Last night, after chasing up a crafter for a few days, Ulu got some epic bracers made. With their acquisition, one of the less-satisfactory gaps in his tanking gear was closed. I also changed a lot of his avoidance gems for stamina ones, and switched in a couple of items that emphasised Shield Block over Dodge/Parry. The end result is that Ulu has roughly 16% Dodge, 16% Parry and 23% Shield Block along with 12.3k health unbuffed and nearly 14k armor.
I've been reading a lot of stuff from raiding tanks atm, who suggest that mitigation (armor, block) and health are better to stack than avoidance (dodge, parry). The theory is that when you're tanking High King Maulgar or Prince Malchezaar, you don't get healed reactively. It's therefore better to work on reducing incoming damage rather than giving a chance to avoid it altogether. In theory it seems sound, we'll see how it holds in practise.
After getting my new precious, Ulu ended up running two heroics in reasonably rapid succession with the same group: Ulu Tanking, A Resto Druid Healing, a Feral Druid switching between DPS and Off-Tanking as required, an Enhancement Shaman switching between DPS and Off-Healing and a Mage on DPS and Crowd Control.
Whilst the runs weren't exactly flawless, the fact that the group had a lot of versatility really counted in our favour. We went through Mana Tombs first and after struggling with the first boss, we killed the next two easily enough with only a few deaths to carelessness on trash.
After that, we decided to keep the group together and try the Underbog. Once again, we struggled a bit, but almost all the bosses died first time, except for the last. Wasn't many drops of note, but hey, that was seven badges total. Ulu just needs 9 more to get his epic helm.
Raiding-wise, I'm uncertain what to do. Part of me fancies taking Ulu on an early shift run for a change, but the late shift is struggling and needs help. I'm undecided about wether or not to be a "James Blunt" about it or not yet.
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The one element of modern WoW which I don't understand is the Trading Post.
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Early shift for a change? Aren't you usually on earlies?
How to appear not to be a merchant banker? Take what is needed and get yourself saved with that. I hear last night had a surplus of tankage for a change so you'd have been smiled upon for taking the DPSlol.
Yes, I'm tired of banging my head up against Moron due to lacking shackles/OT/pally cleansing/sane trapping/decent DPS/delete as applicable for the evening, but that doesn't mean you have to commit to bringing your protnub with us every week or you'll burn out on him.
I'm blithering. It's early and I have a dentist appointment in an hour.
Congratz on all the run and the new epic gear.
Seems blocking gear is hard to get i hear for the defense part and avoidance. Been pre 70 i still love to see my Paladin block more than anything else other than hiting the mob. Seems more blocking gear is hard to get i hear for the defense part though at 70.
So was wondering though in understanding things a bit more in switching from dodge/parry to more shield block, what were you trying to do there just in helping me understand that part. Does the fact that your blocking more than dodging the hits allows some damage so can get mana return on heal with SA since dodging will mostly avoid the hits and thus no damage while still expending mana?
Was also wondering also. Does the fact that one dodges or parry more mean that reckoning may procs less since blocking not as much?
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