Post by Porcell
Is this a genarally bad idea, or viable?
As you can see from my
Armory my gear is rather lacking, as I stopped playing for a while. A friend of mine suggested to me that I get the pvp set to tank in.
The gear you have is fine. It's a bit less than what I had when I started tanking Ulduar 10/25. With a few easy Emblem upgrades and some fixes/upgrades to your gems, you'd be fine to tank just about anything.
Post by hashmel
2 reasons pvp gear is generally frowned upon in pve
- while resil can make you crit immune every other bonus from resilience is of absolutely no benefit in pve (except for the mana drain effect which last time i played my warrior i was never asking for an innervate)
defense not only makes you crit immune but grants dodge/block/parry/miss as a bonus, all of which benefit pve
- the second downside to pvp gear in pve is the almost complete lack of hit/expertise which are quite important and will generally force you to sacrifice stats in one area of your gear to play catch up
a third and completely insignificant, irrelevant downside to pvp gear in pvp is that it
may portray a negative image of yourself to certain people as a player hinting that you're inexperienced in pve
only bears can truly get away with pvp gear in pve scot free especially considering the BiS bear weapon (and arguably gloves too) has been from pvp for 2 seasons now
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as stated your gear is fine, don't sweat it so much
some suggestions
head: change the meta to austere earthsiege or effulgent skyflare
shoulder: change the chant to the pvp stam/res one and the gem to a stam/exp or pure stam
chest: change the chant to 22 def and the orange gem to a stam/exp or pure stam
hands: can change the gem to stam/exp or leave as is
belt: change the yellow to a stam/def
legs: can change the gem to a stam/exp or leave as is
feet: change the gem to a stam/def
shield: change the chant to 20 def
talents: pull 3 out of focused rage for last stand and improved disciplines
glyphs: keep glyph of blocking, the other 2 are between devistate, shield wall, last stand, and vigilance
would highly recommend farming reg ToC5 for the black heart
getting JC leveled will help quite noticably, it gets easier past 300 then it's smooth sailing till you start waiting for dailies to reset for another token