galzohar

Seems like even as holy with fire gear, the blocking from redoubt and base dodge/parry alone is a nice damage reduction if you just don't heal. I'd definitely be mixing in some tank gear next time I try a timed run though on top of the full FR gear (which according to the dmg distribution reported here does provide a better damage reduction than tanking gear).

Of course I've seen prot paladins in full tanking gear tank it before although I'd rather not run with a full prot pally on those runs considering the DPS it'll cost. To be honest I'm not sure he was easier to heal with 3 healers in the raid as I was with full fire/pvp gear and not healing with 2 (other) healers in the raid. Remember that the fact something is possible doesn't make it the best way to do it the first time. The only thing that might be a problem is threat as both the fire gear and the tanking gear doesn't have much spell damage compared to the pvp gear (although I did just pick a T4 helm). With just concecrating without a frost trap or earthbind they seem to run past me sometimes... At least the first few probably becuase when there are less mobs out healing aggro is shared between less mobs so it's harder to pick them up, but afterwards healers don't generate as much threat per mob and conc picks them up easy. And AOErs don't seem to be dying.

I just wonder how much spell damage I can really sacrifice for tanking stats.