Warning for Rangeins: 2. All opinions should be stated as succinctly as possible.

Kaubel · 01/31/09, 9:43 AM

Post: DK Tanking Discussion
User: Rangeins
Infraction: 2. All opinions should be stated as succinctly as possible.
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Don't split up quotes, and you really don't need to sign all your posts with "regards."

Original Post:

Originally Posted by Flamingcloud

I'd like you to explain how you..

As I don't have the time to go through every single piece and since we are both wearing exactly or closely to what we personally consider a BRGA Set I have bothered to make a little RAWR calculation.

Raidbuffed, without Boss Debuffs: RAWR sees me at 71,7 percent avoidance, and you at 65,6 percent avoidance. (To get correct results I have fixed the defense Sigil in RAWR so permanently grants the correct amount of defense). Now 3 percent of the avoidance difference is from frigid dreadplate, leaving us with a avoidance difference of 3 percent.

Now we have pretty much the exact amount of armor, and you are a little less than 2,5k Health (buffed!) ahead of me.

Other than that you have somewhat worse threat stats than me.

While I absolutely agree with your previous statements that health is an important factor and we are already well off on avoidance stats, I think 2,5k Health for 3 percent avoidance and some threat is, while not exactly a horrible tradeoff, is definately not what I expect from a "best raiding gear set" either. And this is what i meant about best in slot and the vacuum.

I have a small picture here to illustrate the rawr calculations.
RAWR Screenie

Now for Asari:

The parry trinket is worth over 1% avoidance, dropping the defense trinket losses me 3k HP for 15 seconds every 3 minutes. This results in slightly higher avoidance using SG over SS, and a constant HP increase.

For me the parry trinket is worth exactly 1 percent parry. The def trinket gives me roughly 0,6 miss, 0,5 dodge and 0,4 parry. Thats roughly 1,5 percent avoidance compared to 1 percent avoidance plus the advantage of spreading out my tanking stats some more.

I have the neck, the loss of stats from Heritage isn't worth it. I also drop under hit cap by a good amount. Same reason Im using the chest and bracers over high avoidance items.

I hope you realize that before the expertise soft-cap the expertise will do you more good than being hit capped, both as a threat stat and as an avoidance stat.

Regards