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Prot warr stat question
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From what I've read and experienced, you have a few priorities.
Defense cap (540) is your primary. From there, you'll want to mostly gem and enchant for stamina and expertise. Hit rating is fairly prevalent on tank gear and for most of my tanking career of wrath I've been hovering around 5%~ish. If you need/want to get a socket bonus from a yellow slot but don't need more defense, you can try the Vivid cuts (hit/stamina). The expertise cap is 26 for dodge, but higher for some bosses for parry. Stamina is really one of the more important stats for any tank, as end-game magical damage and healing buffers for incapacitated healers is important to have. In layman's terms, any blue socket should get a stamina gem, any red socket should be expertise/stamina, and yellow can be expertise/defense, defense/stamina, or hit/stamina if you're heavily over the defense cap.
Now, it isn't bad to be over the defense cap, but I'd fight it if you can. Anytime I get an upgrade for my tank set, I'm looking at where I can change gems and enchants to increase my EH (effective health) or threat generation over the extra defense.
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