Strength Effects Blood Shield?

[ramennoodleking]

I have two rings, a crappy green ring and a 489 agi ring that has alot more stam and mastery on it than the green. Noone needed the agi ring, so I took it and decided to use it since the gained mastery and stamina seemed better than additional strength. This is my alt, btw, so I havn't kept up with it much.

Just got out of an LFR after being yelled at for having the ring; people were saying even a green str ring would be better. Is that true? I don't mind being wrong, but I don't recall strength having anything to do with the blood shield, just mastery and how much damage you have sustained.

[Vorticough]

It'd pretty much just help with threat, I think. Probably not that big a deal, but I daresay mastery would be more important than strength, at LEAST in regards to a single ring.

I'd still replace it when you get the chance with any strength ring around that ilevel.

[rhapso]

Well strength increases attack power, which in turn increases Blood Shield.

WRONG.

Blood shield has nothing to do with AP...
The bloodshield calculates from different sources: Damage intake in the last 5 seconds, Maxlife, Scent of Blood stacks and your mastery.

If you have taken more than 35% of your maxlife during the last seconds, the healing from death strike is calculated:
damage taken last 5 seconds * 0.2, increased by 20% for every scent of blood stack

eg: 100HP, 50dmg taken during the last 5 seconds, 1 SoB stack: 50*0.2 = 10, increased by 20% = 12 HP healed

If you have taken less than 35% of your maxlife during the last 5 seconds, your death strike heal is calculated:
0.07 * maxlife, increased by 20% for every Scent of blood stack

eg; 100HP, 2 SoB stacks: 100*0.07 = 7, 7 * 1.4 = 9.8 HP healed


The Blood shield now calculates as follows:

Heal from Death Strike * Mastery%

eg: 10 HP healed, 110% Mastery => 10*1.1 = 11 HP absorbshield
10 HP healed, 50% Mastery = 10*0.5 = 5 HP absorbshield
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APs DO NOT CHANGE YOUR BLOOD SHIELD OR DEATH STRIKE HEAL.


EDIT: You are perfectly fine from the survival side with the agi ring, but STR increases your dps by a far bigger margin.
And nicely edited, Vorticough...

[Vorticough]

WRONG.

Blood shield has nothing to do with AP...
The bloodshield calculates from different sources: Damage intake in the last 5 seconds, Maxlife, Scent of Blood stacks and your mastery.

If you have taken more than 35% of your maxlife during the last seconds, the healing from death strike is calculated:
damage taken last 5 seconds * 0.2, increased by 20% for every scent of blood stack

eg: 100HP, 50dmg taken during the last 5 seconds, 1 SoB stack: 50*0.2 = 10, increased by 20% = 12 HP healed

If you have taken less than 35% of your maxlife during the last 5 seconds, your death strike heal is calculated:
0.07 * maxlife, increased by 20% for every Scent of blood stack

eg; 100HP, 2 SoB stacks: 100*0.07 = 7, 7 * 1.4 = 9.8 HP healed


The Blood shield now calculates as follows:

Heal from Death Strike * Mastery%

eg: 10 HP healed, 110% Mastery => 10*1.1 = 11 HP absorbshield
10 HP healed, 50% Mastery = 10*0.5 = 5 HP absorbshield
¨
APs DO NOT CHANGE YOUR BLOOD SHIELD OR DEATH STRIKE HEAL.

Yeah, dude, I noticed that right after I said it. No need for the night of 500 caps.

[ramennoodleking]

Thanks. I knew I wasn't an idiot.

[Deleted]

Thanks. I knew I wasn't an idiot.

Welcome to LFR raiding.

[Tehterokkar]

Strength gives Parry, ratio was 1:0.8 Str:Parry I believe, so you lose some parry

[rhapso]

1:0.97, so roughly equal.

1 STR = 0.97 Parry

[Deleted]

AGI also doesn't give anything to STR tanks ever since they removed the dodge conversion for STR tanks. actually, it gives a VERY minute amount of melee crit, but none of the tanks actually earns something for survival from that.

[rhapso]

From a dps standpoint it's a crap ring, from the survivalside its a good upgrade - in the end for that content that you are currently running, this ring is perfectly fine - just replace it as soon as you get a good upgrade (eg. Rep ring from Shado-Pan Assault)

[Deleted]

there's also a 496 ring from the 5.2 dailies for a minor valor amount that is pretty well itemized: parry/mastery.

http://www.wowhead.com/item=97196

[Farabee]

there's also a 496 ring from the 5.2 dailies for a minor valor amount that is pretty well itemized: parry/mastery.

http://www.wowhead.com/item=97196

Not really a minor amount as it takes an entire week's worth of valor, but yeah that's as close to good itemization as you're going to get. Will probably last a good while considering none of the ToT rings seems to have mastery.

[Tehterokkar]

there's also a 496 ring from the 5.2 dailies for a minor valor amount that is pretty well itemized: parry/mastery.

http://www.wowhead.com/item=97196

Requires Exalted Rep though, I will never do dailies on my alts so kind of useless for people like me.

[dkdk]

Requires Exalted Rep though, I will never do dailies on my alts so kind of useless for people like me.

It's a reasonable post about an upgrade that anyone who cared to gear their toon up could accomplish.

It is actually a very fast rep grind and running at least a few dailies for mogu runes of fate is something you should be doing anyway if you are serious about gearing up.

[blackblade]

Requires Exalted Rep though, I will never do dailies on my alts so kind of useless for people like me.

If you pick a faction you actually can use the gear from, and do it exclusively it isn't too bad. Moreso once the requirements for the post-golden lotus reps get dropped next patch.