Originally Posted by
korpi
I'm lucky enough to have Thunderforged Sould Barrier, so I'm good, but that VP trink I had completely overlooked. That is really solid choise esp now that you get to upgrade it further with VPs.
About earlier discussion about haste on every item: I'd still go for 4 pieces of Tier, which makes the point moot since head and shoulders are best itemized pieces of prot Tier. Offset legs would propably be the BiS choise, but since the Tier chest sucks and the first boss dishes out decent offset chest, I'd go for that + 4 set for progress. That's with us 5/12 hc with both Qon and Twins already killed.
Haste is cleary the best stat for DPS and close second for survival, but it is really not that far ahead of all the other stats that I'd go for haste + crit pieces. Crit, in terms of survivability, (which still is the main job for us) is almost useless (I believe SoI procs can crit). Going for max haste is best on paper, but I doubt that even most of the hc raiding guilds prot paladins are good enough for rocking with it full tilt. I'm not saying that they can't pull it off with quite reasonable success (and can kill all the bosses while at it), but that most of us would propably be better off with some attention for other stats as well. At least to the point of not picking up crit gear for max haste if there is also a hit/exp/mastery choise available. Hell, even dodge or parry would propably be better idea, unless it's both of those.