Originally Posted by Cathela
At your armor level, the DS/RF gap should make a difference of less than 400 points against a 24k-before-armor attack. I can see the block value difference, though.
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Have we been able to determine if RF comes before armor, after, or added to it? I don't recall reading any definitive confirmations either way.
Originally Posted by Cathela
Right, but I guess what I'm thinking is that since warriors are under the same constraint, you're still going to have HS up a good bit more often than a warrior will have SB up.
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The time it is up is higher than warriors, yes. However, when the block value of warriors is more than double that of ours, unless he takes off more than 4 charges (which he doesn't most of the time) then the Warrior comes out ahead.
Originally Posted by Cathela
I can't find a StormyKnight user on this board, but based on your description I'm guessing that this profile is your MT using a non-Prot spec for the moment. Assuming that's his tanking gear (and it certainly looks like tanking gear) if we re-apply Toughness he'll have 18643 unbuffed armor, compared to your 17550. That's not a trivial difference -- it means he'll take 3.5% less damage than you will before RF/DS and blocking are applied. Buffs might change that number a little, but not by a lot. It's a significant gear gap. |
It's "Whiteknight" - I was reading another forum and my brain imploded as I was typing.
He's wearing the shield from Illidan now, which he got AFTER we killed him. When he was tanking Illidan during our initial tests he was using
[Aldori Legacy Defender] - that's the 1100+ armor difference right there.