I've done a few more updates, touching up things here and there. Given the recent confusion regarding how to calculate 102.4% to get full CTC (combat table coverage) I've made up what I think is a nice graph that hopefully should be clear to everyone. It should also help new tanks understand the difference between mitigation and avoidance.

(e): I've added a lot of little corrections including some clean up of some verbage.

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Theck,

Just to clarify, on the first test the character was untalented, while he WAS talented on the second one (pretty much a cookie cutter build, just with 2 in PotI instead of PoJ). No aura or seals were up for either test and the character was naked both times except for weapon. Did nothing but auto-attack both times. I'll do a larger sample for the slower weapon tonight.

I've already started taking a long parse with Zin'rokh. More data is always welcome, of course, but it might be more efficient to split our efforts to cover more of the unresolved questions.

The same offer extends to anyone else in the thread. There are several easy data sets that would be very helpful to us on the modeling end of things. If you have half an hour of time to kill and want to help out, take a look at that thread.

Hey guys, really fast question about cooldowns that I couldn't find a positive answer to.
For tank cooldowns, are any of them stackable? I'm rather sure GoAK won't stack, but will the DR on AD and DProt stack for a total of 40%? Another, more specific question, if you glyph Dprot and use it with AD, will you gain 20% phys and 40% magic reduction, or w0% phys and 60% magic?

I've been trying to max out my CTC (thanks for the term correction Theck) for the past couple days, reforging all my hit and expertise into mastery / parry, and one thing that I'm finding annoying is that Sacred Duty procs are lost if you miss with your SotR

I'm also trying the Wogger build - so far it seems alright, although as the HP drop off and then get refunded I sometimes don't notice that they're back until after I've queue'd a CS/HoR ... has anyone figured out a way to combat this? Maybe an addon that plays a sound when it procs?

I use MSBT to play a sound when Eternal Glory procs, but unfortunately the sound doesn't go off until the Holy Power is regained, so there's still a slight delay. If I pay close attention, I can almost always catch it before I've queued my next CS, but in a raid environment (where there's a lot of other things to pay attention to) I run into the same problem you describe, and will miss a few over the course of an encounter.

I've read somewhere that this is an issue with the proper combat log event being slightly delayed, so it's probably not something we can do anything about. In other words, the ball is in Blizzard's court.

There is a slight sound effect to indicate that you have been refunded your 3 HP.
It is very soft and takes being aware of it to notice amid all of the other battle noise.

Quite often I am already into my next CS/HoR before I notice that I have all 3 HP back.
I have gotten better at catching it, but it will always be difficult.
It is quite powerful to be able to hit WoG (w/ 3 HP) two times in a row, especially with wings popped.
Do it even with full health and take the extra overflow shield.

I would not worry about one possible extra HP. I would certainly not delay your next CS/HoR hoping for the 3HP refund. There are plenty of inefficienies in the midst of any battle. Not doing anything on the hope of a RNG proc is not a good strategy.

I will try to test that tonight. It is an excellend question. That shield is so short though that I am not sure it matters. There is a 1-2 sec delay on your Eternal Glory 3 HP refund. That overflow shield only lasts 6 seconds max if I recall. By the time you execute it again, it it only refreshes your shield time, then it was worth it.

Lets say you are at max health but in the midst of a raging hammering from adds and boss. Your max health is 160,000. But you currently have an overflow shield from the first WoG that has about 10k and declining. By the time you get that second WoG executed, your first overflow shield is likely mostly gone or has expired from time.

If all that happens is that you restart the timer or you get a fresh +20,000 health shield, then it is worth it.

My gut feeling is that the two shields do not add together because they are on different timers. My guess is that the 2nd one would just overwrite the 1st one, I will try to determine this definitively tonight.

Can some people check the actual blocked damaged % they are seeing in their combat logs with Holy Shield up please.

Tonight I noticed that only 30% damage was being blocked, even when Holy Shield was active. With it active I looked at the character Defense tooltip and it updated to say "Your block stops 40% of incoming damage", and returned to "Your block stops 30% of incoming damage" once Holy Shield faded.

However - doing the math from the numbers in combat log - the actual % of damage blocked, never changed.

What is the general opinion about going for Tier 11 4set bonus versus going for Full CTC? I personally have not found a big use for it. Currently using GoAK without the Tier 11 4set bonus gives our healers more than enough time to get me up.

Although I haven't personally checked to see how much actual block/parry/dodge is lost by using 4pc, I can think of plenty of times where the opposite is true. The current duration may be long enough for my healers to recover, but any less damage I'm taking directly converts into more mana saved, as well as less direct healing stress. If solid evidence is presented to suggest otherwise then I would most certainly consider it.