. Right now I'm using the jewelcrafter's crab, which seems to still work fine for me at least for the moment.

Still working towards a chest piece and cloak, but at least I have an idea of where to go with that.

But my other trinket .... 26 defense rating and increase health for blah amount of seconds. I'm not sure what's my best option at replacing it asap.

Anything else you can slap me around about regarding my gear would be appreciated. Remember I'm pretty much starting out an my focus is on heroics atm. I'm still a baby tank. :


http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Tortheldrin&cn=Bethelwulf







Edited, Feb 9th 2010 1:09pm by wildsimian

Edited, Feb 9th 2010 1:10pm by wildsimian

Ick's thumb is not a bad trinket, but it's not a good one either.

The Black Heart is your best bet for a second pre-raid trinket. Stamina is a fantastic stat, and the proc is very strong.

Replace your avoidance and defense rating gems with straight +stamina (+54 stamina when possible). Use a Stam/dodge gem to activate your meta gem.

Combined, these two would add ~3k HP before buffs.

In terms of gear overall - replace your Chest and Wrists ASAP. Pre-ToC25, best-in-slot for both slots are going to be BoE (Saronite Swordbreakers, Breastplate of the White Knight). Luckily you're a miner so you can get the Titansteel you need. Even if you don't want to buy them though, there are very big upgrades from raiding / heroics / ICC 5 mans / badges. Cloak too, though the pickings are a little slimmer there (219 from reg. HoR IIRC, 213 from trading badges down ... ugh).

I'd recommend running normal ToC5 and normal Frozen Halls for some pretty substantial gear upgrades.

Enchants are on the right path - get a shoulder enchant ASAP. Your weapon / shield enchants are sub-optimal.

As it is you're "fine" for most heroics, but you could step up your survivability a lot with a few upgrades.

The gear I mentioned IS expensive, though not as bad as the BoE 264 gear. I only mentioned it because you can farm the mats pretty easily as a miner and you won't find anything better before ToC25 or ICC gear. There are plenty of upgrades even before the 245 BoE gear though. Chest you can get a fairly good one for Triumph badges (T9 chest). Bracers are a little harder.

Also, depending how far along the Hodir questline you are, you could run a WG or two and pick up the +30 stamina shoulder enchant for ~10k Honor to hold you over. You're probably going to want to grind some honor eventually for the 2 min PVP trinket anyway.