BiS depends on build + preference.
And most builds i'd say that prison > spark (you loose a little bit of health, but gain extra crit dmg +mastery) (with spark i need to gem for crit to stay < 50%
BiS depends on build + preference.
And most builds i'd say that prison > spark (you loose a little bit of health, but gain extra crit dmg +mastery) (with spark i need to gem for crit to stay < 50%
Hi, just a quick question so I don't have to dig through 254 pages. I'm gearing up a paladin alt. My main is 14/14H (though not a tank) so I anticipate doing some heroics with this toon eventually, and consider myself at a skill level commiserate to going for a haste build.
My question is, since I'm stuck in LFR/flex for the moment: if I want haste gear, should I be loot specialized to ret, and then switch to prot for bosses which drop weapons/shields/trinkets?
Loot spec to protection for Nazgrim, Malkorok and Siegecrafter, pretty much everything else you can set it to retribution.
I'd stay ret on SC until i get the ring, since i can also get a nice wep off malk/klaxxi (granted can't coin roll it on malk i think)
Need to vent a bit. I am trying to gear up my hunter a bit at the moment. So I did a pug earlier. I met a paladin tank that changed his seal to seal of truth instead of seal of insight because he needed more threat on Sha of Pride versus his warrior co-tank. The warrior tank also agreed that it was a great idea to switch to seal of truth.
Now you might think, well this is common on LFR/Flex or whatever. Nononono. This was a 25 man heroic guild run with a few pugs (me being one of the pugs). This paladin seriously switched to Seal of Truth for Heroic 25 Sha of Pride for THREAT! I do not think I have facepalmed that hard in a long time.
I've seen 25H prot paladin have ~20% sotr uptime because "my healers can keep me up and i'm holding threat".
#25SoHard
P.S. Firefly i think you got added to my btag O.o
I can top that: 10H paladin tank I know has consistently sub 15% SotR uptimes accompanied by a shit ton of EF casts. I figured it was just due to ignorance about AM. Then I learned the truth: she was spending all of that HP to blanket EF the whole raid...
Last edited by trystero; 2014-04-18 at 03:59 AM.
Idk, i use it since sha is so fun that i might as well alt-tab.
And i like seeing ~10 green numbers pop up on my screen.
(I think the last time i used EF raid blanket as required was :a)thok 2 heal progression b)garalon progression)
I've done selective "blanketing," too, namely IJ and Dark Shamans. But I'm talking every single fight.
25H Malkorok - 13% sotr uptime
I'm actually watching that paladin and i honestly can't wait till he gets to thok and starts getting globaled.
You actually don't take a lot of damage during that phase courtesy of mitigation. A few weeks ago I was arguing that damage taken is a bad metric for tanks. I had planned to use Blood Rage as an illustration before noticing that I took less overall damage than my co-tank despite solo soaking Blood Rage (he pulls first). Most of the hits are pitiful, with only a few being like regular 25H white attacks.
[22:01:39.350] Malkorok gains Blood Rage from Malkorok
[22:01:39.350] Malkorok casts Blood Rage
[22:01:40.871] Malkorok Blood Rage Trystero Absorb (894892)
[22:01:42.463] Malkorok Blood Rage Trystero 346873 (A: 279552)
[22:01:44.100] Malkorok Blood Rage Trystero 626424
[22:01:45.706] Malkorok Blood Rage Trystero Absorb (248069)
[22:01:46.926] Malkorok Blood Rage Trystero 57433 (A: 252652)
[22:01:48.530] Malkorok Blood Rage Trystero 196476 (A: 113610)
[22:01:50.090] Malkorok Blood Rage Trystero 290611 (A: 81492)
[22:01:51.728] Malkorok Blood Rage Trystero 96720 (A: 275383)
[22:01:52.960] Malkorok Blood Rage Trystero 41453 (A: 196694)
[22:01:54.551] Malkorok Blood Rage Trystero 163077 (A: 75069)
[22:01:56.174] Malkorok Blood Rage Trystero 17587 (A: 220559)
[22:01:57.725] Malkorok Blood Rage Trystero 567014
[22:01:58.998] Malkorok Blood Rage Trystero 404368 (A: 105945)
[22:01:59.757] Malkorok's Blood Rage fades from Malkorok
Well.... seeing how everyone else in raid took dmg from blood rage :>
Is the guide here still up to date? I know it's late, but I may be tanking the rest of MoP (unexpectedly).
I haven't really tanked since the first tier in Cata, so I'm a little behind.
Thanks