1) Badge of Tenacity is too expensive on my server
2) With neck from RoS and defense on chest i can lose the trinket which gives me an oppurtunity to get something better.
3) Getting pvp gear is not available to everyone and the 30 resil from the pot won't do the trick if you lose too much defense
But your right about my gear issues
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Badge is worth whatever it costs. It's an amazingly good trinket for bears, and it makes me sad whenever I have to lose it for some random fight. Unless you're armor capped, it is the best trinket for bears, period.
If you use resilience gear (or resilience enchants, like on the chest, it allows you to have more flexibility in your gear choices as well as choose better-itemized gear. In a perfect world defense would be best; it is slightly more efficient than an equivalent amount of resilience and agility for giving the best mitigation and avoidance. But we don't have perfect worlds. For instance, you have the Gilded Thorium cloak instead of slikk's cloak. Slikk's cloak is much better itemized, but you need Gilded Thorium because of the defense on it. You need the very bad defense trinket instead of a badge or moroes or shadowmoon.
Actually, that's not true - with your setup, you don't need that defense trinket at all because you have the VG gloves. You're already well over the uncrit cap. I personally found that the gloves were a poor choice to get resilience from due to the good options at gloves; the bracers seemed to be the least loss in stats in exchange for resilience. For you with the thunderheart, though, that might not be true.
I don't have as many T6 pieces as you do, but I have more armor, more HP and more avoidance than you do because resilience works so well. And I have more expertise thanks to the brooch of deftness.
I'm also curious how pvp gear isn't available to everyone, but you have the VG gloves. So you can do arena but not a battleground? Or are you talking about someone else? I figure that if you can raid you can do BGs.
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I don't mean to offend here, but that is kind of a selfish approach. You need your Warriors during progression, and letting your Prot Warriors skip the boss, who has 3 upgrades in stock, isn't much progress for them.
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It's selfish one way or another, isn't it? The original suggestion was whether he should sit one feral druid or two. That's pretty selfish in favor of the warriors. I thought it only fair that the suggestion be made to sit one prot warrior or two, especially since the ferals shine in the Brutallus fight. If you're talking min-maxing I still believe two feral druids will do more damage than a war/druid will for tanking, even if some other dps warrior has to keep up tclap. This is based on experience in the game more than hard numbers, but talking with a fury warrior he estimated that it would hurt but not severely so. It probably isn't a huge difference - maybe a few hundred dps + whatever group buff the feral provides. But it is better. I wouldn't advocate it personally; I'd try and get everyone in if at all possible. But sometimes it's not, and it's better to down a boss while sitting some people than it is to not down a boss while pleasing everyone.