Infraction for Gunner52: 7. Do not beg for hand-holding.

Kaubel · 06/20/09, 10:58 AM

Post: Suno's Fireside Chat - DK Endgame Tanking (Updated)
User: Gunner52
Infraction: 7. Do not beg for hand-holding.
Points: 1

Administrative Note:

Message to User:

Search and read before posting.

And for the record, an endgame tanking thread isn't the place to be asking about how to replace your blue equipment pieces.

Original Post:

Hey all, I've read the last two pages and the first page, I just switched from dps to tank yesterday and I am sitting in full blues, using armageddon as my tanking weapon and the Emblem sigil. I lack tank trinkets and rings but I am working on getting those, I am sitting at like 547 def without sigil proc and 557 with it (Off top of my head.) What I'm curious to know is are these 3.2 changes going to hurt the gearing up tank? I'm sitting at low health, I lose health from my dps to my tank gear (like 1k) but I see the health nerf in Frost pres, and I rely on good healers and my cds to not die on most fights in heroics.

I also see the nerf to toughness as cause of concern for a new dk tank, when you have those blues from rep and crafted maybe a epic or two from a drop from a heroic or a bud hooked you up, the extra armor from toughness is really nice for getting that extra chance of not dieing from that scary boss you have never tanked before. I know the main reason it was nerfed is that people put points in it for pvp but that can be solved by moving it up the tree more, not by nerfing it.

Also I was looking at the Tempered Titansteel Helm (Crafted BS epic tank helm) and compared it to my current rare Tempered Saronitee Heml or something like that (crafted Bs item) and I lose about 36-37 def (rating) but gain a meta and a gem socket. Does that outweigh the lose of my def, granted I am over cap. And the same with the boots, I have the rep boots from Wyrmrest (I think thats the rep) and they have like 10 more def rating then the crafted ones. Any ideas?

P.S. I know my belt has block rating on it, but I don't have anything else....go ahead laugh.

Thanks!