Originally Posted by Tyjet
Yes but it does help the survivability of the DPS in your raid. What happens if you get 4 parries/misses at the start of the fight? You get a dead healer/dps. Not only that but if you can significantly increase your threat with hit rating, you increase the damage of the entire raid, no other group or raid buff can boost your raid's DPS so significantly. (excluding threat drops, FD/vanish etc.)
I'm also a firm believer in the offtank roll of ferals, if you gem/enchant your gear purely for tanking, you cripple your DPS.
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Well i did not say to offtank in full tank gear, did i.
What i say is that there are fights where you need only to survive, nothing more. So you should have gear for that. When i tank Tidalvess i wear full tank gear because survival is more important than threat. If dmg dies, he can be ressed or you can do it without him (his mistake, anyway). If you die, wipe. If you are tanking Karathress, no one is going to touch your target for around 5 minutes.
So having tank gear enchanted for threat gimps you in these situations. You cannot make your "threat enchanted" tank gear more survival, but you can allways alternate pieces of your tank gear with pieces of dmg gear with expertise and hit rating to generate more threat.