Artemas/Xes I was trying to look up your character via armory and could not find you... I'm trying to find out where I can get the bis feral gear and what it would be pre ulduar.

I am also doing Thorim hard mode and his Unbalancing Strike, which apparently does not reset his swing timer at the moment, hits like a truck as he gains more debuffs. I agree that on most of the fights, gemming pure agility doesn't really cut it, meaning not enough health pool, so I dedicated my first set of T8.5 to pure stamina set and have my T7.5 for pure avoidance as well as a threat set in the bag. I don't think threat is an issue on Thorim, since the boss is being taunted most of the time and even if it was, I don't see myself switching threat gear in and lose survivability at this stage.

From what i've seen so far, i'd say you should be aiming for 50k HP buffed. If you can get more while not sacrificing too much of the other stats - go for it.

Your link leads to Gatekeeper's Key, not Gatekeeper.

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For me, they're idols for very different situations. The agility proc ones is for bosstanking when you take loads of damage and need the extra dodge, while the maul/swipe one is for naxx aoe trash tanking. I havent used the maul/swipe one so far in ulduar.

Hello

As MT in Ulduar 25 i wanted to know if there is some stats i should change. Please check below.

Defense stats (unbuffed - no wild buff):

- Defense: 431
- Dodge: 42,43%
- Armor: 28626

Melee:
- Crit: 39,02%
- Expertise: 37 (Reduce chance to be dodged or parried by 9,25%. Expertise rating 225)
- Hit Rating: 227

Im using 3x t8,5 parts + 1xt8 part so i get the 4set bonus as well.

Is my expertise totally fucked or is it okey ? Cuz when i swap out parts from naxx i lose a lot of expertise.

My profile: Judica - WoW Armory

Feel free to come with tips/advice

In advance, tnx!

Looking pretty good. Just hope the [Heart of Iron] drops for you to replace that blue trinket of yours. I have a separate avoidance set, but looking at your somewhat agility based gear setup you do have relatively lower dodge than I'd expected (1% more than me in my full stamina set).

Don't be like that guy and go out of your way to activate all socket bonuses with strange gems. Either you focus on avoidance - gemming 16 agi in all slots barring 12stam/8agi in blue slots where you like the bonus, or focus on health - gemming 24 stam in all slots barring 12stam/8agi in red slots where you like the bonus. And if you really want to activate yellow sockets, use something like defense/stam, not crit/stam.

I find myself either using prismatic gems or the glinting monarch topaz (8hit/8agi) in yellow sockets... gemming defense seems.. well.. yeah..

I was directing that comment to non JCs who don't have access to nice prismatics. Additionally, I was not so much encouraging gemming defense as I was stating if you really feel like you need to gem a yellow slot, choose a better option than crit/stam. I would take 12 stam / 8 defense over 8 agi / 8 hit any day.

I have a serious question that I cannot find a definate answer for.

What is the cap for dodge percentage ? When does diminshing returns kick in?

I ask this because right now my stats raid buffed are 49% dodge, 42k health. Of course I have mongoose on my Twisted Visage, Darkmoon Greatness and Heart of Iron. So as you can see I'm constantly sitting at 52-54% dodge, and if I use Heart of Iron, it goes up to 58% dodge. To me this seems excessively high.

I am using all agility/agility+stam gems and according to Rawr, thats what I should be doing but I cant help but think that all that dodge really isn't doing me much good passed a certain point.

Any help would be much appreciated.