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Old 06/03/08, 5:59 PM   #1496 (permalink)
Denogran
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Originally Posted by vorda View Post
By the nature of trash tanking though, you might very well take more hits than holy shield charges.
And even if you're not, the benefits to gearing for blocks vs hits is a dubious one at best. Even in a high-block set, you're only going to be saving ~700 block per hit, and that's generally at the expense of stamina and real avoidance.

Block only really shines in multi-mob tanking environments, and like Vorda said, gearing to not be hit there is sorta useless as you'll likely not have holy shield/redoubt up all the time.

I wouldn't even consciously gear for unhittable on bosses if they didn't crush. It's just that the randomness factor of really spiky damage makes it necessary.
 
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