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wyssis
What to go for? If I can stay above 40k health, should i gem and pick trinkets with focus on stamina or avoidance?
For example, brewfest trinket or ick's rotting thumb?
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i read this once in a druid tanking thread and though it's not the standard tanking philosophy i thought it was a good way to look at it.
The OP stated that the goal for EH is to have enough HP to withstand 2 consecutive hits from a boss (usually referring to physical dmg. magic usually hits much harder then a physical attack). This would be the minimum requirement. Any more then that would be the tanks preference. The reason for having that much HP would be what he called the 5sec rule. Based on a standard bosses attack speed. You want to be able to stay alive for atleast 5sec without any heals incase of RNG. Healer gets silenced and needs another healer to help, you take multiple hits in a row and the healer needs time to get off a big heal, or other situations that will cause you to take alot of dmg in a short amount of time. So if a boss hits for about 20k a hit. you want somewhere along the lines of 50k buffed hp. Since alot of the ICC bosses not only hit hard and quite often since you have -20% dodge and usually some kind of other incoming dmg (dmg aura/DnD/aoes).
This wasn't something i came up with just something i read and of course it was from a druid thread so their EH is much larger then ours and is easier to achieve. However i believe using this idea dks would pretty much need to gem purely stam regardless because i don't think our EH would ever get high enough that you'd feel comfortable enough to gem for avoidance.
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wyssis
Thanks for the good replies :p I'll keep my brewfest trinket on. A pally I know told me to stack stam as well "cause I was not a druid" :p Wanted to know if he was correct.
I'll link my armory for funsies maybe. It's my offspecc though and I specced into Pale Horse just because I use that specc more for riding my mount faster and tanking HC's for fast queue's where I'm already overgeared anyway. The Rune Tap is for soloing stuff. Deaths Embrace glyph is a remnant from pvping :p
Tanked ICC in a pug last night and the specc seems to not get raped enough to get a serious tanking specc.
However since its my offspecc it might be that i have my dpsgear equipped.
http://eu.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Lightning%27s+Blade&cn=Desuknight&gn=Myst
A real tanking specc would look like
http://www.wowhead.com/?talent#jcErVh0IcbobssxbxZ0gG
I guess for better threat?
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