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Heroics minimum requirements (tank)
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Post by
Bllets
You need to research effective health and TTL. If you're replacing every avoidance gem with pure stam, you're horrible. No one gems straight stam or straight avoidance unless its a gimmick fight, and if they get something like that from truthfully saying there is no def cap, then they have bigger issues, like assuming too much and following the mob, and not looking at facts enough.
Practically anyone doing Uld+ content can (or maybe should?) be defense capped without the use of defense gems. With the current boss design of tanks taking slow large hits, stamina beats avoidance by miles, specially since stamina works agianst magic damage as well.
Avoidance does nothing to improve EH either.
Post by
Quest
You need to research effective health and TTL. If you're replacing every avoidance gem with pure stam, you're horrible. No one gems straight stam or straight avoidance
Avoidance has nothing to do with effective health.
Nothing.
EH is affected by your total health (mostly from stamina) and by your damage reduction (armor, for physical attacks, resistances, for magic attacks).
And virtually every progression tank gems straight stamina. The only time they gem avoidance is to cover 540 defense or to match a really good red socket bonus. Even in the days when Naxx 25 was "progression", nobody gemmed avoidance. If they felt like they had enough EH, they'd gem expertise and hit for additional threat and DPS.
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You need to research effective health and TTL.
Avoidance has nothing to do with effective health.
Nothing.
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TTL.
Avoidance
/rolleyes
Bllets, Its called gemming bonuses. Slap that in your non existent formula then take a seat -> _/
PS There is no defense cap.
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44284
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Post by
Quest
Gemming to match gem bonuses will make you slighty easier to heal ;)
(this doesnt apply to gear under 213/219 where you go full on stam)
Post by
Quest
Here is a question. Who is bad enough to socket
this
with a
Solid Majestic
instead of an
Enduring Eye
?
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121564
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Post by
Porcell
Here is a question. Who is bad enough to socket
this
with a
Solid Majestic
instead of an
Enduring Eye
?
Hopefully no one? Pointing out a no-brain gemming decision is hardly an "I rest my case" moment for you though.
Some would gem
this chest
with double stamina. I gemmed it with dodge/stamina; I'm one that will trade 6 Stamina for 10 Dodge Rating (0.15% avoidance for me). Heck, I even gemmed my
Legs
with Dodge/Stamina and Defense/Stamina. I'm giving up 18 Stamina and gaining 0.15 dodge and another 0.06 dodge, 0.06 parry, 0.04 miss (so 18 Stam for ~0.30% avoidance).
That's just a choice I make. Some people stack stamina, and those people probably have around 1000 more health but 1.5% less avoidance than I do (So ~10 hybrid gems, where they gain ~9 stamina and I gain ~0.15 avoidance each).
But for me, I'll give up 900 health for 1.5% avoidance. One way I think about it is in relation to trinkets. 192 Stamina from
this trinket
as opposed to
This
or
This.
. I've already determined that I'll trade 9 Stamina for 0.15% avoidance with gems. That means I'd need to get around 3.2% avoidance from a trinket in order to make the same swap. Ferver is only 1.71 passive avoidance and the Onyxia trinket is 1.5% from parry rating and around 1.0% avoidance from the Defense Rating.
However, I also use
These Boots
which I have +30 Stamina in. I'm not going to give up 15 Stamina for 0.2% avoidance.
So for me, I'll hit Stamina socket bonuses because extra avoidance is still good and I'm "getting back" some of the lost stamina with the bonus, but I'll skip dodge/defense socket bonuses because I feel it's giving up too much.
Post by
skumbananer
Gem straight expertise in every slot and ignore stamina, effective health, avoidance and all that crap.
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