Originally Posted by Amonra
Our tanks are wearing pretty similar gear - one linked here. They both wear their standard tanking gear on the fight - would they be better with higher avoidance sets (I'm trying to convince them that they would) and if so then does anyone have suggestions on what pieces should be changed? |
In short, yes, gear for more avoidance. I should be logged out in mostly avoidance gear right now to give you an idea of what I'm running. My dodge goes up to ~38.5% with raidbuffs / consumables, it'll be even more tonight when I'll start running agi pots instead of a flask. We don't bother with scorpid or anything of the like, just TC/Demo (non improved) are plenty to keep me alive comfortably with one healer.
The biggest noticeable changes to the tank you linked I'd suggest would simply be running The Unbreakable Will with mongoose, and running pendant of titans (or the kael'thas turnin reward neck). If he has neither, go as far as using the Maiden one, though at that point the SSO tanking neck should be considerably better assuming he's aldor. Swap to a rifle of the stoic guardian if available, too. Run agi food & agi pots if he's not too broke to do so; it does end up being quite a bit more expensive than flasking given the rate at which you can be ready to pull again on this boss.
On the pull, make sure you hit everything with a thunderclap, have a spell reflect ready in case the mage gets a fireball off on you (we DPS tank/stunlock the mages, so its just important on initial pickup), get a demo shout up when aggro is somewhat comfortable, and save concussion blow and/or moroes' trinket for the Berserkers' flurry. Using cooldowns appropriately on flurries basically takes all the oomph out of them and basically results in healers not even noticing any change in DPS taken.
Edit: I also have an enhancement shaman in my group which nets me another 3% or so dodge since he's twisting GoA; Mongoose procs on top of that etc., you're looking at ~45% dodge at the end of the day.