Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Druid tanking stat priority

if the socket bonus is good like stamina mastery or agility, ill gem for it. I got new shoulders with a yellow socket but the bonus is 20 haste so if the socket isn't good should you gem stamina agility, flat out dodge really not sure. I'm also reforging to dodge so maybe gemming dodge isn't a good idea. Really lost haha.
Just put pure Agility in that shoulder. There's no point to using a hybrid gem unless the socket bonus is worth it or you're trying to activate a meta gem.
I went with just a flat out Agi gem.

Gem agi or stam, or even a mix of the two if you like. Those kinds of situations depend on the person really.
People are treating this like it is still wrath. It is not. Valuing stam is a wrath mentality because dmg was very heavy on tanks and in order for tanks to survive big hits they needed more stamina. Also healing in wrath only too 1-2 spells to get a tank to topped so having stam was a reliable form of staying alive. Now I have a certain healing output on a tank that I can do mana aside. Since tanks can take more hits before dying there is more wiggle room for healing a tank back to full. Tanks need to be focusing on mitigation now over stam because healing is the way it is. Healers need tanks to AVOID dmg rather than SURVIVE it. There are no boss mechanics, yet, where tanks need alot of hp to be healed through.
There are very few fights where a properly geared(ie346+) druid will be in danger of being bursted down. First is Nefarian who hits like a truck ~55k normally when fully debuffed including armor reduction.

Second is Cho'Gall if you end up tanking him with debuffs and an add(which really shouldn't be happening most of the time if you're OT is still up).

I guess if you decide to burn maloriak instead of doing adds you would want a whole boatload of HP(though if I were trying this strat I'd be having a warrior or paladin doing the emergency add tanking due to block mechanics vs SD).

Other than that, really, no other fights in normal modes require any kind of stamina gemming at all, zero(tanking 3 halfus drakes, or 2 drakes +whelps at once would require more stam probably, but again I'd have the warrior/paladin do that).

Hard modes are a much different story from the reports thus far. However Reesi(the author of the sticky at the top of this forum), gems mostly agi and has tanked 2 halfus drakes successfully in hard modes. So there's that.
yea took me a bit to break the wrath mentality, i might have gone over the edge putting agi on my wrists and shoulders too but it hasn't failed me yet and ive really gotten into tryin to get my dodge and crit as high as i can, i also find it useful to carry some gear for different fights depending on what tanking roll i might have. for a while, when i was still a little in wrath mode, i had close to 190k health in raids and it kinda hit me that it might be i little too much.all in all very happy with cata and its nice to not be judged by how much of a health pool you have at first glance.

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