Prot weapon enchant

[yamilonewolf]

Ok, I'm going batty, I have looked at many different places, and have seen tank enchants for prot's listed as , river's song, dancing steel, colossus, even windsong, so, I just gotta ask, what are you guys using?

[pld]

Dancing Steel IMO. Windsong is probably your best bet if you're on a budget, but River's Song and Colossus are pretty underwhelming.

Source: Had the exact same question for the exact same reason a few months ago.

[Nairobi]

I use Dancing Steel in 10M HC just for the extra throughput, but Windsong is not a bad choice. Especially given how cheap it is.

River's Song shouldn't be used by anyone.

Colossus was moderate in t14N content, but the absorb doesn't scale, so it quickly tapered off in usefulness. It still is "techincally" the best mitigation enchant on paper/sims, but in real practice it gets outpaced by WS/DS.

[Alexor]

default answer is dancing steel, but I switch on my toons depending on the content im in, the money I have on my alts.

[Nobleshield]

Agree with what's been said here... Dancing Steel if you have the ~4k+ gold or therabouts it costs on most realms, Windsong if you're cheap. Colossus is okay but the absorb is IIRC only around 8k or so and never goes up from that, so it's pretty crappy overall.

[yamilonewolf]

Ok, thanks i'll upgrade to dancing steel once I get a weapon above 502 ... stupid jin'rohk and primordius -_-

[Deleted]

My reasoning behind dancing steel was that not only does it increase strength and therefore parry but that also gives an additional boost to sacred shield and seal of insight heals whereas rivers song is just ... dodge. When the penny dropped i felt like a right nobhead, was adamant that blizzard couldn't possibly put in a tank enchant that was so bad!

[Deja Thoris]

Ok, thanks i'll upgrade to dancing steel once I get a weapon above 502 ... stupid jin'rohk and primordius -_-

Iron Qon gives the best weapon.

[celinamuna]

Windsong personally.
The ap from dancing steel is a joke, and this tier parry isn't even worth a joke.
I'd much rather have haste/mastery/crit.

[Deleted]

Considering how cheap windsong is there is never any reason to go colossus.

Windsong and colossus are fairly close to eachother, so as others say, it is a choice between them. I feel like Windsong is fairly nice when are between th 530-540 ilvl (i.e. you are not yet haste capped and you are in heroic content). But dancing steel is extremely solid aswell and it is what I am using right now.

With windsong and dancing steel, you can never go wrong.

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Iron Qon gives the best weapon.

I kinda like the Jin'rokh weapon if you can use the hit.

Ofc if the hit is wasted then it is no good.

[Deleted]

Iron Qon gives the best weapon.

Weapons:
Jin'rokh (if you can use the hit) > Iron Qon > Jin'rokh (if over-hitcap) >>>> Dark Animus agi mace (exp/haste) >>>>>>>>>>> Tortos (hit/crit) >>>>>>>>>>> Primordious (parry/dodge)

The Primo main-hand would have been a downgrade compared to my weapon form LAST tier...

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Weapons:
Jin'rokh (if you can use the hit) > Iron Qon > Jin'rokh (if over-hitcap) >>>> Dark Animus agi mace (exp/haste) >>>>>>>>>>> Tortos (hit/crit) >>>>>>>>>>> Primordious (parry/dodge)

The Primo main-hand would have been a downgrade compared to my weapon form LAST tier...

I would prefer tortos weapo over iron qon weapon (if you can use the hit) since I value crit over mastery in my current gear.

Already "survivability capped"

[Deleted]

I would prefer tortos weapo over iron qon weapon (if you can use the hit) since I value crit over mastery in my current gear.

Already "survivability capped"

This was more a general thing. I personally would have put the agi exp/haste mace much higher, but I do understand if some wouldn't use that one. ^^