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No tanks with more than 25% dodge?
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Zamfix
My tank has easily over 25%.
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53090
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Post by
ArgentSun
My paladin sits at 27-28% unbuffed, and hits the 30% mark in raid. Naxxramas25 gear mostly, a couple of Ulduar pieces.
Post by
Sakkura
All this talk about "stacking dodge" is so silly. The only thing you have control over is Gems and Enchants. You take the gear the comes, and whether it has dodge or parry or defense or block; it has what it has. You aren't going to say "I'm going to wear this helm because it has XX parry on it." You are going to say "I'm going to wear this helm because it has a higher item level, more strength and stamina, and more overall avoidance."
As a tank, you can NOT make a conscious decision to "stack" dodge or "stack" parry, unless you are referring to putting +16 dodge or +16 parry gems into every one of your sockets (which no one does).
The reason you don't see non-druid tanks with more than ~25% dodge and ~20% parry? You get the avoidance that comes with the gear, plus a little bit here from defense enchants and a little bit there from 8dodge/12stam gems in a couple red sockets. There just isn't any more avoidance on the gear.
Stamina is better to gem than Dodge/Parry (except for using a combo to hit a socket bonus), and everyone knows that. I have roughly 9-10 sockets. I could put 160 more dodge rating in there, but I'd be losing around 2500 health. Using just rough equivalency, 160 dodge rating is worth about 130 stamina, not the 240 stamina I'd be losing.
But you do have a choice between different items of similar item level but different itemization. So you have a certain amount of choice as to what stats you get from gear, as well as from gems. If faced with a choice between an item with X amount of parry rating, and an otherwise identical item that happens to have X amount of dodge rating instead, you take the latter item (unless you hate yourself and your healers).
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Post by
Porcell
But you do have a choice between different items of similar item level but different itemization. So you have a certain amount of choice as to what stats you get from gear, as well as from gems. If faced with a choice between an item with X amount of parry rating, and an otherwise identical item that happens to have X amount of dodge rating instead, you take the latter item (unless you hate yourself and your healers).
How often do you have that choice? Pretty much never. Caster DPS have this choice all the time; there are a ton of similar item level pieces that are almost exactly the same except one has haste and one has crit. They have that choice. You will very rarely (essentially never) find two items that are nearly the same except one has Dodge and one has Parry.
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