How do you gem your bear for DS

[neik]

I've seen bears plain agility gems also I've seen with main stamina gems too, what is best gems for DS? Stacking only agility + agility trinkets can bear be low on HP?

[Deleted]

Here you go. You're welcome.

[Aquamonkey]

Any tank who stacks stamina is doing it wrong, unless they are in BiS doing heroic 25m.

[Stevoman]

Ughhhhh this thread AGAIN?!

It's been discussed ad nauseam in multiple threads and the bear sticky.

Short answer: it depends.
Long answer: it depends on the boss, your gear level, and your healers.

[neik]

Thanks a lot folks

[Stevoman]

Thanks a lot folks

Wasn't an attack on you personally.

It's just that everyone here including the mods are tired of the weekly "agility vs stamina" flamefests and all the associated bad information that gets spread.

[Kenjer]

The truth is that both approaches work. Talk with your healers, and decide what makes sense for your setup.

[earthwormjim]

I ended up stacking stamina for heroic 25m DS, and dodge reforging. Heroic Morchok can do 150k dmg melee hits.

If you're just doing Normal DS, go with agility gems and mastery reforging. That way you can do competent dps when tank swapping or in single tank fights.


You really can't go wrong either way. You don't gain that much avoidance with agility gemming at this ilevel now. The agility on the gear already puts you seriously far into diminishing returns. So you don't miss out on that much avoidance with stamina gems. Stamina does help with mitigation too (not as well as agility though) since our vengeance is based on health.

Stamina definitely gives your healers a bit more wiggle room when it comes to o shit moments, but you probably will take more damage over a long fight.

[rated]

Do the same thing you should of been doing all expansion. Get enough stam to reach your EH for the content you're running, otherwise gem agility.

You got stam trinkets + steelskin you can keep in your bags to switch up during a raid if you need the extra stam.